Advancing past this weekend in the NFL playoffs could actually make it harder to get back there next season, under a little-noticed provision in the league's collective-bargaining deal. If no new deal is signed by March, new CBA rules kick in for next season-the final year of the contract and there will be no salary cap, but the final four teams will be essentially barred from signing any big-name free agents unless they lose some of their own. Teams that make it to the final eight face limits, though they're not as severe and all teams are free to hold on to their own free agents, however. Source: Wall Street Journal
means nothing really. Most big name FA's will either be tagged or RFA's Allone of the final fou rhas to do is trade one of there RFA's for another
What Jihad Joe is spot on. The final four could actually create their own market by swapping RFA's. Who knows. The only team that could hit the FA market is AZ as they will lose Karlos Dansby to FA (he's been tagged twice). Any others qualify of the eight teams? At the end of the day this is pure bullcrap.
Figures Cowboy fans wouldn't like it but I think it's a fair rule. This prevents the elite teams from buying up championships and prevents a MLB like situation (Yankees, Red Sox buying up everyone) which is awful. But really it won't really matter this upcoming season because like already mentioned a lot of the big name would be FA's will be RFA's instead so the Free Agent pool won't be that big.
This was one of the rumours I heard would come in if the cap went. Its just to stop the better teams pulling further away and losing the parity in the league. If the cap goes there will be more rules like this put in place.
