Sitting on the back porch, in the basement/family room, or at a bar, everyone watches NFL free agency with a great amount of intrigue. Free agency is no longer a place where you just pick up players to plug a hole on some portion of your team. Today's free agents glamor in the amount of money they make, even if it means they will never wear a superbowl ring. That doesn't matter.
A look past the whole championship drive, and one can easily see who ends up as a free agent and why. To find this vast sum of interest which often isn't a summer breeze thought, one should look at where the free agent came from.
Look at all the teams in the NFL. On each team, no matter which one it is, you will find a player that won't see the free agent wire. These are the players who make up either a very important leadership role, or have the intangible skills that are just not worth developing in a player. Either way, a Clay Matthews, Tom Brady, Marshawn Lynch and a host of others have found their last stops as players. They will never likely be released no matter how much they command.
But why would a player such as last year's leading rusher, De'marco Murray, be let go over a receiver who didn't lead the league? Further, why would Detroit's two best Defenders in Ndomokuh Suh and Nick Fairly be allowed to walk? I assure you, it's not because either of these teams don't have the money. Something could easily be worked out.
The problem for all of the players in free agency is they are one teams trash. They are deemed not worth the asking price and/or trouble of retaining for another couple of years. Remember when AJ Hawk was supposed to be the next great linebacker for Green Bay? He's a free agent this year. Like many of his unemployed counterparts, he doesn't have enough steam to stay on his current team.
Not to hard to wonder why these players end up in free agency.
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