"But we just wanna play football... (and get a pay raise)"

As any football fan knows the lockout is in a stay...barring players and teams from contact and keeping paychecks from the players. But don't look know, the upstanding and youthful players are showing those greedy old owners who's boss by holding their own workouts.....or are they.

This could be the dumbest thing I've seen in a while from the players. While players like Wes Welker are tweeting how "nice" it is to have time-off and how they are actually enjoying life without football for the first time since they first strapped on cleets, Brees and many other guys are displaying how this lockout for them is "just about playing football and not about money."

PUH-LEEEZ...first of all, OTA's, the part of football they are missing at the moment because of said lockout, are one of the things players are trying to get removed in the new CBA. That's right, the very thing they are pretending to enjoy for the "sake of the game", they are trying to eliminate at the same time. Also, Brees, who has been showing off his player organized practice, is the very type of veteran that usually skips OTA's in the first place. In reality, almost no veterans attend OTAs, it's basically a rookie camp for most teams. In fact, most veterans find any and all ways to skip as many training camps as possible...remember Brett Favre and his special deal. If it was about playing and not money, why is there so much time being spent talking about how to spilt up these 9billion$? If it's not about money then the player's shouldn't really care.

Some players like GB's AJ Hawk even called out the camps today saying he's "not impressed" and "not worried"about his own team. He even said other players have called the practices "disasters" with bad high school fields and bad equipment. He made it seem like they were more a way for players to converse in the offseason rather than working out.

Bottom line is this, we all know that this IS about the money for both sides. Theses are millionaire players that think they deserve more money and all these practices are for is to put on the "we just wanna play football" face on for the media. If you just wanted to play football, make the deal. If it's about money, stop acting like you are the poor little underpaid athletes that are in it for the love of the game...believe me, no one thinks you less as players, we just see you as less honest.