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The rookie cap is an incentive to stock up on picks and replace vets with low-cost rookies. The NFLPA pushed for the cap, got it, and last year FA vets were crabbing that their opportunities for re-employment were lessened. Duh - cause and effect.
if one of their blue chippers is still there at nine then no way they trade down. and it takes somebody else to have a board with a blue chipper still on it to want to trade up, which seems highly unlikely. itd put the trade down chance at about five pcent
In a very deep draft (as the experts say) few will want to trade up.
I wonder about that.
With the rookie cap, moving up in the top ten isn't the liability it once was, and in addition, the union contract says all clubs are restricted to a finite amount of cash they can spend for all their picks.
The NFLPA, their existing members, demanded and got a salary structure that filled their pockets full of owner money and slapped incoming rookies in the face and the wallet. While the players are a union, they are really more like a medieval trade guild. Rookies, the young, are dirt. That's Union 101.
So the owners strike back. The players have their agents. It is all a business, and since there is no end in sight of the NFL popularity, multimillionaire players demand, multimillionaire owners balk...
Last edited by stuckincincy; 03-24-2014, 02:24 PM.
With the rookie cap, moving up in the top ten isn't the liability it once was, and in addition, the union contract says all clubs are restricted to a finite amount of cash they can spend for all their picks.
The NFLPA, their existing members, demanded and got a salary structure that filled their pockets full of owner money and slapped incoming rookies in the face and the wallet. While the players are a union, they are really more like a medieval trade guild. Rookies, the young, are dirt. That's Union 101.
So the owners strike back. The players have their agents. It is all a business, and since there is no end in sight of the NFL popularity, multimillionaire players demand, multimillionaire owners balk...
Exactly why a bad team with a lot of needs may trade out of the top ten to get more picks a little further down in a deep draft. Maybe they can get 2 blue-chip players instead of just one.
Teams will always think of moving into the top 10, so Bills should get a couple calls. The overdrafting of the QB's will push better talent down. Yet picking up additional picks to move down a few spots isn't the worst idea. It's all about the 8 selections prior.
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Teams will always do what they perceive to be in their best interest. If they have a glaring need, especially at QB, that is ample reason trade up. It all depends who is on the board when we pick and what other teams needs are. Right now we don't know any of that.
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