Jets suffer if they advance to div. round

the last part is the biggest worry to the players.at least should be.everyone is thinking the cowboys,redskins,giants and jets are gonna go yankee style,but more than 60% of the league is liable to go the way of the pirates.field a team of minimum contract players and make a big profit on the tv money.the players are gonna lose their ass if they don't agree to a cap again.

 

In the NFL.. you can create a Yankee like budget and still go 2-14..

 

at least Al Davis can.

 

Absolutely amazing, a billion dollar industry where everyone is making money and they are willing to blow it up.

I guess the owners want to go back to the initial industrial age where employees were just a means to fatten their pockets and discard them when they are of no use.

Pretty soon I will be canceling my cable service, the constant dispute over fees and cancellation of channels are gonna push me to become a tree huger and say screw all this technology crap.

Greed is not good.

 

I think Dan Snyder has done an even better job at that then Davis. Redskins = Mets of the NFL.

Actually the good thing would come if they lost in the playoffs because people would believe they are coming to a contender and only a few players away , plus an owner that wants to spend money and win.

If this article was accurate I think we would likely see the end of the Bills in Buffalo and likely the Jags in Jacksonville. While the NFL has a special product because teams in Baltimore, Nashville, Charlotte and Indianapolis are competitive unlike in other sports where they don't really have anything else to cheer for. The unfortunate thing is that greed by both the owners and players could destroy all of that and bring us to a point where very few teams compete and IMO makes the league boring and almost unwatchable.

 

This has all the makings of killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

 

Way to put a negative spin on our playoff aspirations.

 

God what a mess. We as fans should really push the league to agree on a new deal, if we can, or else football as we know it may come to an end.

 

I have to agree with this even though the author has some strong points. Once the salaries of the teams have gone above the previous cap, how can you set the new cap to be fair to the teams? The ones that have spent more money will be forced to rework contracts or release players. There must have been a similar situation when the cap was introduced back in 1994. How did they deal with it then?

 

I'm with you it's extreme. But instead of the tree hugger route, do what I did. Get a decent computer with HD capability and find most of anything you'd ever watch for free online. Fuck cable companies and the networks. And quite frankly fuck the NFL and their greed too.

 

So we get to keep our young guys (Mangold, Revis, Harris, etc.) on rookie contracts for two extra years and we can cut Gholsten with no dead money on our cap.

Sign me up.

 

I'm willing to have Gholston if it means the league's integrity stays uncompromised. The one thing I love most about football is the parity. You simply don't have dominating teams year in and year out anymore. You have teams that win often because they're run well or have dynamic players, like the Colts, Pats, etc. But, like I said, they win because they are run well in an environment where even if you're a tiny market team, if you're run well you're fine.

I don't want football becoming baseball, where the New York teams are always competitive simply because they're from New York. And replace New York with any big city (LA, Boston) and you'll see the same results.

 

I'm not a fan of looking for the worst thing about the team's possible success.

 

What could happen which I personally wouldn't like would be a flex cap like the NBA has, for a year or so this could help adjust but free agency would be doomed if this stuck

also with the GM's all knowing it's only one uncapped year most contracts will be frontloaded and short term anyways, so you'd have to think the smarter ones (not redskins or raiders) would be prepared to get back under a cap

 

they'll have a cap or a nasty lockout.

 

Agreed. However, this is a Jets website, so this thread being made makes sense.

 

Listen, whatever happens now there is no excuse for playing dead. It's a free market, baby. And Jerry Jones is out there to make like George Steinbrenner.

 

I thought that remark was for Dan Snyder

 

You people making lame jokes about the Raiders and Redskins do realize that every NFL team pretty much spends the exact same amount on salary each year, right?