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Now that the salary cap has been lifted for the 2010 season, there is a fear that deep-pocketed owners like Jerry Jones and Daniel Snyder will have the ability to "buy" a championship. Well, that's only half true.
In anticipation of a failed CBA agreement, the NFL set down "triggers" to prevent big-market teams from taking advantage of the absence of a cap limit.
The first is forcing young players to remain with their original teams for a longer period of time. Typically, in a capped year, a rookie is signed to a four-year contract, and when that contract expires, he can opt for free agency. Now, players must remain with their teams for six years until they can be eligible for the market.
Even if a player's contract has expired, he will have to sign a temporary, two-year minimum contract to remain with that team. There are several drawbacks to this trigger.
One, this will ultimately eliminate more than half of the free agent market. Two, the young guys who are approaching the point of their careers where they sign their big-money second contracts will have to wait two more years. Some positions take a heavy toll on young bodies early, and six years is a long time to have to wait to get paid. <snip>
The third trigger will have the biggest impact. This is the "Final Eight" rule; it will extend deeper restrictions for teams that reach the final eight positions in the playoffs.
The final four teams will not be permitted to negotiate or sign any unrestricted free agent to a player contract unless he is cut from his team or originally belonged to the team that is trying to sign (or re-sign) him.
The bottom four of the final eight have it a little easier. They will be allowed to sign only one player with a salary of $4,925,000 or more and any number of players with a first-year salary of no more than $3,275,000 with an annual increase of no more than 30 percent in the following year.
There will be an additional mechanism to permit the final eight teams to sign an unrestricted free agent for each of the players they lose to free agency so long as they don't spend more than the player they lost earns from his new team.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/326061-the-final-eight-rule-and-what-it-means-for-your-teamThere is a lot more information at the link so please read more. I posted more paragraphs than usual because I wanted to get key information but there are many rules I had no idea about when looking up to see what my team can do to add a very good CB.
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