Chris Cooley speaks out against rookie pay system

[rypper11]

Gene upshaw has said that the union would never agree to a rookie cap or scale. You'd think everyone already in the NFL would want it.

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Originally Posted by rypper11

Gene upshaw has said that the union would never agree to a rookie cap or scale. You'd think everyone already in the NFL would want it.

They do but Gene Upshaw is in a fight for his job now so much of what he is saying and doing is more politically motivated. Why he seems to think that any current player wouldn't support a rookie wage scale is curious since the only ones to speak out have been in support of one, any active player stand to benefit from a rookie wage scale, and the mathematics prove it. Of course this is the guy who has carried the water for the NFL for years and now that players are starting to rumble about that he has the audacity to announce he isn't going to follow one of the rules he helped initiate, to retire by 65 and infact has the stupidity to say that he wont appoint a vice president of the NFLPA because all they would do is seek to take his position. What a dolt.