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NFL Fan Voices Silenced at Today’s Owner’s Meeting

March 2, 2011 By dolfanjill 2 Comments

NFL Fan Voices Silenced at Today’s Owner’s Meeting

Two Super NFL bloggers representing fans who are not part of the NFL owners meeting threatened with arrest

CHANTILLY, Va. – 3-2-11  NFL blogger Jillian Ricard of Miami flew into town today in the hopes of delivering a “Block the Lockout” petition with 150,000 names on it to the NFL team owners meetings in Northern, VA. What Ms. Ricard and fellow blogger, local resident Alex Greer of Washington, DC, got was an arrest threat if they pressed the hotels’ “no solicitation” policy and/or approached the owners.

Not taking any sides, Ricard and Greer as well as 150,000 of their fellow fans just want to have their voices heard at the team meetings.  “There are many parties not represented at these talks,” said Ricard. “However, it’s NFL fans who spend BIG money for game tickets, food, merchandise and so much more that should be allowed to have their say,” added Ricard.

The pair showed up at the owners meeting wearing gray t-shirts with the slogan, “Block the Lockout Let Us Play,” hoping to deliver bound photocopied books the size of yellow pages containing the names of 150,000 fans and a cover letter that states: “We the fans of the NFL demand you NOT lock out players in 2011. The players want to play football and we passionately want to see America’s most popular sport.”

Instead of the special delivery, they were turned away and threatened with arrest if they did not vacate the premises by a hotel security guard. “He should not have been so rude,” said Ricard. “After all, I told him in this shaky economy and the threat of a lockout, his job was also in jeopardy. Fewer fans mean less work for everyone in every NFL city. It’s the ancillary workers and business owner who also have a lot at stake here,” Ricard said. They were not being disruptive. All they wanted to do was personally deliver the petitions to the owners. The guard didn’t seem to care or even understand the significance of the issue at hand.

From the USA Today: Alex Greer, left, and Jillian Ricard, right tried unsuccessfully to hand anti-lockout petitions to NFL owners Wednesday in Virginia.

According to today’s “The Huddle,” on USA Today Online, the two “stood in the lobby of the Marriott conference center where the owners were to meet. They brought along boxes of white paper volumes about the size of phone books, held together by plastic ring binders. They said each contained the list of names of petitioning fans.

Their website is www.nfllockout.com.

Greer said Ricard started the movement via her blog; DolfanJill.com.”She really made a push on her blog and just took it from one blog to the next, and we spread it around getting signatures,” said Greer. “We’ve been making the push since about August … all across the country.”

“They told us not to approach the owners directly,” said Greer. “We were trying to give it to them, (the owners) but we were blocked,” said Ricard. She said an NFL representative told them the league would “make sure they are given to the owners.” But she said of their boxes of books, “If they can’t guarantee us delivery, why would we leave them?”

Thirty-one of the forty or so binders did eventually make into NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy’s hands. McCarthy who recognized Ricard from a meeting in Dallas at the Super Bowl agreed to transport the binders to New York. Two of the binders were delivered to NFLPA headquarters in Washington, DC and two were given to reporters. On a side note, NFL Network reporters were on hand to cover the meetings and did videotape the attempted delivery. According to Ricard, they were forbidden to air the segment by the owners.

NFL team owners have been negotiating in earnest for the last several days with the NFLPA (NFL Players Association) in the hopes of finding a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) before a threatened lockout this Thursday at 11:59 PM. Neither party could not be reached for comment.

On her blog today, Ricard wrote: “Today was about informing NFL owners where fans stand in regards to the lockout. To remind owners that without fans and our support there would be no football. We account for 1/3 of the pie, (owners & players 2/3) and fans should have a say or at least have our voice considered (before the final decision to lockout the players is made).

So today I set out to remind owners that they were fans once, to remember why they loved the game and to hear what fans really have to say. Success to me is defined as taking a chance and feeling confident you did everything to succeed. So yes I was successful.
I took a chance to give fans a voice, to give footballs tradition the respect it deserves and thanks to press the message will trickle out. Block the lockout and keep yelling football fans, this is our game too!”

Recap By: Steven Rosenberg

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2011/03/nfl-owners-meetings-labor-negotiations-union-lockout-cba/1

http://www.foxcharlotte.com/news/local/Jerry-Richardson-Says-NFL-Union-Meetings-Havent-Been-Successful-117268813.html

http://www.nfllockout.com/2011/03/02/nfl-fans-deliver-petition-to-owners-threatened-with-arrest/

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/14761500/nfl-union-exit-mediation-after-4-hours-wednesday

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Historical Lockout Time Line

February 24, 2011 By dolfanjill 1 Comment

March 2006: NFL owners voted overwhelmingly (30-2) to extend the CBA that was set to expire after the 2007 season for an additional six years thereby guaranteeing football through the 2012 season.

February 2007: NFL owners began imposing lockout clauses in coaches’ and executives’ contracts that gave clubs the right to reduce compensation in the event of a lockout. Examples include language allowing the clubs to reduce, terminate, or suspend the contract on 20 days’ notice, reduce salary by 50 percent if a lockout continues for more than 90 days, terminate the employee without pay on 60 days’ notice, and extend the contract another year at the same terms as 2011 if at least eight NFL games are canceled due to a lockout.

February 2008: The NFL asked the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to end the jurisdiction of U.S. District Judge David Doty over the free agency/salary cap system. The league claimed that Judge Doty was biased in favor of the players. The 8th Circuit disagreed and ruled in favor of the NFLPA on November 10, 2009. As such, Judge Doty’s jurisdiction continues.

March 2008: The NFL retained veteran labor-relations attorney, Bob Batterman, as outside counsel. Batterman is widely credited for orchestrating the 2004-2005 lockout in the NHL.

May 2008: NFL owners voted unanimously to opt out of the 2006 CBA extension thereby terminating the agreement in March of 2011—two years early.

December 2008: The NFL began a strategic and premeditated course of action designed to reduce expenses by laying off 15% of its staff.

January 2009: Despite its victory in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, et al., the NFL took the unusual step of supporting American Needle’s request for review by the United States Supreme Court in an effort to obtain a broader ruling that would find the clubs and the league to constitute a single entity for antitrust purposes. If the league and the clubs are considered a single entity, they would not be deemed to be competitors who have made agreements in restraint of trade under the antitrust laws.

February 2009: Roger Goodell took a 25% pay cut for the 2008 season and instituted a salary freeze for all league employees at least through the 2009 season.

March 2009: At the annual NFL owners’ meetings, the owners passed a resolution allowing all NFL teams to opt out of a defined benefit pension plan for NFL coaches and executives. As a result, nine teams have opted out of the league’s established policy and now provide less beneficial pension plans to coaches and executives.

March 2009: DirecTV renewed its deal to serve as the NFL’s exclusive satellite carrier through the 2014 season. The deal is worth $1 billion annually and right’s fees will be paid to the league notwithstanding a lockout in 2011.

May 2009: Fox and CBS renewed their broadcasting rights deals with the NFL. The deals, which are said to be worth more than $712 million a year from Fox and $622 million a year from CBS, guarantee payment even if there is a lockout.

May-September 2009: In continuing its efforts to solidify a war chest in the event of a lockout, the NFL agreed to extend its multimillion dollar corporate sponsorships with FedEx, Visa, IBM, and Proctor & Gamble beyond the 2011 season.

October 2009: The NFL hired former NFLPA President George Martin as President of the NFL Alumni Association—a newly created position. To some the decision to hire Vincent may be viewed as altruistic, to others, including Peter King from Sports Illustrated, the league’s motives were less benign, speculating that league may be trying “to crush the NFLPA by co-opting some of its alum[ni].”

December 2009: The NFL informed the NFLPA of its intent to terminate the Supplemental Revenue Sharing (SRS) program that promotes competitive balance and helps the lower-revenue clubs compete. Former VP of the Green Bay Packers Andy Brandy described the NFL’s decision to pull out of the supplemental revenue sharing plan as “sending a clear message to its players and the union that the teams that want to go under the floor and cut team payroll to pre-2006 levels, say $85-$90 million…will now have a legitimate reason for doing so.”

February 2010: The NFL launched a new website, www.NFLlabor.com, to exclusively address labor matters. The NFL is using the website to disseminate false and misleading propaganda in an attempt to drive a wedge between the players and the NFLPA. This is not the first time a league has launched its own website devoted to a labor conflict. In the stages leading up to its own lockout, the NHL, led by NFL attorney Bob Batterman, developed its own portal dedicated to voicing its perspective on the ongoing negotiations with the NHLPA.

February 2010: The NFLPA filed a Special Master case against the league because it discovered that the NFL did not provide its lower-revenue clubs with all of the supplemental revenue sharing that was promised in the CBA for the years 2006-08. Such funds are important to ensure that the lower-revenue teams can field competitive teams, offer competitive salaries and provide their fans with hope for success on the field each NFL season.

February 2010: The NFL announced the hiring of former NFLPA President Troy Vincent as VP/Player Development for Active Players, less than a year after he lost the election to be the NFLPA Executive Director and as the league and union are engaged in contentious negotiations for a new labor deal. The timing of the hire raised serious questions about the league’s motive as described by Bill Gould, former National Labor Relations Board Chair, who said it was quite uncommon for management to hire a former leader of the union it negotiates against during the midst of collective bargaining.

February 2010: The NFL rejected the NFLPA’s proposal to continue the current capped system for an additional year which would have allowed the parties ample time to complete work on a long-term CBA.

February 2010: Reports surfaced that the NFL is seeking to acquire the newly formed United Football League (UFL). Though the league denied the reports, such a move would further illustrate the league’s attempts to restrict player mobility and strengthen its monopoly of professional football.

March 2010: The league agreed to a four-year $720 million agreement with Verizon, the largest U.S. wireless operator, to become the league’s exclusive wireless partner. The agreement marks the biggest overlap between a sponsorship and media deal in American sports league history.

May 2010: In one of the largest sponsorship deals ever, Anheuser-Busch and the NFL agreed to a six-year $1.2 billion deal to become the official beer sponsor of the NFL beginning in 2011.

August 2010: NFL team executives negotiated contracts of the 2010 first-round draft picks to reflect the belief there will be a lockout in 2011 by changing the payment date of option bonuses from the first two weeks of the league year, which begins in March, to around the time the first regular-season game is played in 2011, whenever that may be.

September 2010: Five months prior to the implementation of a lockout, the NFL informed its employees of its three-phase plan that will require many of its employees to take unpaid leaves of absences as well as pay cuts.

October 2010: The NFL is requiring banks lending to its teams to extend the traditional six-month grace period for declaring a default to stretch instead through to the end of the 2011 season in preparation for a lockout.

Source: NFLPA by NFLPA

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Lockout Event List

February 24, 2011 By dolfanjill Leave a Comment

Impose lockout clauses in coaches’ and executives’ contracts that give clubs the right to reduce compensation in the event of a lockout. Make sure to include language that will reduce, terminate, or suspend the contract on 20 days’ notice, reduce salary by 50 percent if a lockout continues for more than 90 days, terminate the employee without pay on 60 days’ notice, and extend the contract another year at the same terms as 2011 if at least eight NFL games are canceled due to a lockout.

Retain Bob Batterman, veteran labor-relations attorney and orchestrator of the 2004-2005 NHL lockout, as outside counsel.

Vote unanimously to opt out of the 2006 CBA extension thereby terminating the agreement in March of 2011—two years early.

Begin a strategic and premeditated course of action designed to reduce expenses by laying off 15% of our staff.

Support American Needle’s request to review American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, et al., by the United States Supreme Court to obtain a broader ruling that would find the clubs and the league to constitute a single entity for antitrust purposes.

Have Roger Goodell take a 25% pay cut at least through the 2008 season and institute a salary freeze for all league employees at least through the 2009 season.

Pass a resolution allowing all NFL teams to opt out of a defined benefit pension plan for NFL coaches and executives.

Get Direct TV to renew its deal to serve as the NFL’s exclusive satellite carrier through the 2014 season. Deal should be worth at least $1 billion annually and right’s fees need to be paid to the league notwithstanding a lockout in 2011.

Get Fox and CBS to renew their broadcasting rights deals with the NFL. The deals, which should be worth more than $712 million a year from Fox and $622 million a year from CBS, need to guarantee payment even if there is a lockout.

Solidify war chest in the event of a lockout by securing $4.5 billion from TV networks even if games aren’t played.

Hire former NFLPA President George Martin as President of the NFL Alumni Association—a newly created position.

Hire former NFLPA President Troy Vincent as VP/Player Development for Active Players.

Reject the NFLPA’s proposal to continue the current capped system for an additional year despite the fact it could allow both parties ample time to complete work on a long-term CBA.

Reject the player’s union’s proposal to keep playing under an extension of the existing CBA. Five Times.

Propose an 18 percent giveback of net revenue by the players to offset team costs.

End obligation to fund players’ health care in the event of a lockout.

Negotiate contracts of the 2010 first-round draft picks to reflect the belief there will be a lockout in 2011 by changing the payment date of option bonuses from the first two weeks of the league year, which begins in March, to around the time the first regular-season game is played in 2011, whenever that may be.

Reject the NFLPA’s proposal for a Proven Performance Plan (rookie wage scale).

Five months prior to the implementation of a lockout, inform employees of three-phase plan that will require many employees to take unpaid leaves of absences as well as pay cuts.

Require banks lending to teams to extend the traditional six-month grace period for declaring a default to instead stretch through to the end of the 2011 season in preparation for a lockout.

Propose an 18-game regular season schedule in order to generate more revenue for NFL owners.

Give at least $600,000 in campaign cash to lawmakers that could pay off during a looming dispute with the players union.

Announce that we will stop providing health care for players and their families in March when the current CBA expires.

Solidify war chest in the event of a lockout by building a $900 million pool of money from savings from not paying player benefits.

Announce plans to offer ticket refunds for all general admission seats to preseason and regular season games canceled by a lockout. Policy will not, however, include refunds for Personal Seat Licenses (PSL’s) or more expensive club seats and luxury suites.

Offer an even worse deal to the players union as the deadline approaches.

Source and Author: NFL Player Association Update Last on 11/22/2010

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NFLPA Answers Fans

February 22, 2011 By dolfanjill 1 Comment

SuperFan Forum Ustream Chat

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America in a Lockout

February 18, 2011 By dolfanjill 4 Comments

America glistens on game day, while football fans patriotic ways conjure a sense of harmony and unity among neighbors. Football Sundays are a national holiday, with godlike players and playbooks that make “any given Sunday” a catchphrase for every fanbase. This multi-billion dollar industry exists because of the loyal devoted fans, not for any other reason. This battle of billionaire owner’s verses millionaire players is insulting, mostly because it is the fans that are being locked out and not the other way around.

There are 5 primary reasons why franchise owners, the NFL and NFLPA have yet to strike a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) even with a March 4th expiration date. With an economy already suffering and loyal fans on pins and needles, none of the 5 should be considered deal breakers.

1)   The 18% Pay Cut

The NFL is a fat-cat industry with revenues totaling about 9 billion dollars this year. Of that money, franchise owners take 40 percent off the top leaving 60 percent for salaries, but claim costs are rising from unexpected expenses. Therefore asking players to take an 18 percent pay cut to compensate for these differences. But, why would players accept an 18 percent pay cut, when the NFL will make over $5 billion from its network television deals even in the event of a 2011 lockout? Additionally, owners have not volunteered to take a pay cut to reduce the alleged rising costs.

If you are anything like me you’re flabbergasted at the massive spoils being fought over, but also curious to see if expenses are truly rising faster than revenues. The NFLPA’s executive director DeMaurice Smith has requested the NFL to open their books to a forensic audit can distinguish fact from fiction, but this has yet to occur.

My Personal Opinion

Middle class Americans are paying for owners and the player’s first class ride down easy street, but nothing is more offensive and unacceptable than the neglect shown to those who support this game. Fans are insulted with the thought of a work stoppage, since we are the ones being penalized and locked out.

I know that with growth comes change, and the NFL has grown exponentially over time. However, owners have taken advantage of their superior position as far back as the merger of the AFL and NFL, and in hindsight it’s nauseating that tax money is used to build stadiums, fans are the one’s financing the game while owners are sitting on their hands chaining America’s game up; you sicken me!

2)18 Game Seasons

The major point of contention between NFL owners and the NFLPA is the proposed 18 game solution. Increasing “the pot,” as Roger Goodell describes it, will solve the revenue-sharing problem, and the most logical way to increase the pot is to expand regular season by 2 games.

NFL owners have proposed extending the regular season from 16 to 18 games, by replacing two preseason exhibitions with the real deal. This may make the overall revenue pot larger, but why should players want to play more full contact regular season games for same pay and risk more injury? Lastly, more games means more players needed to compensate for the amount of players lost for the season on the Injury Reserve list. That in turns results in other incurred expenses to create a larger roster.

My Personal Opinion

Past NFL alumnus paved the golden highways that current players, owners and staff ride today. Therefore, this ridiculous fight owners initiated is insulting to footballs past.

Players put their bodies on the line and compete for records in every game and on every snap. To once again increase regular season, not only belittles established records, but offends both current players and fans. Goodell, has emphatically stated that the fans want an 18 game season and to see more football- He could not be more wrong. Fans want their favorite players healthy on game day and increasing the regular season cuts career expectancy from 3.6 years to 2.4 years. Thereby limiting players professional playing career.

3)   Rookie Wage Scale

Management’s prime concern is the exorbitant and wasteful spending on rookies. Establishing a rookie wage scale would free up more than a billion dollars during the term of a five-year agreement. As a result, owners would be forced to redistribute money to veterans and retired players.  Also, a new entry-level pay system would end rookie holdouts that damage dealings between players and teams, there by eliminating complexities in rookie contracts.

My Personal Opinion

Yes, rookies should be paid fairly, but they should not be among the highest-paid NFL players before playing a single down or even suiting up!

In 2009, Sports Illustrated published a list of the 50 highest-paid American athletes, SI reported that 5 NFL rookies drafted in 2009 signed for an average of 21 million in total income. However, in 2010 rookie quarterback Sam Bradford signed with the Saint Louis Rams for a guaranteed nauseating 50 million dollars (worth $78 million overall for six years).

4)   Player Benefits

Goodell has stated the NFL would not carry players benefits in the event of a lockout. So on March 4 players policies will be eradicated leaving them and their families without coverage.

Players career average is 3.6 years. If a player is to qualify for post career benefits they must complete 3 accredited years and 3 games making them eligible for 5 years of coverage. However, if the regular season increases to 18 games and the average career expectancy decreases to 2.4 years, how will players qualify?

My Personal Opinion

NFL alumni fought for free agency and medical benefits. To me, it seems all parties involved have forgotten the roots of this game, forgotten the players that made this game, and do not appreciate or respect the painstaking fight it took to make the game all that it is today. Roots, tradition, and the history of football make the game American and it is painful to see players fight for post career health benefits after retiring. If players are going to be forced into an eighteen game season the time required for such benefits needs to be adjusted accordingly.

5) Trust and Differences

The NFL says it cares about player safety, however if there is a lockout and players stop making owners money players policies will be terminated forcing them to purchase COBRA; basically have a good life.

On the flip side the NFLPA is responsible for 1900 players and want to make sure that benefits are increased for retired players, risks for players are limited, and revenue is distributed fairly.

If the NFL and NFLPA come to a stalemate fans will be the ones that ultimately suffer. The NFLPA has estimated 115,000 lost jobs in a lockout and NFL owners should contemplate the collateral damage it will cause if that’s the case. Lastly, Americans have supported football more now than ever even in a weak economy, but it will be a sad ripple effect caused solely by arrogance and greed.

Link below for article published on “Long Term Health Insurance”

http://www.nflalumni.org/ArticleDetails/tabid/94/ArticleID/73/Default.aspx

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NFL Lockout Super Fans Forum

February 18, 2011 By dolfanjill 5 Comments

NFL Super Fans Forum

Live on Ustream

Who: NFL super fans and NFLPA officials

What: NFL super fans from all over the country will gather to talk about the pending NFL Lockout and participate in a live Ustream chat with NFLPA officials. The goal is to raise awareness, get fans involved and inform them of the facts concerning a NFL lockout. Several super fans in select NFL cities will host “Lockout Lockdown” parties during the Ustream chat. In addition, any fan with Internet access is welcome to join the Ustream chat.

When: Monday, February 21, 2011 from 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. EST (Ustream Chat)

Where: Ustream – http://www.ustream.tv/channel/superfan-ustream-chat.  Fans, be sure that you have a Ustream account and are logged in so that you may ask questions in the “Chat” feed.  More information on the “Lockout Lockdown” locations, times and specials can be found HERE.

Contact: Jillian Ricard

jillian@miatrifecta.com or DolFanJill (Twitter)

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NFL Draft-Combine Rules

December 30, 2010 By dolfanjill Leave a Comment


HISTORY OF THE NFL DRAFT:

The NFL draft was instituted in 1935, by then Commissioner Bert Bell. Since then the draft has gained popularity making the venue much larger and has been moved to accommodate football enthusiasts.

The Theater at Madison Square Garden hosted the event until 2005 until it was relocated for one time only at the Javits Convention Center. Since 2006, Radio City Music Hall has remained the host of the annual NFL draft.

Since the NFL Draft is one of the key events for the functionality of professional football, it has become one of the main attractions by many followers and is broadcast live nationally.

For the first time, the 2010 draft was spread out over three days by dividing up the seven rounds. The first round of the 2010 NFL Draft was on Thursday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. ET, the second and third rounds on Friday, April 23 at 6 p.m. ET, followed by the last 3 rounds, 4-7 finishing up on Saturday, April 24 at 10 a.m. ET.

*Tentative 2011 NFL Draft schedule link is at the bottom of the page


DRAFT OVERVIEW:

Each team can have seven selections, but draft positions are never set in this football cattle driven industry. It is not uncommon for teams to trade positions or barter with their teams existing players to move up in the draft. Teams may receive extra picks under some circumstances, which results in some teams having fewer than seven selections and others with more.

The NFL requires that players be three years removed from high school so players are almost exclusively drafted from National Collegiate Athletic Association college football programs. However, if players are ineligible or missed the filing deadline they can enter the Supplementary Draft.

DRAFT ORDER:

The first round automatically awarded to any expansion team, not relocated or renamed teams, and is given the first pick. The draft order is determined in a reverse-record order. The previous seasons last placed, number 32 ranking will pick first and the 1st place or the Super Bowl winner picking last.

Standing Status Draft Picks
Non-playoff teams 1–20
Eliminated in Wild Card round 21–24
Eliminated in Divisional round 25–28
Eliminated in Conference Championships 29–30
Super Bowl losing team 31
Super Bowl champion 32

TIE BREAKERS RULES:

  1. Any expansion team automatically gets the first pick; if there are two expansion teams, a coin toss determines who picks first; the other team will pick second in the expansion draft.
  2. The winners of the Super Bowl are given the last selection, and the losers the penultimate selection.
  3. Teams that made the playoffs are then ordered by which round of the playoffs they are eliminated.
  4. Teams that did not make the playoffs are ordered by their regular-season record.
  5. Remaining ties are broken by strength of schedule. For draft order, a lower strength of schedule results in an earlier pick. If strength of schedule does not resolve a tie, division and/or conference tiebreakers may be used. If the tie still cannot be broken, a coin toss at the NFL Combine is used to determine draft order. (Note: Strength of schedule is the combined records of a team’s 16 opponents, including games played against the team in question, and counting divisional opponents twice. Because of this, each team’s opponents’ combined wins and losses—counting a tie as a half-win, half-loss—will add up to 256, so a team whose opponents had more combined wins has a better strength of schedule.)

Once the order for the first round is determined, teams with the same record “cycle” picks rotating the remaining 6 rounds. However, previous Super Bowl contenders will always pick last in every round.

Example:

In the 2008 draft, Arizona, Minnesota, Houston, and Philadelphia all finished 8-8, and picked in that order in the first round. In the second round, the order became Minnesota, Houston, Philadelphia, and Arizona. That cycling continues through all seven rounds.

Referenced Example: www.NFL.com

“ON THE CLOCK”

When watching the draft you will notice that one team is always “on the clock”. When a team is on the clock they have an allotted time to make their choice, and the time frame is different depending on the round.

In Round 1, teams have 10 minutes to make their selection, 7 minutes in round two and 5 minutes in rounds 3-7. However, if team “A” doesn’t make their decision within the allotted time, the next team in succession is given the floor to make their selection before team “A” can submit their pick.

Example:

This occurred in the 2003 draft, when the Minnesota Vikings, with the 7th overall pick, were late with their selection. The Jacksonville Jaguars drafted quarterback Byron Leftwich and the Carolina Panthers drafted offensive tackle Jordan Gross before the Vikings were able to submit their selection of defensive tackle Kevin Williams.

*Referenced Example: www.NFL.com/Rulebook


COMPENSATORY DRAFT PICKS:

Compensatory picks are awarded each March at the annual NFL meeting. Teams that lose more qualifying free agents than they gained the previous year in free agency are awarded extra picks at the ends of rounds three through seven.

These picks are distributed based on the formula established by the NFL Management Council. The number of picks a team receives equals the net loss of compensatory free agents up to a maximum of four picks. The 32 compensatory choices will be positioned in the same format as 2010, third through seventh round. Lastly, the compensatory seed is based on the value of the loss of free agents.

Links attached shortly……………….

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