NFLPA: Prepare for lockout

[Yvette]

The NFL players' union is advising its members to prepare for a lockout it expects to come in March, telling players to save their last three game checks this year in case there is no season in 2011.

In a letter to the players that was seen by The Associated Press, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said the union had an "internal deadline" for agreeing to a new collective bargaining agreement.

"That deadline has now passed," he wrote. "It is important that you protect yourself and your family."


http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5882717

[TitansJonne]

I'll add some optimism. Next year won't count towards Fisher and VY's contract right? Well even thought i want Fish gone, if he stays that means it will be a full year for him and VY to make amends. I recommend they go camping deep in the woods and get lost. They'll have to rely on each other and eventually earn TRUST. Then in 2012, they can come back with a new found friendship after months of VY staying over Fishers house to watch film. And Fish tucking him in at night and reading "The little engine that could". From that we become elite and eventually when a Super Bowl!! Paramount pictures learns the story and creates a movie based on it. It will be a box office hit! The End

[Yvette]

^ it's on my Christmas wish list :)

[Thorn]

Unless the Texans get a new head coach for next year, I'm not sure Texan fans would be missing anything if there was a lock out. Having said that, let me say this: Screw the owners AND the players if there isn't football. I blame them all.

[TitansJonne]

I really don't know what i will do without football. That leaves me with my GOD Awful Philadelphia 76ers team to watch.

[Yvette]

I'll take a lot of vacations, using the money I spend on games and tailgating. Or live in Maui for a month :D

[don28]

The NFLPA's distortion of figures is just as bad as the NFL owners' refusal to open up their books. Lies and distortions of the truth are not going to make an agreement happen. The NFLPA gives unions a bad name when they put out this information as a scare tactic to the cities that host NFL teams. Until the owners open up their books and the union stops with distorting facts will there be a hope for a 2011 NFL season.

[MusicCityMullet]

I'll take a lot of vacations.....

this for me

[Jones31]

The NFLPA's distortion of figures is just as bad as the NFL owners' refusal to open up their books. Lies and distortions of the truth are not going to make an agreement happen. The NFLPA gives unions a bad name when they put out this information as a scare tactic to the cities that host NFL teams. Until the owners open up their books and the union stops with distorting facts will there be a hope for a 2011 NFL season.

This reminds me of the NHL in 2004-2005.

[Parddy]

Who cares about a lockout at this point? I looking at it like a bye week. No team is in more need of a BYE YEAR than the Titans.

[Jones31]

Considering we have to pay them before anything is settled. A lot of people.

[Titanico]

Who cares about a lockout at this point? I looking at it like a bye week. No team is in more need of a BYE YEAR than the Titans.

That will count in case we get a new and experimented HC...or at least one who could know how to use this team's strength a better one (read: better play-book and more flexiblity at games...is just plain stupid to think that your team must run the ball well or you're screwed).

[titansikou]

That will count in case we get a new and experimented HC...or at least one who could know how to use this team's strength a better one (read: better play-book and more flexiblity at games...is just plain stupid to think that your team must run the ball well or you're screwed).

Good teams do run the ball well, but it has to be obvious that sometimes you establish the pass with the run and vice versa. The problem with the Titans is that they are too entrenched in a single offensive philosophy.