This is from PFT so take it for what you will, but this would mean everyone would have until Sunday night to get under the salary cap. NFL EXTENDS START OF LEAGUE YEAR A league source tells us that the NFL and the NFLPA have agreed to extend by 72 hours the launch of the 2006 league year. Per the source, the year will begin at 12:01 a.m. Monday morning, and not at 12:01 a.m. on Friday morning. This means that the deadline for getting under the 2006 salary cap likewise is extended from 10:00 p.m. Thursday night to 10:00 p.m. Sunday night. It also suggests that maybe, just maybe, there will be progress toward getting the CBA extended. Stay tuned.
Free Agency Delayed???? I just saw this http://forums.denverbroncos.com/showthread.php?t=56781 has anyone else heard this? I'm not home so I don't have espnews on
woul dbe nice -- think a lot of teams are cutting players that they wanted to keep -- could really change the landscape if all these veterans are released for cap reasons and the cap gets raised.
Must've been just posted there. 3:07 mountain time is 5:07 out here in the east, which makes sense. I can't find a published article.
I just heard it on Michael Kaye 1050 ESPN radio. It is an additional 72 hours to negotiate. The owners complained they did not have enough time to negotiate, thus the three day extension.
If they really are postponing it to try and get a CBA extension, won't those teams that have already cut a bunch of guys be pissed.
Verified by SI http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/nfl/03/01/bc.fbn.nflowners.ap/index.html NEW YORK (AP) -- A few hours after NFL owners voted to continue their standoff with the players union, the league extended its deadline for free agency by three days, putting off what threatened to become a mass purge of high-priced players from rosters. League vice president Joe Browne announced the delay Thursday afternoon, seven hours before the midnight deadline. The owners' vote after a 57-minute meeting earlier in the day had seemed to end 13 years of labor peace between the league and its union.
you would have to imagine they wouldn't do this unless there was a chance a deal could be struck over the weekend for a new CBA
This confirms one thing. NFL owners are no where near as unified as Paul Tagliabue tried to lead us to believe.
