The union is asking for 60 percent and the league's current offer is 56.2 percent? All for this? :barf:
post 2k sucks.:sad2:
post 2k sucks.:sad2:
I cant believe they're letting it get this far. Losing the salary cap will ruin the league. This isnt like the NHL where teams were losing money.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2348970
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2348970
I agree. Both sides have a sweet deal. They better not screw with it much.
The word around the combine on the CBA talks is that the NFLPA is asking for 61 percent of total revenues and that the NFL is willing to give 57 percent. Each percentage point is worth around $1 billion over the six-year extension being talked about. It's likely that the sides could settle at 59 or 59.5. NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw insists he won't extend the start of free agency past March 3, but commissioner Paul Tagliabue is trying to get a deal done by Wednesday at 4 p.m., and hoping to push free agency back to March 10.
I really don't understand why are we keep letting go good and veteran players like Hopkins if last year made the cap purge and still we have cap problems, I don´t understand that.
We not completely out of the woods yet, we still have dead money from the contracts of the players that we cut last year. Give another year or two and we should be completely out of the woodsMex#1TitanFan said:
Its about how they cut players and before this year has been about when. June 1st cuts like the Titans did last year were split in half. Half penalized against their cap then and the other half this year. Plus players who they let go are stilled payed for their contracts but the contract goes less against the cap. (Or something, I know last year we finished paying off Eddie George's contract finally.)
Basically with the current CBA in play, teams have been able to jiggle and juggle salary numbers around but with the current CBA being in its last year they have ran out of tricks to do with cap money.
The good news is most teams are going to have to cut players to make it below the cap and very few teams will have the money to sign anyone. I think when the players realize they won't be playing anywhere without a new CBA they'll get one done very quickly so teams have more cap room to sign them.
Heres a link to a ESPN article on WHO most teams will likely have to cut to get below cap range, and honestly alot of their perdictions have already panned out.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2341755
Basically with the current CBA in play, teams have been able to jiggle and juggle salary numbers around but with the current CBA being in its last year they have ran out of tricks to do with cap money.
The good news is most teams are going to have to cut players to make it below the cap and very few teams will have the money to sign anyone. I think when the players realize they won't be playing anywhere without a new CBA they'll get one done very quickly so teams have more cap room to sign them.
Heres a link to a ESPN article on WHO most teams will likely have to cut to get below cap range, and honestly alot of their perdictions have already panned out.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2341755
sdavis2k said:
there are some really over-paid players out there.
Simeon Rice gets cut, i'd take him in a second.
Theres alot of Talent on that list, now given most of the over paid ones will probably restructure instead of being cut, but look who teams have let test the Free Agent markets already. Drew Brees is an excellent QB and coming off a nonserious injury(atleast not as serious as Culpepper, Palmer, or Pennington I think). Charles Woodson. Edge. All these are excellent impact players that would have a dramatic effect on a team quickly and most could change teams from close to a playoff to making the playoffs. There are a few lame ducks out there like Stephen Davis and such, but its bound to happen.
Actually the Titans only cut Schulers after June 1 last year among the high priced guys. The rest (Carter, Mason, Miller, Rolle) came prior to March.sdavis2k said:
Plus, June 1 cuts don't create a 50/50 split on dead money, it's whatever is scheduled this year still counts and whatever is prorated in the future all rolls up to the next season.
But I agree with the rest of what you said with the current state of the league. If they don't agree to a new CBA the players are going to be SOL this offseason.
Titan Mike Green, who notched 1,057 yards in 2001 ... ???
Mike Green $1,435,000 # $1,435,000 $
no, he's a safety for the Bears...
Wah?
I wonder whatever happened to that guy anyway?
Mike Green $1,435,000 # $1,435,000 $
no, he's a safety for the Bears...
Wah?
I wonder whatever happened to that guy anyway?
The ex-Titans RB Mike Green was playing Arena II football somewhere last year. I think it was in Texas.
He signed with the Corpus Christi Hammerheads after he was released in training camp by the Kats. And the Hammerheads arent even an AFL2 team, they're part of the "Intense Football League."
Wow, thats worse than a going from a MLB team to the A league team. The IFL is like -AAAA footballnigel said:
Starkiller said:
Thanks for the correction, I like many others was no clear on how they do it, and was simply going by a mixture of what i heard and thought.
Well no CBA offically as of today so it looks like the Lions, Packers, 49ers, Eagles, and Cards will be racking up during FA while everyone else trims the fat. (Those teams are all WELL before the cap) I heard the Packers will be almost 30 million under if Farve retires.
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