If The Patriots Franchise Cassel, It Doesn’t Automatically Mean He’ll Be Back
January 7, 2009 by Mike
From Mike Reiss:
If Cassel does not sign the tender, he is technically not under contract to the team…
Because a player can not be traded unless he is under contract, if the Patriots were seeking to trade Cassel, they would presumably allow his agents to negotiate on a long-term contract with other teams. Cassel would sign the one-year tender with the Patriots as a technicality, that deal would be ripped up when he’s traded, and he’d join a new team with a long-term extension.
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