Please show me in the CBA where it says that a team can negotiate compensation for a Franchised free agent prior to him signing with another team.
Sign and trades of franchise players have happened in the past. See Tebucky Jones (old CBA) and John Abraham (new CBA). Sean Gilbert fought the franchise player tag saying that the Redskins should not be allowed to tag a player that they did not intend to keep. The Redskins won that special master ruling. The CBA allows trades of signed players.
Please show me in the CBA where it says that they can't rescind the tag and use it on another player if its before Feb 22nd deadline.
In other words, prove a negative.
The CBA says:
"Except as set forth in Section 10 below, each Club shall be
permitted to designate
one of its players who would otherwise be an Unrestricted Free Agent as a Franchise Player each season during the term of this Agreement."
Section 10 read as follows:
"A Club may designate a Franchise Player only during the periods and in the numbers specified in Section 1 above; otherwise, the Club’s right to such designation expires. However, a Club may designate a player to whom the Club has rights as a Franchise Player with respect to any first future League Year during the term of this Agreement for which such player is anticipated to be an Unrestricted Free Agent. For any such players, the Club shall be deemed on the first day of the first future League Year in which the designation takes effect to have automatically tendered the player a one year NFL Player Contract for the applicable average of the five largest Prior Year Salaries for players at the position category at which he played the most games during the prior League Year, or 120% of the player’s Prior-Year
Salary, whichever is greater, except as provided in Section 2(b) above. If a Club designates a player pursuant to this Section 10, the Club shall be deemed to have used the Franchise Player designation in Section 1 above for
the year in which the designation takes effect; provided, however, that if a player designated to become the Franchise Player in the future retires, suffers a career-ending injury (or an injury that prevents the player from
participating in 32 consecutive regular season games), is unavailable for the season due to non-injury circumstances beyond the control of the Club, or is assigned to another Club (other than through the waiver system) before such designation is exercised, the Club shall be entitled to designate a new Franchise Player for that League Year. Any dispute as to whether an injury is career-ending or prevents or will prevent a player from playing in 32 consecutive games shall be decided by the Impartial Arbitrator."
There is a section that talks about what happens when the tag is withdrawn - "Any of the required tenders set forth in this Section 2 may be withdrawn at any time, but if such tender is withdrawn, the player immediately becomes an Unrestricted Free Agent and thereafter is completely free to negotiate and sign a Player Contract with any Club, and any Club shall be completely free to negotiate and sign a Player Contract with any such player, without any penalty or restriction, including, but not limited to, Draft Choice Compensation between Clubs or First Refusal Rights of any kind, or any signing period." There is no mention that a team is allowed to use the franchise tag on another player. Why would the NFLPA agree to that??
Please provide an instance in which a team has rescinded a franchise tag and then use it on another player in the same season.
All I can do is to provide a source for my reasoning- the CBA.
