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The NFL is one the most watched sports in the modern world today. Football is a very well known to most people but many don't know all the things that happen in the off season. The player salaries I believe that many teams over pay for players. that's not all their fault, some player will denies offers and ask for more money and teams are forced into paying the players what they want or the in danger of losing a good player on there team. For example Calvin Johnson from the Lions is getting 132 million dollars for eight seasons for playing with the Lions.e theBut Johnson isn't the only one getting overpaid. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-14/sports/chi-report-lions-make-johnson-nfls-richest-wr-20120314_1_calvin-johnson-lions-free-agents

Peyton Manning from the Broncos is getting 95 million fro playing five seasons. http://csupueblotoday.com/news/peyton-manning-signs-five-year-contract-with-denver-broncos Free agents are also a part of the player salaries as teams bid to acquire players that are at the end of there they contracts and that are seeking new ones. teams search for players that will help there team to make a run for the Superbowl. like the Baffolo Bills acquiring Mario Williams and Mark Anderson two very good pass rushers that will be getting after the opposing teams quarterbacks.There is another side to player salaries and the free agents. that is franchise tags, this lets teams keep a player for one year if they put a franchise tag on player. They get to keep that player by just paying him a certain amount of money and the varies for position. the unique thing about these is that they have to be used by march second and that keep players from going into the free agents. so this gives teams time too try to come up with a long term deal with players that are franchised.

Trades are a big deal during the off season because this lets teams get players they need by trading away a player they don't need that another team needs. So the good thing about this is that the teams don't have to spend money to get a player through the free agents. like Tim Tebow from the Broncos getting traded to the Jets who might need a Quarterback. the Jets traded draft picks to the Denver Broncos for Time Tebow. Witch brings me to the next thing that happens during the off season and that is the draft. The draft is when teams get to try to draft the players from college to try to help there teams do better the next season. Teams try to trade up draft spots to get certain players the think they need as a team to do better.

WORKS CITIED PAGE http://espn.go.com/nfl/ http://csupueblotoday.com/news/peyton-manning-signs-five-year-contract-with-denver-broncos