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Never too early to look ahead to 2007 season

By John Clayton
ESPN.com

Thursday, February 8, 2007

The rich may not be able to get richer in 2007, but they sure have a great chance of staying rich. The NFL is entering a different period of free agency. Plan B in the late 1980s was a preview. It gave teams the taste of being able to bid for players even though teams controlled the fate of more than 30 they wanted to keep. The early and mid-1990s offered the chance to experiment. Some experiments succeeded. Others failed. By 2000, it was pretty evident championship teams could be ...

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