re: Pay one, Franchise Tag one, and cut one - LSU LEGENDS: Joe Burrow, Patrick Peterson, Shaq

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Franchise Shaq. That’s the no-brainer. He is one of the most dominant players ever in his sport, and he played in a league where having the best player on the floor almost automatically puts you in the conference finals.

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If that’s how you feel then you pay him (i.e. lock him in for many years) you don’t franchise tag him for a year and let him potentially become an unrestricted free agent the next year (and risk pissing him off by not offering him the long term deal now).

In this thread I think there are a lot of people that don’t understand what “franchising” a player means.