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NFLPA Response to Owners Desire for 18-Game Season

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Anybodyhome Grand Master

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http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5813574&campaign=rss&source=NFLHeadlines

The highlights of the union proposal:

"•Voluntary offseason workouts would be reduced from the current 14 weeks to five weeks or 20 days (four days a week, four-hour maximum per day).

• Significantly reduced contact between players during training camp with four practices a week consisting of helmetless and padless periods.

• Two in-season bye weeks.

• Expanded rosters from the current 53 to 56 or 57, in addition to practice squads.

• Increased pro-rated salaries for players under contract.

• Reduction of the amount of games players need to become vested to qualify for post-career health care and pension benefits."

I'm actually on board with the counter proposal. I do think the rosters need to be expanded and practice squads should be bigger.

And just when you were getting optimistic:

"Despite optimistic public assertions made by high-profile owners such as Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots, there have been no substantive recent negotiations, nor are there any scheduled, on a new collective bargaining agreement."

"Unrelated to the 18-game schedule, also remaining on the table are proposals from each side to include a rookie hard wage scale that could be in effect as early as the 2011 draft. However, whereas the owners want the $200 million on projected rookie wage savings redistributed with $100 million to improved retired player pensions and health care and the remaining $100 million to simply be available in the system with an increased pay-for-performance pool, the union wants the owners to match the $100 million savings on retired players."

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Someone should bring in ratings for MLB in '93 and then last year and slap all of them for even considering the killing of the golden goose

MLB ratings were actually higher the two years after the strike than the five year average before the strike. However since 1995 the ratings have declined slowly and steadily.

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Someone posted a while back that we'd get the same draft order 2 years in a row. Never looked it up to verify it cuz I'm too lazy.

from what i've seen/heard/know/whatever...in the event of a lockout the 2011 draft would go on like usual, but the 2012 draft order would be decided on by lottery.

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So if there is no football next season, the 2011 draft will be all the NFL action we will receive for that year. Since the draft is usually a big event, this will make it all the more special. So the superbowl champion for the 2011-12 season will be determined in the draft! Panthers have a good shot at this one.:D

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thoughts on the proposals...

•Voluntary offseason workouts would be reduced from the current 14 weeks to five weeks or 20 days (four days a week, four-hour maximum per day).
this could probably be compromised on. they could meet somewhere in the middle on this one and both be happy.

• Significantly reduced contact between players during training camp with four practices a week consisting of helmetless and padless periods.
language on this is funny. i don't know if they are trying to get training camp down to 4 practices a week, but i don't see that flying at all. limit it to 5 days of practice a week and a total of 8 practices during those 5 days, with 4 of those practices being reduced contact and helmetless/padless practices seem reasonable. (yes, pulled that out of my butt)

• Two in-season bye weeks.
makes sense.

• Expanded rosters from the current 53 to 56 or 57, in addition to practice squads.
definitely need to do this.

• Increased pro-rated salaries for players under contract.
sure, why not?

• Reduction of the amount of games players need to become vested to qualify for post-career health care and pension benefits."
considering the attention that the league is now paying to trying to protect players from long term injuries or at least limit the damage, this seems like a logical next step.

"Unrelated to the 18-game schedule, also remaining on the table are proposals from each side to include a rookie hard wage scale that could be in effect as early as the 2011 draft. However, whereas the owners want the $200 million on projected rookie wage savings redistributed with $100 million to improved retired player pensions and health care and the remaining $100 million to simply be available in the system with an increased pay-for-performance pool, the union wants the owners to match the $100 million savings on retired players."
seems like a fair compromise to me.
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