Mack viewed as a high priority
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Mack viewed as a high priority
by Guest Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:18 pm
Mack has been viewed as a high priority for Cleveland. Rightfully so. Mack has never missed a snap in five seasons and with, in all likelihood, a young quarterback entering the fold, it's critical for him to have Mack to lean on. Mack is one of the top free agents available and will aim to become the league's highest-paid center. He and the Browns will start negotiating a deal once Mack returns from Brazil later this week.
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Re: Mack viewed as a high priority
by Guest Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:15 pm
The Cleveland Browns have placed a transition tag on center Alex Mack before the NFL’s deadline of 4 p.m. ET Monday to tag players who are due to become unrestricted free agents.
The transition tag, which is seldom used, means that if – when the league’s free-agency and trading period begins on March 11 at 4 p.m. ET – Mack receives a contract offer from another club, the Browns have five days to match the offer if they want to retain him. If the Browns don’t match, Mack would depart and the Browns would receive no compensation.
If Mack doesn’t receive a contract offer from another team and the Browns are unable to come to terms with him on a long-term deal, they are obligated to give him a one-year guaranteed contract equal to the average salary of the top 10 centers in the league (about $10.3 million, roughly $1.5 million less than under the more commonly used franchise tag).
Given that the Browns reportedly have upwards of more than $40 million in salary cap space, they are comfortable with effectively allowing the open market set Mack’s value, presuming another team makes him an offer that the Browns choose to match to keep him. Transition tags once were viewed as risky after some teams made offers that contained so-called “poison pills” designed to make it financially prohibitive for the player’s original club to match. The NFL has since devised rules to eliminate the tactic.
The tag also figures to give Mack a genuine opportunity to find out what he would be worth elsewhere.
The transition tag, which is seldom used, means that if – when the league’s free-agency and trading period begins on March 11 at 4 p.m. ET – Mack receives a contract offer from another club, the Browns have five days to match the offer if they want to retain him. If the Browns don’t match, Mack would depart and the Browns would receive no compensation.
If Mack doesn’t receive a contract offer from another team and the Browns are unable to come to terms with him on a long-term deal, they are obligated to give him a one-year guaranteed contract equal to the average salary of the top 10 centers in the league (about $10.3 million, roughly $1.5 million less than under the more commonly used franchise tag).
Given that the Browns reportedly have upwards of more than $40 million in salary cap space, they are comfortable with effectively allowing the open market set Mack’s value, presuming another team makes him an offer that the Browns choose to match to keep him. Transition tags once were viewed as risky after some teams made offers that contained so-called “poison pills” designed to make it financially prohibitive for the player’s original club to match. The NFL has since devised rules to eliminate the tactic.
The tag also figures to give Mack a genuine opportunity to find out what he would be worth elsewhere.
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