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Does the NFL have a statute of limitations on tampering?
Or are the Patriots in danger of having another draft pick stolen from them for something that happened 17 years ago?
(Dillon was still under contract with the Bengals; I'm assuming the Pats had not received permission from Cincinnati to speak with him about a trade or a contract restructure.)
Or are the Patriots in danger of having another draft pick stolen from them for something that happened 17 years ago?
(Dillon was still under contract with the Bengals; I'm assuming the Pats had not received permission from Cincinnati to speak with him about a trade or a contract restructure.)
Scott Pioli tells the story of the Patriots’ secret road trip to sign Corey Dillon in 2004
The Residence Inn in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, served as the springboard for a massive trade.
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“It was about a week before the draft started. It was back in 2004, there was only a two-day draft — it was Saturday and Sunday,” Pioli said. “About a week before the draft, Belichick and I get in my car and we do a little road trip down to Rocky Hill, Connecticut. At the Residence in Rocky Hill, Connecticut we meet with Corey Dillon and his agent Steve Feldman.
“The Cincinnati Bengals wanted to trade him, but Bill and I were in a situation where we spent time with Corey to make sure that he was going to understand our culture, understand everything that we did. So there we were in this little room in Rocky Hill, Connecticut; Feldman, Corey Dillon, Belichick and myself, and we were having this conversation, trying to get to know Corey a little bit more than what we knew as a football player.”