Anatomy of Jason Taylor trade - Peter King - SI.com

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Better Than Coffee Tales: Peter King Averts Eyes as Lovers Get Intimate Under a Blanket
Published 7/21/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... Man, how early do you people get up to read Peter King’s MMQB? A flurry of emails this morning about two items in PK’s latest: His daughter got an internship with the Seahawks, and he was grossed-out by a couple that may have been copulating near him on a flight. ...

Suspend Disbelief and Consider This Failed Three-Team Jason Taylor Trade
Published 7/21/2008 at FanHouse
... to Washington has managed to disrupt Favremania long enough for people to talk about something that will more-than-hypothetically alter autumn Sundays. Just imagine what we'd be talking about if this went through: ...

Tying up the loose ends of the Taylor trade
Published 7/21/2008 by Matty I at The Phinsider: Front Page Posts
... First of all, Peter King tells us that trade negotiations between the Dolphins and Redskins took place for just 3 hours and 10 minutes.  That's all it took from the first phone call by the Redskins to the two teams coming to terms.  In fact, King writes that this deal took less than 6 hours to go from "idea-germination to finish."  I guess that's what happens when both sides are motivated to get a deal done quickly.  Of course, one can only wonder what might have happened if the Dolphins held out a little longer and made Dan Snyder and Vinny ...

The Lying GM vs. the Bitter Local Reporter
Published 7/22/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... Monday, Cerrato shot himself in the foot: He detailed, on ESPN radio and to SI’s Peter King, how the deal went down over the weekend, and that he had been in talks with Miami for weeks. ...

Taylor and Shockey part of a rumored three-way deal
Published 7/22/2008 by Anthony Brown at Hog Heaven
... Peter King at SI.com wrote a lengthy piece on how the Redskins and Dolphins worked the Jason Taylor trade in under six hours Sunday. In that story, King alludes to a rumor that the Giants were working a three-way deal that would have sent Jeremy Shockey to the Saints, Jason Taylor to the Giants and draft picks to the Dolphins. ...