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Would Manning thrive with Brady's weapons?

By Matt Mosley
ESPN.com

Friday, March 2, 2007

One of the downsides to the salary-cap era other than having to learn the formula is that it pretty much wiped out meaningful trades. Free agency took away one of the greatest shortcuts to becoming a Super Bowl champion: fleecing the Vikings. The disappearance of trades helped feed the fantasy football craze because it gave us another outlet for completely screwing people over. In 1996, I convinced a college friend (let's call him Mike Overman) that Lions wide receiver Brett Perriman was ...

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