JR condescending to Peyton Manning during CBA meeting?

[mountainpantherfan]

Excellent question. Very easy answer though.

Open the books and show!

How do you negotiate profit splits if the costs are not shared between the negotiating parties? duh.

And you are pissed off about JR being a condensending asshole?

[brandon_87]

Based on his infamous press conference last month I can totally see JR saying something like that... it's a shame. He's continuing to come off as a bitter old man.

That's what I got from this as well, I just hope even MORE people don't start to look down on us as a franchise because of his greedy ass.

[Jaxel]

See, everybody takes everything context. Some kicker who wasn't even at the meeting says something and everyone goes berserko... I think people gotta let Richardson do his thing and stop worrying about it. Whether we cry and scream or not has no affect on the negotiations and they will get done eventually, whether there is a season or not.

[dimbee]

See, everybody takes everything context. Some kicker who wasn't even at the meeting says something and everyone goes berserko...

Jay Feely is a players representative.

[Jaxel]

Jay Feely is a players representative.

That's good for him, but he still wasn't in the meeting and fed BS to the media. it's all a play for PR.

[dimbee]

That's good for him, but he still wasn't in the meeting and fed BS to the media. it's all a play for PR.

He was on the 2 hour conference call afterward where what was said was discussed.

I don't disagree that it's a negotiation play (don't know if it's BS as you say). Just as much as JR being condescending is also a negotiation play.

[Jaxel]

I agree with you there, I don't think any of this is BS really, I think it's all just negotiation play... And this is a PR move to gain ground versus the owners.

[rippadonn]

I liked JR better when he was behind the scenes and we could blame Marty Hurney for every dumbass move the Panthers made. JR needs to return to the role of puppet master again because he is a PR nightmare.

[Happy Panther]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ms-richardsonnfl021411

I’ve since spoken with two people who witnessed the interaction and gotten a more detailed report of what went down.

Among other things, Richardson became so angry at Sean Morey(notes) after the recently retired player cited a slew of statistics on player safety and average career length that the Panthers’ owner snapped, “You guys made so much [expletive] money – if you played three years in the NFL, you should own your own [expletive] team.”

He's going off the rails

[Happy Panther]

At that point, as NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and several of Richardson’s fellow owners cringed, league representatives suggested that the two sides take a break.

“It was bad from the start,” said one player who attended the session. “[Richardson] opened the meeting by describing how he was almost annoyed how we would ask for that meeting on their busiest weekend of the year. And I’m thinking, ‘Your team finished 2-14. You shouldn’t be that busy. Why are you worrying about how busy you are during Super Bowl weekend?’ ”

ouch dude

[Happy Panther]

As one perennial Pro Bowl player told me Monday morning, “When the owners want to get serious, they just need to get him out of the room – because we’ll never get a deal done with him in there. It’s not professional, and it’s not good business.”

wow

[Snake]

So in your illustrious example, what happens if a business can no longer sustain the model that it has utilized for less than a decade with disastrous results? Should the masses dictate that the owner capitulate to their demands and continue to run the industry into the ground?

Also what he forgot to add to his long winded speach is that the NFLPA has been stone walling for several months now waiting on litigation instead of negotiating. So they are at more fault then the owners. One could also say that only moving 1% on a deal is also a stonewall move.

[Happy Panther]

Said another player who was present: “We were so pissed. Peyton was breathing heavily, and some of us were about ready to jump across the table.”

wow

[Happy Panther]

Total embarrassment