It’s June 2.  In past years, it was a big day on the NFL calendar. 

Before 2006, teams spread the cap hit from cutting a player over two league years only by cutting him on or after June 2.  As of 2006, teams gained the ability to cut up to two players each before June 2, and to process the transaction as a post-June 1 activity.

As a result, most of the players who would have been cut on and after June 1 are now cut long before then.

But June 2 now has meaning for a different reason.  As of 2006, players traded on and after June 2 will have their cap hits spread over two seasons.  Previously, all bonus acceleration hit the cap in the same year.

So player trades are now easier for teams to stomach, given the ability to manage the cap consequences.

Absent an extension to the current CBA, there will be no June 2 effect in 2009; all bonus acceleration for any player who is released or traded will hit the cap in 2009, since there will be no salary cap in 2010.

That was all intended as a lead-in for a PFTV segment on players who could be traded, now that June 1 has come and gone.

One of the key terms in the next round of Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations will be whether and to what extent the NFL imposes a wage scale on its annual crop of rookies.

And so PFTV looks into this issue.

Here it is.  (Yeah, we know you’d prefer more tunes from Florio Jr.’s band, but they currently know only one song.)

One of this week’s PFTV segments focuses on the asinine decision of Titans quarterback Vince Young to acknowledge that he considered retiring from pro football after only one season.

As Jim Rome aptly put it during his ESPN gig on Tuesday, under those circumstances, Young wouldn’t have been retiring.  He would have been quitting.

Here’s a somewhat less eloquent look at the situation.

As the Cowboys and cornerback Pacman Jones continue to try to finagle a reinstatment of the suspended defensive back that will allow him to participate in the offseason workout program, there’s a problem on the immediate horizon.

The offseason program doesn’t last much longer.

Most teams shut it down by the middle of June.  The Cowboys have Organized Team Activities on May 28 and 29, June 3, 4, and 5, and June 10, 11, and 12.  Then, there’s a full-squad minicamp on June 17, 18, and 19.

After that, nothing until training camp.

For more on Pacman’s status, here’s a take from PFTV.

Once upon a time (i.e., five or six years ago), June 1 was a big date on the NFL calendar.  It was the start of a second wave of free agency, with a new crop of veteran free agents released by their teams.

It’s no longer as big of a deal, but it’s important for a different reason.

PFTV has the whole story.

We’re rolling out our PFTV segments for the week, and we’re taking another look at the highest-profile free agent who currently doesn’t have a job.

Running back Shaun Alexander, the NFL’s MVP in 2005.

Here’s where things currently stand for him.

This week’s five-pack of PFTV installments takes a look at the future of former Bengals receiver Chris Henry.

We’d summarize what we’ve got to say about Henry right here, but then why would you watch the thing?

So watch the thing.

With Matt Walsh making the long trip from the Big Island (or thereabouts) to the Big Apple for a meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, PFTV takes a look at what this all means . . . or what it could mean . . . for the Pats.

Here it is:

And for the last PFTV offering for the week, we look at the players who got the short end of the straw (or something) during draft weekend.

We’ll be doing more PFTV segments soon . . . post some suggested topics here, or e-mail them to us.

Here goes:

We’ve got a couple of additional PFTV segments for the week, so we’ve got to roll them out right here.

First up, a look at the players who emerged as winners in the draft. 

Then again, you’re all winners.

Anyway, here it is:

We continue to look at last weekend’s NFL draft by looking at the teams that we think came out of it in worse position than they could have been.

We know, we know — no one really knows at this point, and no one will know until these kids starting playing.  But that doesn’t stop anyone else from spouting off with the opinion, so it won’t stop us, either.

Here it is:

Amid reports that free-agent running back Shaun Alexander will visit with the Bengals next week, it’s time to take a closer look at Alexander’s situation.

We could write something about it.  Or we could talk about it, via PFTV.

Hey, we needed five topics this week.  So this is one of them.

Thursday is, in many weeks, the day that I make the long trek (0.7 miles) to the studios of WDTV to stink up the space behind the news desk while cranking out a quintet of PFTV segments.

This week, we take a look at various draft-related topics.  We’ll start with a look at the teams that we think won in the NFL draft.

Of course, it’s impossible to know the answer at this point.  But we had to talk about something.

We’re finally empty the chamber on this week’s collection of PFTV videos with an items that looks at the trade of Pacman Jones.

Here it is.

Here it is, the last of the PFTV position-by-position previews.

Watch it.

Or don’t.

We’ve got a couple more of these dreadfully painful informative and useful position-by-position preview of the draft.

So here’s a look at the cornerbacks.

One of the good things about doing a bunch of radio spots is that we get to say the same thing over and over again about the same topic.

And so here’s what we’ve got to say about the Jared Allen trade, based on everything that we said during a crapload of Thursday radio spots.

We continue our position-by-position look at the 2008 NFL draft with an ADD-style discussion of the linebackers.

The linebackers.

Line.  Backers.