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Bobblehead · 06-05-2007, 07:02 PM

^^ Yeah.

The only down side is if he is injured then perhaps his ability at future contracts is curtailed. But that is true in the final year of a contract for any player. It was true for Samuel last year. So that argument is a strawman.

And I just saw that a player can only have the franchise tag applied 3 years in a row, and in the third year he must be paid the average of the top 5 salaries league wide (not just at his position).

Anyways, I've derailed this thread long enough.

Odell Thurman is accused of assault.
After missing last season with a suspension, I'm thinking he has just about run out of chances.

06-05-2007, 07:02 PM	#296
Bobblehead Franchise Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: in your blind spot. Exp:	^^ Yeah. The only down side is if he is injured then perhaps his ability at future contracts is curtailed. But that is true in the final year of a contract for any player. It was true for Samuel last year. So that argument is a strawman. And I just saw that a player can only have the franchise tag applied 3 years in a row, and in the third year he must be paid the average of the top 5 salaries league wide (not just at his position). Anyways, I've derailed this thread long enough. Odell Thurman is accused of assault. After missing last season with a suspension, I'm thinking he has just about run out of chances. __________________ "The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence." —Bill Clinton "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge." —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress "But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity" —WKRP in Cincinatti