Collusion charges if Bryant and Thomas don't sign by tomorrow

[manchild98]

If it is determined that it was collusion then the players would be entitled to 3 times the amount the highest receiver salary (CJ's 16 million) so they'd get 48 million!!!



If Dez Bryant and Demaryius Thomas don't sign long-term contracts with their respective teams by Wednesday's deadline for franchise players to do so, the NFL players' union plans to move ahead with collusion charges against those teams, a source close to the situation told ESPN.

The NFLPA informed the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos on Monday that they need to preserve any emails, phone records, texts and records of other communication between the two teams, according to the source.

The union says it has credible information that the Cowboys and Broncos have had conversations about the negotiations of long-term deals for franchise wide receivers Bryant and Thomas, and the CBA grants the union the right to discovery in the case of a credible collusion claim.

According to a source, Cowboys executive vice president/COO Stephen Jones told Bryant during a recent conversation that he'd had a conversation with Broncos GM John Elway about the negotiations, which the union believes would constitute a violation of the CBA's anti-collusion rules.

The Cowboys declined to comment on the report.

The union says it has credible information that the Cowboys and Broncos have had conversations about the negotiations of long-term deals for franchise wide receivers Bryant and Thomas, and the CBA grants the union the right to discovery in the case of a credible collusion claim.

According to a source, Cowboys executive vice president/COO Stephen Jones told Bryant during a recent conversation that he'd had a conversation with Broncos GM John Elway about the negotiations, which the union believes would constitute a violation of the CBA's anti-collusion rules.

The Cowboys declined to comment on the report.

If either Thomas or Bryant doesn't sign by Wednesday's deadline, the union would proceed with the claim and believes that a success would result in treble damages, entitling the player or players in question to triple the value of the highest current wide receiver contract on the market. Calvin Johnson of the Detroit Lions, at roughly $16.2 million per year, is the NFL's highest-paid wide receiver.

It's obviously possible that the collusion charge is an effort on the part of the players and their agents to get these deals done by the deadline. If Bryant and Thomas both signed the long-term deals they seek before the deadline, the collusion charge likely would disappear. But the source indicated strongly that the union plans to proceed with the charge if either player remains unsigned after Wednesday.

After Wednesday, players who were designated franchise players by their teams during free agency are prohibited from signing long-term deals until after the end of the 2015 season.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...us-thomas-denver-broncos-sign-long-term-deals

 

[TheVictors]

no way they prove collusion.

and besides, both Bryant and DT said they would do precisely what they're doing, knowing they were going to be slapped with the franchise tag. DT said he wouldn't show up for any of the OTA's or Spring practices and would hold out and is holding out..

no collusion will be proven, though.

 

[manchild98]

Dez got his deal in time.

With the deadline less than an hour away, Dez Bryant and the Dallas Cowboys have agreed to a five-year, $70 million deal that will pay him an average $14 million per season, league sources told ESPN's Chris Mortensen.

Bryant's contract includes $45 million in guaranteed money. Under the franchise tender, he was set to make $12.8 million for the 2015 season but had threatened to miss training camp and some regular season games if he did not have a long-term in deal in place by the 4 p.m. ET deadline for franchise-tagged players to negotiate a multi-year contract.

Specific language of the contract was not immediately available but Bryant was at the Cowboys facility to physically sign the deal as the Cowboys negotiators work with his contract representative, Tom Condon.

 

[byco42]

Why is it necessarily collusion when more than one owner is not interested in paying for a premium players services?

 

[manchild98]

DT gets his deal as well.


The Denver Broncos and wide receiver Demaryius Thomas have reached agreement on a five-year, $70 million deal that includes $43.5 million guaranteed, a source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

The Broncos designated Thomas as their franchise player earlier this year. He had not signed the one-year, $12.823 million tender and skipped the team's offseason program.

If the sides hadn't reached a deal by Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET, they would have been prohibited by NFL rules from agreeing to a long-term deal until after the 2015 season was finished.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...demaryius-thomas-agree-5-year-70-million-deal