I doubt we see much activity in franchise tags until it is absolutely determined if there will be an uncapped season or not. In an uncapped year teams will be allotted one franchise tag and 2 transition tags.
I'm also sure these tags may be used more often if the salary cap disappears.
Plus until then you don't even know who your UFA's are.

 

I wonder which team blinks first.

 

Shoot. My bad man.
But I still stand by the fact of we won't be seeing much activity until it gets closer to the deadline. 2 more weeks until they have to make a decision which means 2 more weeks of potential CBA bargaining.

 

The Comish was on Mike & Mike a couple of days ago. It did not sound good at all. They both thought the same. I believe it will take an "Act Of GOD" to come to an agreement by March 5.

I do agree with you that we will not see much action early other than what teams would do regardless of a last minute deal.

 

In addition to College hoops, there's the NBA, it's All Star game, hockey, Winter Olympics, soccer, the anticipation of baseball's spring training, NASCAR, wrestling, frog jumping, and roach races.

What more can you possibly ask for? :pointlol:

 

CORNERBACK: $9.566 million (franchise), $8.056 million (transition)

DEFENSIVE END: $12.398m, $10.193m

DEFENSIVE TACKLE: $7.003m, $6.353m

LINEBACKER: $9.680m, $8.373m

OFFENSIVE LINE: $10.731m, $9.142m

PUNTER/KICKER: $2.814m, $2.629m

QUARTERBACK: $16.405m, $14.546m

RUNNING BACK: $8.156m, $7.151m

SAFETY: $6.455m, $6.011m

TIGHT END: $5.908m, $5.248m

WIDE RECEIVER: $9.521m, $8.651m

The franchise tag is an average of the top five salaries at a position for the 2009 season. (Or, in the case of "exclusive" franchise tags, the average of the top five salaries as of a TBD date this coming April.) The transition tag is an average of the top 10.

Here's a list of what the franchise and transition tags will cost.

 

Transition tags allow the player's existing club to match any offer that exceeds the tag itself. They can either match or decline and let the player walk away. A right of first refusal, essentially.

 

The numbers are slightly different because Transition is top 10 at the position, Franchise top 5.

There's no compensation involved. If a team outbids a transitioned player, the player's original club can match salary or allow the player to walk. If no one bids on them, the player comes back to their original club.

 

They can offer more, but the original team can match that offer and retain the player. That's the whole point of tagging them as a Transition player. Make sense?

 

There are two different franchise tags, exclusive, and non-exclusive.

Exclusive is the average of the top five players at a position but, the average is to be set in April, allowing for new contracts to raise the price. This does not let a player negotiate with other teams.

Non-exclusive is the average of the top five from last season. This allows players to negotiate with other teams. If the player gets a better offer, the original team can match it and keep the player. Or, it can let the player sign with the new team and get two first round picks.

The non-exclusive comes into play if a team may consider trading the player for the right price. It can negotiate down from the two first rounders.

 

No connection whatsoever, entirely separate.

T-Tag is a right to match another offer, nothing more, no picks involved, no compensation in any way, and a top 1o average in money. That is the second number in list I posted.

 

The team that I'm interested in watching is Carolina ... if they franchise Peppers again they have to pay him his '09 salary + 20% ... so he'd be making something like 20 mil in '10. I don't see it happening ... but it is an uncapped year ...

 

That's the alternative for the Lemans Series and the Petit Lemans Series for those whose cars only turn left!

 

Peppers no longer wants a long term deal with Carolina, or so he says. I will be SHOCKED if they franchise him again.

Many think that the uncapped year is going to have owners acting like "drunken sailors" spending monopoly money. I cannot, even remotely. believe this will happen.

With few exceptions, I see owners showing financial responsibility, and roughly staying within the boundaries as if there were a cap. There may be one next year if there is a season.

This is not baseball, and hopefully never follows it.

 

That would be Aubrayo Franklin, Nose Tackle. Franklin will be 30 to start the NFL season, but is likely going to get franchised by the 49ers.

Casey Hampton and Vince Wilfork are the other 3-4 NTs rumored to be getting the Franchise tag. That means we've got very few options to replace Ferguson in FA.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4916593

 

has the FA signing period already begun FY?

I thought it started 3/6?

 

HeHe, yeah with Joey Porter going rogue the Band of Brothers is officially over, so Henry the V has been retired in favor of the CFL's version of Don Shula, his name is Wally Buono and he is the CFL's all time winningest coach.

That you did not know who he was is sort of why I'm using it as my Avvy as a kind of homage to a great Coach that 99% of NFL fans have no idea who he is or what he has done.

Heck the Dolphins have poached 4 guys from his team in the last two seasons so Sparano has some sort of respect for a fellow Italian's ability to coach guys up, Buono developed Cam Wake after all.

 

Tags are due by the 25th. We will not see many, if any, tenders for RFA until March 3-4.

 

And, all this time, I thought the Band of Brothers was on thephins.com board...Ah, well. I guess I'll have to go back to playing Wooden Ships & Iron Men.

 

Soon, the team has not yet been formed RR, after the draft and Free Agency then we will see how onboard the Forum is with the player moves.

Then we will see if the Band of Brothers has been reassembled, everyone pretty much hung together last season going into the Pittsburgh game with a shot at still making the playoffs.