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Id agree it couldve been handled better, but probably best to wait for the why first for two reasons.

Itd be difficult for the penalty to look like a penalty if the owners had voted to have another uncapped year, or if there was still a lockout, or if theyd agreed to increase it by $25mill this year. All of which would be unknown at this point last year and only finalised today..

Other thing is that this EXACT time last year there was alot of other things going on that had just happened (Lockout started yesterday, 2011).

Im no apologist though as its a question that really begs to be answered & if they duck im fairly confident JJ will get some sort of answer in court for us

But letting teams know of the ramifications one day before start of FA is not the best timing. Even if the team offices were aware of the issue, the average sports fan is not going to be happy knowing one day before start of FA that his/her team is short 36M of cap space over the next 2 years.

Agree with this.

Just a reminder, we still haven't heard officially from the NFL yet on the specifics of the infractions. Just a lot of guessing so far.

The competition committee would not give final approval of the new adjusted salary cap number for the 2012 season until this matter was taken care of. The union pushed to make sure the pool would not shrink, so it was decided that the savings from the Redskins' and Cowboys' infractions would go back in the pool, and be split among the 28 abiding teams.

Prior to the uncapped year, the competition committee warned teams that punishment would be levied for taking advantage of the circumstances. The Redskins and Cowboys were the most egregious offenders, as they dumped huge base salaries to players such as DeAngelo Hall, Albert Haynesworth and Miles Austin into the 2010 season in order to get the big numbers in those deals off the books while there was no cap.

The Oakland Raiders and New Orleans Saints took advantage on a more marginal level, in terms of front-loading contracts.

The competition committee would not give final approval of the new adjusted salary cap number for the 2012 season until this matter was taken care of. The union pushed to make sure the pool would not shrink, so it was decided that the savings from the Redskins' and Cowboys' infractions would go back in the pool, and be split among the 28 abiding teams.

Finally, as to the notion that the NFL approved the various contracts that took excessive advantage of the uncapped year in 2010, it’s critical to consider the broader context. The union already was prepared to pounce on any possible evidence of collusion. If the NFL had decided to reject contracts because teams were taking advantage of rules that the teams had every right to take advantage of, the NFLPA would have sued — and the case would have been bolstered by the fact that, on at least six occasions, the NFL had told the teams not to treat the uncapped year as a salary dump. So the NFL approved the contracts and delayed punishment until a point where the league had leverage to persuade the union to agree to an effort to take action after the fact against teams that refused to collude.

This is ridiculous. These teams are getting punished for following the cap rules of 2010 and retroactively being punished for doing nothing wrong.

Before we start lynching Goodell or make effigies of him:



NFL Management Council Executive Committee (2010 when it happened): Richardson (Panthers), Bowlen (Broncos), Jones (Cowboys), Kraft (Patriots), Clark Hunt (Chiefs), Mike Brown (Bengals), Bill Ford Jr. (Lions), John Mara (Giants), Art Rooney II (Steelers), Mark Murphy (Packers), Michael Bidwell (Cardinals)

NFL Competition Commitee: Rich McKay (Chair, Falcons), John Mara (Giants), Ozzie Newsome (Ravens), Stephen Jones (Cowboys), Rick Smith (Texans), Marvin Lewis (Bengals), Mark Murphy (Packers), Ken Whisenhunt (Cardinals)

Theres been a few changes and a few seats swapped over in both commitees between 2010 and 2011 - but sounds like its the owners and the NFLPA (or whatever they want to call it) that have decided this

Full article here:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d8 ... line_stack

Before the uncapped year of 2010, the NFL told the teams “at least six times” not to dump salaries into the uncapped year. But any agreement among the teams aimed at limiting spending in the uncapped year constitutes clear and obvious collusion.

The league approved the contracts when submitted because the union would have cried foul if the NFL had tried to apply limits to the uncapped year that didn’t exist in the CBA. All along, the league planned to serve up a cold plate of salary-cap revenge against the Cowboys and Redskins at a later date, at a time when the union would be inclined to agree to an after-the-fact effort to punish anyone who opted not to limit the players’ supply of cash in the months before the lockout.

In hindsight, the league’s effort to penalize the Redskins and Cowboys (and to a lesser extent the Raiders and Saints) proves that the NFL indeed had a plan in place to keep spending low, either by not signing restricted free agents to offer sheets or by hiding behind internal budgets to justify a failure to aggressively spend in unrestricted free agency.

The union has opted not to pick at old scars, in large part because the league’s willingness to bump up the 2012 salary cap from $116 million to $120.6 million likely averted a mutiny against NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith, whose contract expires this month.

And so it begins:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... p-in-2010/

This is ridiculous. These teams are getting punished for following the cap rules of 2010 and retroactively being punished for doing nothing wrong.

I hope Roger Goodell dies a painful agonizing death. Seriously. I hate him and hope he dies.

The Redskins and Cowboys did NOTHING WRONG. 2010 was an uncapped year. So the teams set it up so they spent money as if it was an uncapped year - which is perfectly logical. Now the NFL is aiming to punish them for not colluding with the rest to keep salaries down. COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS.