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TIMES CONFIRMS CANTY-TO-SKINS RUMOR
Posted by Mike Florio on February 26, 2009, 11:08 p.m.
The Washington Times has confirmed our report that the Commanders will be taking immediate aim at Cowboys defensive end Chris Canty once free agency officially opens in less than an hour.
The most intriguing question about this one is whether and to what extent there has been advance contact between the Commanders and agent Brad Blank.
Technically, there should be none — not even regarding arrangements for a visit on Friday.
And the pre-free agency tampering has gotten so rampant that one media source has opined to us that the league is going to have to acknowledge the situation and either permit it or take action to stopt it.
The problem is that everyone does it. A high-level executive with one team told us a couple of years ago that his team never engaged in advance discussions regarding looming free agents until he realized that his team was at a competitive disadvantage because everyone else was doing it.
The media source with whom we spoke today shared a similar story regarding a G.M. who realized several years back that, if he didn’t tell agents before the process began that his team was interested in certain players, deals would be in place with other teams before the market actually opened.
Posted by Mike Florio on February 26, 2009, 11:08 p.m.
The Washington Times has confirmed our report that the Commanders will be taking immediate aim at Cowboys defensive end Chris Canty once free agency officially opens in less than an hour.
The most intriguing question about this one is whether and to what extent there has been advance contact between the Commanders and agent Brad Blank.
Technically, there should be none — not even regarding arrangements for a visit on Friday.
And the pre-free agency tampering has gotten so rampant that one media source has opined to us that the league is going to have to acknowledge the situation and either permit it or take action to stopt it.
The problem is that everyone does it. A high-level executive with one team told us a couple of years ago that his team never engaged in advance discussions regarding looming free agents until he realized that his team was at a competitive disadvantage because everyone else was doing it.
The media source with whom we spoke today shared a similar story regarding a G.M. who realized several years back that, if he didn’t tell agents before the process began that his team was interested in certain players, deals would be in place with other teams before the market actually opened.
