BringBackFergy

Yeah, suuuuure.

That's a difference of $7 million. Please identify one team in the NFL that wouldn't pay $7 million for TWO FIRST ROUND PICKS!!!!! (Because that's really what we're arguing.) By making a $7 million investment over the short term, you are assuring TWO FIRST ROUND PICKS in return. Not even Doug Whaley would pass on that investment.

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That’s exactly what we’re advocating. Call it the “Emancipation Franchisation” or whatever you want. The point is, Tyrod can be tagged based on ambiguous language in the NFL rules because he’s a “potential” free agent. Let’s cash in on this investment.

This is no laughing matter. The future of our team...nay, the future of our lives - hangs in the balance as we try to accumulate first round talent. What better way to bolster our team with young talent than to have 4 first round picks. I seriously don’t think Thyrod can take us to the promised land...but other teams think so. Denver, Jets, Cardinals or even the Jags would steal Tyrod from us quicker than a farmer swiping bacon from a griddle. Franchise him as a “potential free agent”...wait for a suitor, and laugh all the way to the bank with 2 more first rounders. So it costs another $8 million. Big deal. This is our future we’re talkin about.

Bray is trying to explain this to you guys and you aren't listening. Let's say I have a car that I want to keep but I may sell it for the right price. Let's say you really like my car. You are a "potential bidder" on my car even though I haven't decided to sell it yet. If I decide to sell the car, then the car is potentially for sale today but not quite yet. Apply that to Tyrod. Yes he is currently on the team...but there is "potential" that he will become a free agent at some point in the close or distant future. The franchise tag applies to potential free agents. Air go, we can tag him. Geez, can anyone explain this to these guys?

He’s a POTENTIAL free agent. Read my quote above that explains who can be tagged. “Potential Free Agents” can be tagged. How about stop arguing and just do the research? This is pretty easy stuff.

Some guys here seem to think a “potential” free agent is only this year. Tyrod is a “potential free agent” if we don’t pick up option. You see my point. Tag him now and watch the offers come in. I think we can all agree two 1st round picks could be used by our team. That would give us four in the first round and pays us back for the Sammy fiasco. All wrong IMO

You mad bro?

RIP

Do the Dolphins seriously think they can get two first round picks for Jarvis Landry?? Common man. He’s a pre madonna. At least by franchising Tyrod we have a captured audience (QB is more sought after than WR). IMO

Thank you!!! Vindication!!!

5 picks...3 first rounders and 2 other picks. But you have the right idea. We mortgaged our future. Now’s the time to recoup what we lost. Albeit it’s an indirect path, but it’s a guaranteed two first round picks when someone matches our sheet for TT.

Some guys get it. Some guys have the courage to look beyond the black and white words of the rulebook. I tend to look past the obvious (as you do). How else can we re-acquire the three first rounders we gave up for Sammy Watkins? Thanks Doug Whaley!! This, at least, puts us back in the race with two first rounders when another team signs TT from our franchise tag.

Think of it like this: some people like to do word search puzzles and others prefer the NYT Sunday Crossword. One makes you think and the other can be done while sitting on the john. The choice is yours.

You're in Australia. That's like 15 hours ahead of us. How did you even read my thread?...it wasn't even drafted yet.

'm really trying here but my patience wears thin. September 2018 and March 2019 are both in the future. Anything in the future is "to be" or "potential". The rule applies to "potential free agents" or "free agents to be" Therefore, Tyrod is a "free agent to be". This isn't neurosurgery.

So if we don't pick up his option he is some how still allowed to play under center in 2019? No friggin way. That's the whole point of the terminology "free agent to be" and "potential free agent". He fits that criteria to a tee. Don't be hatin' on me just because you didn't think of this loophole.

The purpose of the tag is to allow teams to retain prospective free agents longer than their contracts stipulate. It typically is used on one of the team’s best free-agents-to-be, in situations where a team wants to prolong their control of a player, or hold on to someone they feel they may not be able to keep otherwise. It’s not a player-friendly rule, generally, as it prevents them from hitting the open market. A player has little control over whether or not he is tagged. If we don't pick up Tyrod's option, then he becomes a free agent. So he clearly falls within the parameters of a "free agent to be". Once again, you need to play with the wording of the NFL Rules and push the envelope or the box.

Why not pick his option up and then franchise tag him? I'd buy two first rounders for $16 million.

Thank you. These guys don't see the big picture outside the box. Two first round picks.

Absolutely. Getting two first round picks is worth it.

You aren't thinking outside the box.

We all need to think outside the box when it comes to building this team. That means taking an unconventional approach to obvious team decisions and strategy when it comes to dealing with other teams...especially QB needy teams like Denver, Cleveland, Jets and Cardinals (not to mention Pittsburgh, Jax, New Orleans and even New England). If Beane was to put the franchise tag on Tyrod this year, we would have suitors that would want to interview him. Not saying they will sign him without question, but with a limited pool of experienced QB's available, and Tyrod being a game manager type, chances are 75% that another team would sign Tyrod and we would reap the rewards. What rewards you might ask? A nonexclusive franchise tag involves the same salary offer as an exclusive franchise tag, only the player can negotiate with other teams. The player’s current team can match any offer sheet. If the old team declines to match the offer, it gets two first-round picks from the other team as compensation. This is the more commonly used franchise tag.

Absolutely!! Ya mean the guy that called into Sal’s show and talked about how to make the team better? I think it was Chuck from Cheektowaga. Hire him now.