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Billy Riccette

Jets history with the franchise tag

The franchise tag is a very interesting tool in the NFL world and one that has a varying degree of opinions, depending on who you talk to.

While it helps teams secure a player that would otherwise become a free agent, players for the most part do not like it because it doesn’t give them long-term stability and the money, more often that not, isn’t market value, especially at the quarterback position.

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