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The NFLPA has made a proposal to the NFL that would cut league costs, including a three-year maximum length on rookie deals that would save $200M, but the NFL is insisting that players take a more than 20% pay cut without offering financial reasons to back it up, said Titans C and NFLPA President Kevin Mawae. “We have offered solutions. We are the ones that offered the rookie (3-year maximum length), saving $200M,” Mawae said, referring to the NFLPA’s proposal which would reduce compensation committed in multi-year contracts to rookies each year by $200M. He added, ”We introduced ideas to get (costs out of) the revenue stream. But it keeps coming back, ‘Unless you take a 20% player cost cut, we can’t do a deal.’” NFL officials were not available for comment. However, when the league was asked if it was true that it told the NFLPA that it could not do a deal unless the players agreed to a 20% cut, it said, “No.” The NFLPA is set to hold its annual Super Bowl press conference today, and although union officials would not reveal details, it is expected that the union will tell its financial story to the press corps. That story, according to Mawae and other sources, is that the NFL is essentially asking the players to shoulder more costs, including normal operating costs, without providing any financial data regarding if clubs are losing money because of their costs.

SHOW US SOME PROOF: Mawae said, “This has always been our point: You want 20% player cost cutbacks, show us the information and the data that would justify you asking to cut costs. And they haven’t done that. They have asked for an 18% rollback from players, plus the 5% that is already cut out before you figure out the total football revenue (which determines the salary cap).” Mawae is referring to the little-known fact that 5% is taken off the top for a number of expenses including “team operating and day-of-game expenses,” according to the current NFL CBA. “We found that after cost deductions and the 5% deductions, it’s almost a billion dollars that is not in the total football revenue,” he added. It has been widely reported that NFL players appear to receive the highest percentage of revenues — at just under 60% – compared to players in the other team sports. Late NFLPA Exec Dir Gene Upshaw said publicly that the players were receiving 59-60%. But in a recent letter to NFLPA player reps, NFLPA Exec Dir DeMaurice Smith wrote, “Last year, the NFL Players received 51.3% of Real Revenue.”

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