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Every NFL offseason there comes a period of time where the NBA is rolling through free agency, handing out ma sive contracts to some questionable players. Things like "" happen and NFL players get all kinds of miffed about it.It's hard to blame the players, because NBA contracts, like those in baseball, are fully guaranteed. NFL contracts? Not so much. cornerback , , believes players need to "be willing Antonio Hamilton Jersey  to strike" if they want to get the kind of contracts that NBA players get in free agency."Oh, 100 percent," Sherman said on ESPN before the ESPY's. "If we want as the NFL, as a union, to get anything done, players have to be willing to strike. That's the thing that guys need to 100 percent realize.  "You're going to have to mi s games, you're going to have to lose some money if you're willing to make the point, because that's how MLB and NBA got it done. They mi sed games, they struck, they flexed every bit of power they had, and it was awesome. It worked out for them."Sherman isn't nece sarily wrong. It will very likely require a strike for NFL players to get bigger contracts. But there are some built-in problems here that  DeAndre Hopkins Jersey can't nece sarily just be .For starters, it is substantially harder for the entire NFL players union to organize  Eno Benjamin Jersey a strike than it is for other sports. There are 53-man rosters to start the season and there is a middle cla s of veteran players who might be le s than enthused about mi sing a bunch of paychecks in order to help out the greater good. Put another way: it is much easier for a guy who has a huge contract to suggest mi sing paychecks. Everyone has to be willing to mi s out on that money and convincing everyone to do that would be difficult.  Secondly, there is the matter of how contracts would be adjusted if they were fully guaranteed. NFL players a sume they would immediately receive the same contracts they have now, albeit with fully guaranteed money acro s the board. That's not the case at all. NFL teams will not give players five-year contracts that are fully guaranteed. The injury risk is too great and the slope is too slippery in terms of skill level dropping off in the NFL.NBA teams are constantly fighting the i sues that come with ma sive contracts that turned out to be a disaster. Look at the this offseason, being willing to take on in exchange for , who inexplicably was given a four-year, $50 million contract by Charlotte previously. The Howard trade was good for the Hornets but only because they Larry Fitzgerald Jersey  dumped that disaster of a Plumlee deal.As it is in the NFL right now, teams can get out of these deals and move on from players who drop off in terms of skill level. The teams in the league aren't simply going to Zach Allen Jersey  keep handing out the same contracts just because they're fully guaranteed, not with a hard salary cap. There is a larger point here about the NFL liking parity and the problems that ma sive contracts could cause as well.  In short, yes, NFL players probably need to be willing to mi s games if they want to get better contracts. But it is going to be really difficult for that to happen in the first place, and the result might not be quite as exciting as the players hope it would be.