Silver: draft is fair game

He thinks the players should go after it

And that, football fans, is where the sham ends: Absent an injunction to stop the lockout of non-unionized employees (the first hearing is scheduled for April 6), there’ll be no private jet to whisk the player to his new home, no rookie minicamp and no contract talks.

That whole my-team-just-got-so-much-better fantasy that people buy into during the draft? If the lockout continues and the two sides don’t negotiate an agreement, you can pretty much press pause on that daydream.

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