NFLPA Didn't Even Look At Offer?

[Hostile]

The owners' argument for reducing player pay was the decrease in profitability. If there is no decrease in profitability, the players will just hold out until the owners agree to the players' demands.

Easy for some players. Not all of them though. Right now, some are not receiving roster bonuses and none of them have insurance. If they need clean up surgeries they get to pay for it. With them using the most expensive doctors in the country that's going to add up fast.

Some will have invested wisely and won't be affected. That's good. That's the way all of them should be, but they aren't.

On top of this whomever the Panthers are going to pick cannot be offered a contract. Neither can any of the Free Agents since there is no Free Agency at all right now. So no signing bonuses. No working out at club facilities.

I think the players will crack and cross lines long before the owners will. Just like last time.

 

[RoyTheHammer]

Whether or not that was their belief, refusing to look at the offer based on that is foolish.

They didn't have to offer an exact copy but they could have offered something very worthwhile.

Just a stupid move. They should have looked if only to keep up appearances of trying to get a deal done.

You don't know they didn't look at it in the first place.. this is the owners vs the NFLPA here.

You can't take anything one side says about the other for truth.. i'd think people here would be more cautious in believing what's being said.

 

[PullMyFinger]

You think that the league is somehow going to be able to block the individual antitrust lawsuits?

From what i can tell that is there best bet but if that injunction fails in a couple of weeks, they are screwed.

A corporate lockout implemented by multiple firms is pretty textbook.

The NFL will stick around because they have a right to exist thanks to the TV negotiating deal if nothing else but its going to put a serious hamper on their ability to do much of anything else.

Or you just get a feeling?

Just a gut feeling

 

[theogt]

Easy for some players. Not all of them though. Right now, some are not receiving roster bonuses and none of them have insurance. If they need clean up surgeries they get to pay for it. With them using the most expensive doctors in the country that's going to add up fast.

Some will have invested wisely and won't be affected. That's good. That's the way all of them should be, but they aren't.

On top of this whomever the Panthers are going to pick cannot be offered a contract. Neither can any of the Free Agents since there is no Free Agency at all right now. So no signing bonuses. No working out at club facilities.

I think the players will crack and cross lines long before the owners will. Just like last time.

Agree, but that's the usual issue with unions. Individuals are hurt for the "collective good."

 

[Wimbo]

As an M&A attorney myself,.

Who gets billed for the hours it takes to make over 37,500 posts?

 

[Hostile]

Agree, but that's the usual issue with unions. Individuals are hurt for the "collective good."

No one needs to be hurt at all. Ultimately that is a better "collective good."

 

[theogt]

Who gets billed for the hours it takes to make over 37,500 posts?

I think I've got a matter number for that somewhere.....

No, most of my posts were attained while sitting through boring lecture after boring lecture in law school.