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Smith was on Sirius NFL radio last night (on Maurice Jones-Drew's Late Hits so he wasn't going to be called on his BS) and apologized to the fans for the league suing to not play games. Another completely false statement. Here are more:
More misplaced rhetoric from De Smith | ProFootballTalk
I guess when a league actually does sue to not play football, we might have a historic moment.
Here's more from Florio's article:
Not surprisingly, Peter King and Ross Tucker are killing Smith for being a joke and the callers are joining in for the ride. Albert Breer is saying he gets the sense that some players are getting frustrated with Smith turning the players into the bad guys.
Whether you are on the players' side or not, you gotta admit this guy is clearly not the right guy to be negotiating a labor deal. He is perfect to be first chair on an antitrust suit, but it is clear that was his objective all along. You don't keep on making up lies and spreading them in the media with an organization you are trying to get a deal done with.
I am getting more and more convinced that Smith is THE PROBLEM here and if the NFLPA actually hired someone with labor experience, things might not have gotten to this point. Yes, the owners' current proposal is unacceptable to the players, but the players never tried to counter. Smith wants to do what he does and litigate over negotiate.
“First league in the history of sports that has ever sued to not play their game,” Smith said. “When we reach a time or a moment in history when a professional sports league is suing to not play football, we’re in a bad spot.”
“What do you think as a fan when you learn that the league that you write a check to, the teams that you’ve done nothing but cheer for for years are now suing to not play the game that we all love?”
More misplaced rhetoric from De Smith | ProFootballTalk
I guess when a league actually does sue to not play football, we might have a historic moment.
Here's more from Florio's article:
Indeed, Smith explained that he called the league’s March 11 offer the “worst deal in the history of sports” because it would have cut the players’ share from 50 percent to something less than 50 percent. “It was an easy call to say that it was the worst deal in history because from the day that we would have taken their offer it would have forever severed the players of the National Football League from a fair share of the revenue that we all know that they generate,” Smith said.
Smith continues to overlook the fact that, even if the percentages shrink, the total dollars paid to the players will continue to grow. So why doesn’t Smith ever acknowledge that? Probably because he fears that more than a few players would respond by saying, “So we’re still going to make more money each year? OK, we’re fine with that.”
Not surprisingly, Peter King and Ross Tucker are killing Smith for being a joke and the callers are joining in for the ride. Albert Breer is saying he gets the sense that some players are getting frustrated with Smith turning the players into the bad guys.
Whether you are on the players' side or not, you gotta admit this guy is clearly not the right guy to be negotiating a labor deal. He is perfect to be first chair on an antitrust suit, but it is clear that was his objective all along. You don't keep on making up lies and spreading them in the media with an organization you are trying to get a deal done with.
I am getting more and more convinced that Smith is THE PROBLEM here and if the NFLPA actually hired someone with labor experience, things might not have gotten to this point. Yes, the owners' current proposal is unacceptable to the players, but the players never tried to counter. Smith wants to do what he does and litigate over negotiate.
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