03-07-2006, 12:22 PM
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Second Team and Threatening Starter's Job
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Germany
Posts: 1,485
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2 quotes that popped out to me.
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“If we get to March 3, 2006, we'll be so close to an uncapped year that the players feel we should just go there,” says NFLPA Executive Director Gene Upshaw. “And if we get into an uncapped year,” he warns, “we will never have a salary cap in the NFL again.”
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So is this a bargaining threat/shot across the bows to the owners or Gene Upshaws 'brilliant' idea of what he would really do......oppose any salary cap ever again. Sounds like recipe for a LOCKOUT to me.
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might lose in benefits,” he
says. “Our current benefit package is worth about $225,000 to $300,000 per
player.
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Jeez; and I was thinking these guys were overpaid already. Everybody gets a free $300,000 ontop of their minimum $440K or so minimum salary?
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