As we get closer to the season, have a feeling we could see lots of players LTC'd and traded. As I mentioned above, and will put in a last arguement for that, one deterant would be my initially proposed one LTC per player's career. That way if a team did a short LTC to have a smaller SB and trade the guy, the new team would only have a short-term contract and no option to LTC again (would have to tag at NFL elite prices or try to sign on the market). If a new team wanted to trade for a guy on a longer deal, they'd have to LTC to a 5-year at 200% SB and pay a lot more in cap hit.Goodell wrote:That becomes a big deal possibly in cases where a team maybe wants to get trade value for a pending free agent, signs them to a short LTC with less SB, then immediately trades the player for value. If we limit LTC to only once in a career, that player can only be LTC'd that one time and not by his new team. I kind of like that total LTC limit to one per career (as well as one per team per year) to prevent that from being rampant, but teams looking to trade for such players recently LTC'd might disagree.
I was asked about no-trade for a year or something, and as mentioned in the first post it's a possibility but best I can tell (as we saw with the jets signing a QB one week and trading him the next) doesn't seem to be real and would have to be an artificial intentional difference and split from NFL rules. I'd prefer a limit on LTC instead since LTC is our own creation and not going against real NFL rules and realistic also that a player would want to test the market by nature and perhaps willing to do a contract extension once in his career.