TomE
The Pro Bowler
When did the salary cap start?
Didn't recall exact timeframes so I needed to 'verify' somewhat the timelines using our ol' friends, Google and Wiki.
Wilber Marshall, I believe was a plan B prize, not sure if the Skins had to compensate Bears or not but I think the Bears did have right of first refusal in matching the Skins Offer.
I do remember that the times were a changing towards the end of Gibbs first tenure and 'parity' was a catch phrase back then.
The cap was first introduced for the 1994 season and was initially $34.6 million.
In 1993, the owners granted the players free agency in exchange for a salary cap.
The Plan B free agency was a type of free agency that became active in the National Football League in February 1989. Plan B free agency permitted all teams in the NFL to preserve limited rights of no more than 37 total players a season. If a player was a protected Plan B free agent, he was incapable of signing with another team without providing his old team the first opportunity to sign him again.
Edit: Check that.... Marshall was not plan B, he was signed 1988, Bears got a couple of 1st round picks after declining to match the Skins offer,
Beathard left the Redskins in May 1989
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