Really, dude? Cuz, you know, you’re kinda like Jeff Lurie to people in Haiti and Africa. Quit bitching. There’s always someone better off, and there’s always someone worse off.

if someone signs them away from us, they have to give us whatever tender we placed on them (aka, in this case, since we tendered him at original round (which was the third round), if someone signs him away, we get their third round pick).

ten·der 2 (tndr)
n.
1. A formal offer, as:
a. Law An offer of money or service in payment of an obligation.
b. A written offer to contract goods or services at a specified cost or rate; a bid.
2. Something, especially money, offered in payment.
tr.v. ten·dered, ten·der·ing, ten·ders
To offer formally: tender a letter of resignation. See Synonyms at offer.

to hit meat repeatedly so that it becomes softer.

They gave a 5th for Greg Lewis, didn’t they?

Restricted free agent tenders aren’t guaranteed, so he still has an uphill climb to make the team. It makes perfect sense to tender him and hope some team is dumb enough to part with a 3 for him.

but I think teams only have a certain number of tenders to give out for different rounds.

I can’t really answer this with any sort of level of expertise… but my feel on the whole tender thing is some guys are tendered at lower levels, because

A. It’s less money.

and

B. The lower the level of tender the higher the likelihood that another team gives you a draft pick for that player.

For instance… I get the feeling that the Eagles would be happy to get a 3rd round pick for Chris Gocong. They know for a fact that a team won’t give up a 1st round pick for him, so what’s the point of paying him more money than you need to.

He’s a RFA

they would definitely put a tender on him and it would probably be a 1 and 3

Another guy who is vastly overrated on here. He started last year only because of desperation and injuries. Likely back only because the Eagles have him signed to cheap dollars and Eagles will already have to spend some bucks at LB if they sign a veteran FA or use a higher-draft round pick on a LB. Plus I also bet they will resign Jordan too.

The is the first time you ever paid attention to tenders before because this is the first uncapped year in over a decade. typically, there might be 1 or 2 RFA’s per season.

They could still cut Gilles. All a tender means is that they aren’t going to let him walk for nothing right now.

It’s not like a franchise tag where the money is guaranteed.

are the calgary roughriders looking for a SLB? the idea of someone coveting the “defensive fullback” makes my head spin.