Eric Winston, president of the NFLPA, compared the NFL to the WWE.

"It's definitely peak silliness and peak unprofessionalism," Winston said during an interview on PFT Live when he was asked about the NFL's suspension threat against James Harrison, Clay Matthews, Julius Peppers and Mike Neal.

"It is what it is," Winston continued. "And unfortunately we've gone from this place where NFL [business] used to be conducted in a super-professional way by men that have played this game for a long time and a front office that has run this great game for a long time to now it's almost seemingly like these scripts that are pulled from WWE Smackdown or something like that."

Back in July, Winston said that Roger Goodell's penchant for player punishment was so bad that it was starting to hurt the competitive balance of the NFL.