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The effects are a ruinedleague like baseball where six to ten teams spent ridiculous amounts of money and buy championships while small market teams groom players for them and fight to sign mediocre players. Ihope they do not ruin another sport

The Cowboys would become the Yankees and goodbye parity.

In baseball you have a single player, making more $ than an entire team.

Get a cap in place with the CBA and do what the fans have been asking for for years. A rookie salary cap. Everyone is tired of seeing untested players get 60 million contracts having never played a snap or went through a single real practice. If you do those things, you'll see less veteran hold outs and less "I want more money because im not the top paid guy anymore" crap. Plus hopefully people like Drew Rosenhaus will eventually die off or at least become more tolerable.

No salary cap would make the NFL crash and burn.

means if it becomes a 4 team nfl with the other 28 teams acting as a farm system, i cancel the nfl network and start watching college football more.

Get both caps done!

Has an NFLPA president ever been assassinated? Upshaw is on a good pace. If I saw him in the streets, I'd kick him in the balls.

In baseball you have a single player, making more $ than an entire team.

Get a cap in place with the CBA and do what the fans have been asking for for years. A rookie salary cap. Everyone is tired of seeing untested players get 60 million contracts having never played a snap or went through a single real practice. If you do those things, you'll see less veteran hold outs and less "I want more money because im not the top paid guy anymore" crap. Plus hopefully people like Drew Rosenhaus will eventually die off or at least become more tolerable.

smoss | 05/25/08, 10:22 AM

Brilliant comment! I would expect nothing less from a fellow Niners fan!

A rookie salary scale is desperately needed. Remember Robert Gallery? Oakland's left tackle of the future? I don't even need to say anymore.

In baseball you have a single player, making more $ than an entire team.

Get a cap in place with the CBA and do what the fans have been asking for for years. A rookie salary cap. Everyone is tired of seeing untested players get 60 million contracts having never played a snap or went through a single real practice. If you do those things, you'll see less veteran hold outs and less "I want more money because im not the top paid guy anymore" crap. Plus hopefully people like Drew Rosenhaus will eventually die off or at least become more tolerable.
smoss | 05/25/08, 10:22 AM
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Very well said indeed.

First thing we do is kill all the agents.....

Haha, Robert Gallery..."Left Tackle of the future." More like average guard of the present (until a better choice comes around). Sucks for the Raiders though, they made the right pick based on what every single damn analyst was saying. In retrospect its easy to bash them, but at the time it looked like a solid choice.

Baseball is disgusting and football could conceivably become even worse! Economics classes use MLB as a study in dysfunction. I have a blog about an invention to help small market teams but the best is some form of economic equality in the resources used by the participants themselves.

The reason the NFL works is the cap-

All leagues should have a cap & NON-GUARANTEED contracts
It keeps the players motivated.

Baseball is a joke- guys go on the DL for a broken fingernail.....why?
cause they have guaranteed deals, they aren't worried about 'playing through the pain'
You want footballers to go on the DL for every little nick? there would be no games

sacked92. you are 100 percent right. the cowboys would buy all of the troubled wr's they want!! their team would look like the penal systems pro bowl!!

This will ruin NFL football. I can't blame the owners though, people don't realize that most owners are making under 10 million a year, and most are barely coming out ahead. When you invest 900 million in a football team, that doesn't cut it. Owners HAVE to make more then players, and today's NFL that isn't happening with most teams. Thats why they opted out, changes are needed. Having no cap at all will ruin the greatest sport in the world. They also need a rookie cap, its ridiculous that guys like Matt Ryan and Jamarcus Russell are 2 of the highest paid players in football and neither have done squat.

Hey, I thought the Cowboys already ARE the Yankees . I have a hunch that Dan Snyder (owner of my Skins) could afford to sign any player he felt like signing if the cap goes away. I certainly hope it doesn't go away, because the parity that exists in the NFL makes it such a wonderful sport to follow, unlike MLB.

The simple solution. Keep a cap for FAs only, but if it is a player you drafted, you can give him all you want. That will induce players to stay with their original team if it is about money.
The last thing the NFL needs is teams that buy their way to the top every year. And the fans too. IF the players think about it long enough they will see it is bad for them too. The top players will be paid ridiculous amounts of money, but half the players ( or more ) will make less than they are now. Since most teams will not be competitive, they are not going to throw big money and good players who give them no more chance of winning than to be with out them...
Grab your A** when players and owners go at it for the good of the game...

This is the best advice they can get from Gene Upshaw? Take a good deal if you can get it and don't sign any long term contracts? The players need better representation.