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Colts give Jonathan Taylor permission to be Traded

That Destin numbnuts is a vessel Indy is using to leverage the Phins. Would be SHOCKED if there is another team.

Almost positive we would be bidding against ourselves if we upped our offer.
 
laxcoach said:
The reality is that the union knows they can’t hold a strike together because the players have too much to lose. A large percentage are not saving for catastrophes and aren’t prepared to lose game checks.

Further, the disparity between the top 10% that can afford it and the bottom 50% that can’t means that bottom 50% feels like they are losing money to line the pockets of the top guys.

The strike in 87 proved that fans root for laundry, not players. It isn’t something the NFL forgot.

So, the way it has worked the last few negotiations is that the NFL budges on things like the 5th year option in exchange for something the NFLPA gives up. Or the NFL gets something by giving something from the last contract up.

I believe the contract slotting for draftees was to the benefit of existing veterans. It shifted salary cap space from guys who never played to guys getting rewarded for their play. Wasn’t the fifth year option part of that negotiation?
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I firmly believe you are underestimating the resolve of the NFLPA, as well as how much NFL pay has increased vs. the average person's pay since 1987.
 
The Ghost said:
That's the whole point, 32 NFL owners have colluded to limit the ability of players to make the amount of money they should.

Why did the Vikings not honor Dalvin Cook's contract? But instead release him after he had no chance to recoup that money?

I get that a player needs to prove himself for 2-3 years, 5 years though? That's ridiculous.
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The contract has guaranteed and non guaranteed money. The players know that when they sign. Part of what they are getting in exchange for the put years is a large signing bonus of guaranteed money.

Also, a lot of contracts (not the case with cook with his release) have voidable years in order to spread out the salary cap implications early.

Is voiding those years “not honoring the contract?”

or, they have huge roster bonuses due the first day of the league year in an out year - specifically to force a team’s hand from doing what Minny did to Cook.

After every big contract, PFT will end up saying something like “in reality this is a $x million y year contract” based on the details. The agents can do the same math, and the players surely have been informed of it before signing.
 
The Goat said:
I firmly believe you are underestimating the resolve of the NFLPA, as well as how much NFL pay has increased vs. the average person's pay since 1987.
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They blinked hard last time they were talking strike.
 
EPBro said:
That Destin numbnuts is a vessel Indy is using to leverage the Phins. Would be SHOCKED if there is another team.

Almost positive we would be bidding against ourselves if we upped our offer.
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...and Ian Rapoport? Is he being used as well?

 
The Goat said:
...and Ian Rapoport? Is he being used as well?

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He sure could be. Him and Schefter are in the bag. Never seen Schefter's Emails on "what he was allowed to report" directly from ownership?

Don't be naive...

Edit, Rapoport is also reporting GOAT Cheese is overated...
 
The Goat said:
Are you referring to the 2011 collusion lawsuit?
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Yes. The nflpa was threatening to strike. The owners played hard ball and did the lockout.

There was a collusion case and a settlement was intertwined with the final CBA deal.

If you go back, a huge number of players were taking out loans because they didn’t have the ability to stay afloat. And, it was widely reported that a majority wanted it to end no matter the cost.

They could have played hardball back and tried to get the draft, the waiver wire, trades, and the salary cap deemed to be illegal collusion. They blinked because players couldn’t afford it.
 
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