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Into the Season after week 6 is what I voted. I'll believe an agreement when I see it. I hope I'm wrong. I'll be ecstatic if I'm wrong.
I think the season gets canceled, unfortunately. It does not seem like either side will budge. I hope I am proved wrong though.
Ditto. Both sides will actually have to suffer financially before an agreement is reached. Greed will rule the day.
I think the season gets canceled, unfortunately. It does not seem like either side will budge. I hope I am proved wrong though.
A Texans SB with scabs.
The next move in the collective bargaining talks belongs to the owners. And it probably will determine whether there will be a new deal that won't interrupt the football offseason as we know it.
All along, I have been optimistic that a deal can be done by March 15. The date is arbitrary, based mostly on the belief that both sides really want to get something done. The NFLPA lived up to the faith I had in both sides by making what I consider the perfect proposal. That offer of a 50-50 split of all revenues wasn't going to bring immediate harmony, but it showed what I thought all along -- that the players want to get a deal done.
In a Saturday meeting during Super Bowl week, both sides set aside two days a week through the end of the month to move the process. Although subcommittees from both sides have kept talking, the owners haven't changed their stance. In a business that grosses between $9 billion and $10 billion per year, the owners insist on receiving another $1 billion credit (they already receive $1 billion under the current CBA) for stadium financing and operating costs.
Even though they're not ready to make a deal, the owners need to make a counter that addresses their needs and acknowledges the movement of the players. No counter would show what players have feared for a long time -- that owners want to use a lockout to win the talks.
For everyone's sake, let's hope that's not the case.
It didn't look good before and now it looks even worse. Just heard on the radio that the NFL has filed a lawsuite against the NFLPA for not bargaining in good faith. From what I've heard/read that's BS.
This is supposedly part of a gambit to avoid a lockout and force the players to play next season. If the NFL can get a declaration the players have not negotiated in good faith then the NFL can attempt to get an order that the players have to play this season in accordance with the NFL's last offer.
And the last league offer was to skim another cool BILLION off the top and split the remainder 50/50 instead of 60/40. Correct?
This still doesn't address the in fighting amongst the owner's of large vs. small market teams. What do you figure's gonna happen there?
Kind of. As I understand it the players' share is only calculated on certain revenue streams. So the owners proposed opening the definition of the pot up to all or more revenue and then lowering the percentage. So it isn't quite as unreasonable as it sounds.
No idea. Not sure how real that is or if it is mainly media rabble rousing.