Image via WikipediaI think the doors unlock soon, but let us proceed with caution. As I always say, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.
Core solutions this is the time for horse trading of links on the table, which means an opportunity for concessions are made, and opportunity for emotions run high yet again.
Some of the problems still play in the way we are close to the finish line:
Resolution of Brady v. NFL: If the eighth circuit allows the NFL lock continue for an indefinite period, which was the death knell for any strategy to this pending by the time it takes to go to court. While players have a strong case, the court calendar is their nemesis.
Resolution television lockout financing case: Judge Doty awarded bronze lockout financing not made of the owners at the expense of TV revenue maximizing. Players will argue for this award; Owner view them as part of the global settlement.
Resolution of unpaid 2010 benefits: the pros and cons for an uncapped 2010 year was one of the owners opportunity, benefits, an amount of 320 million US dollars ($ 10 million per team) store. Players will argue, the entire amount, restore, or at least some of them; Owners consider it as an important trade-off for the not limited 2010.
Franchise-day protection for the plaintiff name: this is perhaps an argument "it does not hurt to questions," how the owner was asking for rights right of first refusal for free agents.
Other outstanding issues include: retrospective application of the personal behavior policies while the workers of compensation rules limit in each State, the "Legacy Fund" to determine the amount and source of funding for past - and future - retired players, drug-testing in the application and discipline/appeals, etc..
Again, is not to say the listing of these issues, a business is not going to happen, but all in negotiations know that close problems are important and often difficult. The return of the intermediary Arthur Boylan is key to the resolution of these outstanding issues.
Breakthroughs
Even though the rookie pay structure took to negotiate a long time and received much attention, we have known for years that the top picks in the draft would be sacrificed; the only problem was how much and for how long. That problem was important, but not one of the two breakthrough questions, how to see them:
The revenue split
The players have their formula; the owners have their percentage.
According to previous accounting methods, the Setoffs and credits in $1 billion contain above - the players were able to simplify the pot from which the income is divided money: all revenueregardless of billing, credits, etc..
All along was to the percentages, player request/demand equal partners with owner and still be split 50/50 . The owner balked, saying that 50 / 50 was the previous formula had worked out and was the reason for their opt-out of the agreement. Required to / them better.
You got it, a few percentage points, worth about $ 200 million now, extract, and rises. Owners get around 52% and 48% provisions in the future for owners have to take a higher in certain sales targets, although players have capital protection immersion under 46.5% with their share never (owner's initial offer was 42%).
It is an interesting twist of this year's revenue split, with the proportion of the player or team CAP, expected to be about $ 120 million. Take a player on their roster and contact a $3 million "Exception" , his cap free of charge to reduce can by this amount. And in 2012, they apply a $1.5 million "exception" , a player CAP to reduce free of charge by that amount. These were concessions by owners to players a 4.5 million dollar per team give gift to conclude the agreement even though the guaranteed spend (see below) to the number of $120 million is predicated
Except for this $3 million this year to DeMaurice Smith and the NFLPA "sell", that the CAP number gleiche-is 123 million US dollars , as it was in 2009, in the last year with a Cap.
Spend the guaranteed
NFLPA guide me question what should be their priority, I replied: "get cash CAP spending." Cap numbers have no significance without quality assurance that will spend teams of the number (I know, I managed a CAP).
The NFLPA seems to have reached this important profit. The cap on a league-wide basis, which means that they must together about spending $ 3.8 billion (higher in the coming years) with cash have a "guaranteed spend" bar of 99% teams now.
It is important to note, that in the end, not the beginning of the year, will be charged expenses so that teams need not free agent spending spree, to fulfill your request; You can this player by resignation core during the whole season.
So, although that was somewhat lower than be CAP in 2009, the owners must spend now, that number. The present system, not entrust.
More than anything else, these two issue resolutions have led an agreement us to the abyss. We will flesh out more, if we get more details. Stay tuned.
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