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(03-14-2022, 02:39 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: "During the beginning of the offseason, NFL rules strictly prohibit teams from contacting players under contract with other franchises; teams can’t even communicate with agents for such players. And since NFL player contracts all run to the conclusion of a particular league year, there can be — in theory, at least — no negotiating between teams and pending free agents between the end of the previous season and the time player contracts end in mid-March."


The NFL doesnt enforce this portion much when it happens right before the start of the season but still

Reading this quote like a lawyer would, it says teams can't communicate with agents for such players. But it doesn't say that agents cannot send to teams what terms their players would agree to once the legal tampering period began. The Bengals could sit on that offer, not communicate with the agent or player, and call the agent at the stroke of 12 noon when legal tampering began and say they agree to those terms.