To help the FA market? Didn't help the FA market one bit. All this did was cut the trading market and made players less available, especially combined with dead cap.
So your wife beats you and then drinks budweiser? Seems classy I dont know but youre welcome....better you found out now dweeb Unless he blows it... Well, yeah, I mean who doesnt love good box? Give me someone I want with him and Ill take him.
Only Fox news and The Onion would think it would help the FA market Any player with value people are going to protect first. Trading etc is a secondary thought.
You give me one example of it happening and I'll believe you Until then I thought you just did this to knock off RFA/Franchise trading after what I pulled last year.
There's been a lot of it in the past. I would franchise players solely to trade them too. It is a way of working the system. "I have no intentions of keeping this player BUT I can just tag him and trade him away and it will only help me with an added draft pick/player." I did it with Reggie Wayne a few years back, for example.
Hey Dolphins GM, I don't want Hartline...but I will take Wheeler off your hands if you still have him.
Absolutely. I wasn't going to pay him $10M+ or whatever it was. This was like two or three years ago, he wasn't a spring chicken.
I did it with Joe Flacco in 2013 and Peyton Hillis (Transition) in 2012? I'd sneak in late and get a team who didn't use a tag to do it then trade a lower than expected pick for them.
yup. Old ungrafted vines. Last I had was a 2001 which blew my socks off. Truly memorable stuff. It was $49 at the time but now sells for $185 if that's any idea of how good it is. The 2010 for $47 is still probably better than most 125 dollar cabs. Have you gotten into tempranillo yet?
Also keep in mind when I say that Reggie Wayne would have made $10M... That would have accounted for over 10% of the salary cap... it was somewhere around $83-$84M back then I think. Back then we only had base salaries available so we kinda made our own salary cap based on the league average plus some so to speak.
Oh sweet, Yeah I still have him. What the **** is this. I haven't moved him. OMG VAN, TAMPERING *******.
You have no idea how different it is from 2003 when I first played (I think that's when I started). It may have been 2004. We would take the base salaries from NFLPA and you could restructure contracts at any time but you were responsible for checking the site if anything changed. Information wasn't 24/7 like it is now. The salary cap, franchise/transition tags... all artificial based on base salary averages. I think the salary cap when I first started was somewhere between $48M-$50M. I think the first time I had a team from the very start (I was a fill-in for a year or two), I had the Seahawks and Shaun Alexander, Walter Jones, and Matt Hasselbeck were all UFAs. That was quite the pain in the ***. Now... get off my lawn.
