About poison pill and whether it is legal or not

[BrassCowboy]

It is legal. The NFL never was able to come to agreement with the union on any deal to ban the use of it.

Teams simply did not use it last year.

Read #5 at this link:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=boldpredictionsforthenfl&prov=tsn&type=lgns

this is not the only source i read this from, but you all are free to google it like I did if you want more than that link.

I do hope they ban the use of it though. It takes away the spirit of what a RFA is.

 

[sago1]

Actually I thought NE used it last year to get Welker for a 2nd & eventually also give the Dolphins a 7th rounder. Think Welker was a RFA at the time.

 

[BrassCowboy]

Actually I thought NE used it last year to get Welker for a 2nd & eventually also give the Dolphins a 7th rounder. Think Welker was a RFA at the time.

I read that people thought NE would include a poison pill, but they didn't in the Welker deal.

A few of the sources I looked up mentioned that no NFL team used it last year and that the union will be awfully weary about possible NFL collusion if no team uses the poison pill again this year.

 

[TVMan]

Hmmm. Thanks for posting that info.

 

[BrassCowboy]

just thought some people might not want to miss this about the poison pill

 

[Big Dakota]

Well if someone uses it on MBIII at least we get a 1st and 3rd.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I read that people thought NE would include a poison pill, but they didn't in the Welker deal.

A few of the sources I looked up mentioned that no NFL team used it last year and that the union will be awfully weary about possible NFL collusion if no team uses the poison pill again this year.

I posted this a few days ago about the Welker deal...

The poison pill was an issue with Welker. Here's an exerpt from an old article from NFL Network from last off-season that explains what happened...
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Patriots could suddenly be rich in receivers

(March 5, 2007) -- To the relief of quarterback Tom Brady and the rest of Patriot Nation, New England signed one wide receiver and could soon add another.

After trading 2007 second- and seventh-round draft choices to Miami for wide receiver Wes Welker and signing him to a five-year, $18.1 million contract that included $9 million in guaranteed money, the Patriots were scheduled to host a visit with Philadelphia free-agent wide receiver Donte' Stallworth.

As for Welker, the key to completing a trade between the Patriots and Dolphins was the work of their owners, New England's Robert Kraft and Miami's Wayne Huizenga.

Kraft stepped in, not wanting his organization to engage in any type of public battle for Welker's services. The Patriots were poised to sign Welker to a seven-year, $38.5 million contract that contained a "poison pill" that said if the wide receiver played four games in Florida, his contract would become fully guaranteed.

Knowing the feud that developed last year between Minnesota and Seattle over free-agent guard Steve Hutchinson, Kraft helped engineer the trade with Huizenga. The Patriots would have had to give up the second-round pick to sign Welker anyway; the seventh-round pick was added partly as a goodwill gesture, and mostly to avoid any protracted hearing between the two sides.

 

[ajk23az]

Somebody posted the other day that all of the owners have pretty much agreed to not use the poison pill anymore.