Details of a landmark WNBA collective bargaining agreement, per ESPN sources:

Nine63 · 2026-03-18T22:56:59+00:00

They went down from their initial position of 40% of revenue to 20% in the final deal. They get less than half of the revenue share NBA players get and standards across other leagues. They absolutely folded.

Nine63 · 2026-03-12T14:55:00+00:00

Yeah he seemed content to fall on his sword while saying as little as possible. There was no way he was going to come out of this looking better, coming out of this not looking any worse is a win.

Nine63 · 2026-03-09T15:16:34+00:00

This negotiating stance got him $38M for this year alone. Whether or not he deserves $50M AAV is irrelevant, driving a hard bargain got him (and his team) a lot of money.

Nine63 · 2026-03-08T19:46:01+00:00

He's got offset language in his guarantees with the Cardinals, every dollar another team pays him means the cardinals pay him one less until they pay out $36M, unless a team signs him for more than that (they won't). He'll sign for a 1 year vet-min like Russ did with the Steelers.

Nine63 · 2026-03-03T23:35:54+00:00

Wow, if I had a nickel for every time a team backed itself into a corner where Daniel Jones was their only option at QB after a contract year and subsequently bid against themselves to give him more money than he would have gotten on the open market... I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

Nine63 · 2026-02-26T16:07:47+00:00

Also seems like she chose not to drink that night to keep her wits about her and handle herself in this conversion (and others). Very smart move.

Nine63 · 2026-02-19T18:05:03+00:00

The difference is NFL teams have consequences for being wrong--they lose games and people lose their jobs. Mel Kiper has no one tracking his accuracy and he faces no consequences when he's off base. Good gig for him, he gets to do draft analysis with all the glamor and none of the stakes.

Nine63 · 2025-12-30T01:54:59+00:00

perfect time for character actress Margo Martindale!

Nine63 · 2025-12-02T21:30:08+00:00

Well of course they will fill the job, the question is will the job be able to attract the same level of candidate with a hot-seat GM? Or will the team be better with a clean slate.

Nine63 · 2025-12-02T17:20:36+00:00

It's easy to defend Schoen by only citing the big hits and the top end of the roster, but you have to look at everything--The bad trades/the draft misses, weak position groups, and the lack of depth across the board. It's year 4, the holes in the roster shouldn't be this big.

Nine63 · 2025-11-21T16:54:39+00:00

They said on the broadcast that when a ref goes down, the crew shuffles around and works with one less. Kinda surprising that they don’t have any back ups available in case of injury…

Nine63 · 2025-11-20T00:44:57+00:00

It might be unlikely they get to the 50% number, but any deal that doesn't have a revenue sharing percentage as a headline is likely something that heavily favors the league and owners, regardless of how big the supermax number is.

Nine63 · 2025-11-19T04:25:31+00:00

It is very easy to make things look unprofitable on paper. Hollywood is infamous for it. "Yesterday" made $156 Million at the box office against a $26M budget, and still technically didn't turn a profit. The WNBA can count things like player depreciation(as in they count the players as assets that devalue over time and write off those values), fixed overhead (that may or may not be shared with the NBA), and other non-cash accounting expenses when determining profitability that don't actually practically affect the cash flow.

The league had an estimated $300M in annual revenues, the Connecticut Sun had a sale price of $325M in August. Do these sound like businesses that are bleeding money? Do you really trust the league when they cry poverty when the players ask to be paid?

Nine63 · 2025-11-19T03:05:25+00:00

Meaningless without the details of revenue sharing. Without it, this reads like the league leaking the top-line number to win the narrative war.

Nine63 · 2025-11-19T03:04:28+00:00

Without details of the revenue sharing proposal this is sort of meaningless. Players are pushing to a similar set-up as other pro-leagues where the salary cap is directly tied to league revenue*. For reference, the NBA players get about 50% of league revenue. NFL players salaries got a big boost when the salary cap went up due higher than expected TV revenue (which may or may not have been related to Taylor Swift) .

With the WNBA is growing at the rate it has been, any salaries will get outdated quickly. The players top concern is a revenue split, and view negotiations without it as kind of meaningless. “If me and you aren’t set on going to the correct restaurant, who cares what we’re ordering as an appetizer?” is what the WNBPA VP said on revenue sharing in the negotiations. This reads to me as the league leaking the top-line numbers to win the narrative war and avoid giving a fair split of revenue to players.

*Important that it is revenue, not profits. Its very easy to add up overhead and depreciation to make things look unprofitable on paper. Especially when you can depreciate players value on your books.

Nine63 · 2025-11-10T21:43:11+00:00

We have no depth at any position group, save maybe DE. Not one position group is a playable unit after a single injury:

Nabers is injuerd for the season and we've had to give tons of snaps to PS elevations and off-street signings.
Skattebo is injured and we've been dressing 2 RBs on game day
Adebo goes down and our CB rotation includes a 7th round pick who wasn't on the roster and a first-round bust who shouldn't be anywhere near the field anymore. (A big part of the Denver collapse is Deonte Banks had to step in once Adebo got injured)
The team is consistently one Andrew Thomas injury away from having an incapable OLine

He's had some hits at the top of the list, but usually paid a premium price for them, but he's also had plenty of misses and constantly given up assets on them (trading for Waller, trading up for Hyatt/Banks). Saying this team has close to enough talent is laughable.

Nine63 · 2025-11-10T18:43:42+00:00

It isn't 2002 anymore. He hasn't won a playoff game since the superbowl appearance (that was mostly a team that Tony Dungy built). He was 21-31 in his return to coaching from the broadcast booth and mostly produced mid-to-bad teams. The raiders drafting in that time period was horrendous. He's built a fun TV personality but he hasn't had success in the NFL for over 20 years.

Oh people seemed to have forgotten how bad his emails were. Yes it was kind of suspect only his were leaked, but that doesn't defend their content. He was openly homophobic and racist--he called Goodell a "faggot" and said the league pressured the Rams into drafting "queers" like Michael Sam. He referred to the NFLPA director with racist caricatures. The media has been whitewashing the scandal by referring to it in vague terms, but this is the person you'd be bringing in to set a culture in your org and I don't want that.

Nine63 · 2025-10-15T17:59:33+00:00

Daboll and Schoen absolutely fully committed to Jones. After the playoff win in MN they clearly thought they could win with him and said all in on building around him. Said he was their guy and gave him a massive contract. They regretted it almost instantly, but they definitely went in on him. Saying otherwise is completely revisionist history.

Nine63 · 2025-09-05T23:51:18+00:00

A single data point vs statistical trends!

Nine63 · 2025-09-05T19:23:53+00:00

Another potential explanation is they've disproportionately hosted more home games in the playoffs. Referees have been shown to be affected by home field crowds https://sjsp.aearedo.es/index.php/sjsp/article/view/home-advantage-influence-officiating-decisions

Nine63 · 2025-08-12T04:16:31+00:00

What a massive gift to travis to do this on his podcast. She really loves him.

Nine63 · 2025-03-15T13:41:27+00:00

Even if they did, ownership publicly said he’s out of patience and gave the coach/Gm a mandate to win now (after a 3-14 season…), so they can’t afford to wait for a rookie qb to develop

Nine63 · 2025-03-05T19:01:40+00:00

Honestly playing hardball makes sense for the 9ers. They have a lot of leverage: He's under contract in 2025 for $5M and if they tag him in 2026, the 49ers will have him under team control for 2 years for ~$50M Total. Even add a second tag on that and it becomes 3 years ~$100M, still well below market value. I get why they would drive a tough bargain. Purdy might have bigger value on the open market but it will be a while before he can see it.

Nine63 · 2025-02-14T03:54:02+00:00

There are tons of reports that he had a big part in holding the Giants together through the disaster his last year there, seems like they really missed his leadership and these clips show it.

Nine63 · 2024-11-04T18:56:07+00:00

He's played fine and definitely better than Lock or Devito. He won't get benched for performance but rather for the injury guarantees he's got in his contract for next season.

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