Later today, union chief De Smith will be conducting a conference call with a total of 30 agents.
A source with knowledge of the situation tells us that it was supposed to be kept confidential. But word of the conference call was leaked.
And some of the agents are blaming Jack Bechta.
The dot-connecting process isn’t very complicated. Bechta is a contributor (and, as we understand it, a partial owner) of NationalFootballPost.com, which reported that the call would be occurring. Bechta, we’re told, is one of the agents who has been invited to participate in the conference call.
“We were all told to keep it quiet and we did,” the source said. “Except for the guy who owns a media company.”
The meeting will include an update on the CBA negotiations, and it’s good that Smith plans to include the agents in the process. Many agents are lawyers, all of them have an interest in labor peace, and most of them are in position to influence the members of the rank and file.
But here’s the reality -- if they continue to exercise looseness in the lip area, the agents won’t be included in the process for long.
