Nick Swisher

Yeah, but also this is another thing that I would really love to talk to one of these owners.

that don't spend a lot of money, and ask them, because it's assumed that all of these owners that don't spend a lot on their payroll, that are at the bottom of the payroll,

want to see these other teams have a cap on them.

But I'm not sure that that's a lock because these guys get so much money from these rich teams spending over the competitive balance tax.

There's the other part of it, too, and this is what I was arguing about in 1987.

Stop negotiating...

against the the tv deals and start negotiating against the net worth of the teams themselves yeah and how they're growing so if somebody bought a team for six million dollars in 1969 how much is that team worth today sure probably and i'm talking about the bengals specifically if somebody wanted to buy them probably somewhere between

maybe four to six billion dollars for an nfl team you know with a great stadium deal now that that deal is you know doesn't come you know with all the bells and whistles of all the real estate around the stadium all that stuff that steve cohen is building over here at city field and that's where he's going to make a lot of money but uh yeah i i understand that from the players perspective that these teams aren't spending enough money

And what they should be really looking at is the net worth of each individual team, and that should be what you should be negotiating against.

Also, I mean, I don't know if you can because it's a business and it's capitalism, but it's like, can you tell an owner you have to spend this much of your revenue sharing and CBT tax money on your roster?

Well, they do that in the NFL.

They do it in the NFL.

You have to spend it on your roster?

They have a minimum.

That's why the Rams, they have a rolling three years.

And that's why the Rams had to spend money in free agency this year.

They had to catch up a little bit.

But I'm not talking about a salary floor.

What I'm talking about is the money that they get from revenue sharing and competitive balance tax.

They've got to share 49% of it or 51% of it with the players, whatever.