Francis was greedy, that is true.
But two things were strongly against him:
1) everyone learned from the first time, and they had time to prepare better for this one
2) the cap freeze due to Covid has made things tough for a lot of teams and has really dampened the market for big-name UFA types.
Their timing was horrible.
I think it would have been so much better if both teams entered the league at the same time, and had to draft their way through the available players. Would have been a much more fair way to go about it.
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