2013 Free Agents

[Skinzman]

Originally Posted by skinsfanthru&thru

So how are some players able to be signed by other teams before the beginning of free agency? Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't understand this but just looking for clarification.

You can sign any player who is not under contract. The thing about Free Agency is that those players with expiring contracts are still considered under contract until Mar 12th, which is why FA starts on the 12th. For players in the last season of their deal, thats when the contract is considered officially over. George Wilson was released, so was therefore no longer under contract and available to be signed by anyone.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by Skinzman

You can sign any player who is not under contract. The thing about Free Agency is that those players with expiring contracts are still considered under contract until Mar 12th, which is why FA starts on the 12th. For players in the last season of their deal, thats when the contract is considered officially over. George Wilson was released, so was therefore no longer under contract and available to be signed by anyone.

Jinx. You owe me a Coke.

[skinsfanthru&thru]

Originally Posted by Skinzman

You can sign any player who is not under contract. The thing about Free Agency is that those players with expiring contracts are still considered under contract until Mar 12th, which is why FA starts on the 12th. For players in the last season of their deal, thats when the contract is considered officially over. George Wilson was released, so was therefore no longer under contract and available to be signed by anyone.

Cool thanks for the clarification, I wasn't aware that it worked that way.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Without a reduction in the salary cap penalty I am seeing a lot of doom and gloom about our offseason this year. We may add a couple of second and third tier players, but I am also more focused on keeping our own players that are possibly going to have to leave.

I want to keep our online I tact. Kory L and Polumbus for quality depth are targets for me. Young is a great FB and has gotten better every year (could see this guy having a long career as long as he is healthy).

Davis and Paulson need to be back.

Jackson and Lorenzo need to be here as they are extremely valuable to our team.

If we can't find a replacement I would bring Griffin back as well.

I can't believe we are 4mil over the cap, and have 15-16 guys coming off the roster.

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

Without a reduction in the salary cap penalty I am seeing a lot of doom and gloom about our offseason this year. We may add a couple of second and third tier players, but I am also more focused on keeping our own players that are possibly going to have to leave.

I want to keep our online I tact. Kory L and Polumbus for quality depth are targets for me. Young is a great FB and has gotten better every year (could see this guy having a long career as long as he is healthy).

Davis and Paulson need to be back.

Jackson and Lorenzo need to be here as they are extremely valuable to our team.

If we can't find a replacement I would bring Griffin back as well.

I can't believe we are 4mil over the cap, and have 15-16 guys coming off the roster.

I believe we will be fine. We have 7 draft picks and had the same penalties last season and were still able to land our top WR for the future. I can see us signing our key guys and picking up a secondary player or two. Olus aren't we trying to work out a long term deal with Mr. Orakpo right now. That might save us some money as well.

[SkinzWin]

Originally Posted by EARTHQUAKE2689

I believe we will be fine. We have 7 draft picks and had the same penalties last season and were still able to land our top WR for the future. I can see us signing our key guys and picking up a secondary player or two. Olus aren't we trying to work out a long term deal with Mr. Orakpo right now. That might save us some money as well.

How do you propose we resign all these guys when we are $4 mil over the cap? There's about 6-8 guys I think most people are in agreement we want back. I don't see how it's possible as things sit now.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by SkinzWin

How do you propose we resign all these guys when we are $4 mil over the cap? There's about 6-8 guys I think most people are in agreement we want back. I don't see how it's possible as things sit now.

Assuming we don't get any cap space back we'll definitely have to make some tough decisions. It could mean letting someone like Davis get away I'm afraid.

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Originally Posted by SkinzWin

How do you propose we resign all these guys when we are $4 mil over the cap? There's about 6-8 guys I think most people are in agreement we want back. I don't see how it's possible as things sit now.

Magic and fairy dust of course

[NC_Skins]

Like a few have said before, I think the Skins will allow Fred Davis to test the market. They aren't going to give him top dollar, and truthfully I doubt he gets it on the open market either. We showed last year the team did fine without him.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

LMFAO Quake.



Without any relief we are going to lose guys we all would want to keep.

I also would love to have Rak, but I fear that considering we dangled him out there last year as trade bait for RG III. I could see a surprise trade coming where we move on from him. I DO NOT want tat to happen, but if you look at his injury history under this regime it is possible to read that in the tea leaves.