NFL Trade Rumors
Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reports that former NFLPA President and current Chief Strategy Officer JC Tretter is resigning from the NFLPA, noting he has nothing left to give to the organization.
“Over the last couple days, it has gotten very, very hard for my family. And that’s something I can’t deal with,” Tretter told Jones. “So, the short bullet points are: I have no interest in being [executive director]. I have no interest in being considered; I’ve let the executive committee know that. I’m also going to leave the NFLPA in the coming days because I don’t have anything left to give the organization. I want to get my story out there, and I don’t want it to look like this was sour grapes or I didn’t get the job and I wanted the job. All I want to do is tell my story and then go be with my family.”
Tretter has come under fire recently regarding the hiring of Lloyd Howell, who resigned as NFLPA executive director on Thursday following allegations of misuse of funds, collusion, and conflict of interest.
“I love the guys, and that’s why I’ve done what I’ve done for the last six years is because I love what they do and who they are and the mission of the organization,” Tretter added. “And I think what I realized this morning when I woke up — after finally getting more than like two hours of sleep — is that I fell in love with the idea of what this place could be. And over the last six weeks, I’ve realized what this place is, and the delta between those two things. And I can’t walk into the building anymore, seeing and understanding what I see and understand now.”
As for the hiring process of Howell, Tretter continues to defend it while admitting that Howell was not the first choice for the position.
“We said, ‘OK, what do we want to do with this information?’ And we said, ‘Listen, if this is the best candidate, the board will see that. They’ll agree,” Tretter recalled. “‘But we’re not going to put our thumb on the scale. We’re not going to push them. We’re not going to go in there after doing all this work and make it look like we jammed in the person that we would’ve picked after this moment. So we’re going to let both people interview and we’re going to let the board make the decision. So the idea that I was jamming anybody through was false.”
Tretter was a candidate for the interim position, but this is no longer the case. He is hopeful that there will be changes to the interview process for the position to be permanently filled.
“We did hundreds of hours of work, and we did multiple rounds of interviews. We had people flying into D.C. regularly to meet candidates in person. I don’t think it’s feasible to do that for everybody,” Tretter explained. *“… The executive committee...
