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[quote=skinsfaninok;811016]I just heard Sam Bradford laughing at Andrew Luck from OKC..[/quote]

How dare you talk about our future QB, you know the franchise savior who we will get after going 0-16 this season! [/sarcasm]

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[quote=Alvin Walton;811012]Whatever happened to the 18 game talk, is that shelved indefinitely?[/quote]

Long ago

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[quote=Lotus;810906]There's a difference in that cap spending must be cash. No more of dead money counting towards the cap. This adjusts the cap up in real terms.[/quote]

Really? There's no restrictions about dead money? IMO this completely changes the dynamics of the nfl. A few super rich teams can entice players to come to them by guaranteeing much more money than anyone else. How much money an owner has to spend will become much more valuable (like baseball). Also contracts can constantly be restructuring contracts to convert salary for one year into bonus money allocated over the rest of their contract. Hell a raise can even be given for agreeing to doing so. I just think this cap will be very easy to manipulate and the money that the owners are willing to spend will become much more important.
To date the draft has been the way to build a team, and teams that attempt to do so in free agency have largely been unsuccessful. I believe this new cba could easily shift the balance of the importance of free agency to be more in line with the importance of the draft.

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so..what else needs to be done?

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[quote=Ruhskins;811018]How dare you talk about our future QB, you know the franchise savior who we will get after going 0-16 this season! [/sarcasm][/quote]

Don't you mean 0-18? [/not sarcasm but super serious]

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Talks pretty much done for today, Smith and Goodell to meet in the morning

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[url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/jim_trotter/07/15/secret-lockout-fund/index.html]Players' secret fund could have sparked NFL lockout talks - Jim Trotter - SI.com[/url]

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[quote=SmootSmack;811057][url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/jim_trotter/07/15/secret-lockout-fund/index.html]Players' secret*fund*could have sparked NFL lockout talks - Jim Trotter - SI.com[/url][/quote]

Slick move by D. Smith

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As much as I think D. Smith is a pompous ambulance chaser I hope this kinda thing gets me some FA happs next week.

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[quote=SmootSmack;811057][url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/jim_trotter/07/15/secret-lockout-fund/index.html]Players' secret*fund*could have sparked NFL lockout talks - Jim Trotter - SI.com[/url][/quote]

So both sides had a lockout insurance plan. Smart and/or scary.

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[quote=Alvin Walton;811067]As much as I think D. Smith is a pompous ambulance chaser I hope this kinda thing gets me some FA happs next week.[/quote]

Say what you want, if both sides get a deal they can live with and none of the season is lost, D. Smith has definitely been doing something right.

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[quote=Alvin Walton;811067]As much as I think D. Smith is a pompous ambulance chaser I hope this kinda thing gets me some FA happs next week.[/quote]

I've actually met and spoken with De Smith on a few different occasions. Pompous he is not. He's actually a really laid back dude who's very unpretentious and quite conversational.

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[quote=GMScud;811089]I've actually met and spoken with De Smith on a few different occasions. Pompous he is not. He's actually a really laid back dude who's very unpretentious and quite conversational.[/quote]


Amen to that!

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"The waiting" is like going to bed on Christmas Eve and expecting Santa........
AND then I wake up...........and do it again

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Dear Santa,

Since you have brought me so many things I think its time that I give something to you.
You may have Albert Haynseworth.
kthxbye