Skins and Boys file grievance over cap mess

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The Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins have filed a grievance against the NFL and the NFLPA to have $46 million in salary cap penalties overturned.

"Within the confines of our collective bargaining agreement, we are trying to have a voice and a hearing in terms of our cap situation," Cowboys director of player personnel Stephen Jones said Sunday.

Jones said the Cowboys hoped to avoid filing any legal action over the cap penalty.

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story/_/id/7734658/washington-redskins-dallas-cowboys-file-cap-grievance

Honestly I don't really know what this means, but I keep hearing from people that do know what it means that Goodell and company are probably shitting their pants right now over this.

 

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Mara getting his shots in:

I thought the penalties imposed were proper, Mara said. “What they did was in violation of the spirit of the salary cap. They attempted to take advantage of a one-year loophole, and quite frankly, I think they’re lucky they didn’t lose draft picks.

We all knew the cap would come back, Mara said. We were not going to enter into any agreement with the NFLPA if there was not a salary cap in it.

This has nothing to do with collusion, he said. It has to do with teams attempting to gain a competitive advantage through a loophole in the system. They attempted to take advantage of it knowing full well there would be consequences. There was nothing wrong with the individual contracts, but when you look at the overall scope of what they did, they were trying to take advantage and they were told not to.