Comments on: “Worst deal in the history of sports” suddenly looks pretty good

By: bigjdve

bigjdve — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:45:05 +0000

I wonder how much the NFL paid De Smith for being complicit in fleecing the players.

By: kodakinvegas

kodakinvegas — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:19:29 +0000

Man DeMaurice, I’ve seen trees that smarter than you. You’re screwing these guys over big time dude. With you running the show they’ll be making 1970 wages in 5 more years. You must’ve watched congress operate DEFICIT SPENDING TECHNIQUES they’ll be putting bounties on you pretty soon.

By: pastabelly

pastabelly — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:32:57 +0000

The NFLPA wants a level playing field for D Smith next time around and has demanded that Jim Irsay replace Robert Kraft and Bob McNair at the table. The NFL has some very smart men owning their franchises and they also have a small collection of idiots who inherited teams from their dads. D Smith was not dealing with the group that Irsay is with.

By: pastabelly

pastabelly — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:29:25 +0000

When Jeff Saturday hugged Robert Kraft, Kraft stuck a knife in his back.

By: bucfandango

bucfandango — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:25:17 +0000

A security guard spotted De Smith walking in Sanford, FL. wearing a hoodie last night.

By: gadgetdawg

gadgetdawg — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:17:42 +0000

You Goodell lovers are too dumb to recognize Smith’s brilliance.
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It may end up working out for the players but minimum 4 years out of 10 is way too long a period for a ‘brilliant’ man to allow. Especially since hundreds of players Smith represents will not be in the league 5 years from now.

By: steeler59

steeler59 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:38:24 +0000

The owners are stock piling money because there is a big storm brewing in a major law suit coming for past head injuries

By: r8rsfan

r8rsfan — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:38:10 +0000

Funny thing is, most of these bonehead players are probably learning about this for the first time after reading this article. But hey, that guy sure wore a cool hat.

By: stats5

stats5 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:20:59 +0000

As more and more facts come to light, the more D. Smith looks to be overmatched. I’m sure the NFL will be able to get D. Smith to sellout the NFLPA again for a few more million $$$ increase to the cap in two years. D. Smith has set his price, a few million $$$ and the NFLPA will look the other way while 30 of the 32 owners collude to artificially keep salaries down. I wonder which teams will have to suck up a cap penalty to be re-distributed among the other teams in 2014?

By: gonzo29

gonzo29 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:15:28 +0000

NFLPA should call themselves NFLPPA for present players association. They don’t care about future or past players. darftzombie.com

By: jade amor

jade amor — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:04:08 +0000

tombrookshire says:Apr 2, 2012 3:49 PM

The worst deal in the history of sports was when the Cowboys got a multi-Super Bowl-winning football team from the Vikings in exchange for Herschel Walker. Second worst was when the Chargers drafted Ryan Leaf over Peyton Manning. Third worst was when Mike Ditka exchanged his entire draft for Ricky Williams.
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I agree with 1 and 3, but the Colts had the #1 pick and drafted Manning, the Chargers just settled for whomever the Colts didnt want, which ended up being Leaf

By: cowherpower

cowherpower — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:00:07 +0000

what would these players do without football .90% of them couldnt pass 3rd grade . GO OWNERS players change every year so of corse im gonna side with my team over dumb whiney players .

By: steelpalace302

steelpalace302 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:29:06 +0000

It doesnt matter what the cap is the players are still going to make alot of money and still be able to buy the bling and bentleys.

By: omegalh

omegalh — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:24:01 +0000

The NFL revenues won’t increase because it has saturated its ONLY market. The USA. It will never be a world game. Cap goes up with inflation from this point forward.

By: daysend564

daysend564 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:23:17 +0000

Worst union leader in the history of sports!

By: baddegg

baddegg — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:20:48 +0000

So, who is making out better…the millionaires or the billionaires?

By: darthsaint

darthsaint — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:17:05 +0000

The players wanted the higher ceiling…that is what they wouldn’t settle on. If PFT knew how to write they would have pointed this out a bit more clearly.

The players union has seen major growth within the NFL over the past few years. With the new TV contracts, they expect even more. With that growth, and a guaranteed amount of the pie…they believe they got a better LONG TERM deal.

Which for us fans…is a good thing. Because guess what. If they didn’t feel that way…we’d be dealing with a future lockout in a few years instead of many more.

It is WAY too early to make any kind of judgment on who got the better end of this deal. Both parties made compromises. This like 80% of the stories on this site is a non-story. Please football…come back to us soon!!!

By: 86chawk

86chawk — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:07:15 +0000

The only people that are idiots are us fans. Buying $200 jerseys, $30 hats, $300 Sunday Ticket, ect. ect. ect. While all the fat cats get fatter! I am done buying all this crap so all these greedy bastards get richer & richer!!

By: stavreafavre

stavreafavre — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:07:01 +0000

Both sides had lawyers up the wazoo. Not like there were a bunch of guys with concussions sitting down opposite J.R. Ewing. I guess the owners maybe had better lawyers.

By: blackqbwhiterb

blackqbwhiterb — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:58:10 +0000

What I love that doesn’t seem to be mentioned is the timing of the news release-AFTER De Smith’s re-election. Just like the Redskins and Cowboys salary cap debacle got announced THE DAY BEFORE Free Agency opened. There’s MUCH that’s fishy in all this……

By: tombrookshire

tombrookshire — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:49:32 +0000

By: ownbay

ownbay — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:37:13 +0000

Millionaires making millions, yawn.

By: skins1313

skins1313 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:34:01 +0000

So the NFL executive committee and GODell told the NFLPA to agree to the Cowboys and Skins sanctions or the cap would be 113,000 mil (which would’ve only hurt the executive committees own teams) and the cap was going to be 120,000 plus anyway? Lol….Nice going Smith. Really don’t know how the players don’t fire you after this!

By: idriveamoped

idriveamoped — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:21:47 +0000

brownicus says: Apr 2, 2012 3:07 PM

The CBA deal is a 10 year deal I think. I’m more interested to see what kind of money is made in years 4-10 before I automatically assume D Smith is an idiot. Making less money for 3 years might be offset if they are making more money for 7 years.
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Aren’t they borrowing against the cap of future years, just to get increases in this one? They are completely gambling on their future, and hoping for the big payoff. Unless the market explodes there won’t be much of an increase. De.Smith and Obama must be school mates, since they both are sacrificing future generations of money. They are giving the middle finger to the future.

By: packerfan1000

packerfan1000 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:18:40 +0000

Everyone who is saying that they don’t care about this and that the article was a waste of time are missing the fact that these salary cap numbers have a HUGE impact on what their team’s roster will look like in future years.

By: awhartstl

awhartstl — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:14:24 +0000

I thought the worst deal in the history of sports was that Carson Palmer deal the Raiders just made.

By: brownicus

brownicus — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:07:58 +0000

By: pooflingingmonkey

pooflingingmonkey — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:04:47 +0000

I thought this article was going to be about the “Palmer to the Raiders” trade.

By: ghostofgilchrist

ghostofgilchrist — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:04:06 +0000

8 out of 5 people have trouble with math…

By: idriveamoped

idriveamoped — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:00:19 +0000

In this economy, I dont exactly see a huge increase in revenue. The players got gotten.