Yep. You can keep up to two people per year from entering free agency as long as you give them a 5+ year contract before they exit the building.

Trade bait:
Does your high dollar qb need protection for the next couple of years? Then look no further:

Bryant McKinnie LT - started 0 games in 2012 for the Ravens, but played in all 16 and had no injuries. Just resigned with Baltimore to be their starting LT for 2013 & 2014.

is on the block for a 2013 draft pick.

Vision trade block:

DE3 - Corey Luegert (no contract at the moment), Anthony D. Smith (no contract at the moment)

Need help at HB or ILB or SLB

SS - Daniel Manning (no contract at the moment) -- will trade for FS, otherwise I might play Manning there.

Contract length can be part of trade negotiation.

I had a horrible ****ing dream last night that I was getting outbid on free agents and the clock was running out and all I got from free agency was a fullback and a tight end.

I could literally see the sandbox FA screen in my dream.

It was horrible.

All your FAs are belong to me.

In part the dream is because I have worked so hard at preparing for FA.

I have a very precise strategy, and I intend to claim 90 percent of my targets.

I will not be denied.

I don't have a strategy yet. But I do have 114 players ranked by position. I probably have 3 to 4 that I absolutely must have, and then the rest are luxury upgrades.

You won't get them. I'm getting all the best players.

Most positions I'll be ok with my 2nd or even 3rd choice.

You won't get them. I'm getting all the second and third best players.

Depending on how free agency goes, I'm thinking of flipping my 1st round pick + POSSIBLY more picks for an elite RB. Don't care how old he is.

Any takers?

Zeke! Goddammit - check your PMs. I know you've been on the board recently.

I'm ready to start finalizing my contract already.

I have my list ready to go with more then one target per position of need.

I'm just going to target whoever everyone else targets. Yolo.

(Clearing throat and shuffling feet.)

Hopefully this isn't a problem, but I need to confess something.

This is the first offseason we've had, and we're still learning the process. If you go to your roster and see all those 1's and 0's that indicate availability by week, those are from the 2011 season. We should've cleared them out once the season ended. We're working on the new table now and just realized the old table is still in there and could have misled somebody. So don't assume that's your player availability by week.

(Flinch.) Don't yell at me, okay?