Posted March 3, 200619 yr comment_4596429 So the NFL can't agree on a new CBA to prevent an uncapped year and the total chaos that will result. After watching baseball lose its popularity and the NHL losing a whole season, why is the NFL being so boneheaded? Is it a case of "it won't happen to me" or is it just plain old greed?
March 3, 200619 yr comment_4597459 DD is a baseball fan -- which is fine and dandy, but I don't like baseball in the least but I'm not wishing for them to not play the next season either.
March 3, 200619 yr Author comment_4597671 I'm just glad I saw a Steelers Super Bowl win before all this foolishness started, seeing as how if the cap goes, they'll be the Pirates in shoulder pads.
March 3, 200619 yr comment_4599017 I think it will be chaotic, but not in the way Sek thinks it will, as a failure to extend the NFL's CBA is going to result in massive free agent carnage. Usually, teams can put contracts on the Brick plan -- buy now, don't pay until 2007. If the CBA is coming to an end, however, it means that everyone has to be under the cap for this final year, with no money shuffled ahead to future years. Teams that are well over their 2006 cap number right now won't be able to "restructure" deals as they did in the past. They'll just have to flat out cut guys, and many of those guys won't be able to find work elsewhere in the NFL. Some may have to come north to find work for a year until the NFL gets to its "uncapped" year in 2007. (The way their agreement works is that in the final year, which would be 2007, there is a year with no cap. The rich teams can go crazy, of course, but only with one year deals, as the cap would almost certainly be back for '08.)
March 7, 200619 yr comment_4617020 I was hoping there wouldn't be a deal, and the salary cap would be removed. "Parity" has made the NFL quite difficult to watch. While it would sacrifice the teams with cheap owners, which happen to include my beloved Bills and Cards, it would make the meaningful games much better.
March 7, 200619 yr Author comment_4617155 Yeah, cause sports where all teams have a chance to win (except in cases of ownership tightassery) is boring. One of the reasons I like football is that you can't predict the divsion leaders and playoff teams after Week 1 like you can with baseball in May.
March 8, 200619 yr comment_4617785 I'd rather have better football in the playoffs, and some quality top teams, instead of what we see now. If there was a way to implement a salary floor, where owners can't keep all the cash in their pockets... I'd be for that. Plus, while people may say they like parity... they're not necessarily watching it. People want to see the Yankees, Duke, Notre Dame get knocked off.
March 8, 200619 yr Author comment_4617799 People also want their team to have a chance in hell of winning every year, and at least half the teams in baseball really can't say they have such a chance.
March 8, 200619 yr comment_4618170 Yeah, cause sports where all teams have a chance to win (except in cases of ownership tightassery) is boring. One of the reasons I like football is that you can't predict the divsion leaders and playoff teams after Week 1 like you can with baseball in May. To be fair, I don't think the White Sox or Astros were heavy favorites going into last season.
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