Last week, negotiations between the NFL owners and the NFLPA fell apart. There's also, apparently, a little vitriol between the groups. That's not shocking. But Jay Feely's mention -- on the Michael Kay Show -- of the way Panthers owner Jerry Richardson reportedly spoke to NFL icons Peyton Manning and Drew Brees during a Dallas negotiating session is terrifying for anyone who thinks a peaceful ending to labor talks is coming soon. "Jerry Richardson, the lead negotiator for the owners, he's going to criticize Peyton Manning and Drew Brees and their intelligence in our meeting Saturday?" Feely said. "And sit there and say dismissively of Manning 'Do I need to help you read a revenue chart, son? Do I need to help break that down for you because I don't know if you understand how to read that?'" Feely also pointed out that there was no "kinda" walking out by the owners during the bargaining session last week. "It's not true that they 'kinda' walked out," Feely said. "They did walk out. Logical minds can sit there and come up with a deal, but once you bring up emotion, then you get in the way of logic." Source: CBS Sports
In his defense. While peyton is a good/great NFL quarterback. He doesn't exactly strike me as to bright either. I wouldn't necessarily assume he knows how to decipher an income chart. Seems to me he was just trying to offer to help. But yeah.... since most people prefer to make it about the Panthers.....they suck.
Regardless of whether Manning or Brees knows how to read revenue chart, Richardson doesn't need to be a jerk off about it. The chart the owners are giving the players is probably a fake one any how...probably why Brees and Manning were puzzled...lol.
Brees and Manning are paid to play football. For their knowledge on the field. They're not paid to read revenue charts, they're not in the front office of the organization. They were representing a voice for some of the players in the league, so whoever that clown thinks he is, should pull his head out his own butt.
If they can't read revenue charts they shouldn't be representing the players in any kind of negotiations where they might have to read revenue charts. You're right, they get paid to play football, not read revenue charts, so don't trot them out in front of actual buisnessmen and expect anything productive to come of it. Just because they are the "faces" of football doesn't mean that they have the required skills to have any significant role in anything to do with labor negotiations. Let the dumb freaking jocks play their little game and leave the money issues to people who know what the heck they are doing. Fail by the NFLPA.
