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Originally Posted by Mr. Laz
commenting about another teams players is considered 'influencing'
example: A team can't go to the media and say 'we would love to have the QB of the Green bay packers on our team, he's great etc,etc' because that might encourage Aaron Rodger to explore free agency instead of signing back with the packers.
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That isn't what they are doing here because the player has no say in it, so they aren't influencing him. They went to the 49ers (presumably) and said "we hear you want to dump Smith. How much do you want for him?" It's a team to team thing, not a team to player thing.