Former Panther legend running for head of NFLPA

[Fiz]

 

Sean Gilbert and DeMaurice Smith need to go at it, town-hall stylebattle-royale style in a debate. After all, these are the two men who could go head-to-head for the NFLPA executive director spot soon, even if the sitting executive director Smith has no plans of leaving his post.

 

 

Gilbert, the former NFL defensive tackle, is coming out guns blazing in his desire to take Smith's post and run the NFL's players union. And Gilbert has a radical and fascinating campaign platform for how he thinks the union should approach the next round of negotiations with the league.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/nflpa-hopeful-sean-gilbert-proposes--1m-salary--18-games--other-changes-154229229.html

 

Here's the meat of his proposal.

 

1. Terminate the CBA under the provisions of anti-collusion. Mostly, so he can somehow get them to agree to:

3. Raise minimum salary to $1m
6. Rookie contracts reduced to 3 years
8. Players can only be franchise tagged once.
10. Eliminate 2 preseason games
11. Eliminate comp draft picks.
12. Rookies can renegotiate their contracts whenever (Russell Wilson rule)
13. Rosters increase to 57 players
18. Teams must pay the entire salary cap each year. unspent money is metered out to players.
19. fug Roger Goodell. Yeah, it just says that, weird.
20. Money from fines goes to retired players in need.
21. Cutting a player now requires you to pay them 10% of remaining contract money to dissolve the contract.
23. Things we're willing to give up to get this from the owners 
A- 18 game season
B- Push SB to middle of February
C- Force cities to bid for the SB like the Olympics

[SCP]

Well he has a few good points

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Matt Ryan wears braided belts.

[SCP]

Owners won't budge on 75% of it but hey, gotta start somewhere

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Matt Ryan wears braided belts.

[Fiz]

Well he has a few good points

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Matt Ryan wears braided belts.

19 is the best imo

[Ruff]

lol.

 

If he doesn't get it, wonder if he'll hold out and demand that he does?

[Fiz]

lol.

 

If he doesn't get it, wonder if he'll hold out and demand that he does?

Listen god told Gilbert to hold out and get more money and guess what jesus delivered. 

[Growl]

forcing teams to spend the entirety of the cap seems like a horribly shortsighted cash grab. (sean gilbert indeed)

if teams have to max out the cap, then owners are going to hesitate to rase the cap which is going to bring contract growth to a crawl. not to mention the blow to the strategic aspect of the game it will bring as teams cant save money to invest in talented players in future years but are instead forced to give it to crappy players now (which means more 1 year contracts, which im assuming the PA would be against)

and lol at this guy's opening demands including taking money out of the charities that get the fine money hands and giving it to the players. Gilbert is as dumb as ever and clearly doesnt understand politics.

[countryboi]

Panther legend?

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[Mol3m4n]

18 games is a bad idea. No record will stand.

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[Fiz]

forcing teams to spend the entirety of the cap seems like a horribly shortsighted cash grab. (sean gilbert indeed)

if teams have to max out the cap, then owners are going to hesitate to rase the cap which is going to bring contract growth to a crawl. not to mention the blow to the strategic aspect of the game it will bring as teams cant save money to invest in talented players in future years but are instead forced to give it to crappy players now (which means more 1 year contracts, which im assuming the PA would be against)

and lol at this guy's opening demands including taking money out of the charities that get the fine money hands and giving it to the players. Gilbert is as dumb as ever and clearly doesnt understand politics.

Forcing teams to spend the majority of the cap is a good way to address a problem that's been going on forever, namely cheap owners pocketing revenue and putting out a crap product. Mike Brown, the Glazers, etc were all taken to task in the last round of negotiations because they'd become infamous for this. The Glazers went so far as to use NFL money to pay down debt on Manchester United. They'd become famous for putting ridiculous incentive clauses into contracts (return 12 punts for a TD) to reach the salary cap floor. This isn't a cash grab at all and would probably be something the major owners would be in favor of.

 

The growth of the salary cap is tied to television revenues and has been since the mid nineties. forcing them to max it out would have absolutely no effect. 

[SIGCHI222]

I'll have a #19 please.  Heavy on the fug.

[Growl]

All things considered, I don't know that I see the league agreeing to it.

[Happy Panther]

Forcing teams to spend the majority of the cap is a good way to address a problem that's been going on forever, namely cheap owners pocketing revenue and putting out a crap product. Mike Brown, the Glazers, etc were all taken to task in the last round of negotiations because they'd become infamous for this. The Glazers went so far as to use NFL money to pay down debt on Manchester United. They'd become famous for putting ridiculous incentive clauses into contracts (return 12 punts for a TD) to reach the salary cap floor. This isn't a cash grab at all and would probably be something the major owners would be in favor of.

 

The growth of the salary cap is tied to television revenues and has been since the mid nineties. forcing them to max it out would have absolutely no effect. 

Maybe but a few problems. This will punish teams who find value in players as well as teams who set aside money to use later in the season. It also kind of assumes that owners are using profits for nefarious reasons as opposed to reinvesting it in the franchise.

 

I think it would also create strange player inventives

[Fox007]

Would love to see an increase from 53 man to 57 man roster with the active being raised by 4 as well.  49/57 is a much needed increase from 45/53.

 

Would make specialists even more worth it and keeping that 3rd QB wouldn't potentially hurt your STs.