There is no way you’re
getting
50% of this football, Gene
I’m not sure if it’s posturing by Gene Upshaw but he left New York and returned to Washington because talks were “hopelessly deadlocked”. Although the current CBA doesn’t expire until the end of 2007, if there is no extension reached, it means that there is no cap for 2007. Sounds pretty good for the players right? Well, yes and no.
Because 2006 is the last year of the cap, it means that teams won’t be able to get relief by moving cap dollars to 2007 because they don’t know what is going to happen in 2007. So there could be a lot of players on the waiver wire by Thursday when teams have to be under the $95M cap. If your team is up against the cap, you’ll be crying. If your team has plenty of cap room, start looking into decent hotel accomodations in South Florida.
Finally, once you let the uncapped year out of the bag, there’s no way the NFLPA is going to go back to having one. And that means after 2007, there could be a lockout. I can’t believe that the NFL and NFLPA have gotten so greedy that they might find a way to kill this cash cow.
I wonder if I should get my Philadelphia Soul jersey now or later.
