NFL LOCKOUT BREAKING NEWS: Deal is Done, Players Vote Monday

Either this is one of the biggest gaffes in sports journalism history or this thing is really going down Monday.

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The NFL and NFLPA are ‘down to the details’ in finalizing a 10-year agreement to end the four-month-old lockout.

The negotiators started work early Sunday morning after a day of very productive negotiations on Saturday. After some of last week’s turbulence, the NFLPA put its 13-man executive committee and 32 player reps on standby for Monday, depending on the progress made over the weekend. Late Saturday night, after the day’s progress in talks, the trade association put in place plans for the executive committee to travel to Washington, D.C. and meet on Monday.

NFLPA general counsel Richard Berthelsen, associate general counsel Tom DePaso and director of salary cap and agent administration Mark Levin were called in to the trade association’s office on Sunday morning to help with details and to be ready to review the final document when it arrives.

During Monday’s meeting, the executive committee members will look over the potential deal. Assuming the committee recommends approval of the deal, it would be passed on to the 32 player reps for a vote, likely done by conference call. An affirmative vote there would go to the 10 named plaintiffs in Brady v. the NFL for approval.

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Good Morning John Boy,Ha,Ha.

It is being reported though that free agency wont happen until this upcomming weekend.

I like your version better than the one I started with…

First, the ten antitrust plaintiffs have already agreed to terms of the settlement.

On Monday, the NFLPA* Executive Committee will meet in Washington D.C. to recommend ratification of the settlement. A simple majority is all that’s needed to move the process to the next step.

That next step: The board of player representatives will vote on whether to recommend the agreement. We believe that will take place over the phone. Again, only a simple majority is needed to move the voting along to the rank and file. We suspect the union would probably prefer the votes above be unanimous as a show of unity.

Assuming those steps are taken as expected Monday, players from around the league would then vote on the agreement and whether to recertify as a union when they arrive at team facilities during the week.

That process will start Wednesday, with the hope that there will be enough votes to officially agree to terms by Friday and start free agency over the weekend.

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Some of the rookie head coaches haven’t even met their teams yet!!! How messed up is that?

“And what position do you play? Quarterback? Cool. Nice to meet’cha.”