2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[F Gump]

I've read that they're negotiating, but has it been decided?

It's not dead-dead. Nothing ever is.

At this point there is no 18th man and it's going nowhere at all. For now.

The currently insurmountable obstacle is that the objections are so varied and from so many different directions.

1. Players, teams with tax issues, and teams without all have deeply embedded self-serving views on what's fair as to whether the 18th man would be 2-way only.
   
2. Some teams who have suffered from covid shortages don't want to change the situation to make it easier for the competitor that might be hit.
   
3. And many feel little value in another player on the roster, and prefer to make it easier to cancel their game when hit by covid (rather than adding another body that might force them to play with a stripped down group of 8).