CBA -- What exactly happens.

[BrudLee]

Originally Posted by shallyshal

i do not think anyone knows for certain right now. it is all speculation. inthe end, the nfl has too much to lose by not coming to an agreement, but the biggest schism is internal with the richer teams (houston, dallas, wash, new england, philly) not wanting to share the excess profits with teams not having those extra revenue streams

Interesting. According to Gene Upshaw, the Redskins aren't a big part of the problem.

Originally Posted by Maske in the WaPo

Upshaw placed blame for the lack of progress in both sets of deliberations on a group of owners of wealthy teams (he mentioned that the Washington Redskins' Daniel Snyder was an exception) who don't want to spend enough of the money they're generating on their players, in the union's view. "When you are trying to change the mindset of owners who don't want to share -- not only with the players, but with each other -- you have a problem," Upshaw said.