NFL taking away Redskins cap space

[mooby]

Originally Posted by GreekSkin

Cap controversy shows NFL at its worst - NFC East Blog - ESPN

Graziano FTW once again.

Yep. Nice to see mainstream media backing us.

[los panda]

Originally Posted by GreekSkin

Cap controversy shows NFL at its worst - NFC East Blog - ESPN

Graziano FTW once again.

spreading that extra cap room out among 28 other teams?

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by los panda

spreading that extra cap room out among 28 other teams?

Yep, this right here makes the strongest case that the league and the other owners were colluding on this. They're being rewarded. Normally when one team gets punished, they have a penalty and that's it. Since when does the rest of the league get REWARDED for another team's rule-breaking? That smells.

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Yep, this right here makes the strongest case that the league and the other owners were colluding on this. They're being rewarded. Normally when one team gets punished, they have a penalty and that's it. Since when does the rest of the league get REWARDED for another team's rule-breaking? That smells.

Whats really funny is it wasn't the Skins or Boys that broke the rule, it was the other owners that did but because these two owners refused to break the law or rule they are getting punished. How the "F" does that equal out? I'm telling you the Feds should get involved with whether the other owners colluded against the players at the time.

[Jontrem]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

Whats really funny is it wasn't the Skins or Boys that broke the rule, it was the other owners that did but because these two owners refused to break the law or rule they are getting punished. How the "F" does that equal out? I'm telling you the Feds should get involved with whether the other owners colluded against the players at the time.

A senate committee will be getting involved with this at some point I would be willing to bet, nothing will come of it of course, but it will be a nice format for them to do some grandstanding.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Yep, this right here makes the strongest case that the league and the other owners were colluding on this. They're being rewarded. Normally when one team gets punished, they have a penalty and that's it. Since when does the rest of the league get REWARDED for another team's rule-breaking? That smells.

Well they had to do this to buy off the NFLPA. If they just take away our cap space then the players are necessarily getting a smaller pool of money. I would guess the league would rather not have had to agree to that stipulation but had no choice. Of course in practical terms the NFLPA did lose some money because all of that 46 mill won't be spent whereas it probably would have been had it not been stolen away.

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by GreekSkin

Cap controversy shows NFL at its worst - NFC East Blog - ESPN

Graziano FTW once again.

Ok so the League basically paid off the NFLPA to keep their mouths shut and look the other way while punishing 2 owners that didn't follow breaking the rules.

Would it be funny if whoever over see's Collusion in big business decided to contact the League now and inform them that they are investigating whether the owners colluded or not to an extent that it gave the other 30 owners and advantage over the players in the lockout.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by GreekSkin

Cap controversy shows NFL at its worst - NFC East Blog - ESPN

Graziano FTW once again.

BOOM! Roasted

[KI Skins Fan]

Jerry Jones to Dan Snyder yesterday: "Goodell is a pimp. He never coulda outfought us. But I didn't know until this day that it was the other owners all along."

Yes, it's yet another reference to The Godfather.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Everything you say is reasonable in theory, but not applicable when you're dealing with a bully.

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Everything you say is reasonable in theory, but not applicable when you're dealing with a bully.

Which is even more reason for whoever oversees business owners to step in. In reality the NFLPA should be ashamed for agreeing to this. They had so much leverage in this. If you want to punish your two favorite owners then your admitting to the fact the other 30 teams colluded and the NFLPA should be up in arms about this.

The Skins should lower their ticket prices, way low, since the money sent back to the League to help indigent teams is based off of the % of total revenue. They want to screw around then lets lower the ticket price because you know the market is so bad for DS also.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

Which is even more reason for whoever oversees business owners to step in. In reality the NFLPA should be ashamed for agreeing to this. They had so much leverage in this. If you want to punish your two favorite owners then your admitting to the fact the other 30 teams colluded and the NFLPA should be up in arms about this.

The Skins should lower their ticket prices, way low, since the money sent back to the League to help indigent teams is based off of the % of total revenue. They want to screw around then lets lower the ticket price because you know the market is so bad for DS also.

there really isnt anyone that oversees business owners in general. if there are tax implications, the federal goverment could get involved but thats about it.

the NFLPA probably was up in arms about this when they first heard about it, but the NFL basically told the NFLPA: "We are mad and really want to screw Dan and Jerry over. so heres the deal - you let us screw them over, we'll let the cap stay where it is. Well take money away from these two teams, but we will redistribute it among the other teams. If you dont, we'll lower the salary cap this year enough that 32 teams will have 200MM less to spend on players.

The really horrible thing here is, the NFL openly admited to the NFLPA that they colluded against the players in the uncapped year. The NFL admitted to screwing the players 2 years ago out of hundreds of millions of dollars... and they had the balls to say, we did it before, and well do it again now, if you dont sign off on this.

In reality, i think the best course of action here would be for the skins and cowboys to make sure the players in general know about, and are aware of this. This would motivate the players to sue the NFLPA for not acting in their best interest. However,at that point we could have a big ole lawsuit and likely no football until its resolved.

Given that the other teams did exactly what the skins and cowboys did, and several teams did so more severely than the cowboys, i cant help but think the owners are pissed at the skins and cowboys about something else, and they are using this as an excuse to mete out the punishment they want for the other thing.

in the end, the NFL is a big, ugly bully, but theres not anything anyone can do about it.

[bigant]

so what are u saying skinsfaninok? that we are going to spend like we have the 40 million cap space?

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Good read. Should be interesting court battles coming.

[SouperMeister]

I'm really hoping that Snyder challenges this in the courts or whatever forum is appropriate. Turning this into a collusion case against the 28 owners and Goodell would get the attention of the league office. Roger Goodell is a complete lackey/shill for the owners.