LMAO

Manning benefits from Bradford, Stafford, Ryan and Sanchez. Why would he resent them? They are driving his price up.

I agree there's some problems with it. However, I think the vets are going to find out that when they don't have an underperforming noob they can point to and his oversized contract, it is going to remove some of their leverage for more money.

Bottom line ... it's his decision and he's made it. Maybe it's more than $ to him and if so, why do we care?

Right. Nobody is questioning that he isn't going to make a lot of money and certainly more than us will ever see. That's not the comparison.

The "he's dumb" talk is based on the fact that he's risking potentially millions all to come back for another year.

See Matt Leinart, Jake Locker.

Tell that to the owners that intend to do just that.

You may well believe it. In fact it may even be true. But the bottom line is that the owners are going to change things up and this is most assuredly a place where the owners and the NFLPA are going to settle on a common enemy.

When there is so little room for agreement, any consensus is held onto like grim death. There's no way in the world this won't be an area they fall back to in order to keep things progressing. That's just the nature of contentious negotiations.

Time will pretty much prove this to be true.

Yeah, but you're discounting the pull that agents have with the NFLPA and they do NOT want a rookie scale.

It doesn't matter. The NFLPA doesn't have the power to fight the owners on this.

And you're overestimating just how much common ground there is here.

The NFLPA doesn't have a hell of a lot of leverage here, brave faces be damned. Those guys are going to get antsy much sooner than the owners will and it seems like fans tend to turn on the players before the owners as well.

If the players held all the cards here you might be right - but they don't. They're going to have to give up something and they really don't have a lot to play with. This is an area that they can yield on without hurting themselves too badly.

I'm not saying they'll do it out of the kindness of their hearts or that they'll do it unanimously. I'm saying that they'll do it grudgingly because it's one of the few palatable options they have.

I agree with you, mostly because of all the issues this seems to be the one that the owners are the most hell bent on. And they have the public support on it.

tell the MLB owners that

Don't kid yourself. Their big issue is and will continue to be the 60-40 split.

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So Gabbert goes no. 1 overall?






joke.

doesn't really matter, there won't be a season next year. I smell a lockout.