2014 Huddle mock offseason rules/ offense and specialist FA pool

[DaCityKats]

Hope everyone has been doing their homework, and research on their teams. Figuring out what FA prospects and draft guys you want to add to make that playoff push. Depth Charts should be up and completed by January 31st, @ 8:00 pm EST in the depth chart thread.

 

During this time each team has the option of designating a franchise tag on one of their own free agents they wish to keep for the $ amount for that position. You must state who you will use the franchise tag on before February 6th @ 8:00 pm EST time in the appropriate FA thread. (If I am tagging a WR I need to say so in the offense FA thread.) If you do decide to use the franchise tag on someone, your cap will reflect the move and the next best free agent will enter the pool. Every team will have at least 5 players in the FA pool.

 

Then the free agency period will begin. The start of FA period will be at 12:00 pm EST time on February 8th. Each team will have a cap space figure to stay within. You simply bid on free agents you want and the highest bidder adds that player to their team. You can sign multiple free agents but you have to remain within your cap space. During the free agency period teams can also trade draft picks for players on other teams by negotiating a deal with another GM. Please do not put any FA in the pool on your team until you won the bid for that player.

 

Free agency period will go into the draft( FA will be over after the draft.) The draft will start on February 28th @ 6:00 pm EST. (That is the friday after the combine) Player trades will be allowed during the draft, and FA pick ups. You may trade up or down using draft picks and whenever your team is on the clock choose who to pick.

 

 

Free Agency Rules

 

Free agency and player trading will commence on Saturday, February 8th 12:00 pm EST. FA officially ends @ the end of the draft. The draft will begin February 28th @ 6:00 pm EST.

The top five URFAs from each team will enter the free agent pool. All other FAs will stay with their original team and you can treat these players just like anyone else under contract. You may also not put those guys on your depth chart if you want. RFA's will remain with the current team they are with, but can be traded away. I will look at overthecap.com, spotrac.com, and walterfootball.com to decide each team top 5 FAs to put into the FA pool. Position, age, and productivity will play a role into the decision.

Franchise Tag: Each team will be able to franchise one of their free agents. This will cost a set amount based on position and will count towards that teams cap. The deadline for designating a franchise tag will be 8:00pm EST on Thursday, February 6th. Please post who you wish to franchise tag in the appropriate FA Offense or Defense thread.

 

Franchise tag prices- Offense

QB- $16

RB- $9

WR- $12

OL- $11

TE- $7

K/P- $3

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1920765-seattle-seahawks-free-agents-whos-in-play-for-the-franchise-tag#articles/1920765-seattle-seahawks-free-agents-whos-in-play-for-the-franchise-tag

[DaCityKats]

Cap Space

 

At no time can your total outstanding bids be higher than the amount you have to spend! This is up to you and you only to keep track of. If you exceed your spending limit you will be penalized, your total cap space reduced by $10.

 

Bidding on Players in FA

 

Players are signed 1 day (exactly 24 hours) from the time of the highest bid. For example, if your high bid was posted on Sunday 1PM the player will officially be signed and added to your roster Monday 1PM so long as nobody outbids you during that 1 day. If someone outbids you, then the day waiting period starts again from the time of their top bid. This 1 day waiting period may be reduced to 12 hours or less toward the end of the free agency period.

 

Home Team Advantages

 

Teams resigning their own free agents will have a couple advantages. First, they can simply match the top offer rather than having to outbid( When matching a offer please put the $ amount as well). Second, they will get a discount off the final price after the player is officially signed. The discount will be applied as followed:
Final bid: $3-$6 = $1 discount.
Final bid: $7-$10 = $2 discount.
Final bid: $11-$14 = $3 discount.
Final bid: $15+ = $4 discount.

If somebody is a FA and appears in the pool, please take them off our depth chart until you win the bid for that player. Again, we will use a combo of walterfootball.com, spotrac.com, and overthecap.com to determine the top 5 FAs from each team.

 

Teams cap space

 

The projected ceiling is $127. But we are rolling over cap space from 2013 to increase the spending. Below are the teams and the cap space money. These numbers are from overthecap.com.

 

2013 cap space

http://www.overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2013

 

2014 cap space

http://www.overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space2.php?Year=2014

 

Arizona Cardinals- BigSyke

$3

Atlanta Falcons- X-Clown

$20

Baltimore Ravens- DaCityKats

$3
Buffalo Bills- Munch4455

$20

Carolina Panthers- C47

$10

Chicago Bears- Ken

$15

Cincinnati Bengals- TylerVagyler

$24

Cleveland Browns- DaCityKats

$41

Dallas Cowboys- L-TownCat

-$22

Denver Broncos- panthers90

$11

Detroit Lions- DeSim

-$5

Green Bay Packers- bdub515

$27

Houston Texans- MichaelNewtonII

$14

Indianapolis Colts- Promethean Forerunner

$35

Jacksonville Jaguars- CaliPanthers

$53

Kansas City Chiefs

$2
Miami Dolphins- carpanfan96

$41

Minnesotta Vikings- App Panther

$25

New England Patriots- BigSyke

$8
New Orleans Saints

-$14

New York Giants- jdpanther5

$12

New York Jets- Soul Rebel

$20

Oakland Raiders- Riverboat Ron

$63

Philadelphia Eagles- carolina-chuck

$21
Pittsburgh Steelers- Jackofalltrades

-$12

San Diego Chargers- Swan

-$2

San Francisco 49ers- Kevin Greene

$11

Seattle Seahawks

$4

St.Louis Rams- carolina-chuck

$11

Tampa Bay Buccaneers- micnificent28

$13

Tennessee Titans- CaliPanthers

$17

Washington Redskins- Third Degree

$16

 

Cutting players

 

Each team will be allowed to cut up to 5 players on their roster to create some cap room. Deadline to cut a player is the same as the tag which is Feb, 6th @ 8:00 pm EST.Catch-22 is your player that gets cut now enters the FA pool(which bumps your 5 fa to 10 at most), and you are still on the hook for a % of that player cap hit based off years left on the contract. A player with 1 year = 60%, 2 years = 50%, 3 years = 40%, 4 years = 30%, 5+ years = 20% off their cap hit for 2014. You have to let everyone know who you are cutting in the offense or defense FA threads. Also let us know how much money you are freeing up so I can add it to your cap total.

Ex. Player X has a contract with 3 years and $12 left, meaning he has a cap hit of $4. You cut him so you would have to pay 40% of $4, which would free up about $2 off your cap.


Thanks again Munch for the idea.Good Luck

[DaCityKats]

Offense and specialist FA Pool

 

QB

Chad Henne, QB, Jags. Age 29

Josh Freeman, QB, Vikings. Age 26.... signed for $4 Raiders

Shaun Hill, QB, Lions. Age 34

Kellen Clemens, QB, Rams. Age 30

Josh McCown, QB, Bears. Age 34.... signed for $1 Bears

Mike Vick, QB, Eagles. Age 33.... signed for  $3 Jags

Matt Schaub, QB, Texans. Age 32.... signed for $2 Rams

Sam Bradford, QB, Rams. Age 26.... signed for $3 Titans

Jason campbell, QB, Browns. Age 32

Blaine Gabbert, QB, Jags. Age 24

Matt Moore, QB, Dolphins. Age 29

 

RB/ FB

Ben Tate, RB, Texans. Age 26.... signed for $1 Browns

Greg Jones, FB, Texans. Age 33

Maurice Jones- Drew, RB, Jags. Age 29.... signed for $1 Broncos

Jordan Todman, RB, Jags. Age 24.... signed for $1 Jags

Darren McFadden, RB, Raiders. Age 26.... signed for $1 Raiders

Rashad Jennings, RB, Raiders. Age 28

Toby Gerhart, RB, Vikings. Age 26.... signed for $1 Jags

Rashard Mendenhall, RB, Cardinals. Age 26

John Kuhn, FB, Packers. Age 31.... signed for $1 Packers

Donald Brown, RB, Colts. Age 26

LeGarrette Blount, RB, Pats. Age 27.... signed for $1 Pats

Knowshon Moreno, RB, Broncos. Age 26.... signed for $1 Falcons

Frank Gore, RB, 49ers. Age 30.... signed for $1 Texans

Jonathan Stewart, RB, Panthers. Age 26.... signed for $1 Titans

Steven Jackson, RB, Falcons. Age 30

Chris Johnson, RB, Titans. Age 28.... signed for $3 Rams

 

WR

Tiquan Underwood, WR, Bucs. Age 26.... signed for $1 Panthers

Kenny Britt, WR, Titans. Age 25.... signed for $1 Rams

Hakeem Nicks, WR, Giants. Age 26.... signed for $2 Dolphins

Emmanuel Sanders, WR, Steelers. Age 26.... signed for $1 Browns

Jerricho Cotchery, WR, Steelers. Age 31

Andre Roberts, WR, Cardinals. Age 26.... signed for $1 Giants

James Jones, WR, Packers. Age 29.... signed for $1 Eagles

Jeremy Maclin, WR, Eagles. Age 25.... signed for $3 Bengals

Riley Cooper, WR, Eagles. Age 26.... signed for $4 HTD = $3 Eagles

Dexter McCluster, WR/ KR, Chiefs. Age 25.... signed for $1 Titans

Brandon Tate, WR/ KR, Bengals. Age 26

Danairo Alexander, WR, Chargers. Age 25

Ted Ginn Jr, WR, Panthers. Age 28.... signed for $1 Panthers

Julian Edelman, WR, Pats. Age 27.... signed for $1 Pats

Anquan Boldin, WR, 49ers. Age 33.... signed for $1 49ers

Eric Decker, WR, Broncos. Age 26.... signed for $4 HTD=$3 Broncos

Golden Tate, WR, Seahawks. Age 25.... signed for $3 Dolphins

Brandon Gibson, WR, Dolphins. Age 26

Davone Bess, WR, Browns. Age 28

 

 

 

TE

Fred Davis, TE, Redskins. Age 28.... signed for  $1 Texans

Clay Harbor, TE, Jags. Age 27

Scott Chandler, TE, Bills. Age 28

Brandon Pettigrew, TE, Lions. Age 28.... signed for $1 Ravens

Dennis Pitta, TE, Ravens. Age 28.... signed for  $2 49ers

Jeff Cumberland, TE, Jets. Age 26

Jimmy Graham, TE, Saints. Age 27.... signed for $17 Raiders

Owen Daniels, TE, Texans. Age 31.... signed for $1 Falcons

Craig Stevens, TE, Titans. Age 29

Brandon Myers, TE, Giants. Age 28.... signed for $1 Giants

 

 

 

OT

Oniel Cousins, OT, Browns. Age 29

Jared Veldheer, OT, Raiders. Age 26.... signed for $13 HTD = $10 Raiders

Mike Johnson, OT, Falcons. Age 26.... signed for $1 Falcons

Jason Fox, OT, Lions. Age 25

Michael Otto, OT, Titans. Age 30

Roger Saffold, OT/ OG, Rams. Age 25.... signed for $5 Jags

Eugene Monroe, OT, Ravens. Age 26.... Franchised

Michael Oher, OT, Ravens. Age 27.... signed for $13 Packers

Austin Howard, OT, Jets. Age 26.... signed for $1 Falcons

Eric Winston, OT, Cardinals. Age 30.... signed for $1 Titans

Branden Albert, OT, Chiefs. Age 29.... signed for $6 Dolphins

Anthony Collins, OT, Bengals. Age 28.... signed for $1 Ravens

Zach Strief, OT, Saints. Age 30.... signed for $3 Dolphins

Jordan Gross, OT, Panthers. Age 33.... signed for $1 Panthers

Sam Baker, OT, Falcons. Age 28.... signed for $1 Falcons

 

 

 

OG

Shaun Lauvao, OG, Browns. Age 26

Chris Williams, OG, Rams. Age 28.... signed for $1 Giants

Willie Colon, OG, Jets, Age 30

Jon Asamoah, OG, Chiefs. Age 25.... signed for $3 Falcons

Geoff Schwartz, OG/ OT, Chiefs. Age 27.... signed for $6 Dolphins

Chad Rinehart, OG, Chargers. Age 28.... signed for $1 Bears

Chris Snee, OG, Giants. Age 32

 

 

 

C

Alex Mack, C, Browns. Age 28.... signed for $10 HTD = $8 Browns

Joe Hawley, C, Falcons. Age 25.... signed for $1 Falcons

Ted Larsen, C, Bucs. Age 26.... signed for $1 Giants

Dominic Raiola, C, Lions.... signed for $1 Pats

Ryan Cook, C, Cowboys. Age 30

Evan Dietrich- Smith, C, Packers. Age 27.... signed for $1 Packers

Brian De La Puente, C, Saints. Age 28.... signed for $1 49ers

Ryan Wendell, C, Pats. Age  .... signed for $1 Falcons

Jonathan Goodwin, C, 49ers. Age 35

David Baas, C, Giants. Age 32

 

 

Specialist

Billy Cundiff, K, Browns. Age 34

Rian Lindell, K, Bucs. Age 36

Dan Carpenter, K, Bills. Age 28

Devin Hester, KR, Bears. Age 31.... signed for $1 Texans

Nick Folk, K, Jets. Age 29.... signed for $1 Browns

Pat McFee, P, Colts. Age 26.... signed for $1 Cards

Phil Dawson, K, 49ers. Age 39

Steven Hauschka, K, Seahawks. Age 28.... signed for $3 49ers

Steve Weatherford, P, Giants. Age 31

[carolina-chuck]

Pinned please.

[carolina-chuck]

How do we know the cap figure for each team?

and how many player can we cut?

 

 

[DaCityKats]

How do we know the cap figure for each team?

and how many player can we cut?

 

im adding #s now, and you can cut up to 5 players. still posting info as we speak.

 

[Kevin Greene]

Hope everyone has been doing their homework,......

 

 

Great job on all this so far.

Are we going to put some restrictions on Player trades this year?

I seem to recall last year the Chargers I think it was completely gutted their team of Phillip Rivers etc the 1st couple day we started.

A maximum number of deals per team for roster player wise and a review of all trades before approval so they are at least close to legitimate?

 

Draft picks as many as wanted as long as they are close to the NFL Draft Pick Value guide each way?

 

 

EDIT:

I see you have this thread from last year in the Sign up thread linked:

 

Something along those lines again then?

[DaCityKats]

Great job on all this so far.

Are we going to put some restrictions on Player trades this year?

I seem to recall last year the Chargers I think it was completely gutted their team of Phillip Rivers etc the 1st couple day we started.

A maximum number of deals per team for roster player wise and a review of all trades before approval so they are at least close to legitimate?

 

Draft picks as many as wanted as long as they are close to the NFL Draft Pick Value guide each way?

 

 

EDIT:

I see you have this thread from last year in the Sign up thread linked:

 

Something along those lines again then?

yes we are, there has to be restrictions on player trades. i will put the trading rules up tonight. 

[MichaelNewtonII]

CUTTING MATT SCHAUB QB 

[MichaelNewtonII]

im adding #s now, and you can cut up to 5 players. still posting info as we speak.

 

how much cap does schaub free me 

Last September, the Texans opted after only one game to give Matt Schaub a long-term contract. He pocketed $22 million in 2012, and the question after the season will become whether the Texans want to throw good money after a suddenly bad player.

Per a source with knowledge of the contract, the cap hit becomes somewhat manageable after the 2013 season. If the Texans designate Schaub as a post-June 1 cut, the cap charge in 2014 would be $3.5 million. In 2015, $7 million in dead money would apply.

The Texans also would avoid paying Schaub $10 million next season by cutting him, along with another $1 million in total per-game roster bonuses.

 

 

WHEN I CUT HIM USING OVERTHECAP.COM  MY AVAILABLE CAP FOR 2014 GOES FROM 3.06MIL TO 6.64MIL

[MichaelNewtonII]

CUTTING OWEN DANIELS TE

 

when cutting him and schaub using overthecap.com the cap room for houston goes to 10.72mil

[MichaelNewtonII]

ADD THE $9 from SCHAUB AND $2 from Daniels

 

[MichaelNewtonII]

Offense and specialist FA Pool

 

 

Brandon Pettigrew, TE, Lions. Age 28

 

Ill bid $2 on him if I can

[bdub515]

Ill bid $2 on him if I can

 

It says right in the first post Free Agency begins February 8th...