The Facts:
Over a two-week period, I spoke with a half-dozen players and handful of assistant coaches from both conferences. The picture that emerges is one where coaches and players, despite rules against it, stay in almost weekly contact with one another using a variety of technologies.
Reported by CBSSports.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
As CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman went on to explain, lockout rules are supposed to prevent contact between players and coaches, but when it comes to the team workouts, both sides are utilizing Skype, e-mail, text-messaging and good, old-fashioned phone calls to update coaches on the progress of group workouts, what players are doing to stay in shape and even personal issues. Per Freeman, several players estimated 25 percent of the league's players are in regular contact with assistant coaches -- even though they privately acknowledge that by engaging with coaches during the lockout they are in a way undermining their own trade association. They don't seem to care. What was stated repeatedly in interviews is that whichever team stays the most cohesive during this highly divisive fight with owners will have the biggest advantage once the lockout ends. "Eventually we'll have football again," one high-profile offensive player said. "All that matters to me is who is ready and who isn't."
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