Uncapped Season!?!?

I see it being just like baseball. Dallas, like the NY Yankees, will probably become the best team money can buy.

Oh, and Yuck the Fankees.

 

It's one year, nothing will change significantly. Great players won't sign for one year

 

Yea unfortunately I see Dallas and other big market teams drawing the high profile players. Hopefully the Titan worthy free agents stay smart and come to Tennessee for the chance to win, and not just for the money. Because lets face it, we don't pay anybody top dollar. However I don't see this being such a huge problem for us Titans fans, as our team is built through the draft more than it is through FA acquisitions. Also make note that any FA coming to Tennessee aren't superstars. They come here to become just that with great coaching and schemes that work. Sure they could choose to go to the Cowboys or to the Dolphins where outside of football; life is fun, but they'll never see a Super Bowl.

 

It won't be that dramatic of a change... lots of additional safeguards like 6 years before a player is a FA, 2 franchise tags. But the biggest issue is that in football, much more than baseball, money doesn't really buy you championships. Exhibit A: Dan Snyder.

It might actually benefit teams like the Titans that have shyed away from free agency - because it will place more of an emphasis on the draft. Yea, a few teams like Dallas might try to go for broke and load up, but Jerry Jones might be the only billionaire that really likes to throw away money. Most of these guys aren't going to all of a sudden decide that their football teams shouldn't be a profitable business.

 

Courtland Finnegan, Keith Bulluck, KVB, Vince Young, Michael Roos, and David Stewart might disagree.

 

Cortland Finnegan $6,606,360 - Asante Samuel $14,145,000 in 2008
Keith Bulluck $6,253,720 - Lance Briggs $8,805,000 in 2008
Kyle Vanden Bosch $4,486,720 - Jared Allen $21,119,256 in 2008
Vince Young $7,227,520 - Ben Roethlisberger $27,701,920 in 2008
Michael Roos $13,505,520 - YES we did pay him big bucks
David Stewart $9,006,240 - Chris Snee $14,890,000 in 2008

So only one of those guys you pointed out are getting top dollar. All the rest make fantastic money for themselves but not top dollar by position. No salary cap will allow Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder to give more than the listed amounts on the right of our teams highest paid. And we sure as hell wouldn't pay any CB 14 million. Or any QB 21 million. Vince had to get that money being the 3rd pick.

 

If they work out the CBA the bigger question is what happens to washington and dallas. They are both so far over the cap they will have to cut half their teams. Hayneworth maybe one and done

 

Wait a minute... So could Washington really end up letting Haynesworth go? If that's the case, I'll stop making fun of him and welcome him back open arms.

I'm not sure but I do believe they signed Big Al hoping there wouldn't be a cap.

 

Basically, we are like every other NFL team - we have one player being paid top dollar. When it comes to median salary, the Titans paid 8th highest at $1,006,120 in 2008. So, we pay players pretty well.