Comments on: Key piece of Final Eight Plan is finalized

By: Gelardia

Gelardia — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:36:42 +0000

Jeeez, what’s the point of these insanely complicated rules? It can’t possibly be helping to level the playing field.
Sounds like some nerd found a way to keep his job by coming up with asinine & complicated rules and the result is he got his friends NFL jobs as capologists.

By: Nevisyakker

Nevisyakker — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:19:58 +0000

So all that is really going to happen is to penalize the teams that played in their conference championship games.
Another side of this is that given these restrictions you would think that those top 4 teams would commit even more of their resources to their own free agents, such as the Vikings and Chester Taylor.

By: DirtMcGirt24

DirtMcGirt24 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:14:39 +0000

Lost in this otherwise fine analysis is that rounding up “as many guys as they want” will be challenging given the relative lack of UFAs.

By: RayDaMayor

RayDaMayor — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:12:45 +0000

So now, if a team in the number 5-8 slot wins the Super Bowl next year, we can all claim the NFL threw them a bone and gifted them a Super Bowl.
After all, isn’t that what Viking fans have claimed against the New Orleans Saints?

By: Kevin from Philly

Kevin from Philly — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:51:43 +0000

So I guess Jerry Jones finally got around to telling Goodell what the numbers would be?

By: purplescar

purplescar — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:42:46 +0000

Only a lawyer and/or a liberal could think of something so convoluted and stupid.

By: .VoxVeritas

.VoxVeritas — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:40:04 +0000

Well that doesn’t seem like a very restrictive rule at all. Fact is that teams 5 through 8 just have to juggle the numbers a little bit more than teams 9 through 32 would. I still wouldn’t expect the Cowboys to be very active in free agency. They don’t have many glaring needs that could be met in free agency. OT. Maybe a kicker.

By: TimTheEnchanter

TimTheEnchanter — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:15:56 +0000

Buschman – sounds like that’s correct (well technically the top end is 5.8, not 5.08, but you’ve got the concept). Anyone in that $3.8-5.8m range, and anyone over 5.8 after the first, needs to be matched with a corresponding lost free agent. Seems kinda stupid to set it up that way instead of the first one just being “unlimited” but stupid appears to be par for the course with these types of labor negotiations.

By: Bwa Ha Ha

Bwa Ha Ha — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:00:55 +0000

I’m game, sign me up!!!

By: Buschman

Buschman — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:49:15 +0000

Does that mean that they can’t sign anyone for any number between $3.86M and $5.08M in the first year?