Originally posted by SteelersInsider
I think that argument is dead now from TSE.
It's not the same argument from my perspective. How many players PP has on his team doesn't have anything to do with me, nor does it affect the number of my players that I have on my team, that stays the same, and that is my personal preference to keep that number low, and that's what I still have. If I had 8 other agents on the team that also had 5 players on the team, or 4 with 10, or a very tiny number of agents in any combination, then I wouldn't have been as interested in the trade.
This was a very specialized trade that needed a very specialized trade partner. On the one hand I had to find a team that was willing to work around Manning's plan to leave the team in the near future for the Monkeys, and on the second hand I still had to find some value in return. PP was the perfect fit on both sides with having the extra players and value to afford to give up, and the willingness to take a possible short term run with Manning's star players.
I could have possibly gotten more out of it by trading him straight out and under the full 2 year contract with no promises that the new team would go to a 1 year deal, but despite all the BS that Manning pulled on me, I don't screw people over and I never will. This team is always going to be #1 in the game in terms of integrity of team management. Although I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least tempted for a split second to throw his players on the bench and let them rot, and I had multiple team members PM me saying they would support that decision. But contrary to how much of an a-hole Manning is for his deceit and his ploys, I'm still not going to screw up somebody's players that has put a lot of money into getting them to where they are. I know how much money he spends on the game considering he had 3 high level players to my one, and it just came down to I wasn't going to screw up all of his time and money invested into those players just because I despise the guy as a person and as a player.
I think that argument is dead now from TSE.
It's not the same argument from my perspective. How many players PP has on his team doesn't have anything to do with me, nor does it affect the number of my players that I have on my team, that stays the same, and that is my personal preference to keep that number low, and that's what I still have. If I had 8 other agents on the team that also had 5 players on the team, or 4 with 10, or a very tiny number of agents in any combination, then I wouldn't have been as interested in the trade.
This was a very specialized trade that needed a very specialized trade partner. On the one hand I had to find a team that was willing to work around Manning's plan to leave the team in the near future for the Monkeys, and on the second hand I still had to find some value in return. PP was the perfect fit on both sides with having the extra players and value to afford to give up, and the willingness to take a possible short term run with Manning's star players.
I could have possibly gotten more out of it by trading him straight out and under the full 2 year contract with no promises that the new team would go to a 1 year deal, but despite all the BS that Manning pulled on me, I don't screw people over and I never will. This team is always going to be #1 in the game in terms of integrity of team management. Although I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least tempted for a split second to throw his players on the bench and let them rot, and I had multiple team members PM me saying they would support that decision. But contrary to how much of an a-hole Manning is for his deceit and his ploys, I'm still not going to screw up somebody's players that has put a lot of money into getting them to where they are. I know how much money he spends on the game considering he had 3 high level players to my one, and it just came down to I wasn't going to screw up all of his time and money invested into those players just because I despise the guy as a person and as a player.
