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Posted On: 3/7/11

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Aaron Wilson

Owners and Players still remain miles apart

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is one of the more influential members of the NFL Labor Committee.

And he won't be present for next week's collective bargaining agreement negotiations with the players' union in Washington, D.C.

According to the Boston Globe, Kraft will be traveling to Israel and the United Kingdom next week for a trade mission.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello wrote on Twitter: "There's phone service in Israel."

According to Yahoo! Sports, Kraft recently got angry at NFL outside counsel Bob Batterman for talking in "legalese platitudes," instead of real talk.

The other nine members of the labor committee are Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy, San Diego Chargers owner Dean Spanos, Pittsburgh Steelers team president Art Rooney II, Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, New York Giants owner John Mara, Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen.

A league source told me that the two sides remain "miles apart" on several key issues.

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jws
Posted On: 3/7/11 9:57 am

Both sides can talk forever and UNTIL both sides give in and comprimise this will end at some point and a lockout will happen. Items that should be agreed to and would work are:
1. A 50-50 revenue sharing of TV money after 1.5 billion comes off 2.A salary cap for rookies with contract length 3 years for first two rounds of drafted players and 4-5 years for all other college players.Take the money that was spend the last 3 drafts and average out the total. Take what the new total college salary cap scale will be and subtract that from what college players were getting. Whatever the diffrence is take half give it to retired players fund and put the other half into the players share of the revenue sharing pot.
3. No 17 or 18 game schedule the fisrt two years of new agreement. Year three 17 games and year four 18 game schedule.No buyout option of new CBA agreement.
4. Free agent for all veterans after 5 years.
5. All players getting up front bonus money must sign an agreement to pay back on a pro-rated scale up front bonus money for any arrest that leads to a conviction or plea deal in the courts.