The Bears got a pick from the 49ers for tampering with Lance Briggs, and they seemed to have much less evidence. Plus they didn’t even lose Briggs, whereas out attempts to re-sign Albert were blown to bits once that crazy offer hit the papers.

If the offer was so crazy from the Redskins, but that was not the BEST offer on the table according to reports.

The 6-6, 320-pounder cost the Redskins $100 million-$115 million over seven years with $41 million guaranteed. In an interview on “The Michael Irvin Radio Show” in Dallas on Friday night, Haynesworth said he also had a $100 million offer from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and he added, "I had another $80-something million deal from the Giants

From WUSA9

The Titans were interested in re-signing Haynesworth, but in the end refused to get into a bidding war with other teams for his services. Agent Chad Speck negotiated the deal, and also talked to a number of other teams, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers also being involved until the end.
The Titans final offer was in the $11 million per year range, according to sources, which would have made him the NFL’s highest paid defensive tackle.

If tampering existed, prior to it becoming a bidding war, it should have been noted. With other teams NY 80M, Tampa and Redskins 100M it’ll be hard to prove any tampering.
SF was the only team involved with Briggs at the time.

Titans fans are still pretty sore about losing Albert. The thing is, with or without the tampering, the Titans would have lost Albert anyway. So what’s the big deal to TEN?

per Mark Maske from WaPo:
“Under anti-tampering rules, a player eligible for free agency is supposed to negotiate only with his most recent team until the opening of the free agent market, when he is permitted to begin negotiating with any team. But in practice, said several agents and front-office executives from NFL teams who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they didn’t want to implicate themselves or their clients, many agents go to the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis before the opening of free agency to begin negotiating with new teams on behalf of clients eligible for free agency. Those deals cannot become official until the opening of the free agent market and sometimes fall through, according to the agents and executives, but many translate into signed contracts.”

Jason Cole at Yahoo Sports has a good break down and some quotes:

As agents such as Rosenhaus have pointed out time and again, there are no rules that bar agents from talking to teams about players. The rules only apply the other way. It is only tampering if teams talk to agents about players.

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Changes and clarifications to the rule could occur this year, as noted by The Washington Post
Goodell wants Rule on Free Agent Tampering to be enforced
It’s very difficult to prove, and less likely to occur as the “Tampered” team must provide request the investigation.

The 49ers admitted to contacting Briggs after contacting the Bears concerning a trade for Briggs. The Redskins haven’t admitted to anything.

So if what Jason Cole and dr WNC are saying is true, nothing will come of it unless the Skins or Haynesworth (or his agent) say that the Skins initiated contact, nothing will come of this.

Some of you guys are talking like this is already a forgone conclusion that this is tampering.. where is the evidence besides a current player with no involvement saying something like this?