So NFL players want an uncapped year do they

Players who think they will get paid big bucks in an uncapped year are sadly mistaken, or need to go back to economics class. What most NFL fans, and apparently players, fail to realize that along with a Salary Cap, the current Collective Bargaining Agreement contains a salary floor. The cap for 2010 was set to be 128 million or so with a floor of 111 million or so. That means all 32 NFL team would have to spend at least 111 million dollars on their payroll.

So why is that important? Well a majority of the owners already feel that the players are getting too much, and given the option they will be spending less money on payroll not more. Sure maybe a few team will go out and try to break the bank, but for the most part the owners will spend less on payroll, because they will be able to.

On top of that there are going to be so many restrictions on free agents that now really big deal are going to be getting signed. Beyond the fact that if there is not an agreement there will be no football in 2011. Beyond Jerry Jones, of the Dallas Cowboys, owners are going to have a hard time investing huge dollars into contracts. All that and the owners will be relieved of their commitments to 401K programs, and other such player benefits.

In the end the players are going to lose, not because they don’t have any leverage, but because the owners feel that they have a bum deal. Added to the fact that the players union has no unity. Most of these players are so overextended financially that they cannot afford to go without their NFL paychecks for long. Before the last strike was made official players were lining up to cross the picket lines. The players are going to have give something back, it starts with a rookie salary cap and ends with the players getting a more reasonable 53-55% of all football revenues.

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