So the Saints tried to do a sign and trade
 

That was their plan to get Clowney to have a team like Jacksonville sign him and then they'd give compensation for the Jags eating money..

If this becomes a practice that is used that would make the NFL a very different league.

I bet veach was paying attention because we're going to need to do some stuff like this in the next few years.

Hats off — that’s a super creative move.

The Ravens were planning to swoop in and steal their thunder if the NFL allowed it. Cleveland and New Orleans had an agreement where they'd essentially pay 5 million of Clowneys salary in exchange for a second rounder. The Jaguars and Ravens apparently set up something similar.

This is something that could change the hell out of the NFL teams using cap space to speed up rebuilds by eating money in sign and trades.

Yeah that would be a major change in how teams handle the cap. I don't think allowing teams to rebuild faster is in our interests.

Yea for now the NFL said no but I expect this to be revisited in the offseason.

I thought the Osweiler deal a few years back was precedent for stuff like this.

Football is as much an accounting game as a sport these days. I'm not a big fan of that, but I guess it's a necessity if you have a salary cap.

NFL said no or it would have likely happened. Don’t see how it could become a thing.

This happens to me all the time!

That's what threw me when I first saw it. I don't see much difference in that trade and this proposal.

Paying for draft picks should be a big no no.

NBA style trade.

So much for that concept. Someone was wrong yet again.

It was the first of that type of deal and its obviously not caught on.