Re: Franchaise Tags, Long term contracts and Current Cap Status

"John C (tx)" <coachingclinic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How you feel, making $40/hr or whatever does not matter.

Well McDuck, how anyone in here feels doesn't matter, unless of course
I like them, but most of us are smart enough to realize that. My
opinion is based on the fact, not opinion, that players get close to
50% of their guaranteed money & in almost all cases get another
opportunity to get teh market again. So the facts, again, facts not my
opinion, are:

year one 50% of the money you would get guaranteed & get to miss camp
if the player chooses
year two most players will get 100% if they are franchised again or
150% if they sign at market.

Let me just stop your analysis there. In year two, they're back where they
were in year one: looking at a big free agency payday. So they're not
reaching 100% at that point -- they're still only reaching 50% of what the
free agency market will give them.

Let's use Nate Clements as an example. Franchised last year he probably
made something like $7.5M. The 8yr-$80M contract he signed had $22.5M in
guarantees and figures to be really a 6yr-$44M deal. I think it's easy to
see why Clements would have preferred NOT to be franchised this year. I
think someone like Dwight Freeney would find the market just as favorable.
So in those cases the 50% number is pretty far off.


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