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15 Jul 2011
People Familiar With Talks: NFL Tentative Agreement In Principle Could Come Within 24 Hours
Possibly, maybe. We may want to hedge that title a little more.
Other links of interest as the lockout supposedly enters it's death knells:
-Our own Doug Farrar checks in on what the new salary cap is, and what that may mean for certain franchises that will now have to start spending.
-Sports Business Journal's Daniel Kaplan with a look at the lack of revenue sharing solutions in the deal and how that may grow animosity between big-market and small-market clubs.
15 comments, Last at 23 Jul 2011, 3:37pm by Bobo
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Re: People Familiar With Talks:
It seems like the players are willing to take a decreased share of revenue in exchange for a pure split rather than a set of pre-determined caps...so they're banking on the league's profitability continuing to grow.
It also sounds like the penny pinchers like Richardson and Wilson are going to hate this deal...
Re: People Familiar With Talks:
If both sides walk away feeling a little bit disapointed, then that's a good sign. If the rhetoric is any judge, Smith will claim victory, Goodell will blather empty platitudes about how it was a long and sometimes difficult process but with the spirit of cooperation we were able to blah blah blah.
We'll really know in a year or two. If one side is howling next offseason, that's bad. That'll probably mean we'll be back here again in a few years.
Re: People Familiar With Talks:
They've hated every deal since 1865.
Re: People Familiar With Talks:
10/10 would laugh again
best line I've read in a long time
Re: People Familiar With Talks:
Why isn't the original revenue sharing system still in play? I thought that was liked by all, and didn't even know it was up for negotiation.
Re: People Familiar With Talks:
Where did you read that it wasn't?
It sounds to me like they are just undoing the "extra" revenue sharing created in the 2006 CBA.
Re: People Familiar With Talks: NFL Tentative Agreement ...
Our long national nightmare may soon be over.
Re: People Familiar With Talks: NFL Tentative Agreement
WOOOO-HOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Re: Agreement In Principle Could Come Within 24 Hours
Not that you guys are to blame for simply reporting what's out there, but I'll believe a deal is "close" when it's done. I've been hearing chatter about deals being "close", "imminent", "could happen by the end of the week" etc. for a month.
If it's true, though, yay :)
Re: Agreement In Principle Could Come Within 24 Hours
It'll happen by the end of the decade.
Bank on it.
Ryes
gonna have some Tommykocker Buttheads tnight. Going to be gerat . The offiical start of the 2011 Raiders Super bowl champisobnship going to get udnerway soon
the good, the bad, the ugly
I read both articles and still ask myself the same question I have been asking for the past 12 months ...
Will the owners really spend less money than they did under the rules of the last CBA? Based on the numbers in the articles and on some common sense on how such negotiations work, I highly doubt that. It's a little different method of ending up with numbers in the same ballpark. Do they get more security? It looks like the players closed some loopholes used by owners to save money (salary floor, LTBE incentives ...), and the owners put some new loopholes in.
And based on such an assumption, the apparently two owners who opposed opting out of the 2006 CBA were probably right (I know the vote was unanimous, but apparently two owners opposed it before).
Six months wasted?
Re: the good, the bad, the ugly
To me this rumoured deal seems to be better for high revenue owners (lower cap), worse for small revenue owners (higher floor), better for more incompetent front offices (rookie wage scale), worse for good front offices (shorter rookie contracts) and better for parity (all of the above).
Re: the good, the bad, the ugly
Also, better for good rookies and worse for incompetent ones, though they don't get a say, as I understand it.
Revenue figure for setting cap level
What revenue figure is the 46.5 to 48% coming from? $141M x 32 is just over $4.5B, well under the usual figures reported for NFL revenue.
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