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mornelithe on 03 September 2015
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MTZehvor said:
mornelithe said:

More importantly, the Judge due to prior case law couldn't rule on the evidence.  Precedent had already been set, it's why many many people were confused when he spent the first hearing grilling the NFL on their actual evidence.  Which is concerning in and of itself, really.  If you take Brady/Pats out of this and realize that in a case where the facts are clearly wrong, the Judge cannot overturn an arbitration award, on those points.

I have a feeling that portion of the CBA will get reworked when the current one expires.

Unlikely, however, what I think will absolutely happen is the NFLPA will fight to have a neutral arbiter hear all appeals from now on when the CBA is up in 2020.  In fact, if I were the 32 owners, I'd actually be working to change the CBA now...and not allow another 5 years of this buffoonery to hurt the NFL's image.  Yes, the NFL still makes money hand over fist, but throughout this process (and Bountygate and the Peterson/Rice cases), you can't tell me this hasn't harmed them, and only leads me to believe that the NFL is profitable despite the Commissioner, not because of him.