I'm thinking it would have the opposite effect... because if the top tier FAs are getting less, then aren't the 2nd and 3rd tier also going to be getting less as well? That gap is between the two is still going to be widely there.

But this brings up the interesting point of where that extra money is going... and I had to think about that for a while too, but I think that extra money is going to be split, between

• More money staying with the top tier FAs than we current think
• Resigning the great players (or QBs), IR Aaron Rodgers, Clay Matthews, Bak, etc. to even larger deals.
• Resigning the above average players before they get to FA, ex. Nick Perry, Bulaga and Cobb might not of made it to FA under this different methods

And I think this will lead to teams being worried they're going to lose a player in FA, drafting at that position, and the team no longer being interested in said player, saying we don't need you no more... and sometimes the team will be right, and sometimes the player will completely bust and the team will look very stupid.


I think it's in the best interested of the overall NFL and players with 4 or more years... to keep it as it is. Though I also agree, that with Ted Thompson running the show, it might be better if it was reversed, though he's most likely stepping down within 3 drafts, so that change wouldn't help long unless the guy that follows him as the same method.

But Ted does spend his money, but by keeping the Packers players he wants... as Ricky Jean Francois correctly pointed out, the Packers normally stick with Packers and that's great if you can get in the club (my words, of what he said). Though I would also ask him, why he turned the Packers down, 4 years ago I think, for the Colts. But maybe they just offered him more, and/or he didn't realize that or thought it was too cold or something.

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