Comments on: Looking at how salary cap flexibility will work in 2011

By: mrseaballs

mrseaballs — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:22:47 +0000

Cut all salaries in half and lower ticket prices so it’s not a 1000.00 to take the family to a game!

By: indianheadmeatpackingcompany

indianheadmeatpackingcompany — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:25:10 +0000

@dealer009

Skip an NFL team, the players should just start another League. The NFL, the owners and players ONLY have power because of the fans. If the fans wouldn’t allow themselves to be robbed and used this would have been done along time ago. I love the NFL. I know it would very hard to stop watching, but there are other Leagues. The owners and players will get richer no matter the out come. The fans are the only party that is going to lose and we will lose. There is no way the fans come out of this with anything except ticket prices that raise every year.

By: dccowboy

dccowboy — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:24:09 +0000

The players are starting to sound like a bunch of four year olds, sticking out their tongues and saying, “I’m not gonna read it, and you can’t make me.”

It’s pretty pathetic. For a bunch of guys who said repeatedly, “We just wanna play”, they don’t seem to be in much of a hurry now.

By: dealer009

dealer009 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:31:10 +0000

@ indianheadmeatpackingcompany

Yeah, the players should have started their own NFL team. We all should. The owners would let us right?

By: indianheadmeatpackingcompany

indianheadmeatpackingcompany — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:24:25 +0000

I personally am getting really sick of these idiot players (most of them any way) that can’t even spell their own names without help pretending that they have an IQ in double digits. Why would any player think they have a right to be or deserve to be a partner? About 95% of these players’ former colleges should revoke any type of diploma they gave these guys. Giving a guy, like so many of the players are, a diploma from a University is an insult and disgrace to any real student who had to earn it. It doesn’t take a business major from the Ivy League to understand that the nfl players accepted employment by the people with the money. True the players take risks with their health, this is sad but true, but they take ZERO business risk. Point is the vast majority of these players are literally at an elementary level education level. This doesn’t really have anything to do with the story, I just need to get that off my chest.

By: tommyf15

tommyf15 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:56:16 +0000

corndogluv says:
pay me a millon dollars and i will gladly be a slave. Hey i bet most of us hard working people would be able to go to games.

Go right ahead. Find that person that’s willing to pay you a million dollars to be a slave.

Nothing is stopping you. Go.

By: prior0knowledge

prior0knowledge — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:51:13 +0000

This post is a info-that-does-not-concern-fans.

Really! Do you know all the players’ salary cap amounts so that you can differentiate between the $121M and $126M numbers?

By: tedskins333

tedskins333 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:49:11 +0000

Why are we talking salary cap when the players won’t even agree to the CBA?

By: corndogluv

corndogluv — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:37:56 +0000

The hell with these players make it so no player can make over 1 millon $ and tell them to take it or leave it. A year or so without fotoball and thell be begging to come back. I would like to see just one of them make a millon bucks doing anything else. Please if i here one more player talk about being a slave I am going to puke. pay me a millon dollars and i will gladly be a slave. Hey i bet most of us hard working people would be able to go to games.

By: tommyf15

tommyf15 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:36:03 +0000

deadeye says:
Jul 22, 2011 3:25 PM
This is a good provision that will help some veterans who are “cap casualties” from being waived in the future. I think this agreement has some very good points for the players.

The biggest reason that 31 owners are bhind it is the increased revenue sharing. We don’t know what the owners said to each other behind closed doors, but I guarantee that small market teams threatened to shut it down if the Jerry Jones and Robert Krafts couldn’t figure out a way to make the league profitable for ALL the owners. Well they have, and that will help small market teams from having to relocate to LA just to stay in business.

Has it been announced that there’s going to be more revenue sharing? I kept reading that thee was going to be less.

I respectfully disagree with that last sentence. The NFL should be located in the cities that can best support a team.

By: silverhornet

silverhornet — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:29:40 +0000

Do you get to choose which year you are borrowing the $3m from?

By: deadeye

deadeye — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:25:39 +0000

This is a good provision that will help some veterans who are “cap casualties” from being waived in the future. I think this agreement has some very good points for the players.

By: skoobyfl

skoobyfl — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:16:54 +0000

The Bills always make sure to stay nowhere near the borrowing part, just to assure a losing season.

By: realdeal12

realdeal12 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:16:22 +0000

This would be alot more interesting if there was actually going to be a 2011 season, because I am starting to believe there won’t be one.

What do the rules look like for 2012?

By: norcal031

norcal031 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:15:25 +0000

Why is everyone such a player hater?

By: derekjetersmansion

derekjetersmansion — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:14:42 +0000

I wonder if the players “disliking” the new deal was planned from the start. We don’t know this because De Smith hasn’t commented on it directly.

For their interest, the players putting up a hissy fit and playing dumb is brilliant. They may get another something extorted from the owners.

By: thenewyorkjets

thenewyorkjets — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:14:03 +0000

Nnamdi to JETS!!!

By: gregwestlake

gregwestlake — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:13:59 +0000

Ryan Fitzpatrick- Harvard Alum- Economics Major- 3.74 GPA- 5th smartest player in Professional sports.

Why isn’t he in that room? He could have gotten this deal done weeks ago.

By: BroncoNick

BroncoNick — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:12:54 +0000

Why don’t they just make it easier and say the cap is $126.885? All this loophole stuff is annoying.

By: AlanSaysYo

AlanSaysYo — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:11:59 +0000

Mike Brown wants to know if he can borrow another team’s $3.5 million.