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NFL transcripts: Commissioner Goodell, Jerry Richardson, John Mara & Jeff Pash

Kurb

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http://nfllabor.com/2011/03/11/nfl-transcripts-commissioner-goodell-jerry-richardson-john-mara-jeff-pash/

We incorporated new economic terms to try to bridge the gap. You’ve heard a lot of talk about an $800M gap. Nowhere close. Not close to factual.

We offered today to split the difference and meet the union in the midpoint, with a player compensation number that would have been equivalent to player compensation in 2009 and above player compensation in 2010, and we offered grow it from there over four years by $20 million a club, to the point where in 2014 the player compensation number was the union’s number. It was the number the union proposed to us and we accepted it. That wasn’t good enough.

We offered to guarantee for the first time in the history of the league, more than one year of injury on player contracts. Apparently not good enough.

We moved off of our wage scale, and we offered to do a rookie compensation system within the context of a hard rookie cap as the union had proposed which would preserve individual negotiations and maintain the role of agents in the process. Evidently not good enough.

We offered, in fact we agreed to the union’s request for a cash team minimum for the first time in league history. We agreed to it at their number and their structure. Evidently not good enough.

We told the union that for 2011 and 2012, we would play within the existing 16-game regular season format, and we committed to them, notwithstanding the rights we have in the current agreement, we would not change to 18 games without their consent. Evidently not good enough.

At the same time, we agreed to implement wide ranging health and safety changes, reducing the offseason program by five weeks, reducing the practice time in the preseason, reducing the practice time and contract drills during the regular season and expanding the number of days off for players. Evidently not good enough.

We offered to increase the benefits in a wide range for both current and retired players. Under the proposal we had tendered, retired players who left the league before 1993, would experience an increase in their retirement benefit of close to 60 percent and the union, which says it represents former players, walked away from that today.

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DSmith is being a Lawyer.

Lawyers want to go to court.

Wish Granted.

That said, the owners brought this on themselves.

If they didn't like the fuging deal they should have never signed it to begin with.

Also, notice how they rejected the rookie structure system ? and made sure agents stayed involved ? Lawyers protecting lawyers. structure system would probably = more money to be spent on vets.

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Oh for crying out loud, let's get a similar official response from the NFLPA (or whatever's left of it?) before we take this at face value.

If you can find it please post a thread.

I would like to read the counter point.

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If you can find it please post a thread.

I would like to read the counter point.

NFL radio played the clip from Mr Smith claiming it was about "trust". If it comes to a decision between trusting a lawyer or a commish... the choice is pretty clear for me

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I'm not saying the owners are lying about anything (although that wouldn't surprise me), but we all know there are two sides to this. I'd wait until the players explain just what they offered and what the owners were offering before I go and blast the players based on a one-sided statement from one side.

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If you can find it please post a thread.

I would like to read the counter point.

D. Smith said that they wanted 10 years of paperwork, auidts, tax statements.

That was the 'meat' of his comment. The rest was fluff about regretting not reaching an agreement . His statement was very short.

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