The NFL has accepted the NFLPA conditions and it waiting for ratifiaction of the owners. This is great for a lot of teams who are trying to resign people because if it happens the teams will have about 8 million more cap room
At a meeting Tuesday in Dallas, NFL owners will vote to accept or reject a players' union proposal to extend the Collective Bargaining Agreement, ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting. NFL management, led by commissioner Paul Tagliabue called the union an hour before the Sunday midnight deadline to say that they take the proposal to all 32 owners, Mortensen reports. Twenty-four of the 32 owners must OK the deal for it to be ratified. Monday in New York, Tagliabue, NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw and lawyers for both sides are meeting to put the players' latest proposal into a written document to present to owners for approval. "There are no negotiations [Monday]," Jeffrey Kessler, an NFLPA attorney and negotiator, said in an e-mail to ESPN. "We are just reviewing language on our proposal for submission to the owners for their approval vote. The deal goes to the owners [Tuesday] for approval up or down. If up, we have a deal. If down, we go to the uncapped year. Nothing in between and no more negotiation." If owners and players can't agree to an extension on the current CBA, 2007, the final year of the current contract, would be an uncapped season. The league and union agreed to postpone free agency another 72 hours until Thursday at 12:01 a.m. ET. Teams have until 9 p.m. on Wednesday to get under the salary cap of 94.5 million. "The NFL negotiators called us tonight after our negotiations broke off to indicate that they will take our complete package to the owners for an approval vote on Tuesday," Upshaw said late Sunday night. "We have therefore agreed to extend the free agency deadline until midnight Wednesday in order to provide time for that vote to be accomplished. It was the NFL's previous rejection of our proposal earlier this evening that caused the talks to break down." The deal that NFL owners will vote on guarantees that players will receive 59.5 percent of all football revenue over the six-year extension of the CBA, Mortensen reports. That 59.5 percent includes a "cash over cap" formula that addresses the concerns of low revenue clubs about how much teams actually spend on their payrolls in a given year. The deal also includes the ability to give credits and make adjustments on individual teams' spending on cash over the cap, according to what Upshaw told Mortensen. It is possible that a team that exceeds the spending limit will have their salary cap adjusted the following year by the amount they spend over the cap. That formula could be the subject of major debate during Tuesday's owner meetings in Dallas between low- and high-revenue clubs. Sources told Mortensen that New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft has emerged as the most vocal high-revenue franchise that is a strong dissenter to a new revenue sharing model. Upshaw said he still thinks revenue sharing is the key, although Harold Henderson, the NFL's executive vice president for labor relations, said it was never discussed Sunday. Upshaw also said the players would do as well or better sticking with the current agreement. "Under our previous cap agreement, we got just less than 60 percent of all of the revenues. The NFL now wants us to cut that percentage to less than 57 percent. Given the enormous revenue growth the NFL is experiencing, I am not about to give back gains which we have made in the past. It is clear to me that we will do much better under our current CBA in 2006 and particularly in 2007, the uncapped year," Upshaw said.
To me it's just as important that they raise the minimum a team can spend as it is to raise the max cap. I believe in revenue sharing, but the bottom feeders can't be allowed to get fat w/o spending $ into their own franchise.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (schillah)</div><div class='quotemain'>It's bad enough I have to wait all summer for next season...at least give me free agency</div> I hear you. Its like pushing back Christmas only more frustrating.
This is a good thing in the long run. They have actually agreed on something. The Ravens are in okay shape cap-wise but we can always wait until they get the "DOOMSDAY" deal done.
Owners will vote on it tommorrow. I guess one writer said there could be owner on owner crime because some want it and some don't.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (porky88)</div><div class='quotemain'>I guess one writer said there could be owner on owner crime because some want it and some don't.</div> Big market versus small market. Who says the NFL isn't like MLB? LOL.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (blackadder)</div><div class='quotemain'>Big market versus small market. Who says the NFL isn't like MLB? LOL.</div> stop it i will not hear that sort of talk round these parts
well for the sake of pure competitiveness they should A ok it .... can't we all just get along? lol anyway this shoulda been done a while ago but you know ppl see green they morph to the color of greed haha.... but more to topic it would be set for 6 yrs ! thk god hopefully they git-r-done lol.... i just can't take this anymore its not a dead issue but im fed up of hearing about it every 5 mins on SC lol.... put it in place alreadY! but they do need at least 24 of 32 owners to vote and agree in principle on it so cross your fingers chaps!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J-E-T-S 1083)</div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (blackadder)</div><div class='quotemain'>Big market versus small market. Who says the NFL isn't like MLB? LOL.</div> stop it i will not hear that sort of talk round these parts</div> One difference between MLB & NFL is that NYC's baseball teams are better & that includes the mess I mean Mets. I just love how the Mets got their backsides handed to them by Puerto Rico.
well puerto rico is like an all star team of nationalities and yea thast my defense. i wouldnt be talkin though look at the freakin Marlins. it doesnt matter i'm much more passionate about the Jets and football. Until baseball gets their own salary cap i wont be very interested in the league unless its fantasy
