a long-term contracts. There are currently four Orlando Brown,
Dalton, Schultz, Mike is sticky and Jesse Bates.
No indication that any deals are going to be done.
Before the deadline that means that
they can only sign. One-year contracts for the players who
haven't accepted the tender yet, they could in theory have
different terms. We've seen that in the past, I think we
saw it with
Albert, Haynesworth and Lance Briggs. Those are the two.
I remember where the one-year deal is signed, and there's
a clause in there that he won't be tagged next year if x y & z
happen.
So he gets a straight shot to the open market and here's
the thing, I To say for now I have more to say about it after
the deadline passes but
but
let's remember what the franchise tag is and this comes
right out of Playmakers, this is something I've been saying
for years. The franchise tag is a device made available
to the teams to keep one player year
off of the Open Market. In any given year,
you can use either the franchise tag or the transition
tag to
restrict a player's otherwise unrestricted free, AC franchise
tag, obviously it pays the player a set amount of money
if he accepts it.
If he doesn't accept it and another team signed him to
an offer sheet and the current team doesn't match the current
team gets two first round picks that rarely happens. I don't
think that's ever happened. Exactly, that way.
Usually, what happens is, there's a trade.
The other thing that can happen is
the transition tag, which just gives the team a right to match
and nothing more. Just get a right to match, no
compensation. If the player leaves, other than your
standard consideration for compensatory draft picks. So
I say all that because we need to remember Member this.
The CBA has a device for allowing teams to restrict
the movement of players. The player would otherwise be a free
agent.
First day of free agency
maximum, pay, hit the market and strike it, rich
the league in the union have decided to create this device
for every team. One player per year to say, sorry, you're not
going to be open market. Remember that when the player
chooses not to sign his franchise tender? ER and
doesn't show up for training camp doesn't show up for
the preseason. They'll be a lot of anger directed at him.
He's merely simply moving his pieces on the chessboard in
response to the big move. The team made the Checkmate in
advance. Sorry you've been tagged
that activates a process that gives the player rights. He
doesn't have to show up for training camp. It doesn't have
to show up for pre-season. He's not under contract and he can
show up just before Week 1 and make the
Amount of his money, the only risk
they rescind, the tender
and make him an unrestricted free agent. That's happened.
Three times in the last 20 years. Jeremiah Trotter, Corey,
Simon Josh Norman. Now, Josh Norman's was rescinded in
April.
Not long before
the draft and Washington gave him a big contract, Washington
gave, Jeremiah Trotter, a big contract when he was rescinded
and Corey Simon. It was
close to the start of the Season. He went to the Colts,
not a big contract. The problem is the deeper into
the offseason and training camp and preseason that it happens. The
less money that's out there. Teams have
exhausted their budget. So,
you know, the Bengals could do that with Jesse Bates. They
could decide the Daxton Hill, their first-round draft pick,
is ready to go.
We can clear up twelve point nine million in cap space
right now and that's what's amazing. It's twelve point nine
million
for one more year with Jesse Bates in Cincinnati
Hills contract pays out eleven point nine million
over four years total. So
you know, ultimately
Football is family.
Anyone who pays attention to this program PFT live PFT, PFT
p.m. all of our products knows that football is business and
they say, football is family because it's good for business
to say football is family.
Bottom line.
The team is make business decisions all the time using
the franchise tag is the ultimate business decision, and
it hurts the player who otherwise would go to
the market and get a hell of a lot more
on a multi-year deal
than what he's being offered on a one-year deal. Just remember
that when the player takes advantage of the rights
available to him, don't get mad at the player. The team hadn't
used the franchise tag. We wouldn't even be having this
conversation.
The team made the move
that
that kept the player from getting The money that he has
earned based upon his performance so far into
the contract that just expired. So, remember that, as we get toward
Friday,
if none of these guys sign,
don't get mad at them,
don't call them greedy.
It could have gone to the open market and gotten a lot more
than what their otherwise going to get this year under
the franchise tag on