NFL will deal with the dispute

The NFL have exchanged disputing whether players with NFL jerseys will have to cuts as part of a new collective bargaining agreement.

After the NFL wrote on its labor Web site last week that no player would take a cut as a result of its proposal, the NFLPA responded Tuesday by saying— tongue in cheek—that it was ready to sign a deal guaranteeing that the salary cap won’t be lowered and there will be no reduction in retired players or other benefits under the CBA.

The current CBA expires in March 2011 and NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith has characterized the possibility of a work stoppage as a “14” on a scale of 1 to 10.