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I remember when he was a Dolphin thinking "this guy is going to be good, if only he had a team around him."
When we got him it was like x-mas. What was that business sorrounding it though? Wasn't the league saying there were some shady dealings?
Wrong again. There could have been some shady dealings had the team chosen to simply sign him to an offer sheet with poison pill clauses the Dolphins had no chance of matching. But the league had warned teams, even though the loophole existed and others had made use of it (Hutchinson) that they were not going to look kindly on teams who persisted in using it. That guy you think should shut up and remain in the background therefore stepped up and brokered a trade at ownership level that allowed us to acquire the player in trade rather than signing him to an inflated offer sheet. The price for doing business the way the league preferred it be done, civally, was a 7th round pick added to the RFA price of a 2nd. And both of ours were in the bottom quarter of those rounds. Since then thanks in large part to that guy you think should shut up and remain in the backgroud - as opposed to anyone named Rooney - we have a new, better CBA (and TV deals he brokered) that even managed to closed the divisive poison pill loophole.