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This is the nature of football. How often are trades ever made? Not often compared to other sports. Why? Because the nature of the salary cap and team's reluctance to make moves based on chemistry reasons means it is difficult to get a trade worked out. It is common in the NFL for teams to allow players to seek trades such as in the case of 50/50. The reason they do this is because teams know that with the cap if a team is looking to get rid of a guy they're 95% going to simply release him when it becomes advantageous. Therefore the only way to actually consumate a trade is to get the player to agree to a long term deal so it is in the other team's interest to actually trade for the player rather waiting for him to hit the market and then be faced with competition. To get a long term deal the player has to be involved and it is in no way in the player's benefit to stay quiet about this. There is no "better way" to deal with this issue.