Just beat me to it.

 

He has been training in Miami this offseason I believe. Honestly, Williams is my first choice but Bradshaw is a good option.

 

To that end, Mike Freeman quoted an agent source who says it's already open season and teams started aggressively contacting agents Sunday night. Even telling them which of their clients were going to be cut. So it's possible there's already contact.

It's going to be QB and RB within days of the gun being fired. We could do worse than Bradshaw.

 

I'm pretty skeptical that Jorge Sedano has any inside information at all. I don't think any local broadcaster has broken a story of any gravity since Hank Goldberg went off the air.

 

The league has basically endorsed tampering. I think therefore they're acting with impunity and have suspected they've probably been contacting players and agents last night and today.

 

Schefter seems to think DeAngelo Williams stays in Carolina, so Bradshaw would be my favorite target after that. Would love to see this happen.

 

With the amount of money that Carolina has to spend under these rules, I don't doubt that.

 

Do we know if each team has a salary floor? I know they said it will be 99% league-wide, but for 2011 I haven't seen a number for each team.

 

Didnt lebatard break lebron coming to miami?

 

I can confirm with an agent that I know, that teams have already been contacting them. Like I said, the league has endorsed tampering by making no period where teams have exclusive negotiating rights with their own. They have nothing to fear.

I just fed the chickens in my back yard. They were pretty hungry. When I poured the food into the feeder, I didn't make them stand back until I arbitrarily decided it was OK to all maul the feeder at once. And if I spilled a little food on some chickens' backs while pouring it, so what?

 

I'd be ok with this. I'd like to have Bradshaw on this team.

 

Haven't seen anything official.

Last I saw, Denver was sticking with Knowshon Moreno and wasn't interested in making a big splash for Williams.

 

Carolina has to spend about 40 million bucks this season alone to comply with the new CBA. They could sign Williams to a monster contract and then go on a wild shopping spree to boot. Heck, they are in a position to sign me for a one year, 10 million deal. I might even apply.

 

Good to "see" you around, mate.

 

Well, to me a nice low dollar OLB/DE/St signing would be the Redskins' Chris Wilson.

As for Bradshaw, not seeing it, not Irish as if he valued RB and RW at 4 million and 3 million apiece, how much would he offer Bradshaw? No enough to land him imo.

 

Good to see you too, man!

What can I say, I got football starved.

 

Why do they have to spend that much? Do we know that there is a floor for each team?

 

This guy knew all along

 

To be honest, at this point I don't believe there is a floor for each team. I could be wrong, but all I've seen is the 99% number, which is for the entire league.

 

Uhm ... I'm by no means a math genius, so correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't a 99% league wide cash floor kinda imply that every team has to spend 99% of their cap in cash? I mean, if one team only spends 80%, there's little possibility for any other team to make up for that since they can't go over the cap either.

 

The way I understand it, the floor is to be implemented incrementally (?) but the league wide average has to be "X" amount of teams at the salary ceiling.

 

There are mechanisms that allow teams to go over the cap.

Its just curious to me, as the numbers the NFL released mentioned league-wide minimums for all years, but the team minimums were years in the future, nothing for this year.

 

Yeah, but that was with cap numbers, not cash numbers. Under the new CBA, the teams actually have to spend 99% of the cap in hard cash, not some theoretical cap mumbo-jumbo where they actually ate the cap hit a year ago and protracted it for a couple of years. There's bound to be a way where you can still go over the cap, but you can hardly go over the cash, as in "spend more than 120 million in hard cash this season".

 

Could have emailed me. ;)

 

Just passing on what Schefter said.

 

Well, I believe for this year there are some mechanisms that allow them to go over the cash number in 2011. But thats not my main question.

The teams have to spend 99% in aggregate. In future years, the NFL has listed floors for each team. I'm not trying to argue here, because I honestly haven't seen a mention of floors for each team for 2011, which is why I'm asking.

 

Who t f is Jorge Sedano?

 

Well, I should say Dolphins related. I don't really follow other sports, and I think it's gonna be pretty specific.

 

Miami homer.

 

He also broke Jim Harbaugh to Miami.

 

That feels like years ago already.

 

SO what other positions do we need to address . is defensive tackle a need ? do we need another wr or tightend ? I am really curious as to what other positions could we go after.

 

Lots of birds were singing that song hahaha

 

Yeah, I know. I just figured you'd be GM by now ;)

 

I got you. I guess I'm trying to say that there's not a huge difference between individual floors for each team and a general floor. Both basically ammount to the same thing, namely forcing teams to spend close to the floor in order to meet the CBA. I haven't seen individual floors for 2011 either, but does that really make much of a difference at all?

 

A radio broadcaster I helped make famous by calling in, stoned as a wombat, as "Tim in Tucson" on Fox's 3rd shift, that's who...

 

Well, the individual floors in 2013+ I believe are 89%, with the league-wide floor at 95%?

Even if you have a league wide floor of 99%. If you have 20 teams coming in at 105%, then there is some room for some teams to come in at 105-115M.

I'm not sure it makes much difference. I find it odd that it hasn't been mentioned. I'm also interested in seeing the details of the new revenue sharing agreement. I'm not sure some of the smaller market teams are going to be willing to spend $30M this season, before the new revenue sharing system takes effect.

 

Ahhh, I missed that one. I wish I heard it. If I called in, we could've been like Cheech & Chong. :wink2:

 

But you also have a hard cash cap, don't you? So teams theoretically (we don't know what loopholes there are under the new deal, I guess) couldn't come in at 105%. But I get what you're saying. When 20 teams come in at 100% alone, there'd be a 10 million wiggle room for team #21. But I've already figured that in into the 40 million $ number with Carolina. Right now they are at 70 something million; even with some wiggle room already figured in, they are bound to spend something along the lines of 40 million.