1.   Armey now will have final say in all personnel matters, while Jay Zygmunt will become club president and handle contracts and salary cap issues.

2.   All of which set the stage for this weekend, in which a cap issue overshadows a pennant race.

3.   But the averages started to firm around midday, and during the afternoon buyers entered the market, especially for large cap issues that trade on the Nasdaq.

4.   But there are salary cap issues, contract negotiation issues, other possibilities.

5.   But with salary cap issues in the NFL, there are a lot of players who people recognize who find themselves out of the game.

6.   Negotiators met for an hour and a half Monday but did not address the salary cap issue that divides them.

7.   Not if the owners caused the divisive salary cap issue to disappear immediately and begged players to come back.

8.   One of them is Zefross Moss, a steady starter who may not be around when the season starts because of salary cap issues.

9.   Several clubs, like ours, have salary cap issues.

10.   So it was that Ravitch tried to stay on the cap issue.