Originally Posted by
Andrew Friedman to the ST Pete Times
"Any time you have a deadline things tend to gravitate toward it," executive vice president Andrew Friedman told the St. Petersburg Times. "It doesn't really change our approach. What we're prepared to do now (financially) is not any different than what we were prepared to do a month ago, but for whatever reason things tend to gravitate toward the deadline.
"I'm very confident that the guys that really want to go out and play professionally that we'll sign and get them out there playing. And the guys that don't, we'll respectfully part ways, and we'll use that same slot compensation next year to go get someone that wants to go out and play professionally."