Woodman
03-04-2024, 01:42 PM
One week from today, free agency begins.
Technically, it doesn’t start until Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. ET. As a practical matter, it gets going at noon ET on Monday, March 11.
That’s when the so-called “legal tampering” period begins. Teams will start calling agents to officially extend offers. Plenty of those offers will be quickly accepted, since they were negotiated and wink-nod finalized before the legal tampering period opened. Reports will emerge, courtesy of agents sending out text messages to one or more reporters, of deals being done. The numbers will be inflated. Sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot.
Technically, it doesn’t start until Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. ET. As a practical matter, it gets going at noon ET on Monday, March 11.
That’s when the so-called “legal tampering” period begins. Teams will start calling agents to officially extend offers. Plenty of those offers will be quickly accepted, since they were negotiated and wink-nod finalized before the legal tampering period opened. Reports will emerge, courtesy of agents sending out text messages to one or more reporters, of deals being done. The numbers will be inflated. Sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot.