Teams prepared to throw around unreal money in market (1 Viewer)

[Dan in Lafayette]

Jerry Magee / Pro Football Weekly

Free agency in the NFL is about money. All right? Am I going too fast?

Money, I should note, is something about which sportswriters know very little, but I can recognize it when I see it, as I do now. It is stacked high in the treasuries of the teams that are preparing to engage in the league’s annual auction. There are gobs of it, with the franchises sitting something like a composite $350 million under the per-team cap of $116 million and positioned to fling these riches in the direction of the athletes eligible to rearrange their futures.

Some deserving people, and some not so deserving, are about to become enormously wealthy. “It’s a buyer’s market,” said a man I know who meticulously maintains an accounting on NFL contractual data. “Half the teams can do whatever they want.” Full Story – Pro Football Weeklyhttp://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/Commentary/Columns/2008/magee2301.htm