saintswhodi |
05-12-2006 09:45 AM |
How exactly do you designate someone as a franchise player, then not trade them as a franchise player? That doesn't even sound right. If you designate a player with the franchise tag, THAT'S IT. If you remove the tag, that player becomes an unrestricted free agent, and teams can't trade unrestricted free agents. Wow. Price was traded as the franchise player. Also, a player that is franchised DOES NOT have to sign the offer. Corey Simon was franchised with the Eagles up until when, the start of the season, when they finally removed it and he was free to sign with Cleveland, cause he refused to sign it. Wow again. If we franchised Bentley, WE WOULD HAVE TRADED HIM, and did not have to receive two firsts.
Any explanation for Shaun Alexander, Darren Howard, and Edge James?
As far as the top 10 players for a transition tag goes:
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Section 4. Required Tender for Transition Players:
(a) Any Club that designates a Transition Player shall be deemed on the first day of the League Year following the expiration of the player’s last contract to have automatically tendered the player a one year NFL Player Contract for the average of the ten largest Prior Year Salaries for players at the position at which he played the most games during the prior League Year, or 120% of his Prior Year Salary, whichever is greater. The tender may be withdrawn at any time, but if such tender is withdrawn, the player immediately becomes an Unrestricted Free Agent and thereafter is completely free to negotiate and sign a Player Contract with any Club, and any Club shall be completely free to negotiate and sign a Player Contract with such player, without any penalty or restriction, including, but not limited to, Draft Choice Compensation between Clubs or First Refusal Rights of any kind, or any signing period.
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Anything else? We would not have been stuck with Bentley, as bad as he wanted to go, and as bad as Cleveland wanted him. Even a third round pick would have been better than nothing. And they gave him a HUGE contract, so they obviously wanted him bad.
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