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during the franchise year. I would say a 2 year insurance salary if the player gets hurt during his franchise year. This would make teams hesitate to use the tag and give the players a little more incentive to play under it. What do you think?
 

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during the franchise year. I would say a 2 year insurance salary if the player gets hurt during his franchise year. This would make teams hesitate to use the tag and give the players a little more incentive to play under it. What do you think?
But that also is some Of the reason why teams are hesitant to give the long term deals. Like in the situations of running backs, or Older players.
 

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Players should all be smart enough to take out insurance that pays them if they get injured and can no longer play and they are paid incredibly well for that franchise tag year. There will always be cases where a player is hurt by it financially and I'm not going to pretend getting $15M is the same as getting $90M but I think there are always times things don't work out for people. 90% of the time the guys that are worthy of being tagged get huge deals after and make huge amounts of money during their careers. Just don't "AB" it away. If you don't want to sign the tag agree to less on a long term deal than you are holding out for which is the hang up most of the time, no?

Dak will get what, $30M if tagged? It takes me over 3 1/2 years to make that...
 

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Players should all be smart enough to take out insurance that pays them if they get injured and can no longer play and they are paid incredibly well for that franchise tag year. There will always be cases where a player is hurt by it financially and I'm not going to pretend getting $15M is the same as getting $90M but I think there are always times things don't work out for people. 90% of the time the guys that are worthy of being tagged get huge deals after and make huge amounts of money during their careers. Just don't "AB" it away. If you don't want to sign the tag agree to less on a long term deal than you are holding out for which is the hang up most of the time, no?

Dak will get what, $30M if tagged? It takes me over 3 1/2 years to make that...

Correct. Most highly paid players carry insurance policies protecting future salary in case of injury
 

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during the franchise year. I would say a 2 year insurance salary if the player gets hurt during his franchise year. This would make teams hesitate to use the tag and give the players a little more incentive to play under it. What do you think?

Then every player who got tagged would get AIR QUOTES hurt AIR QUOTES.

With that much money, players can buy an insurance policy if they want to.
 

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If players are that concerned about injuries and missing out on big future pay-days they should hold-out for multiple games in the 3rd and 4th years of their rookie contract. Holding out once you have franchise tag pay is dumb less smart.
 

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With the rookie wage scale in place I think they should get rid of the franchise tag or at least make a few tweaks to it.

The whole reason that was in place was to help teams retain their own players but now that rookie contracts are far less out of control teams should have no problems in keeping most of who they want to keep.

If they don't get rid of it I'd say they need to make it to where it can't be applied to a player coming off a rookie contract and it can only be placed one time.

Also even if the franchise tag is gone the transition tag still exist and that enables teams to retain one of their own if they want to match a contract.
 

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Players should all be smart enough to take out insurance that pays them if they get injured and can no longer play and they are paid incredibly well for that franchise tag year. There will always be cases where a player is hurt by it financially and I'm not going to pretend getting $15M is the same as getting $90M but I think there are always times things don't work out for people. 90% of the time the guys that are worthy of being tagged get huge deals after and make huge amounts of money during their careers. Just don't "AB" it away. If you don't want to sign the tag agree to less on a long term deal than you are holding out for which is the hang up most of the time, no?

Dak will get what, $30M if tagged? It takes me over 3 1/2 years to make that...

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