The whole "Pay the man" mahantra is stupidity at it's core. The agreement between the Players Union and the NFL says that a certain percentage has to be paid out to the players. The pie is the pie, there is no more, there is no less. That means that the more the next guy gets paid, the less there is for you. To me, players should be inline with, "Pay the man a fair amount", more so then just pay the man.
JMO
Fair amount is open to interpretation. I think Booger's fair amount might be a little different than Prescott's fair amount.
What would be fair to me would be a pot o money for each game, 65% to the winner and 35% to the loser and let them divvy it up as they see fit. The cap is 191M x 32 =6,112,000,000 x 95% = 5,806,400,000 / 512 games = 11,340,000 per game. Players that want to double their game check? Win, getting paid just to play is silly, they get half for that. 305M for the playoffs, that's some serious money to be playing for, they could have 20M per playoff game and a 100M for the SB.