ArmyFin7
U cry about the $$$, we do the dirtywork
I was looking for some direct info on the impact of not having a CBA next season would have on us trying to get some FA's to fill holes. The news is not good. Here is what I found from profootball24x7...
2010: THE “UNCAPPED YEAR”
NEW RULE – SIX YEARS OF SERVICE TIME TO REACH FREE AGENCY:
A player will not become an Unrestricted Free Agent (UFA) until after he completes his 6th “accrued season” in the league.
OLD RULE: In the past, a player with 3 years of accrued service would become a Restricted Free Agent (RFA) and a player with 4 years of service time would become a UFA.
RAMIFICATIONS: A longer period of time before players can reach unrestricted free agency means a lot less players being available as Free Agents in 2010. Players with 4 or 5 years of accrued service will only be RFAs and subject to their present teams being able to maintain contractual rights over them via a RFA tender (and the right to match any offer sheet signed with another team or receive draft pick compensation
NEW RULE –ADDITIONAL TRANSITIONAL TAG: In 2010, each team will be able to use an additional Transitional Tag to use.
OLD RULE: Under the old rule, a team could use either its Franchise Tag or its Transition Tag, but not both.
RAMIFICATIONS: A team can use 2 Tags, one of which must be a Transition Tag. So, teams will have the ability to use a Franchise Tag and a Transition Tag or 2 Transition Tags.
Again, this will mean that there will be less Free Agents hitting the market, as teams will have to ability to keep more of their own players off of the market. Plus, with 2010 being uncapped, teams may be more likely – and willing – to pay the pricey Franchise tenders, since there is no Salary Cap to limit expenditures.
NEW RULE – THE FINAL EIGHT PLAN: This new set of rules limits the Free Agent activity of the 8 teams that reach the Divisional Round of the playoffs in 2009.
OLD RULE: There were no such limitations.
RAMIFICATIONS: Again, more limits on what teams – the good teams – can do in Free Agency. This rule, in theory, is in place to keep “the rich from getting richer” and essentially is aimed at prohibiting a good team from buying a championship.
Teams in the AFC and NFC Championship games can only sign a UFA after they have lost a FA of their own. They are allowed to sign players released by other teams and re-sign their own FAs.
The other 4 teams in the Final 8 have the same prohibition, but can also sign some FAs based on certain salary restrictions. These restrictions basically are aimed at keeping them from signing top tier FAs.
NEW RULE – NO LEAGUE MINIMUM SALARY: There will be no league minimum amount that a team must spend on player salaries.
OLD RULE: Since the advent of the Salary Cap, not only has there been a maximum that a team can spend, but there has always been a minimum that teams must spend.
RAMIFICATIONS: While many often thing the “uncapped year” is going to be a wild spending free-for-all, it is also possible that some teams may spend less than in the past.
CONCLUSION…
So, as you can see, the NFL owner and the NFLPA, mindful of the damage an “uncapped year” could possibly cause, wrote a lot of safeguards into the CBA provisions that deal with the last couple years of the CBA effectively mitigating the possibility of wild spending by the league’s wealthier owners.
[FONT='Georgia', 'serif']Hopefully you can rest a little easier if you worried about the NFL’s competitive balance. That balance appears to be safe under the current CBA.
So after reading this, it prompted me to do a little research as to what players would actually be FA's next year as opposed to RFA's.....here is what I found out.
At the WR position... Antonio Bryant is about all that might be availible. Even he might get tagged.
LB...Karlos Dansby will have just completed his 6th yr, making him an UFA...but I think with the extra tag, he may get tagged again if not resigned.
I can't find much of anything available at the Safety spot either.
It seems to me the only chance we have of getting an experienced WR is to find an RFA and cough up the draft pick. Hopefully we can find someone as dumb as our FO was and hope they put a 2nd round tender on them....there are only a couple guys I can think of that I would give up our #1 for.
2010: THE “UNCAPPED YEAR”
NEW RULE – SIX YEARS OF SERVICE TIME TO REACH FREE AGENCY:
A player will not become an Unrestricted Free Agent (UFA) until after he completes his 6th “accrued season” in the league.
OLD RULE: In the past, a player with 3 years of accrued service would become a Restricted Free Agent (RFA) and a player with 4 years of service time would become a UFA.
RAMIFICATIONS: A longer period of time before players can reach unrestricted free agency means a lot less players being available as Free Agents in 2010. Players with 4 or 5 years of accrued service will only be RFAs and subject to their present teams being able to maintain contractual rights over them via a RFA tender (and the right to match any offer sheet signed with another team or receive draft pick compensation
NEW RULE –ADDITIONAL TRANSITIONAL TAG: In 2010, each team will be able to use an additional Transitional Tag to use.
OLD RULE: Under the old rule, a team could use either its Franchise Tag or its Transition Tag, but not both.
RAMIFICATIONS: A team can use 2 Tags, one of which must be a Transition Tag. So, teams will have the ability to use a Franchise Tag and a Transition Tag or 2 Transition Tags.
Again, this will mean that there will be less Free Agents hitting the market, as teams will have to ability to keep more of their own players off of the market. Plus, with 2010 being uncapped, teams may be more likely – and willing – to pay the pricey Franchise tenders, since there is no Salary Cap to limit expenditures.
NEW RULE – THE FINAL EIGHT PLAN: This new set of rules limits the Free Agent activity of the 8 teams that reach the Divisional Round of the playoffs in 2009.
OLD RULE: There were no such limitations.
RAMIFICATIONS: Again, more limits on what teams – the good teams – can do in Free Agency. This rule, in theory, is in place to keep “the rich from getting richer” and essentially is aimed at prohibiting a good team from buying a championship.
Teams in the AFC and NFC Championship games can only sign a UFA after they have lost a FA of their own. They are allowed to sign players released by other teams and re-sign their own FAs.
The other 4 teams in the Final 8 have the same prohibition, but can also sign some FAs based on certain salary restrictions. These restrictions basically are aimed at keeping them from signing top tier FAs.
NEW RULE – NO LEAGUE MINIMUM SALARY: There will be no league minimum amount that a team must spend on player salaries.
OLD RULE: Since the advent of the Salary Cap, not only has there been a maximum that a team can spend, but there has always been a minimum that teams must spend.
RAMIFICATIONS: While many often thing the “uncapped year” is going to be a wild spending free-for-all, it is also possible that some teams may spend less than in the past.
CONCLUSION…
So, as you can see, the NFL owner and the NFLPA, mindful of the damage an “uncapped year” could possibly cause, wrote a lot of safeguards into the CBA provisions that deal with the last couple years of the CBA effectively mitigating the possibility of wild spending by the league’s wealthier owners.
[FONT='Georgia', 'serif']Hopefully you can rest a little easier if you worried about the NFL’s competitive balance. That balance appears to be safe under the current CBA.
So after reading this, it prompted me to do a little research as to what players would actually be FA's next year as opposed to RFA's.....here is what I found out.
At the WR position... Antonio Bryant is about all that might be availible. Even he might get tagged.
LB...Karlos Dansby will have just completed his 6th yr, making him an UFA...but I think with the extra tag, he may get tagged again if not resigned.
I can't find much of anything available at the Safety spot either.
It seems to me the only chance we have of getting an experienced WR is to find an RFA and cough up the draft pick. Hopefully we can find someone as dumb as our FO was and hope they put a 2nd round tender on them....there are only a couple guys I can think of that I would give up our #1 for.
