Originally Posted by Popes

FYI, take a look at your cap. By my calculations, these tenders will put you over the 2008 cap come April 1. I've got you over by $385 with these declarations.

Originally Posted by Royal Hawaiian Opihi

I'm lazy & don't want to look up the rules... but is this really a rule? Why not allow a team to make 3 1st round tenders, knowing full well that he will be NOTE MATCHING at least one or more? That should be at least an option, in my opinion. (Then again, I could be barking up a tree that we've already cut down - or already found a blind nut... or already thrown crap on, depeding on what metaphor you like!).

Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers

Do we really want to go back down the road where were are handing out more higher picks? We just fixed this system after handing out, what, seven first round comp picks? Now after fixing that and not even going through one RFA period, people are talking about tweaking the system so more higher picks would be handed out? Come on people...

Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers

If you don't count RFA tenders against a teams cap, and a team bids other players up over their cap if you included their own RFA tenders, what happens at the end of the RFA period when their players haven't been bid on?

Also, if teams aren't contrained by their own tenders, teams will tend to tag players at a higher level in the hopes they actually get bid up that high. Right now, a team such as Matt can only tender players at a certain level because of his cap space. If he wasn't contrained by the cap, and didn't really plan on matching any of these guys, he could tender them at a higher level and hope to get the higher level of compensation, even though he could never afford to bring the players back at that price. Do we really want to go back down the road where were are handing out more higher picks? We just fixed this system after handing out, what, seven first round comp picks? Now after fixing that and not even going through one RFA period, people are talking about tweaking the system so more higher picks would be handed out? Come on people...

Originally Posted by Royal Hawaiian Opihi

I'm lazy & don't want to look up the rules... but is this really a rule? Why not allow a team to make 3 1st round tenders, knowing full well that he will be NOTE MATCHING at least one or more? That should be at least an option, in my opinion. (Then again, I could be barking up a tree that we've already cut down - or already found a blind nut... or already thrown crap on, depeding on what metaphor you like!).