This won't happen but curious if it's legal

[xwalker]

I wouldn't and couldn't happen.

Something I have wondered about though:

If Jerry Jones wanted to move up to the second pick overall to draft, say, Johnny Manziel, could he compensate the parties that currently have the 2nd pick with money in addition to picks and players?

For example, that typically would take like Dallas' first and second round pick this year, their first and second next year, and their first and fourth the following year. Could Jerry give Jeff Fisher (assuming he makes the decisions) ten million under the table to just take this year's first and second and next year's first to make the deal?

So instead of:

1st, 2nd
1st, 2nd
1st, 4th

the Rams get:

1st, 2nd
1st
+ 10 Million cash

Clearly, that would be frowned upon at best and illegal at worst... but if nobody knew about the cash, they would just think that the Rams made a bad deal. What is to keep that from happening?

The downside would be way too big of a risk to Jerry to do something like that. He would probably get suspended like Steinbrenner did in baseball.

I'm sure some under-handed things to happen in trades. I can't prove this story so don't ask for a link, but a huge issue between Jerry and Jimmy occurred when Jimmy made a trade with his buddy Dave Wannstedt. Jimmy gave him a young player that they had just drafted and some picks for some marginal veterans that the Bears were probably going to cut anyway.

 

[Picksix]

You don't hear much from Paul Allen, do you? Even when their in the NFCCG.....

No. He just owns the team. He doesn't act like the head coach, too.

 

[pgreptom]

Allen is reportedly worth $15.8 billion. Jerry Jones has $2.7 billion to his name... pocket change to Allen.

 

[coult44]

I wish Jerry would up and take his franchise somewhere else...Then Roger would be forced to give us a new Cowboys franchise. New owners, new coaches, new players. Hmmmm, I'd only miss Dez, Tyron, Fred, and JW. He couldn't take anything to do with the name Cowboys with him, the NFL wouldn't allow it. I bet we could rebuild the Cowboys from scratch before JJ could ever win a playoff game!!! This would prove the Cowboys were bigger than JJ and his family!!!

Ok, I'm awake now!!!!

 

[panchucko]

I move the CZ pool all its resources and buy Jerry out in a hostile takeover.

Power to the zone

 

[jobberone]

Power to the zone

I like that.

 

[DavidS]

This is another bored in the offseason post, so don't take it too seriously. I was just wondering if it's legal to trade an entire team for another one. For example, Jerry calls up Paul Allen in the offseason and offers him some obscene amount of money to trade every single player we have and every coach for every player they have, all their coaches, and their GM. In essence, next season our team would be theirs and theirs would be ours. Romo & Co would be putting on Seahawks uniforms and Seattle fans would be watching Garrett do that annoying hand clap on the sidelines when something goes wrong.

In an instant we would have a powerhouse team and all its coaches AND ITS GM.

Obviously, this won't actually happen. There probably isn't any amount of money that would convince Paul Allen to do this. Seahawks fans would lynch him. I'm still curious whether it's actually legal according to league rules. The closest thing that's ever happened like it was when the Browns moved and became the Ravens and a new expansion team put on Browns uniforms to become the Browns. Before that there had been talk of the Bucs moving to Cleveland and becoming the Browns. That would have been something like it.

 

[TwentyOne]

Expansion teams and trading entire organizations are two totally different things and there is no way with a salary cap that could happen. Both teams would pay penalties on just about every contract with a signing bonus due, which would put them over the cap

this.

and i dont think its legal to pay money to another franchise to push a deal.