Judge grants motion, lifts lockout; owners' appeal coming

Source: Coaches told not to speak to players (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/25/source-coaches-told-not-to-speak-to-players/)

Like I said, this is about to get wacky

Looks like the league changed their minds, at least in regards to allowing players into the facilities:

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RT @AlbertBreer: NFL spokesman Greg Aiello says that if players show up to team facilities in the morning, they will be allowed in.

ohh emm gee, 1-0 players.

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Yeah the will be allowed IN the building, but not access to the weight room, etc.... so just like an open house. walk around and look type access.

Okay well now I'm not sure if I was right or not about what happens after the judge lifts the lockout. On one hand I got the obvious part right in that the NFL would appeal. However I wonder if what I was told (mini-camps and free agency in June at the earliest assuming the NFL looses on appeal) will hold up.

At the very least it looks like existing players will be allowed to use the facilities again to workout and train.

they are allowed at the faciliteis but cannot use the weight room or training facilities from what i just heard on the news. makes sense to me :cheeky-sm

Yeah the will be allowed IN the building, but not access to the weight room, etc.... so just like an open house. walk around and look type access.

yeah heard the same thing, i guess they don't want the players to forget the layout of the buildings?

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gotta love zo, atleast they tried to show up

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DeMaurice Smith was just on Mike and Mike, the guy is a little weasel.
Mike was mostly pushing for an answer regarding trades and FA on draft day happening and all Smith would say is that the owners are losers and they lost in this they lost in that blah blah blah...what an annoying little lawyer twerp.

DeMaurice Smith was just on Mike and Mike, the guy is a little weasel.
Mike was mostly pushing for an answer regarding trades and FA on draft day happening and all Smith would say is that the owners are losers and they lost in this they lost in that blah blah blah...what an annoying little lawyer twerp.

Well it wouldn't matter because it would be up to the league to figure out when and if trades would happen.

Honestly, at this point I just don't how much one could support the owners. Not that I'm going to blindly be behind the side of the players. But I feel that their insistence on continuing the lockout is affecting many people and the teams themselves.

Right now you have no free agency, preventing teams from signing players or dealing for players. Teams have altered their draft play because of no free agency. These two things are going to have a negative effect on a lot of teams, and not just for the next season I feel.

You teams with new coaching staffs that won't be able to gameplan and hold practices, which I am sure will affect the team's performance this season. Even with established teams like the Packers and the Patriots, I'm sure not having training camp is going to have an effect.

Finally, you have your run of the mill player and your average league employee who is not earning a paycheck and/or will need to take a paycut.

I know that the lockout gives the owners a bargaining chip, but they are screwing a lot of people, even their own league/team employees in the process. And for a number of franchise, they are sacrificing performance in the upcoming season and probably a number of seasons to come.