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Originally Posted by Burt the Butcher
I still do not see how penalizing the RFA owner for allowing the winner to trade their RFA ties together other than only because it was instituted at same time?
I would be for allowing trades of RFA's after rookie draft, and also keeping existing trade ban in place for trades between winning bidder, and team that owned the RFA rights. Seems like good compromise to me.
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Having the trade ban is a deterrent to overbidding on multiple players.
Even waiting until after the draft it's not enough of a deterrent to keep teams from overbidding on players either recklessly or with the intent to trade the player for additional assets.
Allowing teams to trade RFA's early in the off-season when they're flush with CBs to play with allows teams to manipulate the market.
The current system is clearly a deterrent, and combined with the comp picks has worked well for 15 years.
I can see lessening the restrictions to a small degree in a manner like I suggested (which combined with Zombies suggestion of a cap hit), but in no way can I support the free wheeling of RFA's before or after the draft without eliminating compensation picks and going back to the Wild Wild West days of the early years of the league.