Updated Title: Lockout Over-NFLPA Unanimously Votes to Approve Deal

[musicmaster45]

unrestricted and undrafted today according to Espn and NFLN

[SBXVII]

Skins to start camp Thurs.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

Skins to start camp Thurs.

I've heard both Wednesday and Thursday multiple times today (even Friday once or twice). I suspect facilities open up on Wednesday and full practice starts Thursday. Maybe??

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

I've heard both Wednesday and Thursday multiple times today (even Friday once or twice). I suspect facilities open up on Wednesday and full practice starts Thursday. Maybe??

Yeah I've heard the same things. I think your right though, the facility will open tomorrow for the players to vote, and actual practice starts Thurs. or Fri.

[Jamaican'Skin]

Finally!!!!

[JoeRedskin]

I bet the coaches are going ape-shit right about now. They may have been gearing up but, given the compressed time frames, I am sure a they have been preparing but I bet more than a few of them are thinking "WTF do I do first?"

On top of that was just reading how teams could lose RFA's midway through August.

Restricted free agency this year. Weird. The NFL hasn't finalized the timing for it yet, but there are a slew of restricted free agents, valuable ones like Roman Harper and Antonio Cromartie, who could have up to two weeks from the time camps start to choose a new team or go back to an existing one.

"Did anyone in the negotiations think how absolutely crazy this could be?'' one coach told me Saturday. "Suppose you're counting on a guy who's restricted to come back, and a week or so into free agency he gets blown out of the water with some offer, and we've already lost the chance to get anyone good to replace him -- and we're three weeks away from playing a game that counts. Whoever made some of these rules ... I mean, we could be recruiting free agents while we're trying to put together installation periods for the playbook in training camp.''

Under the plan being considered by the league last Thursday, the restricted signings could take place until Aug. 12. Signing at the last minute would give players less than a month before they played their first real game with a new team.

Read more: NFL owners and players nearing an end to lockout and labor dispute in time for full 2011 NFL schedule* - Peter King - SI.com

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

I bet the coaches are going ape-shit right about now. They may have been gearing up but, given the compressed time frames, I am sure a they have been preparing but I bet more than a few of them are thinking "WTF do I do first?"

On top of that was just reading how teams could lose RFA's midway through August.



Read more: NFL owners and players nearing an end to lockout and labor dispute in time for full 2011 NFL schedule* - Peter King - SI.com

I'd bet the better coaches had a time line set up for when ever the deal got done. So they would have a plan for as little or as much time as they had to prepare the players.

[SBXVII]

In regards to the Restricted FA's..... make an offer they can't refuse. Simple. Otherwise the team is just offering what they think he's worth and if another team comes along and "blows him out of the water" with a better offer then clearly the team didn't think as highly about the player as the opposing team that made a big offer.

However I thought the whole reason they are called restricted is because the current team has the option to match the new offer or not.

[SmootSmack]

Starting to hear now there will be no opt-out. So this deal is set for the next 10 years, if true

[MTK]

Nice move, hope all teams follow suit

Jets immediately refund employees for lockout losses | ProFootballTalk

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Nice move, hope all teams follow suit

Jets immediately refund employees for lockout losses | ProFootballTalk

I concur.

How immediate is immediate? Per a source who was in the room, Johnson said, “When you leave this meeting, the money will be in your accounts.”

[MTK]

Yeah I'm sure teams have a plan in place and will be ready to move.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

any word on when we can:

1) sign our own players and FAs
2) sign other team's FAs and begin trades?

[SmootSmack]

I think we'll get official answers tonight.

[SmootSmack]

Sources: Latest NFL timeline starts Tuesday - ESPN