Ongoing CBA discussions

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag59

It wouldn't really have mattered if she lifted the lockout as the NFL would have appealed it and assuming they loose would have still pushed back the start of non-draft offseason activities like Free Agency and mini-camps to June at the earliest.

Right now she wants to seem impartial and encourage the two sides to talk and reach a long term resolution to the problem. Thereby taking up less of the courts time and resolving the issue for at least somewhere around 5 years.

So the appeal is immediate?

On a side note, I wonder how much restraint do teams' front offices must have to show in this situation. I mean if you are a team wanting to deal a player (like the Eagles with Kolb) or a team wanting to look at free agency first before the draft (like just about every team), you would want for this to get resolve before the draft or at least have the opportunity to have free agency temporarily before the draft. I am sure there are a lot of teams that will be up the sh*t creek because of this lockout and the inability to make transactions in free agency.