21.   The NFL no longer has a hard cap.

22.   The owners were never going to back off of a hard cap.

23.   This year they also seem to have some sort of hard cap on most of the top branches.

24.   Both sides will be tinkering with the mechanisms of the hard cap and other secondary issues when talks resume Friday in Boston.

25.   Stern indicated that the owners might accept a luxury tax proposal if it included a fall-back provision that included a hard cap.

26.   The players voted unanimously in Las Vegas never to accept a hard cap.