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Originally Posted by Dave Butz Baby!

Sorry, SC, I completely disagree with you. As someone who has done acquisitions and purchasing for the last 13 years, I have an obligation to find the best "vendors" (agents) out there to pick up the best "product" (players) I possibly can. I hate to reduce people to the scope of a product (not like I'm not called a "resource" by the higher-ups), but this is a business and that's just the way it is.

If two "vendors" have comparable "products", I will always go with the one that will deliver the "product" with as little fuss or fanfare as possible at a reasonable price. If one vendor decides that he wants to dictate terms to me insofar as jacked-up pricing and/or delivery times (for an IT example, CDW... absolutely horrible) while another will give me something comparable with a hell of a lot less headache, guess which one I'll go with? That's called good business. That's how you keep your job and business gets done. I will always deal with a vendor who I have a good working relationship with over the "big guy" who has exclusive rights to the snazzy new product.

Remember that the aversion to he Postons is not just a 'Skins thing. Just ask the Rams (Pace). Or the Broncos (Ian Gold). Or the Pats (Lawyer Milloy, Ty Law). It's not just the Skins who are leery of these people. As businesses, these teams have an obligation to do their due diligence. In their due diligence, maybe these teams are finding that they'd rather deal with a Drew Rosenhaus over the Postons.

You are right... sometimes a great product is exclusive to one vendor, and you have to bite the bullet and get it done. But by and large, given a choice, you go with what will work better in the grand scheme. The Postons just don't seem to work out better, and are seemingly developing the reputation as such. The Poston's credibility seems to be waning fast not only amongst the teams, but the players they represent as well. (Smoot left, Orlando Pace is talking of leaving them.)

So given a choice between Taylor (Rosenhaus is his agent, and has a good working relationship with Snyder) or Winslow (the Poston's and their obviously acrimonious relationship with the FO), good business sense tells you to go with what business relationships you know you can work with.... and it's readily apparent it's not the Postons. Makes perfect sense to me.

Well done DBB!