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  | | | Franchise Tag Would Be Prohibitive For Texans LB Mario Williams | Posted By: Sweets
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The Texans top priority will be to re-sign outside linebacker Mario Williams according to John McClain of the Houston Chronicle, they also want to sign running back Arian Foster, who’ll be a restricted free agent, to a long-term deal. The team’s top priority will be to re-sign outside linebacker Mario Williams. The Texans can’t afford to carry Williams at $22.9 million for one year, they can’t trade him because you can’t trade a player who’s not under contract. They could franchise him and hope he’d agree later to a long-term deal, but he’d be holding all the cards knowing they couldn’t keep him at $22.9 million. Williams wants to stay, but once he’s on the open market, a team with a lot of cap space and an owner willing to spend millions might offer agent Ben Dogra $40 million to $50 million for him, but before we count Williams as gone, remember that Smith, coach Gary Kubiak and owner Bob McNair have said they want to re-sign him, but they have only so much they can offer.
Source: The Redzone
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01-25-2012, 07:40 PM
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jesus christ, the franchise tag price for a LB/DE is $23 million for 1 year now ?
wtf? most teams don't have that much room under the cap. hell, that ONE salary would eat up 20% of a team's ENTIRE cap ................
i thought the franchise tag price was supposed to be the average of the top 5 paid players at the same position ................. there are FIVE guys at that position that average $23 mill per year? |
01-25-2012, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by CaptainStubing  jesus christ, the franchise tag price for a LB/DE is $23 million for 1 year now ?
wtf? most teams don't have that much room under the cap. hell, that ONE salary would eat up 20% of a team's ENTIRE cap ................
i thought the franchise tag price was supposed to be the average of the top 5 paid players at the same position ................. there are FIVE guys at that position that average $23 mill per year? | no way that cant be...OLBs id say ware, harrison, woodley, hali, suggs, (curry maybe?) and the most is ware at like 8 million a year i believe.
i have no idea where they got that number, i dont even think thats the QB/OT/DE number which are all higher than the OLB im sure |
01-25-2012, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by K Train no way that cant be...OLBs id say ware, harrison, woodley, hali, suggs, (curry maybe?) and the most is ware at like 8 million a year i believe.
i have no idea where they got that number, i dont even think thats the QB/OT/DE number which are all higher than the OLB im sure | exactly............ i don't know where that number came from but that's insane ............ maybe someone who knows about the new franchise tag rules can shed some light on this ............. |
01-25-2012, 07:59 PM
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the article is written in a real shady way too, read it its weird. i call shenanigans |
01-25-2012, 08:39 PM
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The Franchise Tag in 2011 was in the neighborhood of $10M...I believe. No way it's $22.9 now...lol.
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01-25-2012, 08:47 PM
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From what I could find, these are the Top-5 average salaries for 2011:
Brian Urlacher - $11,330,000
DeMarcus Ware - $11,285,714
LaMarr Woodley - $10,250,000
Kamerion Wimbley - $9,600,000
David Harris - $9,000,000
That's about $10.3M as the average and that is the highest average between, average salaries, base salaries and cap hit...so it probably isn't more than the #10.3M...
The players on all three lists are quite surprising actually...
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01-25-2012, 08:53 PM
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Somebody wrote a bullshit article methinks. |
01-25-2012, 09:18 PM
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Wasn't there a part of the Franchise Tag rules that say the player has to earn a minimum of the Top-5 salaries or some percentage above...like 25%?
That would put his salary in the $22M range for 2012...then it would make sense...
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01-25-2012, 10:17 PM
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If its that much something is SERIOUSLY wrong if they actually use it. That is WAY too much money for one player for one year | |
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