Let's face it, Matthew Stafford made some serious bank but he's played what...7 games total? He's been injured for nearly half the time he's been in the league.
I think the 18-game season is ridiculous and I'm glad the owners caved on that note.
The rookie cap is NEEDED...I'm not paying 40+ million, to anyone really, to an unproven college diva...Ryan leaf, Jamarcus Russel and a certain semi-pro leaving college come to mind.
Educate yourselves, don't depend on ESPN reporting news:
These are the concessions the OWNERS made before the NFLPA decertified itself.
1. We more than split the economic difference between us, increasing our proposed cap for 2011 significantly and accepting the Union's proposed cap number for 2014 ($161 million per club).
2. An entry level compensation system based on the Union's "rookie cap" proposal, rather than the wage scale proposed by the clubs. Under the NFL proposal, players drafted in rounds 2-7 would be paid the same or more than they are paid today. Savings from the first round would be reallocated to veteran players and benefits.
3. A guarantee of up to $1 million of a player's salary for the contract year after his injury – the first time that the clubs have offered a standard multi-year injury guarantee.
4. Immediate implementation of changes to promote player health and safety by A) Reducing the off-season program by five weeks, reducing OTAs from 14 to 10, and limiting on-field practice time and contact; B) Limiting full-contact practices in the preseason and regular season; and C) Increasing number of days off for players.
5. Commit that any change to an 18-game season will be made only by agreement and that the 2011 and 2012 seasons will be played under the current 16-game format.
6. Owner funding of $82 million in 2011-12 to support additional benefits to former players, which would increase retirement benefits for more than 2000 former players by nearly 60 percent.
7. Offer current players the opportunity to remain in the player medical plan for life.
8. Third party arbitration for appeals in the drug and steroid programs.
9. Improvements in the Mackey plan, disability plan, and degree completion bonus program.
10. A per-club cash minimum spend of 90 percent of the salary cap over three seasons.
aaand this is what the players union said in reply:
Issues which prevented a new NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement from being reached:
– The NFL demanded a multi-billion dollar giveback and refused to provide any legitimate financial information to justify it.
– The NFL’s offer on March 7 to give the NFLPA a single sheet of numbers was NOT financial disclosure. The players’ accountants and bankers advised that the “offered” information was meaningless: only two numbers for each year.
– The NFL wanted to turn the clock back on player compensation by four years, moving them back to where they were in 2007.
– The NFL offered no proposal at all for long-term share of revenues.
– NFL demanded 100% of all revenues which went above unrealistically low projections for the first four years.
– The NFL refused to meet the players on significant changes to in-season, off-season or pre-season health and safety rules.
– The NFL kept on the table its hypocritical demand for an 18-game season, despite its public claims to be working toward improving the heath and safety of players.
– The NFL wanted cutbacks in payer workers’ compensation benefits for injured players.
– The NFL sought to limit rookie compensation long after they become veterans — into players’ fourth and fifth years
My god, here are some numbers and after you see them tell me how badly you feel for each:
Highest player salary:Currently: Tom Brady @$18,000,000 a year
average player salary: $770,000
Lowest player salary scale:
Rookie - $285,000
One Year Veteran - $360,000
Two Year Veteran - $435,000
Three Year Veteran - $510,000
Four to Six Year Veteran - $595,000
Seven to Nine Year Veteran - $720,000
Ten+ Year Veteran - $820,000
I'm sorry, stop spending your money on hookers, blow, booze, twenty-twos and mansions and put it aside for your health. You know that beating your face against that brick wall is bad for you and you'll eventually feel it...plan for it.
Now Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Peyton Manning are going to sue the NFL. Three of the top paid millionaires in the game are going to sue, I get it you want to stand for the little guys but why are we only hearing from the hotshots. I'd be much more likely to yield my view of player financial irresponsibility if I were seeing that poor man making $400,000 a year talking about how bad things are. We dont see those guys, bc those 400k a year players aren't around long, they are replaced by rookies with more talent and bigger contracts.
Maybe there's behind the scenes stuff happening, but as of now...I hope these 3 can't play for a few years and have to get a REAL job and see what welcome to the real world means.
Oh its their health...what about Firefighters? What about miners? What about auto-mechanics? One breathes smoke, one gets black-lung and one breather carbon monoxide and is doused in every chemical in a car daily and its bad for our health. Who can I sue? GM?
Stop whining, you play a game you make millions...suck it up.
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