NFL Season Officially Over, What’s Next?
February 10th, 2008 by Joe Rodriguez
Seems like yesterday when I was in San Antonio, weathering the blistering heat waiting to get inside the Alamodome. Fast forward and the Cowboys were one and done, the Super Bowl came and went, and now the last game of the year has officially ended the NFL Season.
The Pro Bowl is in the bag, and our last time to see our boys in action is done as well. It’ll be almost half a year until we see some decent preseason action; however, being in the information age, there will be no downtime for die hard fans, we have the best Cowboys forums and Blogs amongst NFL fan communities. We still have alot of interesting time between now and training camp, so enjoy the upcoming rumors and everything else that comes with the off-yet-not-season.
Upcoming Key Dates:
February 7 - Commencement of 15-day designation period for Franchise and Transition Players
February 11 - Waiver process begins
February 20-26 - NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana
February 21 - Deadline for teams to designate Franchise and Transition Players
February 28 - Deadline for submission of Qualifying Offers by teams to their Restricted Free Agents whose contracts have expired and to whom they desire to retain a Right of First Refulsal/Compensation
February 28 - Deadline for teams to submit offer of minimum salary to retain exclusive negotiating righs to their players with fewer than three seasons of free agency credit whose contracts have expired
February 29 - Start of Free Agency and Trading period
March 17 - Begin Offseason Workout Program
April 18 - Deadline for signing of Offer Sheets by Restricted Free Agents
April 25 - Deadline for teams to exercise Right of First Refusal to Restricted Free Agents
April 25 - Deadline for old team to exercise Right of First Refusal to Restricted Free Agents
April 26-27 - NFL Draft in New York City
What I want to see happen first is getting Barber locked in, and staying in Dallas. Re-sign Hamlin next. The rest will be interesting, let’s all take a deep breath now, the fun offseason is here, let’s go!
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