Last Effort For CBA Tommorow - Page 2

chrisbcbu · #16 03-01-2006, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by redskin_rich

I believe there is going to be a one week grace period for everyone to get under the cap.

Glazer broke this story to the AP last night and at the time they were reporting it as I explained it. Things might have changed since then, we'll see.

The grace period are for penalties. They still have to be under the cap by the start of FA in order to sign any FA's.

whistleandthumb · #17 03-01-2006, 02:58 PM

I'd be happy if all the owners could just get Upshaw on the horn and work out some kind of delay on FA... even if for just a week, so there can be time to work something out.

darkwing99 · #18 03-01-2006, 04:18 PM

Well big name players are getting cut already......Mike Anderson, Sam Adams, Brent Buckner, Stephen Davis, Trevor Pryce...and many more to come.

akhhorus · #19 03-01-2006, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by darkwing99

Well big name players are getting cut already......Mike Anderson, Sam Adams, Brent Buckner, Stephen Davis, Trevor Pryce...and many more to come.

Only Anderson was a surprise. Everyone else on that list were going to be cut CBA or not.

Sean Taylor is God · #20 03-01-2006, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by darkwing99

Well big name players are getting cut already......Mike Anderson, Sam Adams, Brent Buckner, Stephen Davis, Trevor Pryce...and many more to come.

anderson is a bit suprising. i guess they are comfortable with bell, dayne and a FA or rookie, probably rookie. this is gonna get nucking futs!

akhhorus · #21 03-01-2006, 05:54 PM

Interesting article from PFT:

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TAGS' LEGACY ON THE LINE THURSDAY

One very important man who has been conspicuously silent over the past couple of weeks as the NFL has tried to hammer out an agreement with its union -- and an agreement among its owners -- is the guy who runs the show.

The Commissioner. Paul Tagliabue.

At age 65 and moving toward retirement, Tagliabue's legacy is squarely on the line as the NFL enters the final 24 hours of semi-sanity before the launch of the last capped year under the current CBA.

Under his leadership, the NFL has become the most popular sports league in the nation, if not the world. Revenues are way, way up. Former Commissioner Pete Rozelle's vision of parity has been achieved, for the most part.

So the worst way for Tagliabue to ride into the sunset is through the haze of a work stoppage and/or a rugby scrum featuring the 32 members of the Billionaire Boys Club.

And Tagliabue knows it.

We're convinced that the problem here is the issue of expanded revenue sharing among the owners, and that a deal with the union is essentially in place. Why else would NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw insist on a revenue sharing deal as part of the new CBA? If the league is willing to include total football revenue in the salary cap formula, why should Upshaw care whether the owners are splitting up the money that goes into the pot?

Besides, why else would all 32 owners travel to New York on Thursday morning for an update regarding the NFLPA's position, if the real purpose isn't to revisit the revenue sharing issue? Is an in-person sit-down really necessary to let the teams know that the union wants 60 percent of the total football revenue to fund the salaries, and the league wants to devote 56.2 percent?

Instead, we think that when the owners take their seats around the big round table in a conference room at the league office, and that Tags will then make like Al Capone from The Untouchables, sauntering around the assembly with a baseball bat in hand.

And he's club the ***CENSORED BY SPENCE*** out of anyone who is still standing in the way of a deal aimed at working out the revenue differences among the owners.

If we're wrong, and if the true impediment to a deal is the fact that the NFLPA wants 60 percent and the NFL is willing only to go to 56.2 percent, our advice is simple.

Do the deal at 58. Now.

If both sides come away with a little less than they wanted, then it's a good deal for everyone. They'll all continue to get richer and richer -- and players won't find themselves scratching and clawing for solid contracts in 2006.

Per team and per year, the resulting money gap isn't that big. And if Upshaw's actual bottom line is 60 percent, it was stoopid of him to move to his final position with the league still 3.8 points south of it.

Our suspicion is that there's already a wink-nod in place at 58, and that the deal becomes official as soon as the owners get their stuff together.

With or without the help of Tags' Louisville Slugger.

S.Taylor36 · #22 03-01-2006, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Sean Taylor is God

anderson is a bit suprising. i guess they are comfortable with bell, dayne and a FA or rookie, probably rookie. this is gonna get nucking futs!

Lawyer Milloy was cut by the Bills

MWballer · #23 03-01-2006, 06:04 PM

If the owners are meeting tommorow then what meeting we Sports Center reporting about today where all the owners were in NY?

gibbsisgod · #24 03-01-2006, 06:06 PM

what happens in 2008? if no deal is done by FRI

akhhorus · #25 03-01-2006, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by MWballer

If the owners are meeting tommorow then what meeting we Sports Center reporting about today where all the owners were in NY?

Thats the meeting they are talking about. I find it very hard to believe that they aren't serious about an agreement if they are all meeting in NYC in person.

CapitalDefense · #26 03-01-2006, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by akhhorus

Thats the meeting they are talking about. I find it very hard to believe that they aren't serious about an agreement if they are all meeting in NYC in person.

Was all of this a bunch of bull just to get some offseason media attention? If so, well it worked. They can come together tommorrow, look like heroes and say we did it for the fans blah blah blah.

akhhorus · #27 03-01-2006, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by CapitalDefense

Was all of this a bunch of bull just to get some offseason media attention? If so, well it worked. They can come together tommorrow, look like heroes and say we did it for the fans blah blah blah.

Funny you should say that because Leigh Steinberg, Uber-Agent, just was on ESPNNEWS saying thos exact thing. That he thinks it will be a last minute dramatic extention tomorrow or friday.

Smurf85 · #28 03-01-2006, 07:18 PM

akhhorus Wrote;

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Funny you should say that because Leigh Steinberg, Uber-Agent, just was on ESPNNEWS saying thos exact thing. That he thinks it will be a last minute dramatic extention tomorrow or friday.

I also saw that on ESPNEWS.Im sorry if i dont believe him.When i see it in the news tomorrow.That the CBA has been taking care of then i will believe it.Its just hard to believe that its going to get done when four teams are already cutting players.Plus some of these players are pretty damn good.

Redskinfan28 · #29 03-01-2006, 07:23 PM

I don't think an agreement has been reached. Otherwise, teams like the Broncos would be pissed that they cut players they didn't have to.

akhhorus · #30 03-01-2006, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Redskinfan28

I don't think an agreement has been reached. Otherwise, teams like the Broncos would be pissed that they cut players they didn't have to.

Even if an agreement is reached, and the cap rises to around 108-110 million, the Broncos and other teams(Carolina isn't much better off than the Skins and Miami is over 20 million over the cap) would have had to cut these players. This might be why the Skins are waiting.