Cowboys, Redskins, NFL clam up over cap case

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This means the Skins and Cowturds have submitted their paperwork to the courts. Very curious to see what is going to happen here.

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Posted by Mike Florio on March 26, 2012, 5:35 PM EDT

The salary cap controversy that arose two weeks ago regarding the Cowboys and Redskins has generated plenty of discussion. But there will be no more of it from any of the teams involved, or from the league at large.


A day after Giants co-owner and NFL Management Council Executive Committee chairman John Mara said that the Cowboys and Redskins were lucky not to have draft picks stripped for spending in the uncapped year of 2010 and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones promised to speak his mind to reporters, everyone has clammed up.


Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Jones canceled his session with reporters, and that the league also won’t be addressing the situation in advance of Commissioner Roger Goodell’s press conference.


Earlier in the day, Patriots owner Robert Kraft declined to talk about the matter, citing that the controversy is now in litigation.
Meanwhile, Albert Breer of NFL Network reports that Jones and Redskins G.M. Bruce Allen made their respective cases against the $46 million in cap penalties during a Monday morning “two-per-club” meeting. Jones and Allen then left as the other 30 teams discussed the strategy for dealing with the claim.


The fact that folks have zipped it demonstrates the gravity of the situation. Though no lawsuit has been filed, the Redskins and the Cowboys have essentially sued their partners.


Somewhere, Al Davis is smiling.


And we don’t mean that sarcastically. Davis had no qualms about standing up for his rights. In this case, we’ve yet to see or hear anything to suggest that the NFL is anything but wrong. By all appearances, the league wanted to hold down spending in the uncapped year, the teams attempted to collude in order to make that happen, and the NFL approved every contract submitted by the Cowboys and the Redskins calling for payments to be made during the uncapped year.


The teams did nothing wrong and they violated no rule. Instead, they refused to engage in collusion, and now the NFL wants to teach them a lesson for it. In the end, the lesson could be learned by the NFL — and it could be a costly one.

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Thats right, fuck the NFL and the NFLPA (players union), they both wanted to fuck the players in one way or another, now they want to fuck the 2 teams that didn't want to fuck their players.

Now we all see who is truly passionate about their players, its not the rest of the NFL but the Skins and Cowboys who year after year have proved to us that money doesn't matter to the owners in order to keep not only their players happy but also their fans.

The NFL and the NFLPA are both in some deep shit here, they committed collusion and now its time to pay.

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Jones, a member of the CEC, didn’t know about cap deal




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Posted by Mike Florio on March 26, 2012, 11:28 AM EDT

Many things stink about the league’s decision to strip a total of $46 million in cap space from the Redskins and Cowboys for treating the uncapped year as, well, an uncapped year.


Here’s the latest. As we already know, the agreement regarding the imposition of the penalties was struck between the NFL Management Council Executive Committee and the NFLPA, making it a revision of the CBA without a vote of the league’s owners or union leadership. That deal happened even though Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was and still is a member of the NFL Management Council Executive Committee.


It’s one thing for the so-called CEC to use its delegation of authority to work out side agreements with the union. It’s quite another for the CEC to do so without knowledge of one of the men who has secured membership on the CEC.


The NFL would be wise to clean up this mess as soon as possible. Jones and Redskins owner Daniel Snyder are ready to fight — and the last thing the NFL needs is escalation of a $46 million fracas into something that could harm the long-term interests of a multi-billion-dollar operation.


For the league, the sooner this goes away, the better. The longer it hangs around, the more likely that some entity like Congress will become intrigued by the reality that the arrangement is aimed at masking, and supporting, illegal collusion.

This is crazy shit! What is the NFL thinking?