Journal pudge's Journal: Franchise Tag Whiners 5
There's a long line of players in the NFL who claim that it is a personal offense when their teams place the franchise tag on them.
These players are big fat babies.
The players agreed to the franchise tag for the owners, as a compromise. The players take advantage of everything available to them under the contract; why shouldn't the owners do the same?
Stop crying. Stop whining. Sure, you don't like it, but so what? Grow up. Those are the rules that you agreed to.
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It's a tool GMs can use to help keep players who are most important to them when they can't get a deal worked out in time. On the one hand, players shouldn't be too upset about it since it guarantees them a salary in the top 5 at their position. But by the same means, if they are just unhappy with a team/coach/city, does force them to stay another year. Plus, it's a profession where you're career is always one play from being over. Psychologically, this is something many players are afraid of, even borderin
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Certainly it's a fact of life for them - just one of the rules of the game they play by, so being bitter or whining about it isn't really justified.
And worse, it's a rule they specifically agreed to.
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The NFL is over marketed and over regulated
And the NCAA is over-boring.
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