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**Siffidiolla** · 01-18-2011, 04:22 PM

The owners wanted the franchise tag because the last CBA gave players free agency after four years. That's not a lot of time to be able to control a player. They figured that the franchise tag would induce players to sign extensions that gave them a little more of a long term guarantee. It didn't really work out that way, but I think that was the reason.
If they keep unrestricted free agency at six years, like it was changed to this last season, the owners would probably forego franchise tags.

The original concept was also quickly changed. The original thought process was if you franchised a player and than signed them long term, they remained your franchise player until that contract was up and you'd have no tag to use, teams would do a 1 year deal to get around this and then sign an extension....this rule may have changed, but that was original concept....teams started labeling back ups as their franchise player.

01-18-2011, 04:22 PM	#23
Siffidiolla Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 562 Senior Member	The owners wanted the franchise tag because the last CBA gave players free agency after four years. That's not a lot of time to be able to control a player. They figured that the franchise tag would induce players to sign extensions that gave them a little more of a long term guarantee. It didn't really work out that way, but I think that was the reason. If they keep unrestricted free agency at six years, like it was changed to this last season, the owners would probably forego franchise tags. The original concept was also quickly changed. The original thought process was if you franchised a player and than signed them long term, they remained your franchise player until that contract was up and you'd have no tag to use, teams would do a 1 year deal to get around this and then sign an extension....this rule may have changed, but that was original concept....teams started labeling back ups as their franchise player.
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