According To Sources, League Forced NFLPA Into 'Collusion'
Leading To Penalties For Cowboys  Yahoo! Sports' Jason Cole is
reporting that, according to multiple sources, the NFL Player's
Association was "strong-armed" into an agreement with the NFL
that led to the penalties against the Dallas Cowboys and the
Washington Redskins for going over the salary cap in an uncapped
year in 2011. Those sources believe that NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell "openly promoted the idea of collusion" by keeping
player salaries down which forced NFLPA executive director
DeMaurice Smith to accept the terms for the Cowboys' and
Redskins' punishments.  According to the sources, the league and
the NFL were at $113 million for the salary cap instead of the
$120.6 million where they are now. The NFLPA was in a position
where they were going to make a lot of veteran players unhappy
if they had stayed at the $113 million mark.   According to
sources, the NFL agreed to the rise in the salary cap, but only
if the NFLPA agreed to the punish