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I think
1) Upshaw "promised" 60% and will now settle for 59.5%.
He has gotten 3.5% more for the players over the past couple of weeks, a couple of which in the last three, and the last 1/2% in this offer. I have no problems with how Upshaw has conducted himself in these negotiations. If there are flaws they are in the details we don't know (medical, pension etc.)
2) It is up to Tags. He has to take one or more the gang of nine blackmailing owners and threaten them with consequences. Certainly, the ones that are making top money (like Cinci) and complaining should be especially vulnerable to ZERO help from the league, ever. The eight incompetents should be told in no uncertain terms that they will be allowed to fail almost immediately if they don't support the agreement.
3) The Gang of Nine want more than they have any right to expect. Why should the players pay for their stadiums (part of the current deal)? Why should the successful owners pay for their incompetence? I'll give one simple example. Most teams have raised monies through naming rights. The owners who haven't done this (and refuse to do so) want the rest to share their naming rights revenue with the poor needy owners. The Gang of Nine are reprehensible.
4) The successful owners should NOT cave in. To call the incompetents "small market" and give them other reasons for failure is nonsense. The most successful franchise in the league was once BOTTOM in revenue, and is located in the suburbs of Providence, hardly a large market for anything.
5) It is not the worst thing in the world for there to be no extension of the CBA TWO FULL YEARS before the end of the agreement. There are no horrible, horrible consequences of a $94.5M cap, other than for those teams that have already spent $105M. An uncapped year is a condition of contest like any other. The good managements will succeed, the incompetents will fail. And even a strike IF THEY CAN'T SIGN A DEAL IN TWO YEARS isn't the end of the world. I'd rather have a year withough NFL football than to have everyone continue to pay subsidies to the incompetent blackmailing Gang of Nine. And yes, some players will gain in an uncapped year, and some will be harmed.
BOTTOM LINE
Tags will be rough with the Gang of Nine today and tomorrow and win a couple over.
1) Upshaw "promised" 60% and will now settle for 59.5%.
He has gotten 3.5% more for the players over the past couple of weeks, a couple of which in the last three, and the last 1/2% in this offer. I have no problems with how Upshaw has conducted himself in these negotiations. If there are flaws they are in the details we don't know (medical, pension etc.)
2) It is up to Tags. He has to take one or more the gang of nine blackmailing owners and threaten them with consequences. Certainly, the ones that are making top money (like Cinci) and complaining should be especially vulnerable to ZERO help from the league, ever. The eight incompetents should be told in no uncertain terms that they will be allowed to fail almost immediately if they don't support the agreement.
3) The Gang of Nine want more than they have any right to expect. Why should the players pay for their stadiums (part of the current deal)? Why should the successful owners pay for their incompetence? I'll give one simple example. Most teams have raised monies through naming rights. The owners who haven't done this (and refuse to do so) want the rest to share their naming rights revenue with the poor needy owners. The Gang of Nine are reprehensible.
4) The successful owners should NOT cave in. To call the incompetents "small market" and give them other reasons for failure is nonsense. The most successful franchise in the league was once BOTTOM in revenue, and is located in the suburbs of Providence, hardly a large market for anything.
5) It is not the worst thing in the world for there to be no extension of the CBA TWO FULL YEARS before the end of the agreement. There are no horrible, horrible consequences of a $94.5M cap, other than for those teams that have already spent $105M. An uncapped year is a condition of contest like any other. The good managements will succeed, the incompetents will fail. And even a strike IF THEY CAN'T SIGN A DEAL IN TWO YEARS isn't the end of the world. I'd rather have a year withough NFL football than to have everyone continue to pay subsidies to the incompetent blackmailing Gang of Nine. And yes, some players will gain in an uncapped year, and some will be harmed.
BOTTOM LINE
Tags will be rough with the Gang of Nine today and tomorrow and win a couple over.
