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Does the CBA require that base year salaries are not guaranteed or is it merely allowed?
Whether a contract is guaranteed is one of the terms left up to individual negotation with the players. The CBA doesn't require or prohibit guarantees.
If a team can guarantee a salary, why can't the Redskins or another wealthy team simply guarantee some high uncapped 2007 salary in return for restructuring a current contract and get under the 2006 cap?
I think that's where the 30% rule comes into play. For 2007 and beyond, in the absence of a salary cap, a player's salary can't increase by more than 30% over the previous year.
 
BTW... where is the number has to start with 6 coming from?
meaning 60% or more
Yep. Seems insane. I wonder what my boss would say if I told him that I want 60% of the companies total revenues or I'm walking. I wonder if McDonalds would hire me even though I'm over qualified. "Would you like to biggy size that?"
at McDonalds the workers make a product, enhance a product or whatever. In the NFL the players are the product.
No, the game is the product. The players enhance the game. You listen too much to the commercials that say "Brett Favre and the Packers vs Culpepper and the Vikes." It's a football game. Those two players never square off directly. Each leads a team to play a game. The game is the product not the players
if that were true the USFL, XFL, NFLE, and arena league would have been more popular
Not really. The NFL players have the best talent and thus they put out a better product which is the game of football.....
 
Does the CBA require that base year salaries are not guaranteed or is it merely allowed?
Whether a contract is guaranteed is one of the terms left up to individual negotation with the players. The CBA doesn't require or prohibit guarantees.
but by not requiring it they all but state they won't be guaranteed.
 
Does the CBA require that base year salaries are not guaranteed or is it merely allowed?
Whether a contract is guaranteed is one of the terms left up to individual negotation with the players. The CBA doesn't require or prohibit guarantees.
but by not requiring it they all but state they won't be guaranteed.
Nearly all the star players have elements of their contracts that are guaranteed. The special teamers don't. It really just comes down to bargaining position.(Also, I should take back my blanket statement that the CBA doesn't require guarantees. In some cases, it does. Players designated with the franchise tag have guaranteed salaries, for example. Also, any veteran who is on the opening day roster is guaranteed his salary for that year, I believe.)

 
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BTW... where is the number has to start with 6 coming from?
meaning 60% or more
Yep. Seems insane. I wonder what my boss would say if I told him that I want 60% of the companies total revenues or I'm walking. I wonder if McDonalds would hire me even though I'm over qualified. "Would you like to biggy size that?"
at McDonalds the workers make a product, enhance a product or whatever. In the NFL the players are the product.
No, the game is the product. The players enhance the game. You listen too much to the commercials that say "Brett Favre and the Packers vs Culpepper and the Vikes." It's a football game. Those two players never square off directly. Each leads a team to play a game. The game is the product not the players
if that were true the USFL, XFL, NFLE, and arena league would have been more popular
Not quite. the game is the product. The players enhance the game. Lesser players = no enhancement = less fans.
I think its a combination of the game and the league. The Players want to play in the NFL. If there was no NFL, then yes, the USFL, XFL, and arena would be more popular. But in that case, it would still be the NFL with another name.
 
BTW... where is the number has to start with 6 coming from?
meaning 60% or more
Yep. Seems insane. I wonder what my boss would say if I told him that I want 60% of the companies total revenues or I'm walking. I wonder if McDonalds would hire me even though I'm over qualified. "Would you like to biggy size that?"
at McDonalds the workers make a product, enhance a product or whatever. In the NFL the players are the product.
No, the game is the product. The players enhance the game. You listen too much to the commercials that say "Brett Favre and the Packers vs Culpepper and the Vikes." It's a football game. Those two players never square off directly. Each leads a team to play a game. The game is the product not the players
if that were true the USFL, XFL, NFLE, and arena league would have been more popular
Not quite. the game is the product. The players enhance the game. Lesser players = no enhancement = less fans.
I think its a combination of the game and the league. The Players want to play in the NFL. If there was no NFL, then yes, the USFL, XFL, and arena would be more popular. But in that case, it would still be the NFL with another name.
I did make a followup statement that I thought the owners would say it was the game, while the players think it's them. I'm pretty sure this is a double-edged sword here and no side is right
 
And meanwhile, 2006 is going to be ugly, particularly for Danny Snyder.
Are you sure? Really, there will likely be a new CBA by Sunday, and they'll do what's necessary to be within it. And if there is none, the number of players they will have to cut due to the $94.5 million cap will be fewer now that many veterans on the team have offered to re-do their contracts to help get under the cap. That's more team cohesion than I've seen from any other team in the league, and it's not the kind of thing that leads to an ugly year.

 

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