Green Jets & Ham Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 PFT With former Jets coach Herm Edwards on his way to becoming the next coach of the Kansas Chiefs, we think that every party in this farce deserves to take a big bite of a steaming shiitake sandwich. For Edwards, it's obvious that his public statements regarding his desire to remain with the Jets were lies. Look, we know there's no good way to deal with pointed press conference questions regarding whether a guy wants to keep the job he has, but there's got to be a way to handle the question without telling a bald-faced falsehood. Word got out early in the season that Edwards wanted out of New York. Who do you think initiated it? The Jets? Edwards knew exactly what he was doing; he poisoned the well in New York so that, when the Chiefs came calling, the Jets would be ready to take anything they could get as compensation for a guy who didn't want to be there. The Jets come out of this one looking like wimps, accepting a mere fourth-round pick for a guy who wanted out because another team wanted him. And although the evidence (more on that later) points to a conclusion that the flirtation between the Chiefs and Edwards didn't just begin this week, the Jets most likely will not file tampering charges. In the real world, this kind of crap is met with lawsuits alleging tortious interference with contractual relations. Yours truly handled a case like that several years back, and $540,000 later the company that pilfered a doctor who was under contract with another medical practice had learned a valuable lesson. Although the NFL clubs likely have signed agreements waiving their rights to sue other teams in court for this kind of stuff, there's still a vehicle available to the Jets, if they want to send a message to the Chiefs and any other team who might be inclined in the future to swipe their head coach. And it might not be so hard to prove that tampering occurred. By ordering up phone records and poring over hard drives, the Jets might very well learn that there were plenty of communications between Edwards and Chiefs G.M. Carl Peterson. On that topic, our bullcrap detector keeps coming back to rumors of a December 16 meeting between Peterson and Edwards in New York, when the Chiefs were in town to face the Giants on Saturday. Peterson denied meeting with Edwards, claiming that Edwards and the Jets were already in Miami. But they weren't, as we later learned. As to the Chiefs, we think that the organization should be ashamed of its tactics when it comes to hiring head coaches. The 32 NFL teams are business partners, and although they compete on the playing field there are lines that should not be crossed. But the Chiefs now have filled two straight coaching vacancies by courting guys who were under contract with other organizations. In 2001, the Chiefs hired Dick Vermeil while Vermeil was still a consultant to the Rams. Now, the Chiefs have scalped Edwards from the Jets. To make matters worse, Peterson and the Chiefs nickel-and-dimed the Jets, confident that the Jets would either cave in or fire Herm, after contributing to the creation of a situation in New York in which Edwards simply couldn't have continued. Since the NFL permits head coaches to be traded for draft picks, we think that the league should impose mandatory minimum compensation requirements, in order to prevent the very situation that arose in New York. The league also should be willing to launch tampering investigations even without charges being filed by the team that might have been screwed. In this case, multiple league insiders are convinced that something was going on between the Chiefs and Edwards. One source told us that, in his opinion, the league should smack the Chiefs with a big fine -- and strip their first-round draft pick. PFT.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 GREAT ARTICLE. the idea of a uniform price of picks to talk to another teams coach is brilliant. bradway is a TOTAL joke. he loves peterson so much that he will let the chiefs get away with tampering and despicable tatics. just the fact that peterson lied about meeting with herm on the 16th should have the NFL look much deeper into this situation. the 4th round pick was nothing less then an insult and a reminder of how inept bradway and this front office is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dierking Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Same thing we have been saying here all day. The NFL is in a precarious situation if they let this stand without investigation, and are setting a dangerous precedent-Mostly that contracts do not need to be upheld. Very dangerous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preston Howley III Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 That moron Woody should have fired both Woody and Herm after the 2003 season, and we'd be in good shape right now. As it stands, this team is going to be a mess... indefinitely. For 5 years I've watched these 3 idiots (Woody is included) destroy this franchise. Sigh. How many years did it take to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionelRichie Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 i agree w/everything in the article and everything dierking wrote before that. just don't lose sight of the forest for the trees: herm going to KC is addition by subtraction. this franchise is in better shape w/o herm, end of story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smizzy Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 They won't file tampering charges. Know why? Because it would come out that it was Bradway who let privileged info slip into Petersons hands. It was his own doing . Filing a tampering charge would shine a spotlight right on his head. He too smart for that. Nothing will happen and he will go to KC next offseason. After he gives them John Abraham too. Mark my words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 this is EXACTLY like the washington debacle of a few years back. another team exploits the system to make bradway and the jets franchse look like a total joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj meadowlands Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Hey Green JEts provide a working link please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barton Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 We'll see whether or not the Jets file tampering charges.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 There's nothing to stop Bradway, 2 years from now when his contract runs out and Peterson is ready to golf in Florida in his dotage, to vamoose his sorry act off to KC. Or even a year from now, when Bradway, by his friend Edwards' standards, will be a a "lame duck". Kinda suspect that all of these KC guys are having a great big circle jerk without Johnson, other than sticking him with the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 We'll see whether or not the Jets file tampering charges....there is no way. bradway would give the entire team to his daddy paterson first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preston Howley III Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 There's nothing to stop Bradway, 2 years from now when his contract runs out and Peterson is ready to golf in Florida in his dotage, to vamoose his sorry act off to KC. Or even a year from now, when Bradway, by his friend Edwards' standards, will be a a "lame duck". Kinda suspect that all of these KC guys are having a great big circle jerk without Johnson, other than sticking him with the bill. Woody is a POS and a moron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 There's nothing to stop Bradway, 2 years from now when his contract runs out and Peterson is ready to golf in Florida in his dotage, to vamoose his sorry act off to KC. Or even a year from now, when Bradway, by his friend Edwards' standards, will be a a "lame duck". Kinda suspect that all of these KC guys are having a great big circle jerk without Johnson, other than sticking him with the bill.woody can't even see that he's being played for a fool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Jets & Ham Posted January 7, 2006 Author Share Posted January 7, 2006 Hey Green JEts provide a working link please. Fixed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernJet Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Fixed it ham... fight system vs system,,, mangini or ferentz as next HC,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitonti Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 the NYJ should absolutely file tampering charges with the NFL it should be no brainer - PFT is usually a very anti-Jets site but they got it 100% right we got screwed in this situation. what a disgrace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 That moron Woody should have fired both Woody and Herm after the 2003 season, and we'd be in good shape right now. As it stands, this team is going to be a mess... indefinitely. For 5 years I've watched these 3 idiots (Woody is included) destroy this franchise. Sigh. How many years did it take to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill? why would Woody fire himself?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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