Smart teams will usually not sign FA's who leave teams, but will sign players after they are cut by other teams. That is one way to load up on compensatory draft picks after your own FA's leave. In order to make this work though, your team can't be a perennial doormat with a proven chump for a GM like Lil Doug, or the good cut FA's will sign elsewhere. That's why it would've been best for Pegs to clean house Day 1.