Summary of NFL's Proposal to Players
Per PFT
1. We more than split the economic difference between us, increasing our proposed cap for 2011 significantly and accepting the Union’s proposed cap number for 2014 ($161 million per club).
2. An entry level compensation system based on the Union’s "rookie cap" proposal, rather than the wage scale proposed by the clubs. Under the NFL proposal, players drafted in rounds 2-7 would be paid the same or more than they are paid today. Savings from the first round would be reallocated to veteran players and benefits.
3. A guarantee of up to $1 million of a player’s salary for the contract year after his injury – the first time that the clubs have offered a standard multi-year injury guarantee.
4. Immediate implementation of changes to promote player health and safety by
a. Reducing the off-season program by five weeks, reducing OTAs from 14 to 10, and limiting on-field practice time and contact;
b. Limiting full-contact practices in the preseason and regular season; and
c. Increasing number of days off for players.
5. Commit that any change to an 18-game season will be made only by agreement and that the 2011 and 2012 seasons will be played under the current 16-game format.
6. Owner funding of $82 million in 2011-12 to support additional benefits to former players, which would increase retirement benefits for more than 2000 former players by nearly 60 percent.
7. Offer current players the opportunity to remain in the player medical plan for life.
8. Third party arbitration for appeals in the drug and steroid programs.
9. Improvements in the Mackey plan, disability plan, and degree completion bonus program.
10. A per-club cash minimum spend of 90 percent of the salary cap over three seasons.
Seems quite fair to me,especially with the number of days off and no-pads practices. What worries me though is with the increased amount of "minimal contact" practices, will there be a decrease in play quality?
about 1 year ago
Rufio904
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What worries me is this is completely different than what nfllockout.com has posted
Too much posturing and rhetoric with nothing of substance or attempt. Thank you NFL and NFLPA for making professional football more about politics and business than the game which it is and the fans which make you all rich. Way to go you bunch of numbnuts.
WTF IS THE INTERNET?!?
Exaclty!
If you read one thing, the NFL is a completely unreasonable group of money-grabbing Scrooges and forced the NFLPA to decertify. If you read another, the NFLPA wants it all and cannot accept the NFL’s reasonable compromises. Somehow, I have a feeling that they were planning on doing this all along.
I think
They should continue on the current CBA while dealing with this. But that would be to easy.
Go Big or Go Home!
They decided two years ago
that the 2006 CBA wouldn’t work. So, they’ve been doing what you said for two years. No one gets anything done until the deadline is near.
It's a business
Classic example of greed on the nfl’s part. The propose limitations do nothing to help the player himself or overall quality of play. All the proposed limitations do is put more money in the pocket of the nfl by saving some of the money they’d typically spend in past years. The NFL doesn’t care about the fans.. as much as they act like it.. and even though without fans there would be no money, the league will still do everything it can to make an extra buck.. and why? because it’s no different from any other big business. The NFL should be ashamed of itself
How did you get that from the proposal summary?
I feel like this was a very generous offer by the owners. How is the owners’ greed showing at all in this proposal?




























