{"id":24141,"date":"2014-02-28T17:25:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=24141"},"modified":"2022-04-01T04:01:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:01:24","slug":"folk-gets-franchise-tag-from-ny-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2014\/02\/28\/folk-gets-franchise-tag-from-ny-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk Gets Franchise Tag From NY Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The New York Jets have placed the franchise tag on kicker <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2014\/02\/05\/idzik-difficult-decision-on-folk\/\">Nick Folk<\/a> according to their official twitter account:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have placed the franchise tag on K Nick Folk- <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/NjZXMBttja\">http:\/\/t.co\/NjZXMBttja<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/wJr6E7YgOI\">pic.twitter.com\/wJr6E7YgOI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/439506329908961280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Folk was set to become an unrestricted free agent on March 11 but hitting 91% of his field goals last season made retaining him a priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The team had until March 3 to use the tag on Folk which is a contract offer for one-year at $3.556 million guaranteed. Now tagged a team who actually signs Folk would surrender two first round draft picks to the Jets, which simple won&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The recent signing of Panthers kicker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/story\/0ap2000000329848\/article\/panthers-sign-graham-gano-to-fouryear-deal\">Graham Gano<\/a> to a 4-year $12.4 million deal along with this year&#8217;s signings of Bears kicker Robbie Gould and Cowboys kicker Dan Bailey to similar multi-year salaries made using franchise tender ($3.556 million) the correct move then allowing Folk to test free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Folk will remain a Jet for at least the 2014 season and both sides have until July 15 to negotiate a long term contract locking him up for future seasons along with probably lowering his salary cap cost for 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets have placed the franchise tag on kicker Nick Folk according to their official twitter account: We have placed the franchise tag on K Nick Folk- http:\/\/t.co\/NjZXMBttja pic.twitter.com\/wJr6E7YgOI &mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) February 28, 2014 Folk was set to become an unrestricted free agent on March 11 but hitting 91% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1337,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/folk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-6hn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24141"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24149,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24141\/revisions\/24149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}