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PHDram
i understand your point but this situation happens all the time regardless of a pandemic. companies often ask employees to take pay cuts in bad times and some companies (maybe not as many) offer bonuses in good times. its really just the nature of business. not granted the nfl is a little different because its essentially a monopoly. if i didnt like the cut i could try and go somewhere else. a player could go play in canada but its not quite the same.
For reasons you state and others, the typical employee/employer relationship is not a perfectly analogous situation. In bad times, employees can typically be laid off in bad times. Here, they can't really do that so that's another difference.
However, the weightiest point in my mind is what Albany pointed out earlier. 2021 salaries are based on league revenues in 2020. So if they are asking the players to take a hit this year and play under a reduced cap in 2021, they are asking them to pay twice. That would seem fair to me if the owners were treating them as equal partners. But they're not.