The NFL Players Association responded to the NFL's announcement of a new personal conduct policy with the issuance of a statement.

“Our union has not been offered the professional courtesy of seeing the NFL’s new personal conduct policy before it hit the presses,” the NFLPA said.  “Their unilateral decision and conduct today is the only thing that has been consistent over the past few months.”

The NFLPA intends to immediately scrutinize the new policy for any terms that may fall within the mandatory duty to collectively bargain terms and conditions of employment with the union, and then to pursue potential relief via “system arbitration” under the CBA or via the National Labor Relations Board.

The NFL dismissed the union’s concerns during a media conference call introducing the new policy by contending that the goal is to protect the victims of violent crimes and that, as NFL executive V.P. of operations Troy Vincent said in remarks sharply critical of the union’s position, “People who don’t like discipline are those who have committed a criminal act.”