The NFL is expected to play 2010 without a salary cap in place. NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said that once that genie is out of the bottle, it will be “virtually impossible” to go back to a capped environment.
If Florio were here, he would write “Wow.”
It’s the first time Smith has used words that strong about the salary cap. Whether it’s rhetoric or not, the battle lines here are being drawn. According to Smith, the salary cap system as we know it may be done for good one month from now.