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WEEI interview, and claiming it would have been foolhardy is just opinion, which is part of my point.
I just went back and relistened to the clip and he never said he could have gotten more. Actually Glen asked him if he might have risked getting less had he waited and he said yes in terms of not being able to make the deals he did in the immediate aftermath of dealing Cassel to KC because he couldn't have done those due to cap constraints. He also reiterated several times there were no better offers to him on the table, that he had talked to the teams involved in the reported three way scenarios in the 24-48 hours preceeding and they had NO interest in trading for Cassel, and he went into detail about the difference in value between a player signed to a long term deal (which he said WE could not have done with Matt) and one on a one year franchise tender and said the only way to increase that value is to get that player signed to a longer term deal that suits all the parties and that is too complicated a scenario to expect to unfold in hours as sometimes those deals fall apart over days - especially in a rare 3 way deal with multiple moving parts. So it's pretty clear he felt he couldn't get a better deal by waiting because there was no direct interest in trading for Cassel, just some proposed what if scenarios from teams who had already passed on Matt straight up.
I know you were in the did Scott a solid camp, but as you know he also reiterated he did no such thing as his only loyalty is to this team...
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