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Ray Rice said over and over that he didn’t plan on leaving Baltimore this offseason.

 

Now, it appears that plan will come true.

 

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The Ravens applied the franchise tag to Rice on Friday, which will keep him from becoming an unrestricted free agent and pay him about $7.7 million as part of the one-year deal. His four-year rookie contract was set to expire in March.

 

“As we have in the past, placing the franchise designation on a player allows us to keep negotiating on a long-term contract,” Ravens General Manager Ozzie Newsome said. “Our goal is to keep Ray Rice a Raven. We’ve done this with other outstanding players through our history, including Haloti Ngata a year ago.”

 

Franchising Rice guarantees that he’ll be back in Baltimore for at least one more season, but more importantly, it buys time for the two sides to work out a long-term deal before the start of the season.

http://blogs.baltimoreravens.com/2012/03/02/ravens-assign-franchise-tag-to-rice/?module=HP11_headline_stack

 

The Ravens need to get a long term contract done now. They need the CAP money to shop...and that's the ax Rice's agent has over Ozzies head.

 

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