JJDChE
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The franchise team requires the team applying to bargain in good faith, the Patriots never did that and had Welker challenged it then through arbitration then it would have been removed and he would have gotten a deal that reflects his value, 5-6 years 50 million would have been fair market value for a player who has outproduced every other receiver in football for the past 5 years. people hear can be as outraged as they want by my saying that but no-one can look at his production and argue otherwise. The Patriots put the franchise tag on him because they knew other teams would offer him deals they would not be willing to match and they were not going to take that chance, good move on their part, where they failed was in living up to the requirements of that tag under the CBA and never bargaining in good faith, scumbag move o their part. The franchise tag was designed to give teams an extended opportunity to make a deal with their best players, not to simply deny those players the opportunity to test the open market, which is what the Patriots did. The drunks, crackheads, and fanboys around here are those who suggest they did live up to their obligations under the CBA and shriek that he should have taken whatever he was offered.
How would you know whether they bargained in good faith?
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