You need to educate yourself on the subject. At the
very least, read the thread.
Facts:
1.
Owners started planning this lockout over 2 years ago - not the players - in their TV contract negotiations, breaking the CBA they were under, and in order to help them and harm the players in the event of a lockout. IE. They could perform a lockout and have money to outlast the players with to force them into their demands.
The owners are begging Doty to not unseal those court docs, btw.... hmmm wonder why? :Tool:
Begging?
2.
The owners didn't even approach the table until Judge Doty ruled against them on the lockout money.
3.
Joe Banner confirms that even the infamous 'final proposal', the owners never expected the players to agree to it. But you contend the owners are seriously negotiating and the players are not?!
You can not be serious. The Owners did not make better offer? Yes they already knew the players would not except, because?
4. Again, the 2009 numbers worked out such that the owners received
47% of the total pot, and the players 53%. The owners first proposal would have flipped those numbers to
53% owners, 47% players.
Now check this out:
53 - 47 = 6 - that's the 'gap' there.
6 / 2 ( ya know, half way ) is... drum roll.... 3! Add 3 to one side, sub from the other and you get.... you guessed it!
50/50! Which is exactly what the players counter offered with,
to which the owners GOT UP AND WALKED OUT ON, then THEY turned around and filed charges against the NFLPA for "not negotiating in good faith".
Since when is meeting halfway "not negotiating in good faith"? Wouldn't WALKING OUT on an offer to meet half way be "not negotiating in good faith"?
Benefit package for players, former and current what side of that 50/50 was it coming from?
Seriously, this information is out there for consumption, even in this very thread. The least you could do is offer counters to it if you're going to make the outlandish statements you did above.