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Originally Posted by SBXVII
Giantone,
I might agree with you that Snyder used to play fantasy football in the past when Cerrato was here but since Shanahan/Allen not so much.
But your ethics arguement makes me worry. Overall yes DS has had bad business but he's gotten better over the yrs with the Skins. But thats not what this thread is about is it, it's about collusion as you say. I think your explanation is a bit skewed especially when you leave out the part where your owner was a player in the collusion and broke the law.
What this is about is a two or more owners agreeing to keep the cost down. Those 30 owners to include your owner colluded against the players. They broke the law. I hate to say I hope whoever over sees the National Labor Laws does not jump on this. But as you said there was an agreement amongst owners and two decided to not break the law and now they are getting spanked for not keeping with the agreement. Could there be a trust issue amongst owners? Yes, but atleast our owner is not a criminal.
Why did the League approve the deals of they were wrong? Be abuse had they denied them the players would have had clear evidence the owners were colluding. Now some 10 + months later the owner want to spank us and the Boys owners so they work out an agreement with the NFPLA to no have a suit filed against them for collusion (because they know they broke the law) and then spank the Skine and Boys.
I'm supprised the players union agreed but if I was a player I'd say screw it and file a suit against the othe 30 teams to include yours for colluding which might make the whole new CBA void.
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I'm not at all surprised the NFLPA agreed. While the players may or may not have made less in the uncapped year (I suspect they didnt make less) that was only one year. The NFLPA agreed to the deal so that their players could make more every year after that because part of the deal was keeping the cap from going down. The NFLPA too the long term view of keeping salaries up for their members.
Also, for the fans this cap reduction news came out of the blue, but it didnt for the Skins. They were continually warned by the NFL to cool it yet for some reason they ignored the warnings. The sad part is that the Skins could have avoided this mess if they'd have just heeded the warnings and backed off a little. The NFL tried to save the Skins from themselves but the Skins were too arrogant to listen.