drakesta101
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I emailed Mike Riess to get his thoughts on the possible trade. Go ahead and do the same if you like ( [email protected] ) I know the email doesnt look official and I would be suspect as well. But Mike Riess AGREES with my interpretation of the situation.
Name Nick
City/Town Worcester, MA
Opinion: With all of the hooplah surrounding the potential deal for Julius Peppers, I think it might be a good idea to explain how it might actually be possible. It is my general understanding that if a deal is consummated between a two teams involving a franchised player, the team receiving the player (the Patriots) would have to have enough cap space to take on the player's franchise figure (about 17 mill). This number is the number the team HAS to have available, regardless of any restructured deal being worked out after the fact.
Is a "sign-and-trade" a possibility? I was pretty sure that the team trading the player HAS to give the franchised player a long-term deal that is greater than or equal the amount of the franchise tender during the year of the franchise designation....(2009 figure of the deal has to be at least 17 million)...
EDIT: After reading the CBA franchise tag info, there is nothing that guarentees the cap franchise tag number if an new contract is reached with Julius Peppers...a "sign-and-trade" is a possibility...
http://blogmedia.thenewstribune.com/media/CBA_Amended_2006.pdf
In light of all of this, how then is it even possible that this deal could go through? Don't the Patriots NEED to relieve about 10 mill in cap space for this to even be plausible?
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Right on, nick. you are on your way to becoming an NFL personnel man with this line of thinking.
--mike
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