I ain't got them fancy Photoshop skills like Buckethead over on GAF. If someone wants to create some fancy shit for this OT, feel free.

Let's look forward to another year of Roger Goodell failing upwards.

Important dates, via CBS.com:

Feb. 17th-23rd - NFL Scouting Combine (Indianapolis)

Feb. 21st - NFL Regional Combine (Dove Valley, Colo.)

Feb. 28th - NFL Regional Combine (Owings Mills, Md.)

March 2nd - Prior to 4 p.m. ET, deadline for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players

March 7th - NFL Regional Combine (Lake Forest, Ill.)

March 7th-10th - Clubs are permitted to contact, and enter into contract negotiations with the certified agents of players who will become Unrestricted Free Agents upon the expiration of their 2014 contracts at 4 p.m. ET on March 10. However, a contract cannot be executed with a new club until 4 p.m. ET on March 10

March 10th - Prior to 4 p.m. ET, clubs must exercise options for 2015 on all players who have option clauses in their 2014 contracts. Prior to 4 p.m. ET, clubs must submit qualifying offers to their Restricted Free Agents with expiring contracts and to whom they desire to retain a Right of First Refusal/Compensation. Prior to 4 p.m. ET, clubs must submit a Minimum Salary Tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players with expiring 2014 contracts and who have fewer than three accrued seasons of free agency credit. Top-51 Begins. All clubs must be under the 2015 salary cap prior to 4 p.m. ET. All 2014 player contracts expire at 4 p.m. ET. 2015 league year and free agency period begins (4 p.m. ET). Trading period for 2015 begins (4 p.m. ET)

March 19th-21st - NFL Career Development Symposium (Phoenix)

March 21st-22nd - Super Regional Combine (Phoenix)

March 22nd-25th - NFL Annual Meeting (Phoenix)

April 6th - Clubs that hired a new head coach after the end of the 2014 regular season may begin offseason workout programs

April 20th - Clubs with returning head coaches may begin offseason workout programs

April 24th - Deadline for Restricted Free Agents to sign offer sheets

April 29th - Deadline for prior club to exercise Right of First Refusal to Restricted Free Agents

April 30-May 2nd - NFL Draft (Chicago)

May 8th-11th - First weekend after the NFL Draft: Clubs may elect to hold their three-day post-draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday

May 11th - Rookie Football Development Program begins

May 15th-18th - Second weekend after the NFL Draft: Clubs may elect to hold their three- day post-draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday

May 18th-20th - NFL Spring League Meeting (San Francisco)

June 15th - Deadline for club to withdraw qualifying offer to Restricted Free Agents and still retain exclusive negotiating rights by substituting “June 15 Tender” of one-year contract at 110 percent of the player’s prior-year Paragraph 5 Salary (with all other terms of his prior-year contract carried forward unchanged)

June 21st-27th - Rookie Symposium (Aurora, Ohio)

July 15th At 4 p.m. ET, deadline for any club that designated a Franchise Player to sign such player to a multi-year contract or extension. After this date, the player may sign only a one-year contract with his prior club for the 2015 season, and such contract cannot be extended until after the club’s last regular season game

Mid-July - Clubs are permitted to open preseason training camp for rookies and first-year players beginning seven days prior to the club’s earliest permissible mandatory reporting date for veteran players. Veteran players (defined as a player with at least one pension- credited season) other than quarterbacks or “injured players” (as defined in CBA Article 21, Section 6) may report to a club’s preseason training camp no earlier than 15 days prior to the club’s first scheduled preseason game or July 15, whichever is later. Veteran quarterbacks and injured players may be required to report to the club’s preseason training camp no earlier than five days immediately prior to the mandatory reporting date for all other veteran players, provided the club has already opened (or simultaneously opens) its official preseason training camp for all rookies and first-year players.

July 22nd - Signing Period ends for unrestricted Free Agents to whom a “June 1 Tender” was made by prior club. After this date and until 4 p.m. ET, on the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, prior club has exclusive negotiating rights (* or the first scheduled day of the first NFL training camp, whichever is later.)

July 22nd - Signing period ends for Transition Players with outstanding tenders. After this date and until 4 p.m. ET, on the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, prior club has exclusive negotiating rights

Go Hawks.
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