NFLPA Files Collusion Lawsuit Against NFL, Owners

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Circumstantial evidence is still evidence. All they have to do is be able to put enough information together to be able to make the judge come to the same conclusion that there was collusion on the part of the owners and they've won.

If the judge see's the March 11th agreement as a lose/lose deal he might decide the trial should go on. and I think it might. If the players said "no we don't agree to the punishment." then the NFL was going to lower the CAP for all teams basically taking money away from the players. Had the NFLPA said "ok we agree." as they did then the players lost revenue cause CAP space was taken away from two teams that would have used it and spent and given to teams who generally don't spend. Either way the NFLPA was in a losing situation.

Frankly Goodell and Mara were idiots to comment on the issue. They should have simply said the two teams took competative advantage and left it at that. As others have said the NFL does not owe us and explaination at all. But they didn't they ran their mouths thinking they were safe.