Labor Negotiations News

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  1. The Great American

    The Great American Well-Known Member

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    Now why would you say something like that when there's already been an admission of lack of understanding about this situation?
     
  2. Hemi

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    Fuck deadspin, the national enquirer of sports. or the pft.com of sports.
     
  3. GQMartin

    GQMartin Go 'Cuse

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    Union just rejected 18 game schedule.
     
  4. VanderbiltJets

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    Good. The 18 game schedule was bullshit.
     
  6. ace_o_spades

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    You are absolutely over-simplifying things. And wtf are you talking about with agents and the union? That makes absolutely 0 sense. Agents represent individual player rights while the union represents the players as a whole.

    The quality of the product will be awful and those asinine prices that owners charge to watch their product will have to be slashed dramatically.

    The owners don't have to open their books but it hurts their stance that they "need" to shave revenue off the top for themselves. If they have nothing to hide then why hide it.

    Players aren't demanding more salary. If an individual player is it has nothing to do with the CBA.
     
  7. NDmick

    NDmick Revis Christ

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    The 18 game schedule was going to be the end of the NFL.

    You like seeing 15 years of your favorite player? Well, it would have been reduced to 10 if 18 games happened.

    Still think they get the deal done before the draft.
     
  8. JetRizing89

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    deadline was encouraging but there not gonna get this done

    too many egos involved especially with goodell considering he spent 2 years pimping the 18 game season out and he wont have the rug pulled out from under him
     
  9. wildthing202

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    The 18 games thing was just a ploy for leverage, gave them something to concede in order to get something back.
     
  10. Mambo9

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    So now instead of wanting to take 1 more billion off the top of an 18 games season they claim they'll only take 0.8 billions off the top of a 16 games season.
    If you consider there would have been more income in an 18 games season wouldn't they be taking off roughly the same amount percentage-wise?

    I think a deal may get done at about an additional 0.5 billion...
     
  11. deathstar

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    ^but for a deal to get done, the NFL has to open up its books.
     
  12. nyjetsrule

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    happy that 18 games is scrapped. Thats a big concession by the owners, which is fantastic for the players. I honestly never thought the 18 games would get scrapped. So thats another positive step. Still going to be a while, but things are moving in the right direction with the rookie cap and the scrapping of the 18 game schedule.
     
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    Remember that whole "unity" idea with both sides? Whichever side sticks together in solidarity is going to come out on top?

    Well, the owners seem to be unraveling.

    The momentum has swung to the players side in these past few weeks. I expect a deal done in the next month.
     
  15. deathstar

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    I think what also helps is that owners have huge expenses now while players aren't going to get paid until Sept 1...
     
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    Jets have been sending me payment deadlines. I'm not sending a dime until they get this shit straight, why help the owners out even a little?
     
  17. NDmick

    NDmick Revis Christ

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    This is all derived from the court ruling saying they can't touch the 4 Billion in TV money. That nest egg is gone, so now they're scrambling.

    That ruling is going to be used as an example in law for a long time. Judge Doty saved a guaranteed lockout.
     
  18. WhiteShoeWillis

    WhiteShoeWillis Well-Known Member

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    It sounds like things are getting heated and a standoff is about to happen. The head of the players union is tweeting some pretty telling shit. I can't copy/paste right now.

    Sent from my DROID PRO using Tapatalk
     
  19. deathstar

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    http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6201349

    Shows some of those heated back and forth quotes b/c the NFL and the union...

    Not looking good like last week when they agreed to a couple of extensions...
     
  20. Coach K

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    yeah glad thats officially dead
     
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