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The uncapped year will limit most of the prized FA's causing these 3 major limitations.

1) free agency will require six years of service (instead of four years in 2010 and five years in 2011); 2) teams will have three tags to use to restrict free agents instead of one tag, as they do now; and 3) teams that go deep in the playoffs could have some spending restrictions.
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All you have to do to realize how lean the free agent market will be is go back and look at all the players from the 2005 draft who signed five-year deals, all the players from the 2006 draft who signed four-year deals and even players from the 2007 draft who signed four-year deals. None of these players, under the non-CBA trigger points, would be eligible for unrestricted free agency when their originals contracts expire
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Players Miami would have possibly been interested in that are affected...

D.Ryans,D.Jackson,T.Howard,E.Dumervil

teams will have use of one franchise tag and two transition tags.
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This effects all these teams that have difficult decisions between what players to tag now can tag three players.
SD-Sproles,Merriman,Jackson
Den-Dumervil,Marshal,Scheffler
Oak-Howard,Morrison,Seymour

The 3rd restriction is teams that make the playoffs are limited in how many FA they can sign. Basically they need to lose a bunch of FA to sign a bunch of FA's.

This will make FA slim and expensive, so if there's a player we would really want we will have to pay through the nose to get them.

Then it also brings up the fact that changing co-ordinators might be the biggest moves we make in the offseason to improve this team.
 
CBA will be signed, no need to bring on undue worry.
 
That's a lot of really good info. But that really, really ****ing blows.
 
MrEd said:
CBA will be signed, no need to bring on undue worry.
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The owners can get rid of dead weight with no consequences and keep their talented young players longer......ah I think they would love that for 1 year. Small market teams like Buffalo, Jacksonville, TB, Cinci etc... can spend even less money while pocketing the TV money because there's no cap floor....ah I think they like that.

The owners will be in no rush to sign a deal for the 2010 season, there are to many things that benefit them financially without one and for most of them that's the only thing that matters!!!
 
3rdandinches said:
The owners can get rid of dead weight with no consequences and keep their talented young players longer......ah I think they would love that for 1 year. Small market teams like Buffalo, Jacksonville, TB, Cinci etc... can spend even less money while pocketing the TV money because there's no cap floor....ah I think they like that.

The owners will be in no rush to sign a deal for the 2010 season, there are to many things that benefit them financially without one and for most of them that's the only thing that matters!!!
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You make this sound like it's a forgone conclusion. I sincerely hope that in this instance you are wrong.
 
phinphan4life said:
You make this sound like it's a forgone conclusion. I sincerely hope that in this instance you are wrong.
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I certainly hope this isn't going to happen either, to me overall the owners/players should get their heads out of their holes and get a deal done. No one will give any sympathy to millionaires squabbling with billionaires on who gets the bigger piece of the pie.
 
"And don't think all the trigger points favor the clubs, because there are other things -- like the end of the NFL draft in 2011 -- which the league doesn't necessarily want to see. And the emergence of a new league could complicate matters. If the owners decide not to continue the CBA this week, all is not lost. There is time, and there are triggers in place, to get this solved."

WHAAAATT???
 
lol, this sucks... The fins will have to draft a WR or get one through a trade...
 
Possible FA's We'd Be Interested In (I think) Unless Tagged In Uncapped Year

WR
A.Bryant TB (I could see him getting tagged again)
L.Evans BUF
T.Owens BUF
K.Walter HOU (He could see the transition tag)

TE
D.Clark INDY (I bet he gets tagged)
Therefore we would have to re-sign Fasano.

NT
C.Hampton PIT - They like to let go of pricey veterans.
V.Wilfork NE - Their transitioning to the 43 and have R.Brace.
R.Pickett GB - They have Jolly and Raji so they go say goodbye potentially.
A.Franklin SF - Can't see them not Franchising him unless they plan on using one of their 2 top 15 picks on Cody.

ILB
K.Dansby ARI - Only because I think he has a clause he can't be tagged again.
D.Johnson KC - Can be restricted but I think they just want to dump him.

FS
R.Clark PIT
D.Sharper NO - I think he re-signs, to good of a situation to give up.

Dansby and Hampton/Pickett would be a probability that would go along way to improving our club. R.Clark would give us a true FS and the ability to try and trade Bell (easier contract to trade) or Wilson.

I just think if there's a limited amount of quality FA's the price will skyrocket.

This would allow us to go OLB and WR in the draft with our first couple of picks.

Now of course some bigger name guys could be available if their franchises do not wish to tag or re-sign them.
 
it's funny how all the fans want to sign this guy and that guy, but forget how the CBA works... i knew alot of the players weren't going to be available due to the rules in the uncapped year... i was laughing at all the people writing about Vincent Jackson, Demeco Ryans and many others... what people don't realize, the same rules that restricted Ronnie Brown covered all the other players in the NFL, but i guess many fans didn't realize this and the rules were going to make F/A in 2010 very hard!!!
 
3rdandinches said:
The owners can get rid of dead weight with no consequences and keep their talented young players longer......ah I think they would love that for 1 year. Small market teams like Buffalo, Jacksonville, TB, Cinci etc... can spend even less money while pocketing the TV money because there's no cap floor....ah I think they like that.

The owners will be in no rush to sign a deal for the 2010 season, there are to many things that benefit them financially without one and for most of them that's the only thing that matters!!!
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While your point is true you still have to fill the stadium, sell food and beverage and pay the bills. The TV money is lucrative but the fan base is where the real money to the owners resides.

A stadium full of empty seats makes for a long season of bills to pay with no cash flow to pay them.
 
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