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Originally Posted by BlackBob
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Here it is in a nutshell... This is another angle with an explanation that is even easier to understand. There were several rules with Carr's tag.
Dwayne Bowe could not be franchised unless we allowed Carr to hit the open market. Period. There's a rule in the NFL that requires a player hit UFA status if he is given a raise in base salary of more than 30% from one season to the next. When the Chiefs gave him the one-year restricted tender (increasing his base salary from around 400K to 2.6mil), Carr was instantly guaranteed to hit the open market unless franchised.
The only course of action Pioli could take to retain both players was to re-sign Bowe and franchise Carr...
here's the official link... http://nfllabor.files.wordpress.com/...-2011-2020.pdf
Is that a better explanation? |
Carr was going to be an unrestricted free agent regardless of his salary. He was at the end of his rookie contract.
I don't even know what point you think you're making.
The first round tender at the end of the 2010 season only limits other teams' actions in signing Carr. It says they are allowed to sign him but they would forfeit a 1st round pick to KC. That is what the "restricted" part of being a RFA means. It has no bearing on what KC can do in terms of negotiating a new contract. That tender does nothing but protect KC's interests. It's all win.
At the end of 2011 season, Carr became an UFA. At that point, he's free game to the highest bidder or the team he wants to go to. Obviously KC can only use one franchise tag so they would have had to sign Bowe or Carr, and tag the other.
You don't know what you're talking about, and I don't think you even know what you're trying to talk about.