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Five teams that might overpay free agents to fill needs

By Pat Yasinskas
ESPN.com

Thursday, February 28, 2008

As teams re-sign an uncommon number of their own players and make liberal use of the franchise tag, the weakest free-agent class of the modern era will hit the market at 12:01 a.m. Friday. "Keep the guys that you have instead of the unknown," said Vinny Cerrato, the Redskins' executive vice president of football operations. "People feel more comfortable doing that, especially the teams that are winning and don't feel that they have to have a big turnover. If you look at the teams that are comi ...

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