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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
You really think the owners would give a rats ass if he had traded jackman or sarich or moss?
Who was he going to trade that didn't have a no move clause, would have made sense to trade at the time, and would have remotely counted as tearing the team apart?
Look at that list and then decide if the owners would have stepped in on any of those guys.
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I don't think they told him not to trade those guys, but I think they told him not to change the plan, which is "win now", and so he thought that he needed to retain Jackman for the future and thus signed him to an extension instead of trading him for picks, which according to him was offered to him.
He also retained Sarich and TKO and all the other UFA's because if the goal is to make the playoffs, you don't trade them away for draft picks that don't help.