I got this from the ESPN insider around the league segment. This was written by Lenny P. Sorry if it was already posted. Its amazing these guys are like pendulums with there half-ass analysis. You think one of the could man up and say we were wrong about our coverage of the CBA and Wilson and Brown were spot on with not rushing this.
• After last week's suggestion in this space that one of the sides will exercise the 2008 opt-out trigger in the recent extension to the collective bargaining agreement, which will make for a very short honeymoon for whomever succeeds Tagliabue, there was considerable response from NFL owners and high-ranking team executives. Several agreed with the assessment and questioned the wisdom of having endorsed the extension which, four months later, apparently doesn't look nearly as good to some owners in hindsight as it did in March. Too bad, guys, you voted for it. Well, at least 30 of you did. The lone dissenters, Ralph Wilson of Buffalo and Cincinnati's Mike Brown, were all but pilloried for suggesting that the extension was ram-rodded through and that they didn't understand much of it. Four months later, with many of the elements of the CBA still under debate (anyone got a copy yet of the "qualifiers" which are supposed to determine the expanded revenue sharing mechanism?), Wilson and Brown don't seem quite as detached as they were made out to be. There were a lot of low-revenue owners who talked tough going into the CBA negotiations. When it came time to vote, though, most of them folded. Four months later, a few clearly are second-guessing themselves.