DEMAURICE SMITH RUMORS
Biz Blitz: NFL Salary Cap Could Hit $132 Million and Save DeMaurice Smith's Job
Word from the NFL Network and numerous other media sources is that the 2014 salary cap could climb above the $130 million figure thrown around just last week. For the first time under the 2011 Collective Bargaining agreement, the players are poised to move ahead of the old CBA.
The cap was $123 million in 2013, $120.6 million in 2012 and $120 million in 2011, the first year...
Via Bloguin Best
13 days ago
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Report: 2014 Salary Cap Could End Up Being A “Few Million” Above $132M Projection
Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk reports that a source has informed him that the 2014 Ssalary cap is likely to end up exceeding the recent projection of $132 million by a “few million.”
Florio’s source added that similar increases are expected in the coming years.
Florio mentions that it remains unknown whether or not the 2014 cap increase will come at the cost of borrowing...
Via NFL Trade Rumors
14 days ago
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NFLPA's Smith Goes After Goodell On Sherman
((HT: CBS News))It's Super Bowl week...Which means the media are looking for topics to talk about for the two week period...And, this time out, the topic was Richard Sherman..."CBS This Morning" gave NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith a platform...Guess what he did...??? He was critical toward the Commissioner...Who knew...???
Via Online Sports Guys
January 29, 2014
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Smith takes on NFL on safety issues
So much for labor peace in the NFL.
Less than 18 months after the league and players ended a lockout by signing a 10-year collective bargaining agreement, NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith and union president Domonique Foxworth used a Super Bowl news conference to lay out a series of complaints about safety issues Thursday.
Smith began by threatening to...
Via AP on Fox
January 31, 2013
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Congressmen write NFLPA's Smith about HGH testing
Chastising the NFL Players Association for ''remarkable recalcitrance'' on testing for human growth hormone, two members of Congress have pledged ''to take a more active role'' on the issue and say they could ask players to testify before their committee.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican...
Via AP on Fox
January 28, 2013
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NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith addressed a crowd of...
NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith addressed a crowd of digital media members as part of the 2013 Collegiate Bowl’s BWB Digital Symposium. The focus of the conversation was about player safety, beyond just the prominent concussion issue.
Always blunt, Smith noted that nearly a third to a quarter of players on any given team will “be in need of a major hip, knee joint...
Via Hugging Harold Reynolds
January 20, 2013
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NFLPA's Smith: player safety an ongoing challenge
DeMaurice Smith has a difficult job.
As the Executive Director of the NFL's Players Association, it's Smith's job to strive to keep his players healthy.
Smith spoke at The Home Depot Center on Friday for the NFLPA's Collegiate Bowl, which will be played Saturday.
Player safety was the topic, and Smith knows there's more work to do.
''In 2009 when I...
Via AP on Fox
January 19, 2013
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FIGMENT OF IMAGINATION?
Smith: Bounty program didn't exist
NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said that after reviewing all the evidence, he believes "there was no bounty put on players by Saints players."
Via Pro Football Zone
December 12, 2012
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DeMaurice Smith is ready for war. NFLPA vowes to fight Bounty Gate punishments
Settle in folks this is about to be a really ugly ride. The NFLPA has decided to go to war with the NFL over their suspensions of Jonathan Vilma, Anthony Hargrove, Will Smith and Scott Fujita.
Please click the below to read the rest of this article and to watch a video of DeMaurice Smith addressing sportsmanship and touching on the Saints scandal.
Via Players View
May 02, 2012
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Smith to be re-elected as head of NFLPA
The NFL Players Association unanimously reaffirmed DeMaurice Smith as executive director Thursday.
Smith, 48, was elected as head of the players union in March 2009 after serving on an interim basis after the 2008 death of previous union chief Gene Upshaw.
Smith was the unanimous choice of NFL player representatives for another three-year term at the NFLPA's annual meeting...
Via Fox Sports
March 22, 2012
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