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Originally Posted by Valencia
I would like to know where you found this... Or do you just make up shit as you go along.. The rules below are all I could find.
If I am looking in the wrong place forgive my attitude.
7J. Announcing Contracts
The deadline for the announcement of the length of the contracts of players picked up in free agency or the rookie draft will be August 30th (the day after (Tuesday) the 3rd preseason game for most teams) each year by midnight (the night before the start of the In-Season Free Agency period which begins on August 31 each NFL season). No player can be traded unless his contract years are declared BEFORE the trade is announced.
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This section that you posted is where I am making shit up as I go along. It clearly states that FA's and Rookies have until August 30th to announce their contracts, not players already with a contract. The last line states "NO player can be traded unless his contract years are declared BEFORE the trade is announced." Thus looking back on a few trades I could find where the contract was renegged, it was always done with the trade announcment, or in a seperate post made at the same time. And as Preds stated earlier, while it may not be clear (we'll get that remedied), that is the intended nature of the rule; which makes sense, in that you have to declare all renegotiations of one year players before the Hard Cap period, so it makes sense that traded players need to be renegged immediatly at time of trade.
To be fair then, since this is really the first time this has come up, and since you look bigger and meaner than me (friggin Raider fan!!!), I'll give you 48 hours to reneg the players that had contracts already coming your way. And once again, this is a one time pass for the league. And the rule can be made clearer, stating that an owner receiving a player traded with an existing contract, has 48 hours after time of announced trade to post renegged contracts.
Fair enough?