Post #7 NFL Free Agency

This NFL off-season has been a crazy one so far! Players signing with other teams, players not being able to agree on contract extensions with their current teams. The last few weeks were very interesting to watch for you football fans out there. Several star players signed contracts with new organizations including Brandon Marshall, Dontari Poe, Eddy Lacy, Alshon Jeffery, Latavius Murray and many others through out the league. One of the most interesting moves this off-season was that the New England Patriots acquired Wide Receiver Brandin Cooks from the New Orleans Saints. This could be very dangerous for the entire NFL because NE quarterback Tom Brady just got a brand new threat at WR and he is a good one. Coming off his rookie season, Cooks had a wonderful first year in the NFL and now gets to be with arguably the best quarterback to ever play the game of football.
        This can tie into my post a few weeks ago regarding Chiefs safety Eric Berry, most of these athletes want more and more money because they think they played well enough to earn it. But if a deal can't be made with an organization then that player will move elsewhere to try to get his hard earned money. Sometimes teams won't have enough "cap space" in order to agree to terms with a player becoming a free agent and that is usually when players find new teams. There has been numerous roster moves already and free agency doesn't end until the following season! Now some of you may not know this but each team has a "franchise tag". I mentioned this in my earlier post as well, but anyways, this tag is placed on a certain player for the reasons of not being able to agree to terms with that player(placing the tag would give the organization until June 15th to make a deal), or not having enough cap space, or simply not wanting to pay that player more than he's already being paid. Giving a player the franchise tag will only ad 15% salary to what he was paid the past year.
         I love seeing new faces on new teams so I am very excited for this upcoming year. The Chiefs are ready to get to the Superbowl I can sense it already! Feel free to comment and tell me what you think about some free agency moves so far! Thanks for reading!