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Lamar Miller signs four year deal

damanref10 said:
Basically in the past, the team had a rookie pool and was free to spend as much of that pool anywhere it pleased. Now each draft slot has a set percentage of the rookie pool associated with it.
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Teams are still free to spend their rookie pool however they want. There's nothing that says any rookie contract has to be for any specific dollar amount.


The reason why most of the contracts are basically slotted now is because the NFLPA "accidentally" sent the agents the rookie pool values for every pick last year, so the NFL sent them to all of the teams. The CBA says those values were never supposed to be revealed. Now that everyone knows what they are, however, both the teams and the agents have pretty much settled on those values. Last year, there were more contracts that didn't use the set values, but this year, they've almost all been just about exactly by the numbers.
 
Nublar7 said:
Steal of THE draft
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This pick made the draft for me.The first 4 picks were for need. This one was a shot at something special. Who knows if it works out but they took a shot at greatness and that's a real change.
With a 4th round pick it's a very good gamble that just may pay huge rewards.

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Three years from now you may have the following players in the pro bowl making this one of the greatest draft in dolphin history.
Tannehill
Martin
Egnew
Miller
Maybe even Vernon has an outside shot.
 
AdamJT13 said:
Teams are still free to spend their rookie pool however they want. There's nothing that says any rookie contract has to be for any specific dollar amount.


The reason why most of the contracts are basically slotted now is because the NFLPA "accidentally" sent the agents the rookie pool values for every pick last year, so the NFL sent them to all of the teams. The CBA says those values were never supposed to be revealed. Now that everyone knows what they are, however, both the teams and the agents have pretty much settled on those values. Last year, there were more contracts that didn't use the set values, but this year, they've almost all been just about exactly by the numbers.
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you are correct, and I should have been more detailed in what I was saying.

The actual CBA does not determine the allocation of dollars to each draft slot, however, the leakage of the "new pick values" is not a new concept. Every year during the old system, the NFL and NFLPA would come up with the exact same breakdown of what they deemed fair compensation for each slot but would not disclose that information to the teams or agents. What ensued was a guessing and posturing game between the team and their agent of what they felt the player in that slot was worth. This slip-up last year only made "guessing" what the right value for each slot a tad bit easier (since there was no guessing).

What I would have looked for is a player with all the leverage... say Cam Newton last year, putting his foot down and saying he is worth more at the expense of his fellow rookies. But in reality the number 1 overall draft slot was something around 22,025,500 over four years i think and the actual contract agreed to was something like 22,025,498 (a 2 dollar difference).

It is still conceivable that an Agent would want to play hard ball for his player at the expense of one of the other draftees, but so far there have been no incidents.

So it was my mistake in not saying the CBA is dictating the new ease of arrangements but rather an implied extension of the system it put in place by the teams and agents.
 
The FO and player agents are kicking big time asphalt!!!!!!!!!
 
Greattt!! Funny I took his order at BK 3 years back when I worked there. His boys told me he was going to be one of the great ones, definitely didn't happen at the U but hopefully it does happen profesionally!
 
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