As we discussed yesterday, 2010 is an uncapped year. Peter King discusses the implications
Now I don’t know if, say, the Bengals or Rams or Jags will spend to some noncompetitive floor, though any team that spends $70 million on players will get so much public scorn for it that it’d surprise me if even the hard-bitten owners like Mike Brown would slash payroll by 35 or 40 percent. But understand the minimum-service time for unrestricted free agents rises from four to six years in 2010, and understand that each team can use a franchise tag AND transition tag to lock up two potential free agents next year, and understand the top eight teams in the league can’t sign a free agent until they lose one of similar value. Now you understand why the prospect of an uncapped year doesn’t make general managers league-wide lose much sleep. Or any.
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