How this for transparency?

[Patler]

It could improve it, I agree. But possibly before it will improve it, it will likely help exonerate a player who tested positive.

For that reason, they would rather ignore it. They are not interested in improvement, they are interested in 100% compliance. And they will get there whether the logic of their actions helps or hurts.

It will, of course, ultimately bite them in the behind. But everyone will get to say we followed procedures, but perhaps procedures need to be reviewed.

The NFL wants total control of everything it is involved in, so their stance on videotaping is not surprising at all. The reasons for it are not difficult or clouded. But they also are not very defensible if and when a player decides to push it. Sooner or later the NFLPA will have to take the side of the players, but it is also not at all surprising that to this point they seem to have gone along with the league.