CoPackFan posted:Leroy says:leroy butler@leap36Some powerful no votes coming out on the CBA
There are a lot of reasons for the players to hold our for more, but the dumbest thing the owners did was the say they were going to cap salaries for the extra game to $250,000. In other words, anyone already contract making over 4 million a year would be in some respects taking a pay cut to play an extra game. Rodgers and Wilson make about 30-32 million a year (2 million dollars a game). Instead of just prorating the contract on a game by game basis, they want them to take a 80-90% paycut and play that 17th game for 250K instead of 2 million. With the average payrolls the way they are 10-12 guys that would be taking paycuts on a game by game basis and the owners would just pocket that extra 12-15 million a game (400-450 million league wide)? That doesn't make any sense if you are trying to bargain in good faith.