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It's not just that. How many great Jags players bolt unless they are grossly overpaid? Bills players? Browns? Raiders over the last decade? Etc.?

There are other protections teams have to keep their best players. They can also resign them without using the safeguards in place.

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I would not be opposed to some kind of system that limits what you get the following year based on what you got the previous year so the Packers, 9ers, Ravens, and Steelers can't abuse the system.

This would be more to my point. Pitt, GB, Ravens, 49ers all got "free" 3rd round picks this year. It's not like these picks are going to the terrible teams - which would still be wrong IMO. But if players were leaving small markets/non-winners and the NFL stepped in a gave them picks, it still makes more sense than I draft well, I get 4-5 years out of player(s), can't manage to keep them so I get rewarded again by letting them go.

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Posted by bonethug0108

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Posted on 5/10/14 at 6:39 pm to drizztiger

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it still makes more sense than I draft well, I get 4-5 years out of player(s), can't manage to keep them so I get rewarded again by letting them go.

Some people were asking for a system like that. Some of the same people complaining about these picks.

I don't care for the system as is but I understand it and don' hate it. The Saints chose to basically ignore it and I agree with that approach. Worry about getting who you want and only letting the guys you don't want/can't afford go.

If we get bonus picks great.

If not who cares. We got the players we wanted in FA. To me that's ALWAYS more important. Known is always better than unknown(not saying FAs are always better than draft picks, but it's always better to know what you are getting than to take a gamble on the unknown).

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