Five things NFLPA can do to address franchise tag issues
Article By mflorio.tsn on 26th February, 2010
Two years ago, a certain Internet hack wrote this sentence: "If the NFL Players Association will be pressured as part of the next round of Collective Bargaining Agreement talks to take a smaller percentage of the football revenue than the 60-percent chunk that the union now receives, there's something important the players should request in return. They should ask the league to get rid of the franchise tag."
Today, it's now clear the players are being squeezed to take a smaller piece of the pie, in the name of the ongoing growth of it. So I'll reiterate what the unnamed Internet hack said on Feb. 25, 2008 — the players should insist on the disappearance of the franchise tag. The Patriots designated DT Vince Wilfork as their franchise player, with a tag figure of $7.003 million.
Assuming the league won't agree to wipe off the books the device for keeping one unrestricted free agent per year from becoming unrestricted, the union should make every effort to scale back its use. Two years ago, I suggested making the franchise tender irrevocable until the start of training camp, prohibiting trades of franchise players, and creating a structure that permits a franchise player to pick a multi-year deal that would provide the kind of long-term security that the year-to-year use of the franchise tag prevents.
Now that I'm two years older and, as evidenced by the additional gray hairs, wiser, I can add some more requests that the union should make.
1. Get rid of the transition tag In 2006, changes to the labor agreement guaranteed the salary offered to players slapped with the transition tag, which gives only a right to match and no draft-pick compensation to the team using it. As a result, the transition tag has been used sparingly.
So it's easy to get rid of the transition. The union should ask for it to be dumped, and the league should have no issue with doing so.
It's the kind of t...
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Today, it's now clear the players are being squeezed to take a smaller piece of the pie, in the name of the ongoing growth of it. So I'll reiterate what the unnamed Internet hack said on Feb. 25, 2008 — the players should insist on the disappearance of the franchise tag. The Patriots designated DT Vince Wilfork as their franchise player, with a tag figure of $7.003 million.
Assuming the league won't agree to wipe off the books the device for keeping one unrestricted free agent per year from becoming unrestricted, the union should make every effort to scale back its use. Two years ago, I suggested making the franchise tender irrevocable until the start of training camp, prohibiting trades of franchise players, and creating a structure that permits a franchise player to pick a multi-year deal that would provide the kind of long-term security that the year-to-year use of the franchise tag prevents.
Now that I'm two years older and, as evidenced by the additional gray hairs, wiser, I can add some more requests that the union should make.
1. Get rid of the transition tag In 2006, changes to the labor agreement guaranteed the salary offered to players slapped with the transition tag, which gives only a right to match and no draft-pick compensation to the team using it. As a result, the transition tag has been used sparingly.
So it's easy to get rid of the transition. The union should ask for it to be dumped, and the league should have no issue with doing so.
It's the kind of t...
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