DeMaurice Smith
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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And it outlined that the owners had agreed to a $123 million cap ceiling.
And Dallas, Washington, Oakland, and New Orleans had ignored it.
Washington blew past the threshold by $102.8 million.
And Dallas had overspent the agreement by $52.9 million.
And then Kraft writes, these teams got an unfair competitive advantage, which is not good for the game, in my opinion, in the long term.
This was an admission with a chart.
And so much so that when this text came over, we filed a grievance.
Based on that, the arbitrator ruled that when we did the deal in 2011, we explicitly agreed to eliminate any litigation that could be brought with respect to 2009 to 2011 season.
And that was unfortunate.
But that's, you know, those are deals that you have to make in the context.
Now...
I took that chart to the Justice Department because, you know, the conservative estimate, if you take the average of what the Redskins overspent and what the Dallas Cowboys overspent, you get to a rough number.
Let's just call it $50 million.
And let's just say that every team in the league had made a equal decision to spend $50 million more than that secret salary cap.
The way the Justice Department calculates a potential damages metric is you just take 50 times 32.
That's a crime.
That's a theft from the players.
The one we're about to see in a couple of days.
It's two things.
One, you're looking for a violation of the contract.
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