Another wrinkle that I would add into the new CBA, if I was The players is to eliminate the playoff bonuses and just extend the players regular game checks. It would greatly improve playoff teams chances of signing FA. The players get screwed during the playoffs, you get something like a weekly check of $22,000 if you play in a wild card game, then $32,000 for the division round, $44,000 for the championship. Last year each Pat's player took home $165,000 in total for winning the Super Bowl. A nice payday for me and you, but it's actually a serious cut in pay to what most of the Pat's would have made for 3 regular season games.
Revis got paid @ $1.25 million a game last year, yet he played 3 games in the playoffs for a poultry $55,000 a game. A guy who makes 1 million a year gets $62,500 a regular season game, so even if his team wins the Super Bowl, he is still losing money under the current system.
Granted the owners would take a huge financial hit, currently they pay the players around $9.7 million in salary each week of the regular season, BUT in the playoffs that amount goes down to a little less than 3 million! and of course in the playoffs the ticket prices go up. So Kraft makes millions more playing in the playoffs than he does during the regular season. If you figure out the Pat's have played almost 40 playoff games in the BB/Brady era, and in that time Kraft has made at the very minimum and additional 240 million dollars (said with pinky finger on the side of the mouth).
The owners would never go for it, but imagine if Mevis had to take something like this into consideration when choosing between the Pat's and the Jets. He would easily make an additional 2-3 game checks every year with the Pat's, which would amount to a salary difference of almost 4 million dollars more.
