Free Agency/Franchise Tag thread 2011

[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by Buster

Lets give Haynesworth a poison pill contract.

LMAO. Thanks

[Jontrem]

Originally Posted by Buster

Lets give Haynesworth a poison pill contract.

Ok my understanding of Poison pill contracts is pretty much based on the corporate world, so I went to wikkipedia and read up on the poison pill contract idea in the Sports World and if I read it correctly these contracts are used to make sure that one player can not sign with other specific teams in a contract matching situation (e.g. if we were trying to sign Peyton Manning and the Colts had to match the contract we could put a clause in the contract stating that if Peyton Manning plays X number of games in any given year in the state of Indiana then the whole contract becomes guaranteed), that is what I got from it at least. So thats not going to help us out at all.....just plain Poison however may be useful!

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

what does a transition tag mean??

If I remember right a player gets the average salary of the top 10 players at his position (rather then the top 5 you see with the franchise tag) and the cost of not matching an offer is a pair of second round picks.

[Paintrain]

These are all pretty meaningless now without free agency and a new CBA. I'm sure that a provision of the new agreement (whenever it happens) will be that all existing tags will be voided but most of those players will be 're-tagged' with whatever the new tags and terms are.

[CRedskinsRule]

Do we even have anyone who is worth considering using a franchise or transition tag on?

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Do we even have anyone who is worth considering using a franchise or transition tag on?

Carlos is worth a consideration. I wouldnt at this point, would like a long term deal with him. Lotta teams are putting them on cause of the uncertainty of a lack of a CBA. Once that is done, the tag will be removed and long term contracts will be signed with some of these guys.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Carlos is worth a consideration. I wouldnt at this point, would like a long term deal with him. Lotta teams are putting them on cause of the uncertainty of a lack of a CBA. Once that is done, the tag will be removed and long term contracts will be signed with some of these guys.

If we can keep him another year at a reasonable price, go for it. Better than paying him what he THINKS he's worth.

[SOUL-SKINS]

Is it me or do we never tag any of our players ?

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by SOUL-SKINS

Is it me or do we never tag any of our players ?

the past thinking is why pay our own? when we could go out get much worse players and then set the max threshold for the top 5 players in the market

[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

the past thinking is why pay our own? when we could go out get much worse players and then set the max threshold for the top 5 players in the market

Yeah that worked out well

[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by SOUL-SKINS

Is it me or do we never tag any of our players ?

We never have any great players lol. Moss won't get tagged he's not worth top 3 WR $

[diehard]

Originally Posted by skinsfaninok

We never have any great players lol. Moss won't get tagged he's not worth top 3 WR $

Stephen Davis(?) comes to mind. Those were the good ol' days.

[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by diehard

Stephen Davis(?) comes to mind. Those were the good ol' days.

Dude If only we could rewind the time and bring back Johnson and Davis, I actually thought we were going to the Super Bowl in 99. If it wasn't for that Romo like botched snap I think we could have played with STL.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by SOUL-SKINS

Is it me or do we never tag any of our players ?

Franchise tag tenders wreck havoc on salary cap management. When you manage your cap like the Redskins do, you don't leave $15 million dollars lying around in free cap money to franchise a contributor for one season. Too much money to one player, particularly when you're rolling over $10-$15 million in dead cap every single season.

[SOUL-SKINS]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Franchise tag tenders wreck havoc on salary cap management. When you manage your cap like the Redskins do, you don't leave $15 million dollars lying around in free cap money to franchise a contributor for one season. Too much money to one player, particularly when you're rolling over $10-$15 million in dead cap every single season.

Makes sense.........Ok then. Thanks GTripp