The Gaia Paradigm. While reading on about the science of Gaia Theory â below and throughout this website â consider the term âGaia Paradigm.â This phrase refers to the confluence of the best available scientific understanding of Earth as a living system with cultural understandings of human society as a seamless continuum of that system.
Answer Wiki. OTA is the NFL Acronym for Organized Team Activities. Per the Collective Bargaining Agreement, each NFL team is allowed to schedule a certain number of OTA's during the offseason. Fun fact: *technically* OTA's are Voluntary, and teams are not allowed to penalize players for not attending (with one exception, covered below).
Franchise tag. In the National Football League (NFL), the franchise tag is a designation a team may apply to a player scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent. The tag binds the player to the team for one year if certain conditions are met. Each team only has one franchise tag (of either the exclusive or non-exclusive forms) and one transition tag per year. The transition tag can only be used if the team does not use a franchise tag.