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The players with massive star power will always be able to engineer moves but your average ones wont. The salary cap is too restrictive, they cant all go and play for the Patriots. 
It's not a recent phenomenon. There are examples of it further back, e.g. Eli Manning engineering a trade to the giants on draft day in 2004 and Jake Plummer retiring rather than playing for the team he was traded to (momentarily escapes me). Also examples of power plays that have failed (see Gordon, Melvin and Bell, LeVeon) 

Plummer retired after being traded to the John Gruden coached Buccaneers
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23 hours ago, CountyFan said:

The players with massive star power will always be able to engineer moves but your average ones wont. The salary cap is too restrictive, they cant all go and play for the Patriots. 

It's not a recent phenomenon. There are examples of it further back, e.g. Eli Manning engineering a trade to the giants on draft day in 2004 and Jake Plummer retiring rather than playing for the team he was traded to (momentarily escapes me). Also examples of power plays that have failed (see Gordon, Melvin and Bell, LeVeon) 

Yeah has been happening for years.  Elway refusing to play for the Colts when drafted in 1983 shows this isn't a recent phenomenon.

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1 hour ago, strichener said:

Yeah has been happening for years.  Elway refusing to play for the Colts when drafted in 1983 shows this isn't a recent phenomenon.

The jist of the discussion was that while it has happened before, the way things are going these days, divas like Antonio Brown go completely mental with ‘helmet issues’ and fcuk knows what else to get a move, while others just need the head coach to look at them the wrong way before demanding a move. 

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