Not sure how this makes the NFL Owners look bad other than the bias in this article.  Have yet to find a business thats objective is not making money.  I also don't know of many sustainable business models that rely on deep pockets of owners to sustain their growth and development.  Do the players pay the staff?  Build the weight rooms/facilities? Investigate and research health issues and cover pensions?  Nope.  This is the conversation then: Player:'We want everything to grow and be better for us but any profit comes to us'    Uhhhh, I know you all have 4-year degrees but where the **** did you learn math?

Who absorbs the loss if they dont reach expected revenues?  Thats right the owners.
The cap is based on the projected revenues correct?  So players give back money if those revenue numbers aren't hit?  Didn't think so.  So again all the risk the owners assume gets them nothing in the end.
It is appalling to me that the players win out on both ends as the next years cap would include the new projections based on the last year revenue and get 1/2 the the profits from last year.  Sort of double dipping isn't it?  Getting paid on the front and back end for something somebody else pays for.  Awesome deal being an owners these days.

To think when I was younger all I wanted was to go pro because how cool would it be getting paid doing something you love the most.  Lets see...still more fun than my day job now and minimum salary looks fine to me.