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Originally Posted by Schneed10
Nice link. But the guys who have been the driving force behind letting the CBA expire have been Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones. There are a few other select owners in their corner, but Danny and Jerry are both over the cap according to your link. It's in their interests to see the CBA get extended, and they have previously represented the faction that wanted the end of the CBA. They will cave in the 11th hour, if not before.
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Let's clear up what is actually going on with the CBA.
There are 2 issues causing the problems. First is the agreement amongst the owners as to the sharing of revenues. Then there is the CBA negotiations. Now the CBA will never get agreed upon until the owners have agreed on revenue sharing. The reason the CBA negotiations have dragged on is that the owners simply can't agree on how to share the revenues any more. I am not greatly versed in the revenue sharing specifics but I believe they currently share the TV money, ticket sales, league based apparrel contract money, and some other smaller revenue streams. What they don't share is concessions, local tv revenue, team specific apparell sales and such, and other locally produced monies. These local monies are huge for teams like the Skins and Ciowbys and not very huge for teams like KC or Arizona. Of course the Dan doesn't want to share his extra money because he feels he is better at marketing than most of these other teams so why should he give them the spoils of his work.
Once they work this out the CBA can be tackled in full. They'll be able to negotiate from a position of understanding what monies everyone has so they can better work the deal successfully.
So Snyder is not directly holding the CBA up but he is indirectly.