FA question considering "Antitrust"

[Davis83]

How can the NFL come up with any kind of rules for FA since they will have to cellectively agree on them?

[OchoNueve]

Either:

1) There will be no free agency & no football

2) There will be no free agency but there will be football, free agents go to the highest bidder

3) A new deal and new free agency rules will be agreed upon in a new CBA

4) We will revert to last years rules and fight it out later

regardless, go read something...

[jtm]

Carefully is the answer. The biggest mistake a company can make that has an anti-trust exemption is collusion. They need to make sure the new rules are not a product of the NFL teams working together for their benefit. I would imagine that they will institute some prior rules that have been agreed on by the players to avoid this mine field.