George Wrighster Gets It – CBA Must Be Extended

by | Apr 10, 2009 | Business of Football, NFL Rumors, Welcome

While Martellus Bennett maybe shouldn’t be given a forum to express his latest thoughts & wisdom, another NFL player maybe should be getting the attention of NFL fans, players and owners.  Jaguars TE George Wrighster wrote on his YardBarker blog today about how the collective bargaining agreement needs to be extended, for the good of the game.

If the CBA isn’t figured out soon, the NFL could be looking at a 2010 season with no salary cap–which Wrighster points out will be bad for the owners AND the players, as a whole.

Some players, such as Karlos Dansby, have been spouting off about the money they expect to receive in 2010, thanks to the uncapped year.  And a player like Dansby might actually see some extra cash, if they draw the interest of a team like the Washington Redskins, who will likely (continue) to spend maximum dollars in an effort to finally win something under Dan Snyder.

But many more teams, like Wrighster’s Jaguars, will be much more likely to take advantage of the lack of a salary floor–meaning they will spend much less than the $111 million that they are required to spend on salaries in 2009.  This will lead to a dynamic more like Major League Baseball, where you have big market teams spending anywhere from 2 to 10 times as much as smaller market teams.

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Happy New Year!

by | Feb 29, 2008 | Welcome

There’s the traditional New Year on January 1st, Chinese New Year in early February, and perhaps most importantly, there is February 28th, which annually marks the end of the NFL calendar year.  So at 11pm CST last night, the slates were officially wiped clean, the teams had to be under the 2008 salary cap, and contracts expired, making numerous players free agents.

And the 13,345,324th blog about football launched (that’s just a guess).

So what’s the story with Zoneblitz.com?  Well, take two brothers who spend way too much time analyzing, re-analyzing and analyzing again what goes on in the NFL, who like to argue a lot (sometimes just for the sake of arguing), and who each are (amazingly) married to wonderful women who (not so amazingly) couldn’t care less who is going to be taken with the 13th pick in the 3rd round of the NFL draft.

So, we’re hoping you’ll indulge us instead (if you really want to know more about us, feel free to check out the appropriately named ‘About‘ page). 

And if you’ve read this far, frankly you’re paying us more attention than they do when we start talking football.  So thanks for checking us out.  Hopefully you’ll be at least mildly amused, and come back for more.  Or come back just to mock us.  Whatever works.