Will Steelers be disciplined for talking to Lemon

The way Lemon spoke afterwards in his interview...his speech was such a disorganized uneducated mess that I think the Steelers thought they better call an hour before the pick because it would take that long to communicate in English with him.

 

It is possible.

Would be adding salt to the supposed black eye the team when trying to get him.


I would imagine a draft pick + financial fine if this is to be the case.

 

I don’t get it…so they can contact the agent, but not the player, if the team is not on the clock?

 

There is rock solid evidence that the eagles reached him, despite the steelers talking to him

 

I would argue the Steelers were already disciplined.

The Cowboys and Eagles put BTA (kid slang for belt to a$$) on national television, in the Steelers own backyard, on one of the biggest football days in Pittsburgh football history.

Natural consequences are the harshest.

 

but how would you know if you are interfering or not?

they were already talking to him, and this happened in a matter of seconds?

 

Yea, the rule is a little odd. What if you were talking to a guy that wasn't projected going until a round later and some team decides to reach for him? The rule should be no contact until you are on the clock. Period.

 

There's no wriggling out of this via pendantry, Khan made a complete mess of this and total ass of himself.

 

Not sure how this answers the question on whether it's common.

The fact that they have a rule saying that you can do this must mean it's not the first time it's happened, right? Maybe that's the point you're making?

My guess is that there will be no discipline to the team for doing this thing that the rule seems to say we're allowed to do.

I can see how this would have been a much bigger deal in the 90s before call waiting.

 

As Tomlin would have said, "Khan painted himself into a red corner with the leftover barn paint.

 

I agree. How would the Steelers know which player the eagles were going to contact so the Steelers could stay off his phone.

 

What does "interfere" mean?

They were talking to a player (which the rule explicitly states they are allowed to do).

The player got a call waiting message from the team that just got on the clock by trade.

At that point, I'm sure the Steelers hung up and didn't do anything to interfere with the player to get picked by Philly (e.g., to try to persuade the player not to go to Philly).

I think this would be different if Philly was already talking to him and then we somehow monopolized the call. Or if we talked about financial conditions that we would provide that Philly would not.

I doubt that what the Steelers did violated the rules. But we'll see what the league defines as "interfering with discussions between a player and the club that is on the clock" means.

But I think this would be a really tough argument for Philly to make since our call likely initiated before Philly was on the clock.

Note also that if the rumor that DAL told PHI to move up because we were going to take him, that seems to also suggest that we talked to DAL before the pick was traded and knew they weren't going to pick Lemon. And we seemed to be on the phone with him before the pick was traded.

This rule seems like something that was written in the rotary phone days. Seems obsolete in an age with call waiting (and then cell phones).

 

Why would they? they have been calling players for years right before they was gonna pick a player. how did they know The eagles was gonna jump them.while they was on the phone with lemon.