Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is not happy about NFL players' negotiations with team owners, and he let the world know in an Instagram story Thursday, as tweeted by Rick Stroud:

In the story, Brady references a recent report by Forbes that stated that, despite the drop in revenue largely caused by last year's awkward season due to COVID-19, the average value of NFL franchises went up by 14%. And, despite the increase in team value, the NFLPA still voted through a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) recently that would drop team salary caps by 20% league-wide.

Of course, this hurts the players, while helping the owners. While Tom is correct in that players are getting the short end of the stick in these negotiations with owners, it's not nearly as simple as voting to veto every iteration of a CBA that isn't fair.

When the relationship between owners and players goes south and strike ensues, most players don't have the financial cushion that Brady has to sit out games and forego his pay in the objective of creating a fair financial balance.

To further this point, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith finalized negotiations with owners on the most recent CBA, and at the time, Brady lauded Smith for his work in attempting to represent players as best he could.

Let's face it: the owners have all of the leverage in financial negotiations, and they always will. Tom Brady's heart is certainly in the right place, but, ironically, it seems a bit naive of him as well to believe that reasonable change is as simple as declining a vote.