Crazysilver03
05-20-2008, 01:12 PM
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/24726240/
The latest wobbly move? Team owners, so anxious to get out of the Collective Bargaining Agreement they agreed to with the players 26 months ago, opted out of the agreement Tuesday morning. Unanimously.
If no new agreement is reached, 2010 will be a season without a salary cap. The owners don’t want that, can’t afford that and NFLPA head Gene Upshaw has said more than once that, if the salary cap ever goes away, it’s never coming back. The impact of an uncapped year starts to hit next March when the 2008 contracts expire and the next crop of players becomes free agents. How do you structure contracts that comply with a salary cap when there may not be one? How do you structure rookie contracts? Should agents advise the most attractive players on the market to sign one-year deals so they can cash in during the uncapped 2010? And no salary cap means there’s no salary floor, either. Will cash-starved teams go the way of baseball’s Twins or Rays and employ shoestring budgets?
This adds a whole new twist to football if this comes to fruition.
The latest wobbly move? Team owners, so anxious to get out of the Collective Bargaining Agreement they agreed to with the players 26 months ago, opted out of the agreement Tuesday morning. Unanimously.
If no new agreement is reached, 2010 will be a season without a salary cap. The owners don’t want that, can’t afford that and NFLPA head Gene Upshaw has said more than once that, if the salary cap ever goes away, it’s never coming back. The impact of an uncapped year starts to hit next March when the 2008 contracts expire and the next crop of players becomes free agents. How do you structure contracts that comply with a salary cap when there may not be one? How do you structure rookie contracts? Should agents advise the most attractive players on the market to sign one-year deals so they can cash in during the uncapped 2010? And no salary cap means there’s no salary floor, either. Will cash-starved teams go the way of baseball’s Twins or Rays and employ shoestring budgets?
This adds a whole new twist to football if this comes to fruition.