Thread: Idonije says NFL 'will be business as usual'

Now that individual players are beginning to express confidence in it my guess is that they'll wrap this thing up within the next week, the union will re-establish itself, and the owners will approve the new deal when they meet next Thursday, July 21st. You can hear it in what's been said lately. The players want to play and the owners want the money taps to start flowing cash and that can't happen until they kiss and make up.

What they finally decide about the rookie pay scale and lengths of their contracts doesn't interest me all that much right now. What I want to know is how much accrued service will be required for UFA this year. The number and quality of players available to fill in the holes we have is dependent on it. The Bears are in an excellent position cap wise to take advantage of teams who don't have the ability to sign all of their own. That's gonna come into play big time when we're looking for help at OG and WR.

Originally Posted by soulman

Now that individual players are beginning to express confidence in it my guess is that they'll wrap this thing up within the next week, the union will re-establish itself, and the owners will approve the new deal when they meet next Thursday, July 21st. You can hear it in what's been said lately. The players want to play and the owners want the money taps to start flowing cash and that can't happen until they kiss and make up.

What they finally decide about the rookie pay scale and lengths of their contracts doesn't interest me all that much right now. What I want to know is how much accrued service will be required for UFA this year. The number and quality of players available to fill in the holes we have is dependent on it. The Bears are in an excellent position cap wise to take advantage of teams who don't have the ability to sign all of their own. That's gonna come into play big time when we're looking for help at OG and WR.

Agreed soulman. Apparently, according to a post I read in one of the other threads, the NFL and the NFLPA have essentially come to an agreement on the terms of the rookie wage scale. The details are still in need of being ironed out, but I guess that will be what the lawyers will be paid to do once this all wraps up. Apparently, it's not going to be long before an agreement is going to be hammered out. If it turns out to be longer, I'm going to slice my wrists open and watch my life force spill from inside me.