Owners approve new CBA

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Originally Posted by SAUTO

if they are getting a percentage of revenue why does that matter?

Yeah. Players be bad at math.

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

The problem isn't the NFL players or the Team Reps, it's DeMaurice Smith.

The players were locked out in 2011 and what did the players really get? Well, a decrease in the overall share of revenues (47%) in exchange for less practice time in pads during the week and substantially less offseason participation, which has led to far more injuries, less parity and more tanking.

Eric Winston, the current NFLPA President is now retired, so as of March, he's no longer eligible to represent the players. It's probably a wise move on their part to elect a new NFLPA President, then elect a new head of the Player's Union, with the ultimate goal of getting a higher percentage of revenues, better post-NFL heathcare, a 16 game season and no THC testing.

Otherwise, they're screwing themselves.

Yeah Smith is a major problem in my opinion.

Every interview I’ve heard with him for 3 years has been him screaming about how bad the owners are. I couldn’t believe that was the position they were beginning negotiations from. It was ridiculous.

Pure speculation here, but here’s what I think. He’s a labor douche not a football guy. They brought him in, when it’s always been football guys before specifically to bargain with the owners better. Cool.

So he gets straight woodshedded by the owners. That was as garbage of a deal as has been negotiated professionally since the time of Rockefeller. I’d have quit and found another profession. So he thinks now he’s got to make it all up in one deal. So he’s been playing hardball since the last deal was signed.

His blockheaded approach is only going to lose his constituents money.