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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.The only ones that are “colluding” here Mike are you, the NFLPA, and your agent friends. All working overtime trying to convince the fans that there is “collusion” going on.
The fact of the matter is that as of right now virtually every team has already spent over 80% of their cap money and its only early April. Many are over 90%.
I thought you were a capitalist Mike, what you should recognize is that there is a clear situation where supply has started to exceed demand, and having the NFLPA “leak” memos to you isn’t going to change the reality.
That being said we are all resigned to the reality that you ARE going to pound this non-issue with daily posts regardless, because if your agent buddies don’t talk to you…..who will?
Why is collusion a big deal with a hard cap?
I agree that the penalty against the Redskins was nasty, because the Redskins were acting in an uncapped year. So that's collusion, or something close to it, in a form that took significant money out of players' pockets.
But if teams spend to the cap, where's the collusion smoke, let alone fire?
under the following circumstances:
(a) Where there has been a finding or findings of one or more instances of a violation of Section 1 of this Article with respect to any one NFL season which, either individually or in total, involved five or more Clubs and caused injury to 20 or more players; or
(b) Where there has been a finding or findings of one or more instances of a violation of Section 1 of this Article with respect to any two consecutive NFL seasons which, either individually or in total, involved seven or more Clubs and caused injury to 28 or more players. For purposes of this Subsection 16(b), a player found to have been injured by a violation of Section 1 of this Article in each of two consecutive seasons shall be counted as an additional player injured by such a violation for each such NFL season;
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(c) Where, in a proceeding brought by the NFLPA, it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that 14 or more Clubs have engaged in a violation or violations of Section 1 of this Article causing injury to one or more NFL players.
Easier for DeMaurice Smith to cry collusion than admit to his constituents that he made a bad deal for them.
What did the players really win in the last CBA? Easier practice schedules. A stagnant cap growth until 2015 (and it is unknown if the cap will grow a lot then either). A salary cap floor that still lets team sit on plenty of salary cap money (currently a third of the league have over $10 million in salary cap space). A free agency where many of the top free agents are getting contract that would have been considered second or third tier contracts just two years ago (for example, Cliff Avril's total deal that he got with Seattle would have been his signing bonus alone two years ago).
I never got why the NFLPA chose Smith to be their leader. He was not qualified for the job and he is clearly out of his league. The funny thing is while the media kissed his arse for winning the CBA negotiations two years ago, the owners were behind the scenes giving themselves high fives for taking him to the woodshed.
If the NFLPA were smart, they would have given their leadership role to David Cornwall who is a sports attorney with a long history of representing players both as an agent and an attorney and has a good negotiating relationship with the NFL.
The NFLPA has already had one collusion case thrown out of court. I assume they will go to court for this with similar results.
I don't agree in the least. Just because the salary pool isn't increasing like in years past, many say how the owners screwed the players. The players get 50% of total revenues. Not profits, but revenues. Show me another business model besides the NFL that does this. The cap will go up, and therefore the players salaries will with it, once revenues increase. New TV money doesn't kick in until 2015, so the cap will remain relatively flat until then. Who here gets an automatic raise when their employers revenues go up? (regardless of whether profits increase or not).
The players got concessions on full contact practices. They got a guarantee on 50% of revenues and got "revenues" defined. And they not only raised what was a soft cap floor, they made it a hard floor. They did just fine.
Why dont they get over with already and blame it on the evil Kraft family?
Your previous post was outstanding. This one...not so much. Kraft WAS sincere about Welker and the fact that he was upset enough to break the Pats "cone of silence" only proves it.Imo Kraft was 100% full of it when it came to Welker but he's going to the HOF, and deservedly so, for his role in getting a deal done between the players and owners.
Imo Kraft was 100% full of it when it came to Welker but he's going to the HOF, and deservedly so, for his role in getting a deal done between the players and owners.
The Owners must have had better talent for crunching the numbers (or only they knew the numbers) as they had pretty much said (well a few of them) that the cap would be what it is today.By all accounts, the players and NFLPA were blindsided by the fact that the cap would not grow until at least 2015 which is more than a quarter of the way through the CBA deal.
A few things:
- The players are not getting 50% nor guaranteed a 50% share. I think they are getting 48.5% right now and the CBA only really guarantees that the percentage cannot average less than 47% per year of the revenues.
- The players HAD 50% revenue share model in the last agreement, but it was reduced to a 47% guarantee. The model has shifted a bit so in theory they could get 50% or more (since they get 55% of the media revenue and smaller percentages of other revenue streams), but right now it is under 50%.
- As for a business model that does this, all you have to do is look to other sports. Players in the NHL, NBA, and MLB get a higher percentage (although MLB isn't defined and there are teams that give much less in low revenue markets).
Smith's deal is gambling on the TV revenues going up exponentially. The problem with that is that it won't pay dividends for the players until 2015 or later. For many of the players who voted for Smith, it will be too late to benefit them and they were screwed over for future players to get cashed in. Look at a guy like Welker. He would have made a ton of money in the same situation in 2011. Now he took a value contract in his early 30s with no chance of cashing in.
By all accounts, the players and NFLPA were blindsided by the fact that the cap would not grow until at least 2015 which is more than a quarter of the way through the CBA deal.