Jason Cole article: Brees - 3rd Franchise Tag? CBA Wording

saintsinNO said

That would be horrible precedent, but great for the players. Either way, the fact that the two sides can argue for as long as they did and have that many lawyers working on this thing and still come out with ambiguous language like that is mind-boggling.

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I used to agree with your "mind-boggling" comment. I grew up on a crawfish farm in rural Louisiana but my ambition wanted to swim in the big pond so I moved to Houston to test my mettle. My career has taken my in the boardrooms and behind the scenes of large corporations that are very outwardly successful. What consistently surprises me (not so much anymore) is how poorly run large, institutionalized organization really are. They get too big to catch those little things or have the right people with the appropriate incentive to do so.

Which the beauty of a (recently much maligned) free market is that it allows for smaller organizations to correct those flaws and offer the rest of us a better product or service. Except in the case of a government sponsored monopoly such as the NFL.

Oh well...