They can use the Non-Bird Exception to sign him for 120% of his previous salary regardless of salary cap implications.

Taking slight issue with your salary cap complaint. The cap itself is a pro-parity measure. The fixed % of basketball-related income that goes to the players (and is collectively bargained) is the profit maximization tool.

I don’t know that I’ve ever been in such head noddingly complete agreement with a weblog posting. Fingers crossed for that meteor.

This is what the franchise tag was made for. If Brady’s still effective next year - and they converted a lot of picks into currently-useful players on that premise - I would bet they tag Garoppolo and wait another year even if they don’t know whether he can be their QB long term. A year or two of painful decisions and…

Darren!

and we don’t care about the young coach, talkin’ ‘bout the young coach