WordByrd Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Aaron Maybin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 (edited) In order to be a franchise player, a player must be a FA in the upcoming year. A team can lock him up by naming him the "franchise player". The following will be FAs this year: Brian Brohm John McCargo Paul Posluszny Keith Ellison Drayton Florence Ashton Youboty Donte Whitner George Wilson Bryan Scott My pick would be Poz or maybe Drayton Florence. Okay...I'm going to state the obvious here. No unrestricted free agents on our roster will be given the "franchise tag" purely because none of them deserve to be paid the average of the top five salaries at their respective position. If I am not mistaken, we would have to pay Poz approximately 9.7 million for next season or Florence approximately 9.5 million. That's not going to happen in either case. Edited February 16, 2011 by Johnny Hammersticks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBillsMagic1 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 If we had to name one we would do so to save money so probably would be our PK or P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 Chan Gailey is our Franchise Player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabattBlue Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 (edited) Chan Gailey is our Franchise Player This post is indicative of how bad the talent is on the Bills, not how great a coach Gailey is. Edited February 17, 2011 by LabattBlue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills99999 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Aaron Maybin You beat me to that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonborn10 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 It appears most everyone misunderstands the use/value of the franchise player tag. It is used to keep an unrestricted FA from leaving. Often times the player tagged is not a top 5 player. The risk is the player will sign the one year deal locking in that amount. Most of the time it is simply used to buy time to negotiate a long term deal with a UFA that will pay the player significantly less than the franchise tag. Therefore using the tag on Poz or Florence would be a reasonable idea. If you assume there are too many holes on defense already(now even worse with Stroud gone at least in terms of serviceable bodies) then using the tag to keep at least one more starter puts less pressure on the FO to draft defense(ie. need over value) in the draft. If the player is signed to long term deal the tag can be used on a different player next year. If you equate the tag with a top 5 player at their respective position, then there is no player even Moorman at this point who is currently on the roster worthy of such a designation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Blizzard Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Does anyone think we have a franchise player, if so who? Searching for a punch line here . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Jose Bills Fan Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Therefore using the tag on Poz or Florence would be a reasonable idea. If you assume there are too many holes on defense already(now even worse with Stroud gone at least in terms of serviceable bodies) then using the tag to keep at least one more starter puts less pressure on the FO to draft defense(ie. need over value) in the draft. If the player is signed to long term deal the tag can be used on a different player next year. The bolded above could never be viewed as reasonable, IMO. This is because the estimated cost of franchise tagging Poz is $10 million for 2011. The cost of tagging Florence would be right around $14 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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