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Why don't the owners push more towards contracts based more on incentives?  

 

The answer?  contracts where 70 to 90% of the pay is based on incentives.  My guess is that those same players would play under a contract like that since they are just playing a game that a lot of us played for nothing growing up.  Maybe if their salaries were based on production the results would be different.  Of course, this will never happen with the current unions and CBA's in place, but it would be nice to see what that sort of a system would produce.

 

Yep --- they cannot do that under this CBA since that would be considered Collusion in which the Owners could be sued tremendously for such action.

 

New CBA -- players would never agree -- that would cause a long term strike in which both parties come out losers.

 

Your idea would be great for the Owners & Fans !!  Kaepernick is the perfect example of an active player got a 6-year contract valued at $114,000,000 then turned about to be worthless in the NFL.

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