Posted on 02/21/2020 3:23:40 AM PST by C19fan
NFL owners have voted to approve their proposal for a new collective-bargaining agreement, leaving it all up to the NFL Players’ Association to decide if the new CBA will go into effect. However, if the reaction from the NFL world is any indication to part of the CBA proposal, fans shouldn’t get their hopes up for labor peace.
According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, the addition of a 17th game into the NFL season would also result in many star players getting paid less for their work. While a 17-game season might not into effect until at least 2022, NFL players would receive significantly less for that 17th game than they receive in each of the first 16 contests.
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That’s some silly math on the article’s part. Salary gets divided evenly across the season, including the bye. Now the weekly check might drop a bit, but not for long. Actually given that the main TV contracts are all up for renewal before the 17th game would come in, they’ll probably get paid more. More football will mean higher TV contracts.
Nope. Revenue is up. But there’s more money on the table and they know it. The fact that the XFL can actually get so-so ratings shows it. They’re the highest rated show out there with massive revenue from the TV contracts, more content means bigger TV contracts.
Moving the SB to mid Feb is also probably part of a shifting of the off season schedule. They’ve been talking about pushing everything back, get the combine in March, free agency in April, the draft in May. That would leave June as the only month without an NFL “event” as training camps start in July and the preseason in August. Cause even those “business” things get ratings. Much as I love the game I cannot imagine watching the combine or the draft, but they get ratings that make the other sports jealous.
My understanding is the owners basically agreed to all the players demand in exchange for a 17th game and an expanded playoff schedule.
The players knew about the reduced paycheck early on, and ut only effects 2 years.
Also $250k is more than they would get from a single playoff game with the big difference that every player that suits up on that last Sunday gets paid $250K
Non-guaranteed contract players get paid per games played. Each team has a 52 man roster but can only suit up 46. The 6 players that are benched get nothing.
As I said, "Any player who signed a contract based on the current 16-game schedule [...] would see their game salary capped at $250,000 in the new CBA." Many players' 16-game contracts are at more than $250,000 per game.
Link?
You’re acting like the regular season is the only period of time when these players work for their employers. That’s not the case at all, as I’ve demonstrated on this thread. They are contractually obligated to show up for training camp even though they are not paid under the terms of their contracts.
And if the owners wanted to extend training camp with no pay increase, I'd also consider that a ridiculous negotiating position.
I don’t have a link but the negotiations have been going on for over 10 months. The parties have each agreed inkind and now its time for the players to ratify. The owners already have.
They've also given quite a few other concessions to the players as part of this deal -- including a hike in the salary cap level based on TV revenues, increases in the minimum salary, and reduced practice time during training camp.
If it’s in the CBA it has been negotiated and at least the players reps in the negotiating room knew about it. That’s how this works.
They call it an owner proposal, but they don’t get to the ratification section unless it’s been agreed to in principal in their negotiations. This isn’t like a budget bill. Owners and player reps have been talking about this off and on for a long time. They’ve agreed to something, the owners have formalized it into this CBA, they’ve ratified, now it goes to the PA who will basically just look to see if there’s any discrepancies between this and what they’ve agreed to, if it matches they send it to the players for general ratification. If this proposal was coming from the owners without the PA having been involved there wouldn’t be a 24 hour turn around. Heck they’re so bought in according to ESPN it’s going to the players regardless of what the PA says, which means the PA is going to say yes.
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