UNCAPPED YEAR WILL LIMIT ELITE TEAMS

[Tom]

UNCAPPED YEAR WILL LIMIT ELITE TEAMS

 

As the 2005 free-agency spending spree continues to unfold, more details are emerging regarding the realities of the looming uncapped year, which under the current collective bargaining agreement will occur in 2007.

 

Although, on the surface, the notion of no salary cap is a bonanza for players, we've recently reviewed the reality that the threshold for hitting the market will move from four years of service to six.

 

And there are more provisions that will, as a practical matter, limit the ability of players to cash in on this cash cow.

 

For example, each team will have in 2007 an extra transition player designation. Under current rules, teams can use either a franchise or a transition designation. In 2007, the additional transition tag creates a right of first refusal in exchange for a one-year average salary equal to the top ten salaries at the player's position or 120 percent of his 2006 salary, whichever is greater.

 

More importantly, the final eight playoff teams from 2006 will be limited in their free agency activities in 2007. In other words, the rich won't be permitted to go out and try to get richer by spending their riches. Richly.

 

Specifically, the teams in the conference championship games will be permitted only to sign their own unrestricted free agents or unrestricted free agents off of waivers. They each also may sign an unrestricted free agent for each unrestricted free agent lost to another team.

[JP-era]

UNCAPPED YEAR WILL LIMIT ELITE TEAMS

 

As the 2005 free-agency spending spree continues to unfold, more details are emerging regarding the realities of the looming uncapped year, which under the current collective bargaining agreement will occur in 2007.

 

Although, on the surface, the notion of no salary cap is a bonanza for players, we've recently reviewed the reality that the threshold for hitting the market will move from four years of service to six.

 

And there are more provisions that will, as a practical matter, limit the ability of players to cash in on this cash cow.

 

For example, each team will have in 2007 an extra transition player designation.  Under current rules, teams can use either a franchise or a transition designation.  In 2007, the additional transition tag creates a right of first refusal in exchange for a one-year average salary equal to the top ten salaries at the player's position or 120 percent of his 2006 salary, whichever is greater.

 

More importantly, the final eight playoff teams from 2006 will be limited in their free agency activities in 2007.  In other words, the rich won't be permitted to go out and try to get richer by spending their riches.  Richly.

 

Specifically, the teams in the conference championship games will be permitted only to sign their own unrestricted free agents or unrestricted free agents off of waivers.  They each also may sign an unrestricted free agent for each unrestricted free agent lost to another team.

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Sounds like a big mess, how about simply re-upping the CBA which includes a salary cap.

 

As much as I hate Peter Brady and the Pats, I cant blame them for using there cap and I think it is the most fair system.

[BillsGuyInMalta]

Let me guess...is this little beauty from Pro Football Talk?

[LabattBlue]

You have to believe the uncapped year will never see the light of day. It's an incentive for the NFL to hammer out a new CBA a year before the current one expires. As part of the new CBA, the 2007 year would be wiped out.