Free Agency pushed back 3 days

[watermock]

per ESPN...not Hofstra....so it's speculative...Ha!

Two things baffle me...what is this "hard deadline" other than free agency starts?

Second, if the cap is going from 85 to 95 this year...thats about 12% or so...last time I checked, even with oil gouging, inflation wasn't even close to that.

[Crushaholic]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5373010

NEW YORK (AP) - The NFL delayed the start of the free-agent signing period by three days Thursday, seven hours after the owners had seemed to end all hope for a labor contract extension.

The move came just as a number of teams far over the salary cap were about to dump high-paid veterans. It provides a cooling off period for the league and the NFL Players Association to reach a deal and keep those cuts under control.


Without a new agreement in place, owners and players are unable to add the hoped-for $10-15 million to the 2006 salary cap. That means teams have much less cap room for players on their roster, and there could be a massive player purge.


Under the current agreement, 2006 is scheduled to be the last year with a salary cap. An uncapped year in 2007 means new rules that will force teams and agents to change their plans this year and could keep a lot of teams out of the free-agent market entirely.


Even more urgent are salary-cap ramifications for many teams, which anticipated a labor agreement and planned for a much bigger ceiling. Washington, for example, could be as much as $25 million over the salary cap after signings over the past few years that anticipated a salary cap figure well over $100 million.



A bizarre day of twists and turns began when the owners took just 57 minutes to rubber stamp a recommendation by their labor committee to turn down the union's final offer- a meeting so short that many people who expected a long session showed up after owners had already left.

"The situation is as dire as dire can be," commissioner Paul Tagliabue said after owners and team officials raced for flights that had taken them thousands of miles for a meeting of less than an hour.

Seven hours later, it wasn't quite as dire, although league officials cautioned that nothing had been done.

Still, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello noted in a statement that the union had agreed to push back the free-agency deadline "to provide time to resume negotiations."

[Clockwork Orange]

http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?t=38737

In other news, Elvis Presley has been found dead.

[Hercules Rockefeller]

Was it really that tough to scroll half way down this page to see the earlier thread on this?

[DBroncos4life]

Was it really that tough to scroll half way down this page to see the earlier thread on this?
the cat was in the way

[watermock]

I looked and didn't see it...BFD