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In a sense, though, the NFLPA is in partnership with the owners. The CBA says the players get 48% of league revenues. Times have been good and the salary cap has gone up as a result for as long as I can recall. 2020 will be a down year and the cap will be impacted accordingly.
Maybe it makes sense for the two sides to figure out a better way to handle things than having a $200M cap this year when revenues are down and then a $150M cap next year (or whatever it turns out to be) in a year when hopefully revenues are back to normal. But regardless of what they do the players in reality are partners with the league.
Ok I can see this perspective. But it doesn't sound like in this scenario they are being asked to take a hit this year and next.
The hit this year would be voluntary, the hit next year would be forced. This year they are being asked to give up money. Next year the lower cap will force that to happen.
The simple solution would be to agree that 2021 is an exception and the cap that year either stays the same or goes up by a reasonable and agreed upon amount.
They can then pro-rate 2020 while keeping 2021 the same.
