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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 362438" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Perhaps because DeMaurice Smith is more interested in enhancing his reputation and job security than in agreeing to what you call a “damn fine offer”? </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Perhaps because Smith and the NFLPA think they have the owners at a disadvantage by decertifying because the league’s antitrust protection goes away in that circumstance?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Perhaps because they know the next step will be to go before Federal Judge Doty who is clearly on the players’ side?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Perhaps because they think the financial information from 2001 to 2005 will be much more beneficial to their case than just the financial information from 2006 to 2010 which may indeed show the most recent CBA (from ’06) is showing a declining profits trend as the books of the Packers show?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I honestly don’t know but I certainly don’t assume the NFLPA is being logical or fair. (I don’t assume that of either side.) </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I do think it’s <em>interesting</em> that you admit the players have refused what you characterize as a “damn fine offer”, admit you can find no logical reason for the players refusal of that offer, admit you aren’t “fully sold on the idea that any employer should have to disclose their books just because somebody wants to see them” and yet still are “on the side of the players”. Perhaps your brain is at odds with your heart here? </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">BTW, I don’t think a lockout is any more deplorable than a union strike. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> Absolutely agree – I hate this!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 362438, member: 4300"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Perhaps because DeMaurice Smith is more interested in enhancing his reputation and job security than in agreeing to what you call a “damn fine offer”? [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Perhaps because Smith and the NFLPA think they have the owners at a disadvantage by decertifying because the league’s antitrust protection goes away in that circumstance?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Perhaps because they know the next step will be to go before Federal Judge Doty who is clearly on the players’ side?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Perhaps because they think the financial information from 2001 to 2005 will be much more beneficial to their case than just the financial information from 2006 to 2010 which may indeed show the most recent CBA (from ’06) is showing a declining profits trend as the books of the Packers show?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I honestly don’t know but I certainly don’t assume the NFLPA is being logical or fair. (I don’t assume that of either side.) [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I do think it’s [I]interesting[/I] that you admit the players have refused what you characterize as a “damn fine offer”, admit you can find no logical reason for the players refusal of that offer, admit you aren’t “fully sold on the idea that any employer should have to disclose their books just because somebody wants to see them” and yet still are “on the side of the players”. Perhaps your brain is at odds with your heart here? [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]BTW, I don’t think a lockout is any more deplorable than a union strike. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] Absolutely agree – I hate this![/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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