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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Actually, that will only happen if the owners vote to opt out of the CBA. I still think it is more of a lot of tough talk by the owners to force the NFLPA back to bargaining table to revise the CBA since 2012 would likely have a lock out.
Many of the owners have said publically that they would rather have no salary cap than the current CBA because it is too in favor of the players. Although no cap would favor the Pats from a free agent standpoint, I am against it. I don't want a system like MLB where a large portion of the league (Tampa Bay for example) who are eliminated from the playoffs before the season even starts. That is why MLB nationally is a declining sport.
explain s to me like i'm an idiot......how does the salary cap favour players over owners?
Not the cap, the CBA. The CBA is much more than the cap.explain s to me like i'm an idiot......how does the salary cap favour players over owners?
Because the players are getting like 60% of the cut. The owners 40%. Is it really that hard to do the math?
Not the cap, the CBA. The CBA is much more than the cap.
Players get a large chunk of revenue (67% or something like that) and owners must spend a certain amount or be fined. Baseball has no cap, and I doubt that 66% of baseball revenues go to the players.
Without the CBA there would be no revenue sharing, and some cash-poor teams would load up on UDFAs to keep costs down.
No way to tell for sure until it happens, if it does.
With so few games per year (compared to baseball and basketball) there is a lot less money available for salaries. Relative roster sizes of football to baseball and basketball means even less money available.
Personally, I think that a capless NFL would result is a lot of Pats-Boys superbowls. Those are the two teams with both the money AND the smarts. THe Redskins have the money but not the smarts, and there a few teams with the smarts, but not deep enough pockets.
It doesn't matter now. People will go beserk over this for the next few years, and it will turn out that they worried about the wrong thing. That's what usually happens.
Yeah, it's so complicated it is really impossible to tell who is getting the better of whom, and which side will make out better without a CBA. Right now, it seems that both labor AND management are doing pretty well.got ya, thanks
explain s to me like i'm an idiot......how does the salary cap favour players over owners?
Bad for football? Only if you're a fan in Arizona, Nashville Buffalo etc.
If you like the Cowboys and Pats, you're in high clover (as another poster mentioned).
Mostly this is just a stick to poke the player's union with, and a stick for Kraft to poke Goodell with.
Bad for football? Only if you're a fan in Arizona, Nashville Buffalo etc.
If you like the Cowboys and Pats, you're in high clover (as another poster mentioned).
Mostly this is just a stick to poke the player's union with, and a stick for Kraft to poke Goodell with.
I would love this.
We'd be at the top of the league every year in terms of money to spend, it would be great.
I could care less about other teams being hurt by this, I'm a Pats fan first, NFL fan second.
Also, we will forever be known as the greatest team of the salary cap era after it's gone.