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Brian Dawkins expected to retire. *shrugs*
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Raiders Cleaning House
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Steelers are restructuring everyone
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Hue Jackson joining Cincys Staff
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^ They're taking the fat from the back of Casey Hampton's neck and making a running back, as they're not sure how Mendenhall is going to play next year after blowing his knee out.
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Jaws got demoted supposedly for cursing on the air too frequently.
Can't wait for the dynamic duo of Tirico and Gruden!
Can't wait for the dynamic duo of Tirico and Gruden!
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“@AdamSchefter: Former Raiders HC Hue Jackson had been scheduled to speak to Giants this week about QB coach job. Jackson accepted asst coach job in Cincy.
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NFL franchise tag period begins Monday under new rules
The franchise tag period starts Monday and runs through March 5 as each team has the option to choose one player with an expiring contract who will receive a one-year deal in lieu of a long-term contract or becoming a free agent.
This offseason is the first full one under the new collective bargaining agreement, which stipulates that a tagged player will no longer receive the average of the five highest-paid players at his position. Instead the salary for those players will be determined by a complicated formula that factors franchise tags for the previous five years.
Boiled down, it means less money for those who are tagged in 2012 vs. 2011. Here is the position-by-position difference, according to the NFL.com, citing league officials:
QB: $14.4 million in 2012; down from $16.1 million in 2011
RB: $7.7 million in 2012; down from $9.6 million in 2011
WR: $9.4 million in 2012; down from 11.4 million in 2011
TE: $5.4 million in 2012; down from $7.3 million in 2011
OL: $9.4 million in 2012; down from $10.1 million in 2011
DE: $10.6 million in 2012; down from $13 million in 2011
DT: $7.9 million in 2012; down from $12.5 million in 2011
LB: $8.8 million in 2012; down from $10.1 million in 2011
CB: $10.6 million in 2012; down from $13.5 million in 2011
S: $6.2 million in 2012; down from $8.8 million in 2011
Players who are candidates to get a franchise tag have expressed mixed sentiments over the possibility of forgoing long-term stability for a one-year handcuff.
The Texans face little available salary cap space and two stars with expiring contracts. OLB Mario Williams' six-year, $54 million rookie deal is up next month, and RB Arian Foster will become a restricted free agent unless a deal is reached before March 13.
Williams has expressed loyalty to the Texans and opened the door for a possible pay cut, telling reporters last week that a monster free agent contract is "really not that big of a deal to me."
Foster's agent, Mike McCartney, says his client would not be upset with being tagged. "I think it's part of the business," McCartney told KBME-AM in Houston. "The ultimate goal is a long-term deal where this marriage continues. ... It's just part of the process. The Texans have to do what's right for them at the beginning of this, and we'll adjust accordingly. It won't offend us in any way. We'll do our best to have a long-term deal."
But Detroit Lions DE Cliff Avril says he will consider holding out if he's locked into a one-year deal. "There's a lot of different possibilities, and that's one of the possibilities — not showing up," Avril told the Detroit Free Press. "That's not the plan, obviously. But there's a lot of different possibilities, and that's definitely one of them."
Other NFL standouts who could get the tag include Saints QB Drew Brees, Bears RB Matt Forte, Ravens RB Ray Rice, Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch, Browns ILB D'Qwell Jackson and Cardinals DE Calais Campbell.
The franchise tag period starts Monday and runs through March 5 as each team has the option to choose one player with an expiring contract who will receive a one-year deal in lieu of a long-term contract or becoming a free agent.
This offseason is the first full one under the new collective bargaining agreement, which stipulates that a tagged player will no longer receive the average of the five highest-paid players at his position. Instead the salary for those players will be determined by a complicated formula that factors franchise tags for the previous five years.
Boiled down, it means less money for those who are tagged in 2012 vs. 2011. Here is the position-by-position difference, according to the NFL.com, citing league officials:
QB: $14.4 million in 2012; down from $16.1 million in 2011
RB: $7.7 million in 2012; down from $9.6 million in 2011
WR: $9.4 million in 2012; down from 11.4 million in 2011
TE: $5.4 million in 2012; down from $7.3 million in 2011
OL: $9.4 million in 2012; down from $10.1 million in 2011
DE: $10.6 million in 2012; down from $13 million in 2011
DT: $7.9 million in 2012; down from $12.5 million in 2011
LB: $8.8 million in 2012; down from $10.1 million in 2011
CB: $10.6 million in 2012; down from $13.5 million in 2011
S: $6.2 million in 2012; down from $8.8 million in 2011
Players who are candidates to get a franchise tag have expressed mixed sentiments over the possibility of forgoing long-term stability for a one-year handcuff.
The Texans face little available salary cap space and two stars with expiring contracts. OLB Mario Williams' six-year, $54 million rookie deal is up next month, and RB Arian Foster will become a restricted free agent unless a deal is reached before March 13.
Williams has expressed loyalty to the Texans and opened the door for a possible pay cut, telling reporters last week that a monster free agent contract is "really not that big of a deal to me."
Foster's agent, Mike McCartney, says his client would not be upset with being tagged. "I think it's part of the business," McCartney told KBME-AM in Houston. "The ultimate goal is a long-term deal where this marriage continues. ... It's just part of the process. The Texans have to do what's right for them at the beginning of this, and we'll adjust accordingly. It won't offend us in any way. We'll do our best to have a long-term deal."
But Detroit Lions DE Cliff Avril says he will consider holding out if he's locked into a one-year deal. "There's a lot of different possibilities, and that's one of the possibilities — not showing up," Avril told the Detroit Free Press. "That's not the plan, obviously. But there's a lot of different possibilities, and that's definitely one of them."
Other NFL standouts who could get the tag include Saints QB Drew Brees, Bears RB Matt Forte, Ravens RB Ray Rice, Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch, Browns ILB D'Qwell Jackson and Cardinals DE Calais Campbell.
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Former Oakland CB Stanford Routt reached agreement with the Kansas City Chiefs
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The Eagles and @CullenJenkins have reworked contract to remain with team. Originally designed as one-yr deal, now restructured.
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caplannfl Adam Caplan
Jenkins, as I noted last month, was due a $5 m roster bonus on 3/13, cap number was $7.5 million.
nice! eagles are already just over 23 mill UNDER the cap.. and that is before we factor in whatever happens with asante (9.5 mill), justice (4.256) and jamal jackson (1.875)
The Eagles and @CullenJenkins have reworked contract to remain with team. Originally designed as one-yr deal, now restructured.
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caplannfl Adam Caplan
Jenkins, as I noted last month, was due a $5 m roster bonus on 3/13, cap number was $7.5 million.
nice! eagles are already just over 23 mill UNDER the cap.. and that is before we factor in whatever happens with asante (9.5 mill), justice (4.256) and jamal jackson (1.875)
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Is the franchise tag guaranteed money?
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sarcasm?
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eaglessalarycap Bryce Johnston
After updating Cullen Jenkins I currently project $25,102,068 in cap room
After updating Cullen Jenkins I currently project $25,102,068 in cap room
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Can we get this stickied just like the rest of the major Sport League Thread?
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I'm not ready to see Marques Colston leave the NOLA..
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hope lions resign avril & tulloch
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Panthers have to cut salary-QB Clausen a likely casualty
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2/22/2012 11:26:08 AM | More
The Carolina Panthers are in serious cost-cutting mode according to Joseph Person of the Charlotte Observer.
Just two years ago the Panthers purged so much salary the fans questioned their commitment to winning. Oh how times have changed. The Panthers are approximately $9.6 million over the salary cap and are one of four teams that have to get under the cap before March 13. (The others are Oakland, Pittsburgh, and the Superbowl-champion New York Giants.) That means a lot of wheeling and dealing is going to have to be done in the next three weeks to restructure contracts and/or cut the roster.
A provision in the new collective-bargaining agreement allows teams to increase their cap by rolling over unused space from 2011 into the new league year, which will begin at 4 p.m. March 13. But the Panthers extended seven of their players before the 2011 season began, putting them in cap purgatory.
One likely cap casualty will be quarterback Jimmy Clausen. The Panthers owe Clausen a $923,000 roster bonus in March. A projected high first-round draft pick who fell to the Panthers in the second round in 2010, Clausen started 10 games as a rookie but went 1-9 and was the league's lowest rated passer. The Panthers then drafted QB Cam Newton No.1 overall in 2011 and signed veteran quarterback Derek Anderson to back up Newton. Unless they decide Clausen is ready to be the No.2 QB, no one in the Panthers organization is likely to pay an almost $1 million to a third-string QB who was inactive for all 16 games of the 2011 season.
This would be an epic fall for Clausen, who a few scouts actually rated better than No.1 overall Sam Bradford in the 2010 draft. He will probably get another chance somewhere (for minimum money) but we hope he used his initial roster bonus wisely.
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2/22/2012 11:26:08 AM | More
The Carolina Panthers are in serious cost-cutting mode according to Joseph Person of the Charlotte Observer.
Just two years ago the Panthers purged so much salary the fans questioned their commitment to winning. Oh how times have changed. The Panthers are approximately $9.6 million over the salary cap and are one of four teams that have to get under the cap before March 13. (The others are Oakland, Pittsburgh, and the Superbowl-champion New York Giants.) That means a lot of wheeling and dealing is going to have to be done in the next three weeks to restructure contracts and/or cut the roster.
A provision in the new collective-bargaining agreement allows teams to increase their cap by rolling over unused space from 2011 into the new league year, which will begin at 4 p.m. March 13. But the Panthers extended seven of their players before the 2011 season began, putting them in cap purgatory.
One likely cap casualty will be quarterback Jimmy Clausen. The Panthers owe Clausen a $923,000 roster bonus in March. A projected high first-round draft pick who fell to the Panthers in the second round in 2010, Clausen started 10 games as a rookie but went 1-9 and was the league's lowest rated passer. The Panthers then drafted QB Cam Newton No.1 overall in 2011 and signed veteran quarterback Derek Anderson to back up Newton. Unless they decide Clausen is ready to be the No.2 QB, no one in the Panthers organization is likely to pay an almost $1 million to a third-string QB who was inactive for all 16 games of the 2011 season.
This would be an epic fall for Clausen, who a few scouts actually rated better than No.1 overall Sam Bradford in the 2010 draft. He will probably get another chance somewhere (for minimum money) but we hope he used his initial roster bonus wisely.
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The end of Jimmy Pickles? Sad day indeed.
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Browns just can't let RG3 get away.... just can't
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Per SI's Don Banks, #******** HC Mike Shanahan "loves" Oklahoma St QB Brandon Weeden after coaching him at Senior Bowl
Per SI's Don Banks, #******** HC Mike Shanahan "loves" Oklahoma St QB Brandon Weeden after coaching him at Senior Bowl
