PFT Lockout Listings 7/23 1st one Reggie Kelly People are starting to cool off

[cowboyjoe]

Reggie Kelly on players: “People have started to cool off”
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/23/reggie-kelly-on-players-people-have-started-to-cool-off/

Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on July 23, 2011, 10:23 AM EDT

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Following the labor rollercoaster of Thursday night, Florio tried to make sense of what happened.

Some of the problems came from business, and some from simple human relations. Many players didn’t appreciate the public pressure put on them by the owners and fought back.

[cowboyjoe]

Vincent Jackson is finally backing down from his requests
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/23/vincent-jackson-is-finally-backing-down-from-his-requests/
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on July 23, 2011, 9:45 AM EDT

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It appears Vincent Jackson is no longer a thorn in the side of the NFL. Or the NFLPA*.

Adam Schefter of ESPN reports the Chargers wide receiver has finally decided to give up on his claim to money or franchise tag considerations in exchange for being a plaintiff in the Brady antitrust case.

[cowboyjoe]

New offseason rules carry stiff fines for violations

Posted by Mike Florio on July 22, 2011, 11:12 PM EDT
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/new-offseason-rules-carry-stiff-fines-for-violations/

From time to time, teams have been punished for violating the terms of the offseason workout rules. Typically, the offending team loses a week of workouts.

Under the proposed labor deal adopted by the league (but not yet by the players, if you haven’t heard), it’ll cost more than a week of practice time.

The summary obtained by Howard Balzer of the Sports Xchange and 101sports.com shows that coaches would be fined $100,000 for a first offense, and $250,000 for a second offense. Teams will be fined $250,000 for a first offense, and $500,000 for a second offense.

[cowboyjoe]

Owners care more than players about preseason revenue
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/owners-care-more-than-players-about-preseason-revenue-more-than-players/
Posted by Mike Florio on July 22, 2011, 10:23 PM EDT

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In theory, the players should have no leverage at this point in the practice. Each lost week of the preseason results in a shared forfeiture of roughly $200 million. Under the proposed labor deal, that’s roughly $96 million for the players, and roughly $104 million for the owners.

In practice, it doesn’t matter because the owners care much more about the preseason revenue than the players do. For many players, their compensation for 2011 already is fixed; it doesn’t matter if the pot that funds the salary cap adds another $96 million or $192 million or $288 million or $384 million. For the owners, $104 million in lost revenue per week roughly equates (setting aside for these purposes revenue disparities) to $3.25 million per team, per week. Which increases to $13 million per team if the full preseason is lost.

[jterrell]

Owners care more than players about preseason revenue
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/owners-care-more-than-players-about-preseason-revenue-more-than-players/
Posted by Mike Florio on July 22, 2011, 10:23 PM EDT

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In theory, the players should have no leverage at this point in the practice. Each lost week of the preseason results in a shared forfeiture of roughly $200 million. Under the proposed labor deal, that’s roughly $96 million for the players, and roughly $104 million for the owners.

In practice, it doesn’t matter because the owners care much more about the preseason revenue than the players do. For many players, their compensation for 2011 already is fixed; it doesn’t matter if the pot that funds the salary cap adds another $96 million or $192 million or $288 million or $384 million. For the owners, $104 million in lost revenue per week roughly equates (setting aside for these purposes revenue disparities) to $3.25 million per team, per week. Which increases to $13 million per team if the full preseason is lost.

this is what i have been saying....
the pressure has been on ownership the last 10 days.
the 24 hour expiring offer was just goofy.

but players leverage lasts only until game checks are near forfeiture. fixed or not they want their checks come week 1.

hopefully this deal is done monday.

[cowboyjoe]

Jackson’s wise decision comes better late than never
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/23/jackons-wise-decision-comes-better-late-than-never/
Posted by Mike Florio on July 23, 2011, 10:41 AM EDT

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We’ve criticized Chargers receiver Vincent Jackson for trying to get something for himself via a lawsuit that he joined ostensibly in the hopes of getting the best possible deal for his football brethren. And so now that he reportedly has decided not to seek free agency or free money in the amount of $10 million, we need to applaud him.

As the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (best. name. ever.) once wrote in the case of Henslee vs. Union Planters Bank, “Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.” In this case, Jackson’s late-arriving wisdom likely was coerced via teammates and other NFL players, but it surely took a lot to overcome the recommendation of his hard-charging agents, Neil Schwartz and Jonathan Feinsod, who undoubtedly believed that someone eventually would peel off 500,000 portraits of Andrew Jackson for Vincent Jackson in order to allow football to return.

[big dog cowboy]

Adam Schefter of ESPN reports the Chargers wide receiver has finally decided to give up on his claim to money or franchise tag considerations in exchange for being a plaintiff in the Brady antitrust case.
Good.

Now for the love of football can we please move on now?

[cowboyjoe]

Work continues Saturday, quietly
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/23/work-continues-saturday-quietly/
Posted by Mike Florio on July 23, 2011, 12:50 PM EDT


Despite a widespread belief, fueled by reports of an e-mail setting a Monday meeting that apparently never was sent, that the players are delaying this thing for the weekend because they can, the truth is that the two sides continue to quietly work toward striking a deal that many believe is inevitable.

Ravens cornerback and NFLPA* Executive Committee member Domonique Foxworth, who deserves $10 million far more than Logan Mankins or Vincent Jackson for the work that Foxworth has done to get this deal in place, has declared on Twitter that everything is happening by phone today. Michael Lombardi of NFL Network reports that the owners will have a conference call today to discuss the situation. Multiple reports, including one from Albert Breer of NFL Network and one from Adam Schefter of ESPN, indicate that the 10 named plaintiffs in the Brady case are getting out of the way.

[burmafrd]

while frankly I believe little that florio says that is not corroborated by another source, it does appear progress is being made.

[cowboyjoe]

In-season padded practices would plummet under new CBA
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/23/in-season-padded-practices-plummet-under-new-cba/
Posted by Mike Florio on July 23, 2011, 2:08 PM EDT

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Here’s another tidbit from the summary of agreed points that the players discussed Wednesday. The summary was obtained by Howard Balzer (@HBalzer721 on Twitter) of the Sports Xchange and 101sports.com, and forwarded to us.

This specific point was raised with us earlier in the hour by a source who agreed with Friday’s reduced-contact source, who said after the Atlanta labor seminar, “The only thing the players didn’t get is someone else to play for them.”

The parties have agreed that, during the 17-week regular season, teams will conduct only 14 practices in pads.

[cowboyjoe]

New revenue sharing plan features tax on highest-earning teams
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/23/new-revenue-sharing-plan-features-tax-on-highest-earning-teams/
Posted by Mike Florio on July 23, 2011, 4:12 PM EDT

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When the NFL approved a labor deal to which the NFLPA* hadn’t, and still hasn’t, agreed, the league surprisingly announced a new supplemental revenue sharing plan.

In hindsight, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise. With the salary floor rising to unprecedented heights, supplemental revenue sharing becomes more important than ever, given that all revenue — including unshared revenue — drives up the per-team salary cap. This necessarily forces low-revenue teams to devote a larger piece of their already lower earnings to player costs.

Per a source with knowledge of the details of the arrangement, the new supplemental revenue sharing plan includes a 10-percent tax on the “local revenue” of the highest-revenue teams. The money will be distributed to the lowest-revenue teams.

[cowboyjoe]

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Report: NFLPA* expected to meet Monday, recommend ratification of deal
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/23/report-nflpa-expected-to-meet-monday-recommend-ratification-of-deal/
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on July 23, 2011, 6:24 PM EDT


We’ve have been so “close” to the end of the lockout for so long that we hesitate to get too excited about any report.

With that disclaimer out of the way, ESPN’s Chris Mortensen has news that should make football fans smile from coast to coast.

After “significant progress” was made Saturday, Mort reports the NFLPA* executive committee is expected to meet in Washington to D.C. to recommend the ratification of the next Collective Bargaining agreement.

[cowboyjoe]

Players could report by Wednesday; start of free agency under discussion
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/23/players-could-report-by-wednesday-start-of-free-agency-under-discussion/
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on July 23, 2011, 7:27 PM EDT

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Yeah, we know. You don’t want to get too excited about ESPN’s report that the NFLPA* executive committee is expected to vote Monday to recommend ratification of the next CBA.

We understand.

Until the agreement is officially announced, we won’t pop any champagne. We will update you on how the next week could play out, should the agreement happen as expected hoped.