King predicts Haynesworth to Redskins

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

question:

is snyder allowed to enter discussions/negotiations with haynesworth's agent while AH is still under contract until friday with the titans?

im guessin it must be perfectly legit since the article doesnt say anything. also AH's agent does rep other players (FA and draft declared) which snyder would be able to inquire about. just curious if this is perfectly ok, an unwritten rule where snyder and AH's agent could met and talk about other things just not about acquiring AH, or some third option.

go skins!

since noone answered my question i searched for the answer. it seems that danny (from the slant in the King article) was tampering if he was talking with AH agent before FA begins. Like i thought, its just too hard of a rule to enforce so it becomes a gentlemen's code of conduct to which . . . . danny knows no ethics. i think this is the kinda thing that might get the other owners not to happy with danny. bad rep gets worse.

TAMPERING CONTINUES TO BE A COMBINE REALITY

Posted by Mike Florio on February 23, 2009, 7:45 a.m. EST
As you might have figured out by now, we’re fascinated by the concept of tampering, especially when it comes to the discussions that occur between agents for pending free agents and other teams at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.
Eagles president Joe Banner acknowledges the situation in an interview with Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Daily News.
Specifically, Banner explains that, if one of his team’s free agents isn’t re-signed by the commencement of the free-agent signing period, it’s because the player “knows he wants to leave, or there’s a better deal somewhere.”
And a player will know there’s a better deal somewhere only if other teams have engaged in prohibited communications with the player’s agent regarding the deals that are available.
It’s a fact of life, as Colts president and G.M. Bill Polian acknowledged on Sunday. But Polian realizes there’s nothing that can be done about it.
“I don’t know if there is a remedy for it that’s enforceable, it just may be human nature,” Polian said, according to Paul Kuharsky of ESPN.com. “I wish it were otherwise but I don’t know of any way to make it change.”
The league’s Anti-Tampering Policy clearly prohibits any private meetings or conversations between a player or his agent and a team at a time when another team holds the player’s rights. And the policy acknowledges that some players or their agents might try to spark such talks — especially since as Drew Rosenhaus recently pointed out no rules of the NFL Players Association prevent agents from trying to incite tampering.
Under such circumstances, however, the policy states that a team contacted by the agent for a player who is under contract with another franchise “must immediately report” the incident to the team that holds the player’s rights.
We’d be willing to bet that such a report has never been made.
The reality is that nearly everyone tampers at this time of the year, and that nearly no one makes a big deal about it. So a serious disconnect exists, and as we’ve pointed out in the past the league should alter the rules to reflect the manner in which things really happen.
The fix is easy. Upon the conclusion of the Super Bowl, players scheduled to become free agents in less than a month should be permitted to negotiate with any other team, but prohibited from signing until the official opening of free agency. Such an approach would address one of the most awkward aspects of the business habits of the 32 NFL teams, with all or nearly all of them routinely violating the terms of a rule that the league office rarely attempts to enforce.

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Am i the only one who is concerned about this? will we be stripped some draft picks like the 49ers? do i need to bring up other non-nfl related business moves danny has done that show he has no heart and will bend or break rules for his benefit? as an nfl owner or GM how would you feel reading this King article about danny meeting AH's agent? i like danny as an nfl owner, but his tactics leave a trail of slime wherever he goes.

rant over, sorry.

go skins!!