Friday, March 11, 2011

Decertification

Watching Pash on TV right now, which is interesting...

- Claimed that the Union went into this with the intention to decertify and was never serious about negotiations (personal opinion: if that were true, they wouldn't have agreed to the two deadline extensions, right?).
- Claimed they offered the Union to meet in the middle of compensation the first year, grow it $20MM each year and then hit the Union's proposed number by 2014.
- Claimed they offered more than one year of injury guaranteed on player contract.
- Claimed they offered to move off their wage scale, doing a hard rookie cap.
- Claimed they offered cash team minimum at the Union's structure and number.
- Claimed they told the Union that for two years they'd stay at 16 games and would not change to 18 games without their consent.
- Claimed they offered to reduce off-season program by 5 weeks, reducing practice time in pre-season and contact drills in regular season.
- Claimed they offered to increase benefits for current and retired players. Pre-'93 retired players would have benefit increases of close to 60%.

He said much of this was paid for by the hard rookie cap which wouldn't have impacted the second round. More money out of the rookies in the first round pays for what they want for the rest of it.

"The absence of an agreement is a shared failure."

4 comments:

  1. "Will offers get less generous as time goes by?"

    "We've said that as this goes on, there will be losses, and those losses will obviously complicate; they won't make it easier to get an agreement, they'll complicate it."

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  2. Jim Quinn from the NFLPA's side:

    About Pash: "I hate to say this, but he has not told the truth to our players or our fans. He has, in a word, lied to them about what happened today and what's happened over the last two weeks and two years."

    Said the "so called" proposal included things the union had rejected repeatedly. They wanted the players to "give them a $5 billion gift." Claimed they asked the players to roll their salaries back to 2007 levels.

    Quinn looks pretty upset. Saying there's "greed on the part of the owners" and "certainly don't want us to be their partners."

    Claimed a veteran wage scale they proposed would prevent players to get to free agency.

    Pretty strong words from Quinn. This looks like it's about to get incredibly ugly. Hunker down folks, this could get drawn out for a long time...

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  3. DeMaurice Smith is claiming the owners were engaging in secret meetings on how to structure contracts to provide them with cash during a lockout, and said they were colluding.

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  4. '- Claimed they offered the Union to meet in the middle of compensation the first year, grow it $20MM each year and then hit the Union's proposed number by 2014.
    - Claimed they offered more than one year of injury guaranteed on player contract.
    - Claimed they offered to move off their wage scale, doing a hard rookie cap.
    - Claimed they offered cash team minimum at the Union's structure and number.
    - Claimed they told the Union that for two years they'd stay at 16 games and would not change to 18 games without their consent.'

    If this is all true the NFLPA should be ashamed of themselves. I realize it may not be true.

    naj

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