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Football Beginner Guide - Basics, Rules, Definitions etc.

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  • #52
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,930 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    recylingbin wrote: »
    Few questions...that may have been answered before,,,

    1) If a player is drafted by a team but doesn't want to go and won't go, what happens?
    Has this happened before?
    If he is a much sought after player then a deal might be struck between willing teams but the player really has no choice in the matter. You either go with the team who drafted you or you don't get into the NFL.
    2) What does franchising a player mean? And does the player have any say in it?
    Franchise tagging a player is what I presume you are asking about. When a player is out of contract and is a free agent then a team can hold onto him by placing the franchise tag on him. So for instance let's say the player is a safety, this means that for the upcoming season he will get paid the average salary of the top five players at his position. So if the top five highest paid safeties in the league have an average salary of $10,000,000 then that is what he will get paid. This can only be done to one player per team per season. Generally a team will do this if they feel that they can get a player to re-sign with them after free agency. There might be a year where a safety is much sought after by teams and the team who he played for can use the tag to hold onto him knowing that the demand for safeties will drop the next year and they can negotiate a cheaper contract with him.
    The player who has been franchise tagged has no choice but to remain with his team for that season.
    3) What was all the craic with ineligible receivers? Can anyone on the field not catch a pass?
    Ineligible receivers are players on the offensive line in front of the QB. The two players on the outside of the offensive line are eligible but anybody inside them is not.
    So generally the center, the two guards and the two tackles are not eligible as more often than not you have players lined up outside of them.

    4) What happens if a player catches a pass, runs down field, then drops the ball and it goes out of bounds at, say, the 10 yard line?
    The ball stays with the team who last had possession of the ball but at the spot of the fumble not where it went out of bounds.


  • #53
    JaMarcusHustle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭JaMarcusHustle


    eagle eye wrote:
    1) If a player is drafted by a team but doesn't want to go and won't go, what happens?
    Has this happened before?
    If he is a much sought after player then a deal might be struck between willing teams but the player really has no choice in the matter. You either go with the team who drafted you or you don't get into the NFL.

    This isn't entirely correct.

    If a player doesn't sign a contract with the team that has drafted him by a certain deadline, then they have to sit out the year but they can re-enter the draft the following year when the drafting team's rights on that player expire.

    This famously happened with Bo Jackson. He was highly touted going into his senior year in college and most figured he would go with the first pick in the draft. There was also a concern that he would pursue baseball instead of football.

    The Buccaneers invited him to tour their facilities in what they assured him was a legal visit that had been cleared with the NCAA, but it wasn't. This resulted in him being ruled ineligible for the rest of the college baseball season (though it didn't effect his football). Jackson, and many others, believed this was a deliberate sabotage by the Bucs to prevent him from pursuing a baseball career and force him into football. The Bucs ended up with the first overall pick and despite Jackson vowing he would never sign with them, they drafted him anyway.

    Jackson stayed true to his word and refused to sign. He instead played baseball for a year. The next year, the Bucs surrendered his rights before they were due to expire anyway, and he ended up entering the next draft. No one thought he was serious about football any more so he fell to the 7th round where he was drafted by the Raiders and went on to play in both NFL and MLB simultaneously.

    Of course if a team doesn't sign a player they have drafted, they can still trade his rights. This happened with John Elway and Eli Manning, though in the latter case the Chargers and Giants had worked out a trade in advance of the draft.


  • #54
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    The cap:
    How much is it per team?
    How much would you expect top earners versus lowest earners to be getting?
    Is it just a player salary cap or does it include the running of the (I hate the word, but) franchise too?


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