Drew Brees Tweets Today

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I don't like propaganda Drew. It's so unbecoming.

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I don't like propaganda Drew. It's so unbecoming

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To our fans - I give you my word that we as players are doing everything we can to negotiate with the NFL towards a fair deal

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The player's offer was for a flat fixed rate of 50%. The owners just want to increase that offset. Why? This is what doesn't make sense. When it was learned that TV money represented $4B, coupled with the league's design to add two games, seemed fairly clear that $500m was the target, and they were just starting out at $1B. No way do they ask the players to play 2 more games and give back money on top of that. But I don't get why the owners keep pushing that damn offset increase rather than co-opting that fixed rate proposal by the players.

When the old CBA was ratified total revenue was ~$6B. Minus the $1B offset, multiplied by the player's rate of 59.5%, the players were getting 49.6% of total revenues. If the cap had continued, with projections of $9B in total revenue, under the same terms the players would be getting 52.9% of TR.

If the owners bottom dollar deal is an additional $500M in offset, then with all CBA things remaining the same, the player's cut of TR would be.......... 49.6%. Exactly the same as the last CBA they grew to hate and opt out of. Hit the reset button. So if the owners get what they want, what happens a few years from now when revenues crest $13B? They're right back to the same spot they are today, crying about their chintzy offset, duking out another CBA showdown.

Why are the owner's so committed to pressing for an increased fixed offset that won't grow porportionally to increased revenues? And just puts them right back in the same untenable spot a few years from now?

If the issue for the owners is not so much the present, but the future, as you suggest, then I don't understand their obsession with a regressive offset. And I don't get why they don't just jump on the player's offer of a flat 50%.

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A little while ago, I saw the horrifying images of a debris-filled Tsunami swallowing pristine farm land in Japan. And as news of more and more lives lost emerges, the message to the men gathering at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in D.C. became obvious. Guys, it’s time to gain some perspective. There are far, far bigger problems in the world than figuring out how to carve up a $9 billion pie. Failure to work this out, especially against the backdrop of an enormous humanity crisis in Japan, could trigger a dramatic fan backlash. And as the two parties jockey for ways to place blame on each other, the truth is that everyone will lose if reason and common sense and goodwill don’t prevail. Prevail they should. It’s time for Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith to earn their millions and rise above the noise and behave as the stewards of the game that they are. Or at least that they’re supposed to be. If they can’t, then maybe they simply aren’t the right men for the jobs they hold.

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Love Drew but don't like the quote. He's not saying that he's concerned about the fans. He's implying that if they don't get what they want then it doesn't matter when or if the season starts.

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