NFL taking away Redskins cap space

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It seems to me the Redskins and Cowboys are being unnecessarily punished here

Much better read than Florio's turd-pile of letters he passed of as a story.

my question now is, what top rate FA is going to want to come here now, with this looming, and even more penalties for next season? Kind of ridiculous they dont at least shave 10-15 mil off, the two players were not going to get 0 dollars in a bonus. This seems very calculated by the league. Im not a big conspiracy theorist, but this just smells really wrong.

Do explain...

Perhaps you could explain how we are to follow non-existent rules.

Rules or not, if the league is telling you to not do something, and you do it anyway, what do you expect?

But this is the NFL, which does what it wants and makes up the rules as it goes along. The Cowboys and the Redskins surely know that, and the fact that they were the only two teams found to have engaged egregiously enough in this behavior to deserve a huge loss of salary-cap space indicates that they should have known better.

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NFL Nation Blog - ESPN (http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation)

It seems to me the Redskins and Cowboys are being unnecessarily punished here

This is bull shit of course always the skins! Man we have one good thing finally and we get shit on

Rules or not, if the league is telling you to not do something, and you do it anyway, what do you expect?

I expect the league to follow actual rules. Not make shit up as they go along. It's sort of how a civilized society works.

Again, i really want to know what the NFLPA thinks about this:

1) its taking away salary cap space from teams poised to actually spend it, and giving 1.6MM extra to teams, many of which have no intention of spending it.

2) there was no salary cap, and no CBA during 2010. Essentialy, what the skins and cowboys are being penalized for is not "colluding" with the other 30 teams to violate antitrust laws and limit player salaries when they had no authority to do so.

I expect the league to follow actual rules. Not make shit up as they go along. It's sort of how a civilized society works.

Or to enforce the rules by not approving restructured contracts that violate their own rules (if that is the case).

Again, i really want to know what the NFLPA thinks about this:

1) its taking away salary cap space from teams poised to actually spend it, and giving 1.6MM extra to teams, many of which have no intention of spending it.

2) there was no salary cap, and no CBA during 2010. Essentialy, what the skins and cowboys are being penalized for is not "colluding" with the other 30 teams to violate antitrust laws and limit player salaries when they had no authority to do so.
Well the 1.6 to the other teams makes up for it. The player pool stayed the same.

The fact that they allowed the contracts at the time and warned teams "or else" screams collusion. NORMALLY the league would have simply rejected the deals. In the midst of the labor dispute that would have been bad because they would have had to offer an explanation that would have been 1000000000% put into play as possible collusion.

From Andrew Brandt:

Andrew Brandt ‏ @adbrandt
The "Uncapped League Year" article in previous CBA makes no mention of any warning to teams. Sense that push for this came from teams.