The Owners Agree on Something

A few minutes after posting the entry below, I saw this up at ESPN.com.

Whoops!

Get ready for a never-before-seen flooding of the free agent market, as teams cut veteran players earning big money in a frantic attempt to get themselves under the $96M salary cap before 10pm EST tonight.

It's going to be a buyer's market this year, and if your team is under the cap (Green Bay, Cleveland, Arizona, Minnesota), they'll have a good chance to get very good, very quickly.

As far as Seattle is concerned, they're already well under the cap, and will be major players on the free agent scene. Look for quick, long-term contracts out of Shaun Alexander and Steve Hutchinson, keeping that offense fully intact.

While I've written on several occasions that the extension of the CBA would be horrible for the NFL, it would actually benefit the Seahawks in the short-term, who are seemingly one of the few franchises who planned ahead for this sort of thing. Just goes to show you what having good management in place can do for a franchise.