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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Hey, I've got an idea... let's sign Moss off waivers, then wait a couple of weeks and trade him to Minnesota AGAIN!
Bizzare scenerio, Some how RM comes back and plays the Jests for a third time
He may have to eat several snacks to figure out the answer to that question.Couldn't help but think of Rexy's presser after we traded Randy to Minny.
Where he said something to the affect of: "Now if the Vikings trade him back to NE, that would be gamesmanship".
I wonder if dropping him and having him clear wavers only to return to NE counts in Rexy's mind?
I dunno, Goodell seems to like taking picks away from us for no good reason.They have no case.Dont worry about it.
I dunno, Goodell seems to like taking picks away from us for no good reason.
Screw that! How could that possibly be justified? He played three freakin' games for them and they decided to dump him. Their loss.
no link, but just saw on nfl network that the vikings would file a claim with the nfl to get that pick back .. oh wow ..
Nope, Can't be done. They traded for him and they waived him - That's their doing.
That pick is ours now, it's on record in the NFL's office.
Presumably they'll have to claim that the Patriots misrepresented the player in some way, or conspired to have him harm his new team? "This turned out crappy" is obviously not grounds for reneging on a deal.
What's more...the Patriots did lose the player, so how can they not get their compensation? They can try to VOID the trade, but then they'd have to give Moss back, not waive him.
Edit: I'm coming back to bold the above. If you feel the trade wasn't valid, you file to void it. You can't strip the team of the player then refuse to pay them the pick.
But the Pats then traded to get Branch from Seattle, who, in order to fill Branch's shoes, ended up making roster moves of their own. So in order for the league to overturn this (99.99999999999% sure it'll never ever happen, but hey, there's always a Jim Carrey, Dumb and Dumber, one in a million shot it'll happen), they'd have to overturn the Pats-Seattle deal as well.
Patriots have resorted to stealing draft picks now that signal steeling is harder.