Mike Florio

The moment the Raiders are good, it's going to become a huge problem.

And, you know, the other theory is that the effort by the commanders in the NFC championship game a year ago, which involved them going offside multiple times to the point where referee Sean Hockley had to threaten them with invoking the palpably unfair act rule, which has never been used in the history of the league to award the Eagles a touchdown if they did it again.

you know, do this one more time and I'm going to turn this car around and drive home, basically.

I think that display got the commissioner's attention and caused him to say, we've got to get rid of this.

And I think that was beyond anything else, jealousy of the Eagles, whatever.

I think the jealousy of the Eagles fueled it.

I think the moment where it started was that game.

And that's what prompted the league to get the Packers to make the proposal that ultimately failed.

But by only two votes.

Last May during one of the quarterly meetings, they meet every March, May, October, and December.

The commissioner always does a press conference.

When he was talking to reporters last May, he deviated without a question into this notion that we spent a lot of time today talking about the salary cap.

Is it working?

Is it something that needs to be looked at?

It's like, where's this coming from?

Nobody even asked you about the salary cap.

That was his signal that the owners are looking at this 50-50 split, I believe, and realizing as the numbers keep going up and up, the salary caps mushroomed from 182.5 million per team in 2021 to 301.2 million today.

A 50-50 revenue share eventually gets to a point where

management says why are we doing this and i think we're at that point and i think that becomes part of the leverage to get the players to agree to 18 regular season games and 16 international games that gets discussed by folks like robert kraft the patriots owner as a given and i think that sooner than later the nfl is going to reach out to the union now that it has a new executive director in jc treanor and the nfl is going to say here's our offer

Take it now or it's going to get worse.