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Old 10-24-2006, 04:56 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by JDOldSchool View Post
Right, but then some teams do spend the money they have and they spend it wisely. Now they're told exactly how much they have to spend. If you're not going to allow trading of picks, you shouldn't mandate what they have to pay people. It actually hurts small-market teams more to do poorly now because they commit themselves to a certain price tag for a player in the draft.

I haven't heard the numbers, but unless this drastically lowers the bonus money, it's an idea that seems a lot better in theory than in practice.
My point was that it's BS for teams like Florida to do what they did, firesale and get rid of every expensive player they have and then pocket the money from luxury tax/revenue sharing as profit, when that's not what it's intended to be.
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