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Originally Posted by BeauSox
and Stall is on a Team Friendly Deal.
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The fact that he is on a team friendly deal, in my opinion, completely takes the possibility of trading him away (this season) off the table.
Imagine if you wanted to work for a company, they wanted to hire you, but you really didnt need the salary to survive, so you say "You know what, you can only pay me half what you think I should get, and put the other half to use hiring somemore people". Now if you were this nice to them, and they f'ed you over by transferring you to their texas office when you wanted to stay in boston, you'd be pissed. I imagine Stallworth would feel the same. The only difference is, most of us would never voluntarily take less than what we can make to work for a specific employer.
If we trade Stallworth, or Moss this year.....I can guarantee you that we won't be seeing any more players take bargain pay in the near future to play for us, since they'll be that aura of "Oh, they'll just use me to get trading chips".
Remember, Stallworth didnt take a lower than open market one year salary to play for houston. He took it to play for the patriots. I think trading him is puts the team in bad faith. Now, if we don't want him, I think cutting him is fair game since he could then go out and get the one year full market value contract. But we do want him, so its a non issue.