I think we’ll see a big increase in illegal hit penalties as, again, the scabs will be particularly sensitive to player injuries and, especially in light of turnovers now being reviewed like scoring plays, these scabs spending half the game under the hood staring at the review camera or huddling after marginal plays to come to some laborious consensus.

The games will slow to a crawl, you won’t see the start of any 4:00 game this year unless you have the Sunday Ticket and all that time wasted “trying to get the call correct” when deciding whether it’s going to be 2nd and 17 inches or 2nd and 9 inches will be filled up with Subway and Ford commercials. Exactly what the league wants.

You’ll also get a lot of Cris Collinsworth having a hissy-fit. Or Gus Johnson applauding the replacement officials for their integrity in trying to do the right thing.

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I’ll bet Matt Hasselbeck is absolutely thrilled about that comparison.

Again with the health and safety of the players. What, are all of the part-time referees full-time MD’s?

Except you are. With every post you write Mike.

And I thought this dispute was about more than money? Guess not?

“We’re going to sit this one out over only $6000 per game per team!”

Between this and the NHL nonsense, enough already.

Of course if you put it in perspective that’s $24,000 per season (16 games) on top of what they already make for part-time work.

There are a lot of people in America making $24,000 or less for an entire year and working twice as hard. Yet this is how much of a raise these guys want. Time for the NFLRA to shut up and get on the field.

lose-lose situation right here.

Not sure about that but I know I’d be pissed if I were Matt Hasselbeck…

That being said…
DAMN NFL… your printing money pay the men.
DAMN Refs… This is a part time gig… why should you get paid more per year for a part time gig then a lot of people get for a full time gig.

When news is leaked the #1 way to write about it is completely assuming WHO leaked it then using that assumption to further several other assumptions as you’ve done here.

When the league and players were facing a lockout, nearly every leak of information was obtained once the NFLPA gained that information and you NEVER (not ONCE) mentioned that since they leaked it they would absolutely (as they did do so) leak thinks in a way that would significantly benefit themselves.

In the opposite case of what I mentioned above, when ANY leak—even when it came with strictly facts as did the recent description of what the NFL and NFLRA still had to sort out (which absolutely was breaking news) what did you do? You did the same as always, blame the ENTIRE league for what clearly could have been leaked by one or two independent individuals present which doesn’t stop you from painting it as a mass league encouraged conspiracy to leak facts.

I’m not cheer-leading either side, but the fact is with your style of reporting heavy on assumptions (when you want them) and not when you don’t you absolutely are cheer-leading certain arguments such as this one and it absolutely destroys your credibility.

If you want to keep doing this look forward to us seeing PFT and then especially seeing your name and instantly expecting a less credible and less unbiased piece of “reporting” (which, with the mass speculation accepted nowhere else among reputable news sources including sports reporting is barely even news often).