NFL wants to cut player costs by $40M

[oldnotdead]

What the NFL isn't admitting is that only ONE-QUARTER OF THE NFL'S YEARLY REVENUE IS RELATED TO FAN ATTENDANCE. The NFL is in better shape than most sports in that regard. Also what the NFL isn't saying is that each year each team receives about $300M just from the TV revenue, so that isn't counting the team product sales. That TV revenue is what is keeping teams like the Chargers afloat.

Will they take a hit? Absolutely, but not nearly the doom and gloom being projected. Okay, why do I keep saying it looks like a 14 game season? It's because of exactly that TV revenue. If the NFL drops two regular season games each team loses about $37.5 M in TV revenue. So now that $40 M the NFL wants from the players is more than coincidental IMO. As I've pointed out the CBA is play to get paid, with a notable exception, the guaranteed money. If the NFL can get the concession of a player pay reduction of $40M it covers the lost TV revenue if they go to a 14 game season as the concession would have to be blanket (i.e. covering guaranteed money being deferred a year).

That is why the NFLPA is fighting back and countering with a spread the financial hit over several years to protect player contracts. The owners simply want it all in one hit with the players carrying the burden. When I said the key to understanding the NFL is "what would a greedy man do", this is a prime example of it. If they played the 14 game season without the concession the owners would take about an average of 15%-40% hit on their bottom line. Almost all the teams would still show a profit of some sort. But teams like the Chargers which is run like a family business, the hit is magnified.

 

[PhillyRam]

I almost don't care. Whatever the NFL line is, I don't think there is a workable, fair solution if a team has 10 starting players out for a few weeks in the heart of the season. How can that be fair? Don't use the injury excuse and how it's "next man up," because this could be the next 10 men up with the season on the line.

And when you think about it, it is very likely that if a team gets hit with Covid it could be unit specific due unit meetings and their close workouts eith each other etc...

Imagine a if a team loses 3 or 4 starting OL for 3 wks.

 

[dieterbrock]

And when you think about it, it is very likely that if a team gets hit with Covid it could be unit specific due unit meetings and their close workouts eith each other etc...

Imagine a if a team loses 3 or 4 starting OL for 3 wks.

Why is it very likely though?
If the players self quarantine and are assured that they are medically/covid clear to enter facility, they should not contract it from one another. If the coaches and other team employees are properly social distancing from the players, they should not be in a position to infect the players.
They've been playing soccer/football with very little impact from covid.
I think the NFL has a great opportunity to show how life can go on, and I think they will

 

[Kevin]

All this shit makes me sick. I'd like to see all these SOBs have to get out and really work for a living, like the rest of us. Never lose sight of the fact if it was not for us fans wanting to see them play a game they would be working at Walmart.

Jealous much?

 

[snackdaddy]

Imagine a if a team loses 3 or 4 starting OL for 3 wks.

If its the 49ers?

 

[PhillyRam]

Why is it very likely though?
If the players self quarantine and are assured that they are medically/covid clear to enter facility, they should not contract it from one another. If the coaches and other team employees are properly social distancing from the players, they should not be in a position to infect the players.
They've been playing soccer/football with very little impact from covid.
I think the NFL has a great opportunity to show how life can go on, and I think they will

Because it would only take one guy to get it and then to spread it to his unit. Again, I dont think that is a difficult situation to imagine unless you assume no NFL players are going to get it this yr.

 

[dieterbrock]

Because it would only take one guy to get it and then to spread it to his unit. Again, I dont think that is a difficult situation to imagine unless you assume no NFL players are going to get it this yr.

Well, my sister in law spent 10 weeks straight, working in a hospital ward taking care of Covid affected prisoners from a local prison. She was on a team of 8 working that ward and none of them got the virus. So I’m certain that if handled properly, they should be able to keep it under control.
will they? Don’t know, but if the precautions are taken I don’t see it as such a given

 

[PhillyRam]

Well, my sister in law spent 10 weeks straight, working in a hospital ward taking care of Covid affected prisoners from a local prison. She was on a team of 8 working that ward and none of them got the virus. So I’m certain that if handled properly, they should be able to keep it under control.
will they? Don’t know, but if the precautions are taken I don’t see it as such a given

Mkay...

BTW, Juan Soto just tested positive for the Nationals and he is among several MLB guys who have. So its going to happen.... It is a given.

 

[dieterbrock]

Mkay...

BTW, Juan Soto just tested positive for the Nationals and he is among several MLB guys who have. So its going to happen.... It is a given.

Because MLB testing policy has been a total joke, but still the cases are fewer in between.
Again, I dont know why it cant be done, but ultimately it comes down to the players decisions, and if they make ill advised ones, they can put their team at risk.

 

[Kevin]

Because MLB testing policy has been a total joke, but still the cases are fewer in between.
Again, I dont know why it cant be done, but ultimately it comes down to the players decisions, and if they make ill advised ones, they can put their team at risk.

Because NFL players and coaches cannot completely and totally isolate themselves from their families and friends and others who mix and mingle with people at the supermarket or hardware store or school or wherever for an entire season.

 

[PhillyRam]

Because MLB testing policy has been a total joke, but still the cases are fewer in between.
Again, I dont know why it cant be done, but ultimately it comes down to the players decisions, and if they make ill advised ones, they can put their team at risk.

....And we all know that all NFL players make great decisions off the field all the time.

C'mon, even the Whitworth's got it. It will happen. People still have to go to stores or will be with people who still have to go out in public to survive. And masks are NOT a cure all.

 

[FaulkSF]

The math doesn't quite add up. If there is a $40M shortfall per team that's about a 20% salary cap reduction if the CBA is currently at about $200M per team. In the real world, a unionized work force would lobby for 20% less games since player pay is being reduced by 20%. That would mean a 12 game regular season. You might as well throw out the AFC and NFC cross divisional games to get to the 20% reduction.

 

[dieterbrock]

The math doesn't quite add up. If there is a $40M shortfall per team that's about a 20% salary cap reduction if the CBA is currently at about $200M per team. In the real world, a unionized work force would lobby for 20% less games since player pay is being reduced by 20%. That would mean a 12 game regular season. You might as well throw out the AFC and NFC cross divisional games to get to the 20% reduction.

Well no, less games means less revenue which is what the salary cap is based off of.

 

[dieterbrock]

Because NFL players and coaches cannot completely and totally isolate themselves from their families and friends and others who mix and mingle with people at the supermarket or hardware store or school or wherever for an entire season.

You mean like what the rest of us deal with on a daily basis? At an infection rate of 1% of the population? Yes, the players need to be more diligent, to protect one another. Just like all of our essential workers do, from the minimum wage cashier at Shop Rite to the Million dollar surgeon. It can be done, and I think it will

C'mon, even the Whitworth's got it.

So has my uncle, whats the point? Neither of which were in an NFL training camp when they got affected

 

[OldSchool]

All that name calling and worrying for them to go and agree on a deal in the end.

NFL, NFLPA reach agreement on COVID-19 adjustments to CBA

www.nfl.com

 

[kurtfaulk]

All that name calling and worrying for them to go and agree on a deal in the end.

NFL, NFLPA reach agreement on COVID-19 adjustments to CBA

www.nfl.com

you mean like this guy? funny they agreed to the plan just hours later.


TODD GURLEYRB, ATLANTA FALCONS

Todd Gurley said he's open to sitting out the season if the NFL doesn't come up with a proper COVID-19 safety plan.
“It’s really not structured right,” Gurley said about the NFL’s current restart plan. “There’s not a proper plan in place that I’m comfortable with. I don’t have a wife. I don’t have any kids. You have to look at guys on the other side who have [a] pregnant wife, kids and a wife that they go home to every single day. I just feel like we just need to come up with something a lot better than what they’re giving us. Everything they gave us is pretty last minute. We should have been able to have answers weeks ago, if not months ago. You have to be prepared to not play or be prepared to have a half a season. If they don’t do things right, we won’t have a full season. It’s just how things have been going so far this year. Hopefully everything goes well, but I don’t see [it]. It just doesn’t sit well right now.” The league and NFLPA are working on a plan as we speak, but this is something that should've been done weeks ago, as Gurley said, with training camps scheduled to open this coming week. Gurley is one of the first players we've seen actually talk about the possibility of sitting out.
SOURCE: 92.9 Atlanta

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