zombiewizardhawk
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Oh god, I could see them doing that to promote their games in other countries nonsense.
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Oh god, I could see them doing that to promote their games in other countries nonsense.
Sterling
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I mean you have to do something having half of the teams have an extra home game is bad.
Fight
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I like the extra teams in the playoffs, not sure about the 17th game. If they do it, they should get rid of a pre-season game.
The new playoff format would give us 13 total playoff games, including the Superbowl. It would give the best team in the conference a real advantage over everyone else, being the only team to get a bye. I like all that.
The new playoff format would give us 13 total playoff games, including the Superbowl. It would give the best team in the conference a real advantage over everyone else, being the only team to get a bye. I like all that.
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Merrith
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I'm pretty sure the 17th regular season game essentially comes with there only being 3 preseason games (so removing one).
Sterling
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Who knew a union would balk at such a small increase in compensation for a 6.25 percent increase in work?!?!
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Sterling
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Projected cap is 201.2 million. Prorating the cap/salaries for the extra game would be an increase of 12.6+ million. 250k is a joke. Also if they did the extra game as neutral field foreign games, that could be very exciting. Imagine watching Jacksonville vs Detroit live from Moscow!!
Merrith
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But overall salaries would increase because owners are offering a bigger percentage of the overall pie if players agree to a 17th game. I saw some numbers like player share going from 48% to 48.5%. 0.5% seems small, but I read it amounted to $5 billion. Obviously that's spread among all NFL players, but still should be a decent amount.
Sterling
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Sure, the cap thing might work, but they'll have to work out a lot of details like if they're going to prorate existng contracts and all that stuff.
Merrith
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I would assume the owners are just offering a straight up increase to the cap relative to overall revenue.
Sources: 14 playoff teams likely in new NFL CBA
Okay, I had that wrong it isn't just a 0.5% increase.
Also apparently playoff teams on bye weren't getting paid for the bye week, but they would now (of course, it would be 2 less teams).
Edit: Sorry, it IS 0.5% for agreeing to 17th game, but they're already going to get another 1% anyways.
Also...if they go to 17 game seasons, how do they determine who gets 9 home games versus 8.
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jooka
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NFLPA executive committee votes 6-5 against recommending CBA proposal
After NFL owners approved a proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement on Thursday, attention shifted to players as they need to approve any deal before it can go into place.
profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
Shot down, for now or maybe not.
Sterling
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every team plays a neutral field game. so they can do 16 foreign games or games in other regions or whatever.
meStevo
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The 250k cap is only on existing contracts, so in 2021 that's already only 200 players (who make more than $4.250m and would make less than their standard per game salary). It would be significantly less between now and when a 17th game is actually implemented.
jooka
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Merrith
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That's...a lot of neutral field games. Also who would each team be playing that extra game? Right now at 16 playing each team in your division twice (6), plus all the teams from another in conference division (4), all the teams from an out of conference division (4), and the teams from the other 2 divisions within your own conference that finished in the same place as you did the previous year (2) works out pretty well. They just going to add another division game where you would play someone 3 times, or some other random opponent?
Sterling
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Could just be a game vs other conference of division ranking the way they do from the other 2 same conference divisions. Obviously the foreign game thing is made up, but it does seem like the league seems all about having more of those games anyways. All the foreign games being an AFC vs NFC team of equal division rankings across the board.
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