One of the things that has happened over the past few years is that late round picks and their agents now want 3 year deals and the teams want 5 year deals. In the past, the teams gave three year deals and had no problem with it. After Daniel Snyder started signing a bunch of restricted free agents, teams realized that the compensation for losing a young player wasn't equal to the value of the player. Now teams want to hold on to their late round picks a little longer for their value, but the agents want them to be able to get free agency earlier. It changed things a lot last year and I imagine it will even more this year.
In the past, agents just wanted to get the deal done for late round picks, knowing that the money doesn't change all that much. But now that the teams want to make the contracts five years, players and agents are balking, making it more difficult to sign late rounders. I imagine this is going on with every team, since they are all basically dealing with the same bunch of agents. By the time camp rolls around for each team, there shouldn't be many late round holdouts. The are the ones that need to prove their value to the team and make the cut, not like 1st rounders who know that their job is there when they show up.
Contrary to popular opinion, it is not time to panick yet. If no one is signed by Thursday, then you can panick. Remember, the Cardinals have changed just about everything that has to do with how they run their organization in the last eight months, why should we expect anything different with the announcement of signings? Give them until Thursday.
