Players Union should go for NO Draft, Free Agents

This post is bs.  We are all dumber for having to read it.  Please remove this CBS...

The NBA is thriving under such a program...  The money has reached astronomical proportions, and the NFL is the only sport where your first contract is generally your largest.  This is a joke.

For every Jerry Rice and Terrell Owens, who scrape their way into the league on a FA/minimum contract, you have 3-4 Charles Rogers/Mike Williams types who cash in and underperform....

All I'm sayin is this.  I've never seen so much money go to players yet to earn it on the pro level...  This is a lot like gambling for NFL execs.

The saved money should absolutely not go back into the owner's pockets...  If Gene Upshaw had a brain and a desire to keep his job he ought to find a way to redistribute annual savings into a trust for retired veterans...  The families of battered and scarred former players sure would appreciate it...

Obviously getting rid of the draft would make at least 10 teams never competitive ever again and that will never happen but the draft has made both owners and the players a lot of money thanks to the parity of today's NFL.  The owners don't really have a choice when signing their rookies.  Saying that owners don't have to sign those rookies to that much money if they don't want to is the same argument as saying that Aaron Rogers didn't have to sign his contract if he wasn't happy with it either.  If the Packers didn't have to pay their draft picks as much money there might be more left over for Rogers.  The high rookie contracts are also eating away at the potential money that Rogers can expect on his next contract too.  The bottom line is that the dues paying members should be the ones who's interests are protected, not rookies who may never play a down in the NFL.  Getting rid of the draft isn't the solution though.  It would cost all players money in the long run if they did away with the draft and let people sign wherever they want to because the league wouldn't be balanced anymore so that's not the solution. 

Lots of professions make you prove yourself before you earn real money.  Call it an internship, practicum, articling, journeyman, whatever.  The draft and a rookie salary cap is great for the sport, which helps everyone involved except those players who don't deserve the money in the first place.  I've never heard of a union paying people different starting wages.  I've seen unions fight to make sure the most imcompetent person makes as much as the best employee in the company, but I've never seen one fight to protect the right to single someone out and pay them more.

Your proposal of no draft and only free agency would make the problem worse, not better. The top athletes will be involved in a bidding war with the player accepting the highest bid to play for a team, causing owners and teams to pay more and more money. Half the league would suck if you were able to pick your own team.  And your last sentence only strengthens the argument FOR Jake Long............"Rodgers didn't have a choice of who he was going to play with so he should be paid according to his potential and not what he has done".....................that is what is happening now!!!!! The teams with the worst records get the top picks, and they are losing teams. The players chosen don't have a choice, and THEY ARE NOW being paid based on their potential.

Your post doesn't make any sense at all.