http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2011/06/nfl-prepares-for-eight-game-season/ I say cancel the whole damn thing. Eight games is a freaking joke. We know damn well they won't have an agreement in place at the rate they are going. Screw em all. I hope the players starve to death and the owners choke to death.
if these guys leave all that money on the table i will really be surprised. too much money at stake to miss games
The Texans will start 0-4 and be mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Then they'll finish 4-0 and (you guessed it...) McNair will keep Kubiak because "we're so close!!"
So 5-3 might get the Texans into the playoffs? In Kubes' reign, he was only 5-3 once in the 1st 8 games
Players will let it go on long enough to miss scheduled training camp, skip two preseason games, and then they will cave. That way they don't have to start until mid-August and won't miss any game checks. They'll just have an abbreviated camp and two preseason games.
http://blog.chron.com/fantasyfootba...-lockout-could-be-over-sooner-than-you-think/ According to a couple of sources, NFL lockout could be over sooner than you think After reading a report from an online newspaper that an agreement had been reached and that the NFL lockout was likely over, I decided to call a couple of league sources (both on the players’ side) to find out whether or not they knew if there was any truth to this report. The first source said that the report was impossible because the players hadn’t been asked to vote on any new proposal. However, there was also some very good news. After lengthy discussions with both sources, they both conveyed to me a great deal of hope that a deal would be done by July and possibly as early as late June. Why the sudden optimism? According to one of the sources, “both sides are focusing on the percentage of total revenue coming in (would include the first $1 billion the owners are currently taking off the top) and if that deal gets done, the other issues will probably fall into place fairly quickly according to what I’m hearing.” The players currently make just over 59 percent of all revenue, but that does not include the $1 billion the owners take off the top. If that money is included in total revenue, the players get about 51 percent. While the owners are said to be low-balling the players on their revenue offer, both of my sources from the players’ side said that the percentage appears to be negotiable and could easily come up to a number that both sides could agree upon. “”I am 100 times more hopeful than two weeks ago that a deal can get done relatively quickly” was the sentiment from one of my sources who also believes that issues like health care and the rookie salary are issues that could potentially “be done already”. The “pre-1993″ players will likely find their benefits increasing when this new deal gets completed and the owners will also have to give up their ability to hide behind salary cap figures money from incentives that have no possibility of being earned. You’ll notice that I haven’t written about the lockout, owner posturing, player public relations or injunctions because that’s not my bag, baby. I write about football amongst other things and until I believed a deal could get done, I wasn’t interested in talking too much lockout wrangling. Needless to say, after speaking with not one, but two people from the players’ side who believe a deal will get done in time to have not only a season, but an entire pre-season schedule, I’m ready to finally get excited about the possibility of football again.
Matt Thomas mentioned one giant reason why they need to get a deal done to ensure the season starts on time. Week 1 starts on September 11th 2011.
never got why people think the Sept 11 game is going to be a big deal to them if they miss it. In the US - $$$$ >>>>>>> Life, people, religion. They will hold out until they get the hyper-greediest freaking deal they can, nothing else matters. But hey i'm cynical.
10 year anniversary will give 9/11 more attention this year. There are games scheduled in NY and DC that day.
