Godell is nothing more than a spokesman for the owners. They don’t want to chip in that $100.000 each to solve the issue . Player saftey my ass. all these greedy bastards care about is their freaking bottom line… Just wait untill one of their star players gets punked by a bad call costing an “Owner” a win. Tell me that aint worth 100 g’s. JUST PLAIN STUPID.
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YOU’re talking about STUPID????? The owners could rectify this thing by paying out 3,200. bucks? Really?? wow. … You blame the owners for the already overpaid refs getting more and more greedy?? You must be a dumb liberal. Oops! Sorry for the redundancy there. Ya know; some people doing very well has NOTHING to do with others doing less well. Rich people being rich does NOT make less rich people less rich!! Most rich people worked their asses off to get where they are, and are extremely intelligent in one way or another, or just have a special gift. Isn’t that great?? Is this a great country, or what?? .. NO?? .. You’re obviously drunk from the kool-aid the socialists are shoving at you. And like a mental midget you’re buying into the class envy/ warfare they are only using/ promoting for their ends; to use you empty heads as their tool. Stop being JUST PLAIN STUPID.

I would caution Mr Smith, watch what you wish for. If the players hold out and the season starts later than planned, a lot of fans will be turned off knowing that were no longer enjoying football but watching union guys on grass complaining and bitching. I can get that from my wife when I’m doing the lawn.

I can tell the players one thing, your not getting those pay checks for games not played and the league cannot extend the season so you do, so put up or shut up.

The preseason was a joke with how bad the officiating was and if they are missing obvious calls, players use that to get even more flagrant in their actions on the field. This leads to more injuries. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.

Give Ray Lewis or James Harrison an inch and they will take someone’s head off. Its great when the missed calls go for your team, but if your team’s QB gets knocked out for the season because of it, all of you will be crying about that too. Some people hate just to hate.

No, not exactly. I think the one argument I’d agree with is that players might be trying to get away with more small stuff — receivers picking off defenders, holding on the line, more jostling between receivers/defenders, defenders trying to get in an extra shot while on the pile — because those kinds of things seemed to be missed more often with the replacement refs, so far.

But I haven’t seen a rash of injuries on those kinds of “no flag” plays either.

Maurice is channeling his inner Jackie Chiles on this one.

Wut? What the hell does this even mean? This is the kind of sloppy hyperbole that my 16 year old cousin uses on Facebook, not the kind of language you expect from someone who used to be a lawyer and is now in a high profile position representing hundreds of superstars.

If the NFL is willing to trade a little short term discomfort for long term gain, I’m all for that.

They will not support another union, they will not offer to help reach an agreement, they will not even communicate with its membership regarding the situation, they will not participate in anything.

Yet once an agreement is made, they will complain about it.

They have abdicated any relevance by continually refusing to participate in anything regarding its members.

The NFLPA only exists because the owners want them to exist.

The NFLPA can’t even find two feet to stand upon.

Stop talking like morons!
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He also doesn’t seem to realize on a typical scale of 1-10, 1 is bad and 10 is good. He’s all rhetoric and cliches like many chest-thumpers and most don’t even know the meaning of what the heck they are saying.

Something that the Refs are holding out on is a review system on their performance after each game so that the lesser refs can be canned.

They want to complain about the replacements and the mistakes that they are making, however they (refs) don’t want to be rated themselves.

This is in my mind part of the problem as well.

Also, why would the players want to wade in to the Ref’s lockout when they effectively lost theirs? What do they stand to gain? Not much. I wonder when the players will get tired of De Smith just posturing like he knows something? I would love to know when they plan on firing him.

Damn! I’m chose the worng job!