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    The Impending Death Of The Salary Cap Won't Be Doomsday For The NFL

    New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
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    Image of Silent Q Silent Q
    09/04/09

    In reply to The Impending Death Of The Salary Cap Won't Be Doomsday For The NFL
    No one's going to be left out due to lack of funds.

    There's an old lady in D.C. being sued by the Redskins who would like to talk to you about that.
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    Image of GotchoMoney GotchoMoney
    09/04/09

    In reply to The Impending Death Of The Salary Cap Won't Be Doomsday For The NFL
    I totally doubt this. Jerry Jones and Daniel Snyder will bet the farm and leverage their teams to collect the top players in the league. Much like Chelsea and Man U does in another (football) league.

    On an EPL note, when Chelsea and Man U faced each other in the 2008 EPL final, each team combined for 1.6 BILLION dollars in personnel debt.

    This borrowing for buying top players will not be avoided here in the good 'ol US- of - A. After all, Borrowing is in our lifeblood. It will be interesting to see what two dominate NFL teams end up spending on their personnel. Perhaps we might see a Supper Bowl with $2 Billion in combined personnel debt.
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    Image of Paul.B.Dodd Paul.B.Dodd
    09/04/09

    @GotchoMoney: Even if the Cowboys and Redskins have the resources to spend and borrow like ManU and Chelsea, it's hard to imagine they would replicate the same degree of success. Both ManU and Chelsea have strong and very capable personnel people working for them. Fergie is involved in all football decision at United and rarely makes a mistake when it comes to players. José Mourinho was a strong personality backed by a hands-off owner with deep pockets until he got the axe. Neither Cowboys nor Redskins have anyone of that caliber. Both Jones and Snyder have been outspending others for years with scant results. Hard to image they'll suddenly gain another dimension of insight just because the salary cap is taken off. If anything it may even make them more irrational.
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    Image of GreatOdensRaven GreatOdensRaven
    09/04/09

    @Paul.B.Dodd: Wasn't Doc Rivers considered a moron who would inevitably be fired before the Celtics brought in Garnett and Allen to complement Pierce? It's amazing what a little spending spree can do for a team's competency.

    It's one thing to overpay players. It's quite another to outspend other teams.
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    Image of Paul.B.Dodd Paul.B.Dodd
    09/04/09

    @GreatOdensRaven: Doc Rivers had Danny Ainge to pull off the personnel move and owners willing to absorb the cost. Jones and Synder have all the money in the world to absorb giant contracts but that doesn't mean it will land them any silverware without hiring GMs who know what they're doing.
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    Image of JohnnyDakotaStateU JohnnyDakotaStateU
    09/04/09

    In reply to The Impending Death Of The Salary Cap Won't Be Doomsday For The NFL
    which could induce cheapskate owners to hoard their money without putting a decent product on the field

    This is also known as the Mike Brown Doctrine.
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    Image of Bobby Big Wheel Bobby Big Wheel
    09/04/09

    @JohnnyDakotaStateU: Gentlemen, meet your 2010 Cincinnati Bengals starting backfield: Craig Krenzel and Trung Canidate!
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    Image of Juancho Juancho
    09/04/09

    @Bobby Big Wheel: I would feel better if this was the 2003 Fiesta Bowl...

    ...and if Mo Clarett was somehow involved.*

    *easily the first time these words have been used this year, by anyone, anywhere.
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    Image of Silky John-STON! Silky John-STON!
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    This guys must have been a ghost co-writer on "Freakonomics", with all the unconnected, mildly interesting vignettes he is stringing together to tell a story that none of the parts tell.
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    Image of David Hume David Hume
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    "Hamlet talked about that famous question: What is it to be? "


    Signifying his intention to move the union in a more aggressive direction than his predecessor, he then held up Gene Upshaw's skull and stated "Alas, poor Eunuch, I knew him, Horatio!

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    Image of Bobby Big Wheel Bobby Big Wheel
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    He's visiting all the teams? If I were a prominent labor leader, I'd avoid the Meadowlands.
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    Image of Paul.B.Dodd Paul.B.Dodd
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    I saw an interview Real Sports did with him on HBO. He seemed like a decent enough guy and someone who's willing to fight for his members. Coming from the corporate world, he probably took a huge pay cut to take this job. That being said, some where along his fancy education and training someone should have taught him how to cater your presentation to your audience.
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    Image of ScientificMapp ScientificMapp
    07/01/09

    @Paul.B.Dodd: Good idea. For example, your Deadspin audience prefers sophomoric and obvious jokes, not sober sincerity.
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    Image of ScientificMapp ScientificMapp
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    The cop who caught me in the bushes behind the Delta Gamma house also quoted Hamlet: "Aye, there's the rub."
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    Image of DeepFriar DeepFriar
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    Um, why would TJ Houshmandzadeh be at a rookie symposium?

    /dick joke?
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    07/01/09

    @DeepFriar: Nevermind. Seperate speaking engagement
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    Image of Chuck Knoblockhead Chuck Knoblockhead
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed both houses of parliament for the first time in 150 years. "That doesn't seem like that big of a deal," said Smith, "except the last person to do that was Napoleon."


    Really, which Napoleon? Because the Associated Press said this last occurred in 1873. Napoleon I was dead, Napoleon II was dead, while Napoleon III was alive...until January 9 when he died, in exile, in England.

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    Image of ScientificMapp ScientificMapp
    07/01/09

    @Chuck Knoblockhead: I think he meant Napoleon Johnson, who was the janitor and turned on the microphone late one night while sweeping up: "Now batting-ing-ing, Napoleon Johnson-son-son!"
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    Image of the earl of weaver the earl of weaver
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    Some people just call him Maurice.
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    Image of Civil Negligence Civil Negligence
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    You wanna talk some jive? I'll talk some jive. I'll talk some jive like you've never heard!
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    Image of Steve U Steve U
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    If you remember any part of that soliloquy...


    ...your name is not DeMaurice Smith, apparently.

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    Image of Chuck Knoblockhead Chuck Knoblockhead
    07/01/09

    In reply to New, Fancy-Talking NFLPA Boss Knows His Shakespeare, Young Jeezy
    "[Hamlet] was a brother, he was father, he was husband, he was a son."


    One out of four ain't bad.

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