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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

I don't know. I think GTripp once said that demanding a trade increases your value, or something like that. I do know, and it's not about demanding a trade necessarily, that the Redskins aren't the only team that wishes he wasn't so "calm" all the time. It's sort of strange, I know, but there are a lot of coaches and GMs out there who think he's flying a bit too much under the radar emotion wise.

I think demanding a trade simply sets a market where there wasn't one before. In Campbell's case, I think it would increase his value in a trade because the Redskins haven't yet openly shopped him. If the Redskins do openly shop him, then the market is only what other teams bid it up to.

Generally speaking, it decreases trade value to openly ask for a trade, but it's a different dynamic for an "established" player than one with "potential".

Because the Broncos sold Jay Cutler as an "established" player, when the evidence suggested otherwise, they drove the market through the roof for him. Campbell has virtually the same statistical background, but because the Redskins failed to market him to the best of their ability, it becomes a buyers market, as opposed to a sellers market, if Campbell asks for a trade. Right now, it's no market at all.