While some players were excited by the new NFL CBA earlier this year, there were others who weren't.
In fact, some former players were upset and scared.
One of them was former Patriots running back Patrick Pass, as he was in the group of former players that received a deduction from their NFL disability payment of anything they get from Social Security Disability Insurance.
For Pass specifically, he now takes a number of different medications and the Social Security Disability barely covers one of them.
"He couldn't speak, but he had to lay on me to feel some comfort," Pass' wife, Monique, said to The Athletic. "The morning after, when we woke up, you feel like you're hoping you'll wake up from a bad dream. My husband sat up on his side of the bed and he'd looked at the wall and he just kept shaking his head. He's like, 'Mo, there's gonna be a lot of suicides because of this.' And I said, 'I know, I know. I just hope something or somehow this gets fixed.'"
Pass, who is now 42 years old, only had a couple of knee scopes, as well as ACL and MCL repairs while he was playing, but now that he's not it's much worse.
"Post-NFL he suffers from traumatic brain injury, anxiety, depression, ADHD, pseudobulbar affect, which is categorized by uncontrollable laughing and crying spells," his wife said. "Let's see what else, we've got a torn rotator cuff, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and PTSD, spondylosis. He's had surgery on his right shoulder to repair the torn rotator cuff and to try to clean out some of the arthritis that they couldn't get out. Now he needs the left one done because he has the same problem. He needs … a surgical procedure for his right wrist for the carpal tunnel because his hands go numb. Just at random times, they'll go numb and so he will have difficulty driving."
According to NFLPA president JC Tretter, the union is looking into the changes and getting the money back to former players, but there is no timetable.
