Why Not Franchise Tag Tee Higgins Twice?

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(Yesterday, 05:16 PM)kevin Wrote: Oh, you don't like that word.  I will mention Baseball and the years of players unable to negotiate, which lead to Curt Flood and Players Union taking Baseball to court.  Baseball has had strikes and so has football.   If teams such as Bengals would abuse the Free Agent Market by slapping the Franchise Tag on the same player over and over, that would be solid reason for The Players Union to go on Strike against The NFL and take the NFL to court.  

However it would be stupid for Bengals to do it, and have Higgins and his agent upset, when the Bengals need that Higgins money to lock in Chase long term.  

However if the Bengals want Higgins so much.  Then give him a long term contract also in good faith.   Do not keep slapping a Franchise Tag on him years after his contract ran out.  I would be all for The Players Union going on strike and taking NFL to court, if players without contracts can be held in limbo by abuse of the Franchise Tag.  Plus upset players and agents are not good for The TEAM in the long run.  

Baseball and Football discovered that without Free Agency, The Players Union is weak.   Abuse of the Franchise Tag should be seen as total attack to eliminate Free Agency and eliminate The Players Union, and why The Players Union should go on strike and take NFL to court if players such as Higgins are held in limbo years after their contracts run out.  It is Union Busting, is exactly what it is. 

The Union will never strike over the Franchise Tag.  That's because the FT is a complete non-issue for 99% of the membership, as 99% of the players will never be good enough that a team would consider tagging them.

If they didn't strike on principle when the Steelers tagged Leveon Bell two years in a row, a RB with a lot less years in his prime to get a payday, they won't do it for a WR.

Beyond that, with the way the past two seasons have gone, the fully guaranteed FT may be more guaranteed money than Tee can get with a multi-year deal on the open market.