NFL Lockout News: Player Says He'd Be "Shocked" To See A Deal By July 21st
by JasonB on Jul 11, 2011 5:30 PM EDT
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PrintEarlier today Chris Mortenson reported that the lockout has an "end date" for what seems like the fifth time this offseason. Having been burnt by these faux deadlines once too many times, we expressed some serious skepticism over the report this morning. As it turns out, it might have been smart to doubt the happy news...
Pete Prisco quoted an unnamed player this afternoon who said that these glowing reports about how close a deal is are coming 100% from the owners.
"That's not true," the player said. "All that is hype coming from the owners side to try and put pressure on us to do a deal. They want to make us look bad. It's simply not true. There is a lot of work to be done. They are not close."
"Consider where that information is coming from, it's the owners," the player said. "Their reason is to try and create all this false hope to put more pressure on us."
As for the reports about July 21st as the latest magic deadline. The player says he'd be "shocked" if a deal were done by then.
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...
And if R. Kelly goes to jail, I'LL PISS ON YO' CAT!!
by Riley Freeman on Jul 11, 2011 5:34 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
"On the flip side, though, Bleeding Green Nation cites a PFF study that says Jackson dropped the highest percentage of catchable passes (19.67 percent) of any receiver in the league last year. I think he also dropped that punt at the end of the last Giants game. But then he picked it back up."
by Mike757 on Jul 11, 2011 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I actually like this one better:
hahaha.
"On the flip side, though, Bleeding Green Nation cites a PFF study that says Jackson dropped the highest percentage of catchable passes (19.67 percent) of any receiver in the league last year. I think he also dropped that punt at the end of the last Giants game. But then he picked it back up."
I’m just done with lockout. I will say though that I trust Mort & Schefter more then Prisco
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Why would you trust them? Everything they’ve reported about the lockout has been what the owners want.
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You're right
ESPN is almost like working for the league
That’s what happens when the “news” organization has billion dollar deals with the league they are supposed to cover.
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christ
worst off season EVER… get the f-ing deal done. these people need to get their head out of their asses. rookie wage scale? THEYRE FUCKIG ROOKIES. like all of us who start out we make the lowest wages until we prove ourselves. stupid union pieces of shitt!!!
JoeD AKA The Voice Of Reason
Fuck this. Can we start a trend on twitter or something just to let people know that the fans mean business? This is bull shit, it’s a damn game that makes 9 billion dollars a year and you can’t figure out how to agree with one another? These people need to get over themselves before they alienate the fans for good.
*slow clap*
Too true…
I’m losing faith that we’re going to have a full season… Or any season.
by Jason-E on Jul 12, 2011 7:51 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Someone should compile a chronological list of all the articles this past month that alternate back and forth between “deal is very close” to “deal is NOT very close”. It’s driving me nuts. We need to start complaining to websites about articles that end up being complete garbage… like the first one that said “Deal should be done by the weekend… team officials have been contacted about returning to work early next week” or something like that.
The journalists that are repeat offenders should be fired. Maybe an organized effort can be made through SBnation to expose these people?
I would say it’s been at least every week since the one leading up to July 4th.
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Just to be a counterproductive asshole....
I’m going to make a shit load of twitter accounts and put #don’tendthelockout.
Jason Peters: Heart of a Lion, Face of a Chipmunk.
Eli Manning has the personality of a baked potato.
#dontendthelockout
You have to leave out the apostrophe, otherwise your tag will end at the n. You can’t tag punctuation on twitter.
"On the flip side, though, Bleeding Green Nation cites a PFF study that says Jackson dropped the highest percentage of catchable passes (19.67 percent) of any receiver in the league last year. I think he also dropped that punt at the end of the last Giants game. But then he picked it back up."
Well shit.
Another reason to hate Twitter.
Jason Peters: Heart of a Lion, Face of a Chipmunk.
Eli Manning has the personality of a baked potato.
full me once shame on you, full me twice shame on me
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Said “Anonymous Player” has about the same pull as all the beat writers saying an early date or all the people saying that there won’t be football. When an argument is this polarizing, someone who is involved on one side of the argument becomes much harder to believe, since they are often pushing their own (or their side’s) agendas.
I’m not taking this comment seriously, really, like a lot of other things that have been said.
"It's not going to make me try to hit you any harder, because I'm going to do that anyway." - Brian Dawkins
Well I agree, however what this anonymous player said seems to be more in line what has happened most of the summer. For the last 3 or 4 weeks we’ve been hearing an agreement is right around the corner and every-time it’s not true.
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If this is true, that they are no closer to a deal then they were last month, the NFLPA* has huuge problems. I mean close up shop, sign a deal now because youve already lost type problems. When a story/snowball starts rolling downhill like this they dont have the option to sit back and watch it gain steam. They need to proactively get infront of these before you end up with anonymous players jumping in front of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom type boulders.
The other thing to keep in mind, if there is just one anonymous player speaking out at about this… half his locker room behind him has completely bought in on the deal is close, and thinks they are 1-2 weeks away from getting paychecks again.
The first thing you always hear from these team rep conference calls is that they were not given a lot of information. If the owners can control the complete flow of information like this they will pick this union apart once if comes down to real time being missed.
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Just call me a Rube.
Gotta tell you guys, I am really psyched up for the 2013 season!!!
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Fuck the owners.
I actually hope they are forced to eat shit on this one. I want the following to happen…
1. No preseason games. This will buttfuck the shit out of the owners at the gate since those cock sucking sacks of shit have to charge full price for the tickets.
2. The players strongarm them into at least a 60-40 split with revenue.
3. They get royally fucked in other interesting ways.
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Q: What do a leaky tampon and Sean McDermott's defense have in common?
A: They are equally ineffective in the red zone.
Or you could just literally go around and buttfuck each and every owner.
Jason Peters: Heart of a Lion, Face of a Chipmunk.
Eli Manning has the personality of a baked potato.
It’s true, season ticket holders that are forced to pay full price for the garbage product in preseason would certainly not be hurt by canceled preseason games…
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Revenue hit?
Just what % of a team revenues are attributable to preseason? Haven’t seen any figures on this but I imagine the operating margins are pretty ridiculous with what is essentially free labor.
250m/wk
they said that each preseason week is worth 250 mil….
"Eagles fans are a passionate group who love their team," said McNabb, "if not the actual players. It's not like winning a Super Bowl before the first month of the season is the hardest thing they've ever asked of me. That'd be all those times they asked me to go kill myself."
by greenbean#twoOH on Jul 11, 2011 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Florio:
After talking about how he’s been told the rookie wage scale is one of the few remaining issues:
Either way, if this is the only issue left, the two sides aren’t at the five yard line. The ball is practically kissing the plane of the end zone, and both sides simply need to find a way to avoid pulling a DeSean Jackson.
I know it’s hard to be optimistic, but…
Bleed-Green.com
SB Nation Philly
But again, the same people reporting that the rookie wage scale is the only point left are the ones that have been reporting a deal is almost done for the past month.
It’s hard to know what to believe.
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These meetings...
What the hell are they discussing at these meetings anyways? How many hours have they spent in there “negotiating”?
Seriously….I don’t care how many points they have to clear or agree on….it does not take this long to make deals….. They are just being a bunch of assholes right now…
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