What if there is no lockout?

[The Saltman]

His stats are down yes but This years Bears defense with Peppers on the team has made all of the players better. You sometimes can't get 12 sacks a year when u have double and triple teams on u.

[Fiz]

uh guys richardson offered to make peppers the highest paid player ever

i mean what else do you want him to do

[Cyberjag]

He was a decent tight end back in the day, right? Maybe he should suit up..

[House]

You call Peppers diminishing Vet ? WTF , maybe you have no understanding

Peppers is a pretty DE, but I don't think that he is $96,000,000 good.

[mav1234]

uh guys richardson offered to make peppers the highest paid player ever

i mean what else do you want him to do

show him how much he means to the organization.

I mean really show him.

also, JR's new nickname should be "The Big Cat Call" in honor of that fox edge segment.

[fjblair]

So what if there is not a lock out next season . Would you think that this sesaon was total BS. A billionare trying to save a few million dollars.

I think that despite all the blather that the chances of a lockout are pretty slim.

[jtm]

It will be interesting. The players have talked big and it appears they are starting to give in. The tail (players) will never wag the dog (the owners). If there is a lock-out they will lose big time and fans will not have any sympathy for their whining about being out of work. I will never forget Alonzo Mourning's comments during the NBA lock-out when he said he had a family to support as well. He got absolutely slammed.

Net net is if the players don't like if here, go play over in Europe of Canada. Let me know how that works out for you. What other sport can you play where you purposely wear gold cleats knowing you will get fined $25k and don't even care b/c you make so much money?

What the players don't realize is the owners make a lot more money and they deserve to. They take all the risks and they built these organizations many of them like in Carolina from scratch.

[rodeo]

It will be interesting. The players have talked big and it appears they are starting to give in. The tail (players) will never wag the dog (the owners). If there is a lock-out they will lose big time and fans will not have any sympathy for their whining about being out of work. I will never forget Alonzo Mourning's comments during the NBA lock-out when he said he had a family to support as well. He got absolutely slammed.

Net net is if the players don't like if here, go play over in Europe of Canada. Let me know how that works out for you. What other sport can you play where you purposely wear gold cleats knowing you will get fined $25k and don't even care b/c you make so much money?

What the players don't realize is the owners make a lot more money and they deserve to. They take all the risks and they built these organizations many of them like in Carolina from scratch.

owners accomplished exactly 0 without the players.

[Kakarot]

all this money were saving sounds good, and thinking about "the big picture" sounds good. We're going to actually see if all this saving money and big picture thinking actually brings these FA's to Carolina or keeps our core players here. I hope so. I mean, were going to be a team with lots to spend!!!!!!

[C47]

Peppers is a pretty DE, but I don't think that he is $96,000,000 good.

:eek::leaving::puke:

[Anybodyhome]

While the lockout does appear imminent, the one saving grace of the owners opting out of the current CBA is the elimination of the salary cap. Once that occurred, the two subjects- lockout and elimination of the cap- need to spoken of in separate terms.

In terms of the lockout, the owners will move forward with it because they do want a rookie salary cap as mentioned above. They also want an 18-game season and they want to reduce the amount of revenues the players are getting from the teams.

The players started suspending the union team-by-team with votes taking place into the start of the regular season. But even those have dropped off as the season wears on. This will play into the owners' hands when it all comes to a head.

But all of the above mentioned facts are not part and parcel to the elimination of the salary cap, which is what prompted Richardson and Hurney into a closet-cleaning of sorts without the ramifications of "cap hits" next season. They didn't clean house because of an impending lockout, they cleaned house because there is no salary cap and they cannot be financially punished for nixing contracts left and right.

The owners will take a lockout to the brink and the players union will fold like the Panther O-line. The NFL has a pretty good record of defeating every court battle based upon monopoly, collusion, anti-trust, etc. and they will gladly take this battle to court as well with the near certainty of winning again.

[fjblair]

There should be a rookie salary cap and there will be one by next season.

[CatMan72]

If there is no lockout then at worst we've trimmed the fat from our roster, allowed some talented young players to gain experience, built up enough cap space to re-sign our core FA's and go get anyone we want, earned a top 5 draft pick and chased all the fairweather fans away.