RashanGary
02-26-2007, 07:17 PM
What's the difference?
Players are players and the goal is to get better right?
Well, the answers are; BIG DIFFERENCE and NO
Here's why:
The UFA market is set up in such a way that all 32 teams can make a free bid at the player. Maybe 6 teams really NEED this player so you have 6 teams throwing numbers around and the player is going to the highest bidder. Teams know that they have to outbid everyone else so the bids get higher and higher, approaching cap damaging amounts. I think we all know this here but sometimes we get caught up in doing whatever it takes to get better now but not realizing that the small, short term gain is accompanied by bigger long term problems as the Waskington Redskins can attest.
The RFA market is controlled with tenders that allow a team to not have to bid but rather let other teams bid and then get the oppertunity to match. This takes away some of the competition, lowering the price. Also, teams get multiple tenders that force teams to give up valuable draft picks along with whatever the financial bid is to secure the player. The draft picks alone disuade most teams, so the restricted player is left either playing for one year deal that gives no long term security or taking a discount to aviod injury risk. Many of these contracts turn into team friendly deals over the long haul and open up $$ to spend else where.
This, IMO, is the preferred way to sign players.
The moral of the story is that we can get by with Bubba and Marquand untill the draft brings us a Greg Jennings or Darryn Colledge to replace them. If not a Greg Jennings or Darryn Colledge, maybe a Cullin Jenkins is on the roster ready to explode or an Aaron Kampman *ie Underwood*, ect... Sure, we might be a little better now by improving 1 of the 24 positions on the football field, but what happens when we have to give up Mike Wahle because we signed Joe Johnson 2 years earlier? It has long term pains that I prefer not to deal with.
As fans, lets take off the gimme gimme goggles and take a look at the big picture. We're not going to be that much better with so and so from Jacksonville so lets not take the short term bait with the long term bite. Let's not get all frustrated at non decisions and focus on the big-picture.
Players are players and the goal is to get better right?
Well, the answers are; BIG DIFFERENCE and NO
Here's why:
The UFA market is set up in such a way that all 32 teams can make a free bid at the player. Maybe 6 teams really NEED this player so you have 6 teams throwing numbers around and the player is going to the highest bidder. Teams know that they have to outbid everyone else so the bids get higher and higher, approaching cap damaging amounts. I think we all know this here but sometimes we get caught up in doing whatever it takes to get better now but not realizing that the small, short term gain is accompanied by bigger long term problems as the Waskington Redskins can attest.
The RFA market is controlled with tenders that allow a team to not have to bid but rather let other teams bid and then get the oppertunity to match. This takes away some of the competition, lowering the price. Also, teams get multiple tenders that force teams to give up valuable draft picks along with whatever the financial bid is to secure the player. The draft picks alone disuade most teams, so the restricted player is left either playing for one year deal that gives no long term security or taking a discount to aviod injury risk. Many of these contracts turn into team friendly deals over the long haul and open up $$ to spend else where.
This, IMO, is the preferred way to sign players.
The moral of the story is that we can get by with Bubba and Marquand untill the draft brings us a Greg Jennings or Darryn Colledge to replace them. If not a Greg Jennings or Darryn Colledge, maybe a Cullin Jenkins is on the roster ready to explode or an Aaron Kampman *ie Underwood*, ect... Sure, we might be a little better now by improving 1 of the 24 positions on the football field, but what happens when we have to give up Mike Wahle because we signed Joe Johnson 2 years earlier? It has long term pains that I prefer not to deal with.
As fans, lets take off the gimme gimme goggles and take a look at the big picture. We're not going to be that much better with so and so from Jacksonville so lets not take the short term bait with the long term bite. Let's not get all frustrated at non decisions and focus on the big-picture.