NFL | More details on labor agreement Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:14:02 -0800 Mark Maske, of the Washington Post, reports NFL owners agreed to a system that increases the degree to which the teams share locally generated revenues, easing the concerns of some owners about a growing economic divide between clubs. The deal sets the salary cap for the players at slightly less than 60 percent of a greatly expanded pool of league revenues. The league's free-agent market is scheduled to open at 12:01 a.m. (EST) Friday, March 10. Teams must be under the new salary cap by Thursday night, March 9. Bills | Team votes against new CBA Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:54:13 -0800 ESPN.com's Chris Mortensen reports the Buffalo Bills were one of two teams to vote against the new NFL collective bargaining agreement. Bengals | Team votes against new CBA Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:53:50 -0800 ESPN.com's Chris Mortensen reports the Cincinnati Bengals were one of two teams to vote against the new NFL collective bargaining agreement. NFL | New salary cap at $104 million Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:52:33 -0800 Updating previous reports, ESPNews reports the salary cap for the 2006 season will be set at $104 million. The free agency period will start at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, March 10.
NFL Network: High revenue teams will contribute 10% of revenue, low revenue teams will contribute over 50% of revenue.
Contribute, in revenue sharing. The low revenue teams contribute 50% of their total revenue, and high revenue teams contribute 10% of their total revenue.
Jets/Pats and Steelers/Ravens Rev. sharing ideas merged into one. with what they ended up settling on. Gotta give Woody credit herre
Ahhh, I get it now. I thought he meant they contribute that money into the revenue sharing pool. I was going to say, isn't that a bit lopsided in the wrong direction?
Woody hasn't proven himself to be the greatest football mind, but he is a good business man! I'm glad he figured out how to get good football people involved in the day-to-day operations.
okay here are some new features You won't be able to tag a player 3 times. A player drafted in rounds 2-7 will get a max first time contract of 4 years. no longer than that. 1st round players can still be signed for however long the team and player agrees upon
Upshaw has no idea how the $104-$105M cap figure got out there, never did either side think the cap would be that high. He expects it to be somewhere between $100-$103M, most likely settling in at around $102M.
Interesting from the new CBA From ESPN- Not that a QB makes that much more than Abe but looks like we won't franchising nugent for his career Teams will be able to use their franchise tag on a player more than once, but if they franchise a player for a third time, they will have to do it at a salary equivalent to that of a top-five quarterback, the highest-paid position in football.
http://www.newyorkjets.com/news/ Free agency, put off twice by the protracted negotiations between the owners and players, now will start at 12:01 a.m. ET on March 10.
I still can't believe the Jets and Pats worked together on something. Hasn't something been upset with the space-time continuum or something?
