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This was in the Joey Harrington thread but THANKS!!
NMNB said:Wrong. Trading a guy is the exact same thing as waiving him.
That trade was made because the FO thought highly of Lemon. Period.
It's not my problem if you don't understand how the NFL salary cap works.G-Force said:No one wanted to pick Feely up because off the waiver they would have his contract. Wanny overpaid him and we dealt him the only way we could without hurting us. If Lemmon was that important why did we get Culpepper and are now looking for a back-up? Sorry you are misinformed or just wrong.
vadolfan said:Sorry if this has been posted guys...I saw the Herald post but didn't know if anyone saw the espn news info.
usually when espn news does this, it's pretty damn close to happening.
And no offense, but I didn't want to go through 150 posts in that thread to see if it had been posted...sorry.
NMNB said:The ESPN News bit was mentioned several times on the last page of this thread.
I will try my best. If we put him on waivers we would have only had 2 qb's and still be paying Feely.If you put someone on waivers someone else would have tyo pick him up or your paying someone for nothing. Wanny and Speilman gave him a huge contract and knowbody else besides them would pay a third string qb that kind of money. We had to give a sixth round pick and Feely for Lemmon because SD wanted more to pick up all that cap space than Feely because he wasn't worth it. By trading Feely we got another qb and got rid of his contract to SD.Jimmy James said:Explain to us *how* trading him was different from waiving him. That's what we need here.
Marty was pissed. If nobody picks the player off waivers you are stuck with his contract and have to pay them. If you trade them the other team picks some or all of the contract up. SD would not have picked him up because of the cap and the only reason they did was because we threw in the pick.NMNB said:It's not my problem if you don't understand how the NFL salary cap works.
Trading a player is the EXACT SAME THING as far as the cap is concerned as waiving the player.
The cap hit resulting from the trade to SD was the same cap hit if AJ had been released outright.
Bottom line:
The FO liked Lemon. Maybe they've changed their feelings about him now. But they liked him at the point of the trade. So did Marty Schottenheimer.
If nobody picks the player off waivers you are stuck with his contract and have to pay them. If you trade them the other team picks some or all of the contract up. SD would not have picked him up because of the cap and the only reason they did was because we threw in the pick.
Nublar7 said:Take this with a BIG grain of salt, but there is a rumor that just popped up on a Lions board that we got Joey for a 4th round draft pick. Nothing set in stone, just a rumor that could be true or just made up by a Lions fan.