If the NFL Loses this Case you can all Blame The NEW YORK GIANT’S OWNER. He is the one that pursued punishing the Redskins and Cowboys and then Bloated about it to the world
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I think you mean gloated or blabbed regardless I agree with you.

But then again Mara was born naked into this world with only his daddy’s servants to help him get through his days — you can hardly blame him for not thinking things through — it is afterall likely someone elses fault and not his.

Am I the only one who actually sees the argument the NFL has against the Cowboys and Redskins?

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Of course not – you are not the only one. You are in a minority of people like Mara that actually belives that punishing teams for spending in an uncapped year constitutes a violation of the salary cap and that the existence of a secret cap does not constitute collusion.

There are many such people typically these are Giants fans…unfortunately for you and these fans there are those of us that enjoy the benefits of basic elementary school logic.

And yet the NFL approved the contracts that were submitted by the Redskins and Cowboys in this “uncapped” year. The NFL should have rejected the contracts at that point, if there was a rules violation or unfair advantage. How can the league come back two years later and make that claim?

Was there a rule against it? If your answer is no, then it wasn’t against the rules. That means that any team that wanted to could have done it that way. Ergo, there is no competitive advantage. What’s so hard to understand?

“Teams were told although it was uncapped not to go above and beyond”

That’s the definition of collusion.

The NFLPA could be in a win win situation, unless I am missing a key point, which happens from time to time.

If Doty rules that infractions prior to the new CBA were dismissed as part of the settlement, why wouldn’t that mean that the bounty case should also be dismissed? And if the union signed off on a one sided deal that only dismisses league infractions, then that is a level of stupidity bordering on legendary, and someone needs to lose their job for that one.

If Doty rules in the other direction, then the union gets to tweak the league, which they seem to enjoy doing.

What they did was putting SO much money (tens of millions) into one year that it absolutely destroyed any fairness the salary cap would have for the foreseeable future by letting the two teams basically not be affected by the cap AFTER the one uncapped year.

That’s a huge competitive advantage and although the NFLPA agreed for selfish reasons I find that the NFL actually had a quite strong argument. Teams were told although it was uncapped not to go above and beyond by thinking they could ignore future caps by dumping a ton of money one year at the absurd level the two teams did.

So just because the cap room didn’t get used this year, doesn’t mean it won’t be used eventually.

So do the Redskins or the Cowboys have any recourse if Doty says the NFLPA are correct and there was collusion?
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The damage is done – Mara got what he wanted – to hamstring the Redskins and Cowboys. There really is no recourse that would undo the Redskins inability to sign Free Agents retroactively.

But considering the Redskins swept the Giants last year and only got better – and considering the Cowboys just beat the Giants. Mara may have exposed the whole league to Billions in damage for no good reason.