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Originally Posted by HoopheadVII
I think it's more like this:
- CBA is negotiated in 2006 with potential uncapped year at end
- Uncapped year means teams can spend whatever they want that year
- NFL and NFLPA agree in principle that uncapped year can't be used to dump salary cap hit from previous or later capped years
- Several specific rules are written into 2006 CBA to prevent this
- League exercises early termination option and 2010 becomes uncapped year
- League reminds clubs of agreed principle that uncapped year can't be used to dump salary cap hit. Apparently multiple times.
- Skins find way to dump future salary cap hit into uncapped 2010 in new way not previously considered.
- Multiple other owners complain to Commissioner
- Commissioner leaves it for later because he's more concerned with getting new CBA done
- Commissioner eventually takes action. Since the action the owners want him to take is outside his direct authority, he gets MCEC to agree it with the NFLPA and let an owner be the face of it.
- Chaos ensues
Frankly, I hope enough chaos ensues that they will reduce the penalties to put an end to it. I think that's our best case scenario (other than this escalting to the point where Snyder is forced to sell the Skins).
However, they are not punishing the Skins for spending too much in an uncapped year. They are punishing the Skins for violating a principle apparently agreed with the NFLPA and apparently agreed amongst the owners.
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This is where your wrong. There was no negotiation with the NFLPA about keeping costs down. Heres how I know.... the NFLPA suspected the owners were colluding. The didn't have the proof but they knew the owners had agreed to something. Had the league denied the contracts the Redskins and Cowboys made the NFLPA would have had their proof of collusion and the most likely there would have been no football because we would still be waiting for both sides to be heard in court. The NFLPA would have filed in court that the league was colluding.
The league knew this. DS and JJ banked on this so their deals could get approved. The league was FORCED to approve the deals so they wouldn't get into trouble for colluding.
Then two years later the Exec Committee decides it wants to punish the two teams for not going along with the program. But they still can't issue a punishment with out showing they colluded. So they call in the NFLPA and say hey we want to punish these two teams. If you don't go along with the program then we will just lower the CAP 3-7 mill for each team. Which means you guys will lose millions across the board, $96 mill at the least and $224 mill at the most. If you go along with the program the league will keep the $$ amount where it is at now. The NFLPA could care less if 30 owners want to punish 2 to the sum of $46 mill, it's a lot less then what they would have been losing.