Salary cap penalty overturned?

[SkinnedAussie]

Has anyone heard any more about this:

NFL Collusion: Court of Appeals Overturns Previous Ruling Related to Washington and Dallas Salary Cap Penalties | The Big Lead

Fat load of good it will do us now, but it mentioned damages to the tune of billions of dollars.

 

[Win4us]

Is this an 'Onion' type story? Crazy if the truth is coming out well after the fact.

For compensation how about everyone that pushed our $ to be docked get removed from their current position? Starting with Mara, Goodell, Demaurice Smith, etc.

Just some wishful thinking on my part, & this will be swept under the rug before long I'd think.

 

[Boone]

The only justice possible would be to give the Redskins and Dallas that cap space back. And that's never going to happen. But I would enjoy seeing the NFL pay millions in fines.

 

[Cycleans]

Something tells me eventually a nugget of compensation such as this one will be offered to the Redskins from the NFL for a name change.

 

[Fear The Spear]

The only valid compensation for the salary cap fiasco, is giving us the 2 Lombardi Trophies for the 2 Super Bowls that RG3 would have won us, had we not had a salary cap. Then of course Shanahan would have kept his job, had we won those 2 championships, so he would have to get his job back.
Eh, maybe that compensation wasn't a great idea after all.

 

[SC_RedskinsFan]

We will never see anything from this, what could we get? It is not like they will give us salary cap back, since they took it and gave it to other teams. Screw those bastards!

 

[JohnssBass]

They don't say in either this article or the PFT link about how they came up with the billion dollar figure. Are they going to base what the Skins & Boys paid out in 2010 and say that the other 30 teams should have spent at least that much or something? Or to adjust the cash spending floor? What, ask each of the other 30 teams what they would've spent if they weren't in collusion? Maybe slap a cap penalty on the 28 teams that did receive proceeds from the fines (Saints & Raiders were deemed unworthy because of other violations). Well, they thought it was fair when Washington & Dallas got dinged - if it was fair then must be fair now too, right? Except this time the funds go directly to the players via the NFLPA - not the owners.

Question: If the $46 million in fines had been handed over to the NFLPA to dispense to players instead of dolling out $1.6 million to each owner, would the union now have a legal leg to stand on? Overall - it isn't much money but there are other ways that a union can benefit it's members besides cutting them out a check.

Originally the 2011 cap was being negotiated in the $113 to $117 million range. The collective bargaining agreement settled at about $120M (still a drop from 2009s $123M) - after proffering up the Redskins/Cowboys solution. So for 30 teams, they each pay out about an extra $3 to $7 million in the first capped year. Skins & Cowboys paid out an extra $46M in fines which was divided up over 28 teams . Anyway the bottom line comes to Skins/Boys paid anywhere from 20% to 50% of the difference to get the deal done at $120 million for that first year of the new four year CBA.

Getting that cap space back if the union wins? Probably won't get it and though every little bit helps, it still won't buy as much in the future as it did then. It would have to be a percentage to make it equal - maybe a 15% or so cap bump for the Skins @ year for two years. Don't see the that's 'Not Fair League' allowing that because it would be fair. Doesn't really help all the union players, just the two teams so don't expect a huge fight by the NFLPA for it.

Anyway no matter how this thing goes or for how much (if anything); Skins & Boys still got penalized in 2012 & 2013 and that will never change.