What do you want to see in a new CBA?

Wanted to get a feel for what everyone is looking for in a new CBA. For example do you want the cap to come back? How should rookie contracts be handled? Basically anything you can think of. Heres my wish list

- No Salary Cap

- No Final 8 Free Agent Rule

- No Franchising players for more then 1 year

- Revenue sharing and luxury tax to help smaller market teams, though unlike baseball, teams will be forced to spend a large portion of that money specifically on player salaries, rather then "improving the product on the field."

- Rookie pay scale. I personally thought of something similar to a combination of draft position and a percentage of the franchise tag for a rookies respective position. So for example with QB's the first pick would be a 3 year contract at 25% of the franchise tag the second pick would be 24% and so on. 3 year contracts would also give small market teams one extra year to try to sign young players.

- Minimum payroll. No going Florida Marlins on the league fielding an entire team for $10 million. This kind of goes hand and hand with the revenue sharing and luxury tax.

- No extra games or playoff teams. This part of the system is fine.

- No poison pills.

- Increased emphasis on retired players.

salary high and low limits
rookie salary cap/ max amount. not to make more then x amount
Larry Bird rule. able to keep a player, like an Emmitt Smith, with only a percentage counting against the cap

A couple of things i would like to see is;

-Rookie salary caps, they are getting crazier every year. pretty soon #1 draft picks are going to cripple teams trying to stay under the team salary cap. which brings me to,

-Salary cap,there has to be an equilizer here to keep teams from just letting the most profitable teams buy there way into the playoffs.

1. Salary cap...it does keep balance and easily my biggest must have of the CBA
2. Rookie Salary cap...man this has gotten out of hand, its just stupid money for unproven players. Players union I think will give this without much of a fight
3. Can franchise tag player for only 1 year is a good one I hadnt thought of Bag. Nice

-Salary cap is fine with me but I'd like to see a 'Larry Bird' type rule replace the franchise tag. You can pay your own players by a certain percentage to exceed the cap but not restrict them from free movement.
-Rookie salary scale
-Salary floor
-Leave the season at 16 regular season games, reduce preseason to 3 games
-Allow prospective free agents to have preliminary discussions after the final game but before the start of the next league year.

1) Rookie pay scale
2) Much better benefits for retired players

More profit shareing
Rookie salary cap they make to much money for a unproven product
Better benefits for retired

Just get a deal done, I'll dissect the particulars after that

- No Salary Cap

- Minimum payroll. No going Florida Marlins on the league fielding an entire team for $10 million. This kind of goes hand and hand with the revenue sharing and luxury tax.

These two don't go together. The owner's might shut the league down before they accepted a pay floor without a pay cap.

salary high and low limits
rookie salary cap/ max amount. not to make more then x amount
Larry Bird rule. able to keep a player, like an Emmitt Smith, with only a percentage counting against the cap

I like this idea the best. I've often wondered if the nflpa & owners would find common ground on this. Seems they would, the only down side is the potential competitive advantage for teams to hold on to players, but even then we're talking about older guys. I would like it too if it allowed a few extra roster spaces for these guys.

Also agree that the season should remain 16 games, 6 playoff teams. Don't over supply the market demand by expanding. Some teams already had a hard time selling tickets this year.