Per Schefter & PFT: NFL salary cap debacle continues---updates include NFLPA filing collusion lawsuits---links and discussion current--MET

[spjunkies]

This is so damn amateurish on the leagues part. I've never heard of ANYTHING like this!

[Ernie5]

"The NFL management counsel can deny contracts (if the Redskins try to ignore the cap)"

"I don't know what recourse the Redskins have."

- Albert Breer

OK, but the league didn't deny those contracts; they approved them.
The recourse is you ignore this stupid "fine" and go forward business as usual.

[Hitman#21]

OK, but the league didn't deny those contracts; they approved them.
The recourse is you ignore this stupid "fine" and go forward business as usual.

He is saying they can deny future contracts if they don't comply.

[Park City Skins]

The timing is what I find unbelievable. Collusion or not, there are clearly plenty of other teams who did the same exact thing as the Cowboys and Redskins, just not as well. So why penalize only two teams 24 hours before (8 now) free agency starts? The reasoning behind this originally was because they felt the Cowboys and Redskins created an unfair competitive advantage, but aren't they doing the same thing now? Such bull crap.

Getting the NFLPA,apparently,to agree on this whole thing and the 2012 salary cap figure is what caused them to be so late with finalizing that figure. That was done when? This past Saturday? So they basically waited a day before getting ready to "punish the Redskins and Cowboys,(and the Raiders and Saints to a much lesser extent). I don't know. I'm beginning to agree with what was said earlier about this. I think the NFL was simply going to lower the figure,notify Dallas and Washington,(then all the other teams),then let the Redskins and Cowboys decide the amount or something else. All pretty quietly. Then Schefter broke the news and all hell broke loose.

[TaylorPickSix]

Even Peter King has our back right now. What in the world is going on right now?!

Peter King @SI_PeterKing

Two things I don't like re NFL's cap penalty on Wash/Dall: Timing--You tell a team 24 hrs before FA about a 36m cut in spending? Ridiculous.

And there's a reason 2010 was called 'uncapped.' That should have meant teams could allocate money how they saw fit. I don't like this.

https://twitter.com/#!/SI_PeterKing

[tibbidoe]

Seems like the start of FA needs to be delayed...

[thecardiacrll]

OK, but the league didn't deny those contracts; they approved them.
The recourse is you ignore this stupid "fine" and go forward business as usual.

Youre reading that wrong what he's saying is say we ignore it and sign vincent jackson to a big deal the NFL can deny the contract.

[MattFancy]

I don't think I've seen anyone in support of the NFL on this. When 2 guys that aren't huge Skins supporters, King and Florio, are taking the Skins side. You know the NFL messed up.

[jflow78]

Here's a chart that shows the contracts each team had that violated the league's contract increase and no dumping money into uncapped year rule.

[skinsfansince1988]

no way the NFL can get away with this, people like King will investigate, they will find contracts like the Bears for 35 million and print it and ask why they weren't punished

[rebornempowered]

Even Peter King has our back right now. What in the world is going on right now?!

[skinsfansince1988]

Here's a chart that shows the contracts each team had that violated the league's contract increase and no dumping money into uncapped year rule.

is there a way someone could send that to Florio or King

[Ernie5]

Youre reading that wrong what he's saying is say we ignore it and sign vincent jackson to a big deal the NFL can deny the contract.

Whoops. Sorry. Got it. Thanks.

[rebornempowered]

Here's a chart that shows the contracts each team had that violated the league's contract increase and no dumping money into uncapped year rule.

I saw this last night and it is interesting that the Saints contract doesn't seem all that bad. Is this an unofficial Bounty punishment?

[Park City Skins]

He is saying they can deny future contracts if they don't comply.

Yep. One of the possibilities I mentioned yesterday. Was afraid of that. Yeeeeesh.