Hints of soft free agent market

If "soft market" means teams won't be overpaying for mediocre free agents, I'm all for it. A hot free agent market favours strong teams with few free agent needs and hurts teams that really need the help. The bidding wars of past years have hurt teams with real needs, forcing them to waste precious money and precious cap space on merely decent players just to fill a hole in their lineup.

Don't worry, someone will get overpaid.

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Originally posted 08:13 AM ET  03.08 by Wawa-we-wa

Don't worry, someone will get overpaid.

According to his agent Cortland Finnegan is on his way to becoming an overpaid free agent.

Plax is available to anybody!!!

It's always "soft". Every year it's only 2 or 3 FA's that stick out.

Any time now the owners that typically spend stupidly will be opening their vaults.

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Originally posted 08:23 AM ET  03.08 by Robataille

It's always "soft". Every year it's only 2 or 3 FA's that stick out.

Are the Skins gonna grab Flynn?

Remember, the cap goes down this year relative to last year. A few teams have cap space to burn, and a few even have to increase their payroll to comply with the new total salary floor in the new CBA.

Overall, though, there is going to be less money available. As much as teams may want to sign a guy, cap space means they just can't open the checkbook like in previous years.

And, the new rules on rookie salaries make draftees more attractive than veterans from a cap space perspective. It costs a lot less now to take a chance on a college kid than to bring in a free agent who may be looking for a Haynesworth-like no-show paycheck.

Soft market...did Downy become an official sponsor of the NFL?

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Originally posted 08:42 AM ET  03.08 by Zeeker

Soft market...did Downy become an official sponsor of the NFL?

(Downy, with a hint of Spring apparently-not-so Green fragrance)

Now that Snyder has a real GM in DC and behaves himself a little better the market is bound to be softer.

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Originally posted 08:52 AM ET  03.08 by Devi8ed

Now that Snyder has a real GM in DC and behaves himself a little better the market is bound to be softer.

But then Jerry Jones is still out there.

last years FA period and the fallout from the labor deal saw a lot of players freed from contracts and sign long term deals...they won't be on the market this season....the change in rookie contracts last season has all of the rookies locked up til 2014...FA is gonna be dead for 2 more offseasons...

I would love to see the cap reduced further next year and the years after. The money bandied around is incredible and its time things got put into perspective. I'm sure the agents and the NFLPA are pissed at the cap amount but hey that's life.
Besides the author failed to mention that this is a good draft for offensive, defensive linement, receivers and QB's.
You can get what you want at the store this year without importing a model from overseas.

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Originally posted 09:02 AM ET  03.08 by THE BISHOP!

But then Jerry Jones is still out there.

Yep... And I have a hunch he will be a player.

We need help at OG and there are some good ones available.

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Originally posted 09:10 AM ET  03.08 by Imma Fubared

I would love to see the cap reduced further next year and the years after. The money bandied around is incredible and its time things got put into perspective. I'm sure the agents and the NFLPA are pissed at the cap amount but hey that's life. Besides the author failed to mention that this is a good draft for offensive, defensive linement, receivers and QB's. You can get what you want at the store this year without importing a model from overseas.

the less money the owners pay the players the more they pocket, who would you rather see get the money, the players or the owners?

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Originally posted 09:11 AM ET  03.08 by Otis B. Driftwood

Yep... And I have a hunch he will be a player. We need help at OG and there are some good ones available.

But defense are where the really big holes are!

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Originally posted 09:10 AM ET  03.08 by Imma Fubared

You can get what you want at the store this year without importing a model from overseas.

Speaking of models, Kate Upton is still looking nice and soft up there. On the other hand, I would imagine that there's a large market for her that's not soft at all.

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Originally posted 09:02 AM ET  03.08 by THE BISHOP!

But then Jerry Jones is still out there.

Speaking of spending stupidly, dumping almost $9mill on Spencer is a waste of valuable resources.

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Originally posted 09:20 AM ET  03.08 by TxHeat

But defense are where the really big holes are!

Draft D...

Fix the O-Line with a 4-5 year guy that knows the ropes. We saw what sticking rookies in there brought.