pbmax
10-30-2009, 11:55 PM
Bedard, in his Friday notes column, reiterates something that Jerry Jones said when talking to some media during a Cowboy-Viking preseason game. Essentially, that local revenue sharing was going away with this CBA, and for this reason among others, the Vikings needed a new home.
Now Jerry doesn't like local revenue sharing, and neither do some of the other richer franchises, but that doesn't mean he has the votes to end it alone. And this may have been a threat made as part of a stunt to drum up a panic about the Vikings future. However, the expanded cut of the pie the players got in the last CBA (59.2% versus 56% previously) was made possible by sharing local revenue. Otherwise smaller revenue teams would have been hamstrung coming up with the money (assuming they were interested in spending the maximum).
So if Jerry, Danny and Victor Kiam (that's a joke son) promise Ralph Wilson and Wayne Weaver that their players costs will go back down to 56%, they might have just the bauble to lure other owners into supporting a lockout and the end of shared local revenues.
This is just speculation, but there must be more in play than player costs. Teams are so far below the cap that no team will be spending the maximum (not even the Cowboys or the Redskins) this year. And this makes no sense if there is no Salary Cap next year, as they can't push unspent cap dollars TWO years into the future.
Now Jerry doesn't like local revenue sharing, and neither do some of the other richer franchises, but that doesn't mean he has the votes to end it alone. And this may have been a threat made as part of a stunt to drum up a panic about the Vikings future. However, the expanded cut of the pie the players got in the last CBA (59.2% versus 56% previously) was made possible by sharing local revenue. Otherwise smaller revenue teams would have been hamstrung coming up with the money (assuming they were interested in spending the maximum).
So if Jerry, Danny and Victor Kiam (that's a joke son) promise Ralph Wilson and Wayne Weaver that their players costs will go back down to 56%, they might have just the bauble to lure other owners into supporting a lockout and the end of shared local revenues.
This is just speculation, but there must be more in play than player costs. Teams are so far below the cap that no team will be spending the maximum (not even the Cowboys or the Redskins) this year. And this makes no sense if there is no Salary Cap next year, as they can't push unspent cap dollars TWO years into the future.