Mara is a clown though coach and team are quality projects

Of those teams, seven are in the top 15 cap room situations going into 2013: PHI (25m below), SEA (15 below), MIN (12 below), GB, NE, MIA (7, 6, 5 below), OAK (5 below). And two, KC (16 below) and Tampa (12 below) underspent the legal cap “floor” in 2010. The remaining 4 salary dumping teams all have in excess of 4.5 million in cap room, except for Detroit, who only has 2.5 right now.

Just remember judge dotty already ruled that there was no collusion so really what legs will this case have to stand on. I honestly don’t see much of a case here. But I say good luck trying.
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He ruled that he wouldn’t challenge the ruling, not that there was no collusion.

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Ah, someone needs to do their homework before opening mouth and inserting foot…first they won’t have to cut a ton of players, but your biggest goof was to say they have no draft picks…think again genius….

They have these picks by round:

2nd round
3rd round
4th round
5th round
5th round
6th round
7th round

that is 7 picks and who knows what goes on during the draft that could be increased and or decreased based on needs or desire for a particular player.

And now that hand will be on a wheelchair.

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Please explain.
Are you referring to London Fletchers age? Are you threatening someone? Do you expect the Redskins to increase community service efforts at the local hospitals?

Surely you aren’t making a tired joke about a players injury.

You could speculate forever. “If they had better talent, they wouldn’t have had to win 7 straight to get in, then they wouldn’t have been likely to rush RG3 back, then he wouldn’t have gotten reinjured…” See how easy the speculation game is?

The fact is, if you lost 18 M, then you won’t get as much talent, therefore you will be “harmed.”

Any other train of thought is thinking way too much about it.

This whole thing is still the biggest sham in sports.

That’s alright. They were still the NFC East champs with one hand tied behind their back.
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And now that hand will be on a wheelchair.

Huh? Of course the Redskins will be harmed having $18 million less to play around with. But should litigation occur, Daniel Snyder will be ostracized from the “old boys club” so I don’t see it happening.

Additionally, the Chiefs and Buccaneers used the uncapped year to spend under the legal salary floor. Though illegal and not approved by the league office,this was excused because it was an “uncapped year”. However, player contracts restructures which were approved, signed, and validated by the league office are not, apparently.

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C’mon, Florio, get your head in the game. To quote Det. Alonzo Harris from Training Day, “This sh*t’ is chess, it ain’t checkers!”

Think it through – wouldn’t the Redskins rebuttal to that line of thinking go something like this?

“Well, if the team did have the extra $18m cap room, they would have done much better than a mere post-season qualification. As such, the “irreparable harm” was done in the form of lost competitiveness due to lack of cap room – competitiveness that would have been strengthened for a playoff run with better players ($18m worth of better players, to be specific). The lost revenue from an early playoff exit simply cannot be calculated”

To quote an earlier post from another article, “Beltbuckle Danny don’t bluff about litigation…”

So no, the NFL was not looking out for the players: allowing the two richest franchises in the NFL more cap room to play around with gives more players more money. How could taking an employer’s money ever help his employees?

Once he opened his pie hole to ESPN he confirmed that the league illegally colluded against the union.

While Snyder has his own faults — at least he has never opened his pie hole and exposed his business partners as the violaters of federal labor law.

I don’t understand why the other owner’s haven’t put a muzzel on Mara – his mouth could get them all in trouble and puts the whole anti-trust exemption at risk.

And one for individuals who would like to have intellegent discussions.

If they did agree, that would also be an agreement among competitors, same as the other teams agreeing not to do something, and for antitrust purposes has to be subjected to the same analysis – whether the agreement restrained trade (injured competition). For example, even agreements between competitors not to charge above a maximum price are illegal. The Redskins’ position is not as clear as some might think.

Little Danny should do everything he can to be the new Al Davis. That worked out great for the Raiders.
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Al Davis is and was one of the greatest owners in the history of professional sports. His terrible eye for talent towards the end of his life should not overshadow his invaluable contributions to the development of the league or his revolutionary, firebrand style of leadership and ownership.

2) There supposedly was the option to take it to arbitration.

The arbitrator strung this process out quite unnecessarily because in the end his multi-page report amounted to:

“I am not even going to consider the case. Given that the union signed off on it, it doesn’t fall within my remit.”

The Redskins and Cowboys didn’t lose the case in arbitration. The special arbitrator essentially refused to hear any arguments regarding the way the Redskins and Cowboys operated during the uncapped year.

Timing alone provides a justifiable reason for why the Redskins did not file a court case last year. Free agency was essentially already over before the arbitration process disappeared in a puff of indifference.

As for making the play-offs making it hard to prove that a second $18m penalty will cause harm, they just have to detail the contracts of the players they will have to cut in order to get in under the cap.

The Redskins will surely be allowed to represent the interest of their contracted players. The NFLPA certainly didn’t when they signed off. There certainly would not be any conflict there.

The lesson is: if the majority of the owners agree, and can get the agreement of the NFLPA to agree ,they can retrospectively changes the rules and apply any penalty they feel like, to whomever they feel like.

It was the Redskins and Cowboys this time. It could be your team next.