jahndoh wrote:
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The NBA's entire pay system (which has it's OWN problems) is different then the NFL. You can't put a rookie salary structure like the NBA's in the NFL without throwing out the whole CBA...which is exactly what the owner are going to threaten to do soon.
The players love the CBA, and the owners don't mind sharing, but they don't want to waste so much money on unproven players (seems reasonable).
As I mentioned on another thread though, the problem is that the rookie salaries set the scale for the following FA season.
The veterans (like vernon carey) would love to see a guy a like J. Long go first. Cuz it means that if he has a good year next year (left or right tackle) he's gonna get 30million bucks.
So yeah, the systems broken, but fixing it is not so ez as just saying rookies get "x".
I truly don't think this thing is going to be resolved until some sort of a lockout happens. This league is not going to let this go on very much longer.
The dolphins may very well be the LAST team required to mortgage such a large percentage of their payroll to a player who's never played before.
Just our luck eh!
I also heard on Sirius NFL Radio the CBA and it's increases on salary cap are actually cutting into the owners' profits, which is why they want to fix it or get rid of it.

I hope they fix it, I think it's been good for football!