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Jerry Jones talks CBA
2:16 PM Thu, May 22, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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Maybe you're like me and get confused and/or bored by Collective Bargaining Agreement talk. If so, skip down to the next post.
But if the drama of the owners opting out of the CBA interests you, you'll probably want to read Jerry's thoughts after the jump.
General thoughts on the CBA?
"The CBA and the terms and the negotiations can't be done in a public type forum. It turns out the commissioner, Roger, is going to have a big impact on how this thing goes just as Upshaw is, but there's a group of owners called the management council, which I'm on, fundamentally we'll spend a lot of time over the next three seasons looking to make it better and make it better for everyone. I know that when you get into negotiations everybody has a way of couching it so it favors the way they look at it. But the deal was initially done because we got I some new territories in a couple of areas percentage wise and it was done so either part at the end of two years could basically say, let's rethink this. The players or us. It's just part of the deal. To me it's just as much a part of the deal, saying we want to revisit that aspect of it.
Certainly we all have an appreciation for how our game is going, the positives of the game, but I'm not going to do a lot of commenting on it as a council member or an owner because it can do nothing but frustrate that type of ongoing activity. As I said yesterday in Atlanta, this is ongoing. You're working in labor agreements every day. That's why a complete area of our league does nothing every day but work in the interpretation of the labor agreement. Having said that we've got three years of football, of seasons and that's an eternity. Really very much in keeping with the spirit of things, this isn't at the midnight hour and we're going to go into a complete different circumstance. We've got years to talk about this. The fans in my mind shouldn't be dwelling on this. They should be dwelling on their favorite team and hopefully for most of them it's the Cowboys. Dwell on that because this other stuff, there's a part of me that's not going to dwell on it either."
What changed in CBA?
"The last time a big part of the deal is seeing how it works. I've been in them long enough now to see how it's interpreted, how it's practiced, how clubs view it, what does the union think of the interpretation. We spent a lot of time with the union in building this new stadium out here and worked through some interpretations there. But why I voted for it the last time is because we had two years to see how some of this stuff worked and if we didn't like it, we could start it differently. That was the big thing. We could do what we did right now the last time."
Was it rushed?
"I don't think so at all. The way to do it, it gave a way for us to go forward but it wasn't rushed. What I'm sure was comforting to all parties in the agreement is you could open it up for a couple of years and sit back down."
What didn't you like about the CBA?
"I don't want to get into that. That really does take on and will evoke a response back and that's the very thing we're not going to do."
2:16 PM Thu, May 22, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Tim MacMahon http://www.***BANNED-URL***/blogs/images/email-icon.jpg E-mail http://www.***BANNED-URL***/blogs/images/email-icon.jpg News tips
Maybe you're like me and get confused and/or bored by Collective Bargaining Agreement talk. If so, skip down to the next post.
But if the drama of the owners opting out of the CBA interests you, you'll probably want to read Jerry's thoughts after the jump.
General thoughts on the CBA?
"The CBA and the terms and the negotiations can't be done in a public type forum. It turns out the commissioner, Roger, is going to have a big impact on how this thing goes just as Upshaw is, but there's a group of owners called the management council, which I'm on, fundamentally we'll spend a lot of time over the next three seasons looking to make it better and make it better for everyone. I know that when you get into negotiations everybody has a way of couching it so it favors the way they look at it. But the deal was initially done because we got I some new territories in a couple of areas percentage wise and it was done so either part at the end of two years could basically say, let's rethink this. The players or us. It's just part of the deal. To me it's just as much a part of the deal, saying we want to revisit that aspect of it.
Certainly we all have an appreciation for how our game is going, the positives of the game, but I'm not going to do a lot of commenting on it as a council member or an owner because it can do nothing but frustrate that type of ongoing activity. As I said yesterday in Atlanta, this is ongoing. You're working in labor agreements every day. That's why a complete area of our league does nothing every day but work in the interpretation of the labor agreement. Having said that we've got three years of football, of seasons and that's an eternity. Really very much in keeping with the spirit of things, this isn't at the midnight hour and we're going to go into a complete different circumstance. We've got years to talk about this. The fans in my mind shouldn't be dwelling on this. They should be dwelling on their favorite team and hopefully for most of them it's the Cowboys. Dwell on that because this other stuff, there's a part of me that's not going to dwell on it either."
What changed in CBA?
"The last time a big part of the deal is seeing how it works. I've been in them long enough now to see how it's interpreted, how it's practiced, how clubs view it, what does the union think of the interpretation. We spent a lot of time with the union in building this new stadium out here and worked through some interpretations there. But why I voted for it the last time is because we had two years to see how some of this stuff worked and if we didn't like it, we could start it differently. That was the big thing. We could do what we did right now the last time."
Was it rushed?
"I don't think so at all. The way to do it, it gave a way for us to go forward but it wasn't rushed. What I'm sure was comforting to all parties in the agreement is you could open it up for a couple of years and sit back down."
What didn't you like about the CBA?
"I don't want to get into that. That really does take on and will evoke a response back and that's the very thing we're not going to do."
