New Director Voted In For NFLPA

ProFootballTalk.com - WINNER DECLARED: DEMAURICE SMITH (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/03/15/winner-declared-demaurice-smith/)

DeMaurice Smith is the new executive director of the NFLPA.

Maybe this is progress towards signing the CBA. There could be a salary cap after all. Hopefully the Skins didn't bank on there not being one after this year.

From what I hear they have a long way to go in too short of a time. Owners not happy with a CAP and at one end of the spectrum, the players not happy with the current CAP and at the other end of the spectrum. Perhaps in a couple of yrs.

ProFootballTalk.com - WINNER DECLARED: DEMAURICE SMITH (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/03/15/winner-declared-demaurice-smith/)

DeMaurice Smith is the new executive director of the NFLPA.

Maybe this is progress towards signing the CBA. There could be a salary cap after all. Hopefully the Skins didn't bank on there not being one after this year.

It is a long process to go from voting in a new director, and re-working the CBA. And this guy is a trial lawyer. They are not known for their "quick action". More likely, both sides now will sit down to some productive, we hope, first steps.

Just because you have a director now doesn't mean there has been ANY progress in the talks. We're still in wait and see mode.

I hope his first action is to request an 18 month extension of the deadline so we don't go uncapped into 2010 and risk a lockout in 2011. An additional 18 months should give time for them to figure it out, but it likely won't happen.

I hope his first action is to request an 18 month extension of the deadline so we don't go uncapped into 2010 and risk a lockout in 2011. An additional 18 months should give time for them to figure it out, but it likely won't happen.

Owners won't give it. They want out of this deal yesterday.

In fact they only way it could happen was if the players gave something up. Collective Bargaining at i'ts best.

ProFootballTalk.com - SMITH ECHOES UPSHAW: ONCE CAP IS GONE, IT’S NOT COMING BACK (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/03/18/smith-echoes-upshaw-once-cap-is-gone-its-not-coming-back/)

The new NFLPA director saying that if the salary cap goes it's not coming back.


I love the salary cap and think that it is a great way to have parity in the league. I hate baseball as a whole but one thing that really irks me about baseball is that no matter what, everyone knows either the Yankees or Red Sox are going to the playoffs.

I wouldn't like to see football end up like that. The Redskins and Cowboys could possibly become the Red Sox and Yankees of football.

.........never heard of him..........

Awesome a trial lawyer with political connections. What can go wrong?

Awesome a trial lawyer with political connections. What can go wrong?

:laughing2