BlitzFritz
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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I would imagine that BB is thinking hard about how to be best positioned heading into the strong possibility of an uncapped world next season. To recap my own understanding of what that would mean:
- rookie contracts get extended to 6 years
- additional franchise tags and transition tags
- limits on our ability to sign others' FAs, based on how many of our FAs get signed (assuming we go deep in playoffs)
- prospect of idiots like Dan Snyder paying for lots of FA talent
What would you do if you were BB in this situation? What strategies would you employ? My simple mind would say:
1. Get as young as possible. Load up on rookie contracts, since they will be even more valuable in the future. Push the envelope to get as many rookie contracts on your roster.
- Might this explain our loading up of draft picks?
- Would we expect to see BB be a bit more aggressive in certain positions (like OLB) in drafting for talent?
- Would he try to draft some more cheap DL bodies
2. Sign more one year contracts with veterans. This would give you flexibility to let more FAs walk, and get signed by other teams, increasing your own number of FA signings.
3. Dont extend your own rookies to big contracts, if they are going to get extended via the uncapped rules out to 6 years. They will not become UFA's as early as they hoped. I think this would cover all the guys playing in their last year of their original contact on our team right now I may be mistaken about this, but if true, it would mean Wilfork, Watson, Thomas, Mankins, etc would all remain on this team next season, or perhaps would become RFAs instead? I think this is a big deal.
I am NOT an expert on any of this, but have been trying to decipher this a bit. Please pile on.
-- FRITZ
- rookie contracts get extended to 6 years
- additional franchise tags and transition tags
- limits on our ability to sign others' FAs, based on how many of our FAs get signed (assuming we go deep in playoffs)
- prospect of idiots like Dan Snyder paying for lots of FA talent
What would you do if you were BB in this situation? What strategies would you employ? My simple mind would say:
1. Get as young as possible. Load up on rookie contracts, since they will be even more valuable in the future. Push the envelope to get as many rookie contracts on your roster.
- Might this explain our loading up of draft picks?
- Would we expect to see BB be a bit more aggressive in certain positions (like OLB) in drafting for talent?
- Would he try to draft some more cheap DL bodies
2. Sign more one year contracts with veterans. This would give you flexibility to let more FAs walk, and get signed by other teams, increasing your own number of FA signings.
3. Dont extend your own rookies to big contracts, if they are going to get extended via the uncapped rules out to 6 years. They will not become UFA's as early as they hoped. I think this would cover all the guys playing in their last year of their original contact on our team right now I may be mistaken about this, but if true, it would mean Wilfork, Watson, Thomas, Mankins, etc would all remain on this team next season, or perhaps would become RFAs instead? I think this is a big deal.
I am NOT an expert on any of this, but have been trying to decipher this a bit. Please pile on.
-- FRITZ