CBA Thread

Harbaugh storms into the negotiation office and yells "WHAT'S YOUR DEAL"

Originally posted by SnakePlissken:

Originally posted by PTulini:
dkaplanSBJ: From DeMaurice Smith to player reps in email: "In addition to depriving the players of the time needed to consider forming a union and making needed changes to the old agreement, this proposed procedure would in my view also violate federal labor laws."

Ooooh boy, I think talks have ended, there will be no football this year.

SI_JimTrotter: CLARIFICATION: the second email was from NFLPA General Counsel Richard Berthelsen, not DeMaurice Smith.

Originally posted by JerryRice1848:
Harbaugh storms into the negotiation office and yells "WHAT'S YOUR DEAL"

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:

Originally posted by SnakePlissken:

Originally posted by PTulini:
dkaplanSBJ: From DeMaurice Smith to player reps in email: "In addition to depriving the players of the time needed to consider forming a union and making needed changes to the old agreement, this proposed procedure would in my view also violate federal labor laws."

Ooooh boy, I think talks have ended, there will be no football this year.

uh..no

lol, just no deal tonight, they will agree they just want to do it on their own time. There are a few minor things to negotiate but they want to see the entire documents and make the vote when they want to.

Political strategies going on.

NFLPA conference call over - no vote taken. Officials leaving here. Players want to see all remaining details resolved and see full language Of any deal before voting on anything.
jasonlacanfora twitter

what happens if players association doesnt vote on the cba by tuesday?

rich eisen looks like he is going to say "f**k this job" any minute now.

Originally posted by PTulini:

Originally posted by SnakePlissken:

Originally posted by PTulini:
dkaplanSBJ: From DeMaurice Smith to player reps in email: "In addition to depriving the players of the time needed to consider forming a union and making needed changes to the old agreement, this proposed procedure would in my view also violate federal labor laws."

Ooooh boy, I think talks have ended, there will be no football this year.

SI_JimTrotter: CLARIFICATION: the second email was from NFLPA General Counsel Richard Berthelsen, not DeMaurice Smith.

Sounded far too intelligent to have come from Smith.

Originally posted by stunder49:
rich eisen looks like he is going to say "f**k this job" any minute now.

Can't blame him, he's getting tired of having to do bumpers and outros for football follies.

Originally posted by SnakePlissken:

Originally posted by stunder49:
rich eisen looks like he is going to say "f**k this job" any minute now.

Can't blame him, he's getting tired of having to do bumpers and outros for football follies.

exactly what i thought. he probably has the mindf**ks then anyone else about this.

adbrandt: I'm wondering where mediator, Judge Arthur Boylan fits in this miscommunication. He met with both sides this week on where things stood, reviewed terms, etc.

Originally posted by 9erVillian:
Steve Young on ESPN: You can't leverage things at the last moment.

Basically, what the owners tried to do by sending over an offer that was not fully negotiated with the players.

This is where the players story doesn't add up. They keep saying the owners snuck in some stuff but at the same time claim they haven't seen any document. Both can't be true. Since you wouldn't know what they snuck in if you didn't read the damn thing.

I stick by my initial assesment that the players are making a power move to try and get more out of the deal. Probably many of them didn't like the deal Smith negotiated for them so they are trying to make it seem like they never negotiated anything and the owners are just making up their own s**t.

Originally posted by PTulini:
adbrandt: I'm wondering where mediator, Judge Arthur Boylan fits in this miscommunication. He met with both sides this week on where things stood, reviewed terms, etc.

I was just about to say something about this. Seemed like everything was on track

ochocinco: Smart move by the owners to gain positive public perception and pressure the players into a bad deal shifting the negativity on us #kudos