Book Excerpt: Daniel Snyder and the Unreal Power of NFL Owners

[Manwiththeplan]

anyone trying to defend the other owners on this - basically you are full of it.

What reason would I have to defend the other owners if I didn't believe it? While I certainly may be wrong, to say I'm full of it, makes no sense unless you think I'm a fan of another team or someone who hates Jerry Jones and I think my posting history precludes both of those.

To me, the posters that are full of it are the ones that claimed that the owners were not in collusion during the lockout. Many of the same people who did not like the punishment and throw that word around are the same ones who claimed that the owners having a secret clause in the DirecTv deal that allows them to still get paid during the lockout was legal and "good luck" proving the obvious reduction in salaries in that season was collusion. I won't call them out, but they know who they are.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

Because it would have opened a can of worms for the entire league. Some times you take the high road even tho you've been wronged and look at the bigger picture. It doesnt mean you like it, but you do it anyway.

I don't think it opens the huge can of worms that many claim. If they prove collision based of this situation, the punishment is based off of damages and considering that the total money paid out was not the issue, just to structure, I don't know if you can really quantify that. Miles Austin gained nothing by having his contract structured that way. Had he received a signing bonus instead of a roster bonus, he would have been paid sooner and been harder to cut (not that I think he would have not been cut when he was).

 

[dfense]

Humble as Mara and Rooney. Yeah, the two biggest whiners in the NFL. Those two complain about any change anyone wants to make as destroying the integrity. Remember when Jerry sold the naming rights to Texas stadium? "End of the world" they cried. Now just about every team does it. Heinz field? Just took him a while to catsup.

The writers shows the real intent of this article about half way through. It's changing the Skins name. He's just ticked off about that. Doubt they could really find "hundreds of thousands" of people who really care about the name.

 

[erod]

Humble as Mara and Rooney. Yeah, the two biggest whiners in the NFL. Those two complain about any change anyone wants to make as destroying the integrity. Remember when Jerry sold the naming rights to Texas stadium? "End of the world" they cried. Now just about every team does it. Heinz field? Just took him a while to catsup.

The writers shows the real intent of this article about half way through. It's changing the Skins name. He's just ticked off about that. Doubt they could really find "hundreds of thousands" of people who really care about the name.

When did Jerry sell the naming rights to Texas Stadium?

 

[dfense]

When did Jerry sell the naming rights to Texas Stadium?

I should have said sponsorships....

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-12-14/sports/sp-9058_1_dallas-cowboys

 

[SkinsHokieFan]

anyone trying to defend the other owners on this - basically you are full of it. They saw a chance to stick it to two owners most of the others dislike and did. Jerruh and Danny Boy realized that they just had to basically sit there and take it.

BUT I guarantee you neither one will ever forget or forgive and will even the score if they can at some future date.

Absolutley.

As Dan and Jerry should.

I am still infuriated by this and the timing of it. Shanahan has come out multiple times and said had the Commanders known about the cap penalty, no way do they make the Griffin deal. Which would have been the right course of action.

3 first round picks gone, with plenty of cap room. You can survive and maybe thrive if the QB is a homerun (like he was in 2012)

36M gone, 3 first round picks gone, QB gets injured and his career falls apart-disaster.

 

[hornitosmonster]

They should have sued.

Collusion for sure. But when you're name is in the books you have to proceed with caution.

 

[Stryker44]

Collusion for sure. But when you're name is in the books you have to proceed with caution.

Snyder and Jones didn't collude though - so why would they be afraid to sue?

 

[hornitosmonster]

Snyder and Jones didn't collude though - so why would they be afraid to sue?

What would they gain if they sued? There had to be a reason why Snyder did not follow through on his threats. In the end the money is flowing and there is no reason to rock the boat like Al Davis did.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

36M gone, 3 first round picks gone, QB gets injured and his career falls apart-disaster.

Tis a beautiful thing!

Whats not to love?

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

I don't think it opens the huge can of worms that many claim.

Maybe not, but then why let it go then?

 

[Manwiththeplan]

Maybe not, but then why let it go then?

I think they let it go because it's not as open and shut as many claim.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

I think they let it go because it's not as open and shut as many claim.

Possible.

Hard to know w/o having all the details. We dont know if we got all of the story. But what we did get, it seems the Cowboys and Commanders were unjustly penalized.

 

[Nightman]

The Cowboys and Commanders did exactly what they all agreed not to do. Write contracts in a way that would give them a strategic advantage when the salary cap came back.

They didn't collude to keep salaries down during an uncapped year. The amount spent was never the issue. They simply didn't want them to get out of cap jail scot free on the Haynesworth deal. The biggest problem was they allowed other teams to dump bad contracts during the uncapped year with out penalty.

But when they redistributed the cap "fines" to the other teams and the NFLPA accepted, any possible lawsuit was thrown out.

 

[Proximo]

The NFL approved it. You try and skate around that with the usual lawyer garbage.

Agreed.

I talked about this situation enough when it happened so I don't want to beat a dead horse, but the penalties that were imposed on Washington and Dallas were complete BS, 100%.

No cap means no cap, and the contracts were approved. Bottom line.