Being an uncapped year??

[Echo9]

It can't be done unless we lose a free agent that gets paid more than we would pay Peppers and that just won't happen.

not true.

multiple explanations on the restrictions throughout this site and everywhere else. That only applies to the top 4 teams.

We're not signing Peppers anyway, but those rules don't apply.

 

[Gzus]

not true.

multiple explanations on the restrictions throughout this site and everywhere else. That only applies to the top 4 teams.

We're not signing Peppers anyway, but those rules don't apply.

They do apply, the only difference between us and the top 4 teams is the size of the contract we can sign. We can sign only one FA to a contract over I wanna say somewhere around a $5 million a year starting salary and all other signings have to be under about $3 million a year starting salary. As one of the final 8 teams we are still restricted to only being able to sign a FA once we've lost one.

"The rule will restrict the final eight teams in the playoffs from signing free agents. The final four teams shall not be permitted to negotiate and sign any unrestricted free agent to a player contract except for players who acquired their status by being cut or were on the final four team when their contract expired. Playoff teams five thru eight get a break to sign one player with a salary of $4,925,000 or more and any number of players with a first-year salary of no more than $3,275,000 and an annual increase of no more than 30 percent in the following years.

There is a mechanism to permit the final eight teams to sign an unrestricted free agent for each one of their own unrestricted free agents who sign with another club as long as they don't spend more than what their own lost player received from his new club."
-Pat Kirwin (NFL.com)