Thanks! I get tired of player bashing. I am a fan because I like the game and the players, but there are idiots everywhere, I try not to over generalize as most professional players I have met in my life of good people just getting on as the rest of us.

I do not share that observation.

He took heat at the draft since he was there and available to vent frustration at, but most fans worship this guy whenever he suspends someone.

Yes, owners have the right to maximize their earning just as the players have the right to maximizer their earning. Owners don’t get what they want from labor just because they say so…

The owners would have nothing if there were not players…NOTHING. Players can be replaced and owners do that about 27% of the time every season with rookies. Players accept this and in return they expect to have a free market to maximize their return for the short period they play. That is not asking too much, especially when you add all the hidden physical costs they will have to deal with for a lifetime.

If a player wants to trade off his freedom for security it should be his decision, not the owners! Until then let the players have a fair playing field to get what they can while they can as the owers will do the same creating equalibrium….the owners do not want a free market, they want control. The owners are socialist pretending to be capitalist…..SMARMY is the word that comes to mind!

I just heard an interview on Tony Bruno with an offensive lineman for the Seahawks. He said 2 to 4 weeks. He said it twice.

There have been so many negative generalizations about lawyers…last I looked Pash was a lawyer! He has been twisting the truth from day one.

Google his utube video regarding the rookie wage scale to watch his pathetic attempt to justify the owners early position on the issue.

Basically Pash clearly states that the owers offered the players $100M and retired players $100M if they agreed to the owners position on the issue. He actually states that the deal has been on the table for over a year and it has not changed. Reality is, the owner project $300M a year savings for a total of $3B over the 10 years deal which equals $2.8B for owners and $200M for active and retired palyers. Nice opening and one sided deal in owners favor. The crazy part is Pash brags about not altering the deal in over a year all the while the oweners claim to be flexible! Pash is an owners legal clown spewing out their spin and you are buying it. Do your research…..

And the owners aren’t like, greedy or anything (rolls eyes).
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I don’t bash Pash because he hasn’t acted terrible in public unlike Quinn and Smith did early on, not because he works for the owners
(I don’t side wholly with either party anyway). Even in March, Pash stood right there and said the responsibility for not having a deal was on both parties. Meanwhile Smith was talking about “going to the mattresses”, “this is war” and all that pugilistic smack and Quinn was acting snide.

PS: Most football fans dislike Goodell and he works for the owners. Go figure…maybe most of us judge them based on their actions not who they work for????

Which is fine, as long as you acknowledge that the owners are unified and banding together to fix labor costs, which they shouldn’t be allowed to do IMO.

We’d all be better off if the NFLPA didn’t exist, and the owners didn’t act in concert with one another. Then there would be no collective bargaining, no work stoppage, and the owners could keep as much of their money as they, as individuals, decided to.

But NO, the owners insist on a communistic system.

They are no longer a union and can’t strike.

What then????? Am I simplifying this too much?

The owners have invest hundreds of millions of dollars in their “businesses”. They have the right to want to maximize the return on their investment. The money that’s being split is the OWNERS money.

The players are the greedy ones…what have they invested? Time in a gym? They want to work less, practice less and get paid more.

I side with the owners.

Hard working father of 4.

At least the players playing soccer arn’t greedy D-bags.

And the owners aren’t like, greedy or anything (rolls eyes).

Owners will vote and approve it tomorrow. There may be one or two holdouts, but it’ll be approved.

I’m so confident the owners are going to vote in favor of it that if the players had voted for it today, I’d of kicked out the victory champagne tonight.

Of course, the players disappointed as usual.