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Originally Posted by SBXVII
I think your sorta right. I think they can meet with the NFLPA and come to an agreement but I think it would still have to be presented to the next owners meeting for a final vote. Maybe even sent to the next players meeting for a final vote. But I don't think the league can arbitrarily just change the rules.
Besides there was no CBA. No CAP. the agreement was a "hey guys lets not spend too much this offseason ok, and if you do break this suggestion then we might punish you." I doubt DS and JJ felt it was binding since they went about doing what they did. I also have a major issue with the fact the league APPROVED these contracts. They had an opportunity to deny them, decline them, or simply send them back to the teams and tell them because of the way they are written they can't be approved. That didn't happen. Why wasn't it if this is such a big deal? oh I get it the league didn't want to get into trouble with the labor laws (collusion). If it was wrong now it was wrong then and they never should have approved the contracts. If it was not wrong at the time (which it apparently was not because they approved them) then it's not wrong now. There should be no punishment.
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Well technically, the league
was still under the old CBA in 2010, it was just written up to state that if a new CBA had not been reached by that point, then 2010 would be an uncapped year - at least that's what I seem to remember the language was. But yeah, I think the most important aspect to remember is that the league office approved the contracts.
It just all seems to come down to a case of we're going to follow these certain rules down to the letter, while ignoring other rules of the CBA. Can't pick and choose. I just have my doubts that the league and all of its many committees can simply change the CBA at any given point to suit a few teams' fancy. It's not logical.