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Old 06-05-2007, 02:15 PM   #290
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Originally Posted by habernac View Post
Assante Samuel isn't going to play until week 10, is unhappy he was given the franchise player tag:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2893597
It is wrong to be paid "only" $7.79 million dollars. How would he make ends meet?

For god's sake, he will get paid the average of the top 5 players at his position. That just strikes me as really greedy.


(question: can a team put the franchise tag on a player in consecutive years?)
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