Tennessee Titans center and NFLPA president Kevin Mawae offered up a fairly grim take on the state of labor talks between the players' union and the league Thursday. Mawae said players are being prepped to be locked out of work by owners for the 2011 season and that negotiations are stalled because owners want players to give back 20 percent of their earnings. Mawae's response came to questions from reporters regarding the state of labor talks and to comments Giants co-owner John Mara made to The New York Times on Jan. 19. "We made a proposal in early November," Mara told The New York Times. "I don't think we've received a meaningful counterproposal ?They want a deal that is equal to or better than the existing one and that is not acceptable to us." "They want 20 percent give-backs," Mawae said following the AFC Pro Bowl practice. "It's about 20 percent and the word is they've asked the players to give it back in forms of salaries. We've offered suggestions to help out with the rookie deal and giving cost credits back on any new revenue generating streams over the several years but it keeps coming back to, 'if you don't give us 20 percent back, we can't get a deal done.' "We've offered, despite what Jonathan Mara said about us not offering any viable solutions or any ideas -- that's completely false -- we've offered several of them; and they're just not willing to hear that." Mawae then offered a football analogy: "They're asking for 20 percent back and we're not going to give them 20 percent back, so I think we're a long ways away. We're probably about 80 yards away from each other, so I'd say we're both on (opposite) 10-yard lines."