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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Here's one thing I do like about a setup that I'm not really in love with:
In the NFL, are you ever more than 3 years away from a playoff spot? 5 years away from a Super Bowl? No matter how awful a team is, it can truly be rebuilt in the NFL in the span of a couple of seasons largely due to a thriving FA market.
Well...that's what this league would do as well. It's going to be awfully tough to build a true dynasty, but at the same time, a team can be smart, fly under the radar and rebuild a team in just a season or two.
I still don't love how this thing is set up and I believe this is largely an unintended consequence, but it's still an upshot.
My annoyance remains in the inability to sign role players to deals that are more than a year long. If I want to sign a nice swing tackle for 3 years, I'm going to have to pay him like my starting guard. Well that's just bizarre.
But it feeds turnover, feeds FA depth and feeds increased competition every single season that extends beyond merely the NFL draft. It turns the league from a full blown 'dynasty' league into more of a keeper league where you can note a handful of guys as keepers and the rest of the team is essentially re-draft every season.
It's not the worst thing in the world, but I'd sure like to see some tweeking to account for guys that make smart decisions on young players and/or guys pre-breakout. There really should be a mechanism for allowing a team to keep that guy on the roster without having to go bid among the masses.
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But this promotes movement, it promotes continuous planning from year to year. Not one guy piling up on all the talent intially in the game and then sitting pat winning the league for 5 years. It makes everyone actually work and be attentive, the most active owners that do their homework and plan correctly will do very well every year...