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Of course Brown had all the cards. Any team trading more for Brown would need to know it would come to an agreement with him before ponying up a 1st and 2nd round draft choice.
Any team that traded for him could franchise him twice. It isn't all the cards. It was a bigger risk to trade for him without a long term deal, but not a game breaker.
And again, you are just speculating that he only wanted to go to the Eagles and he wouldn't consider the Patriots. Even though he admitted that he cried when the Pats didn't draft him and he said he was a life long Patriots fan. You think it is crazy to think because it wasn't about the money because he wanted to play with his best friend, but it was also all about the money because he got top dollar.
The fact is that Brown was never going to the Patriots, not because Brown wouldn't play for the Patriots. It was because Belichick would never give up the draft compensation to get him and pay him top of the league money. The latter part being more important. I think Belichick would rather go without WRs on the roster entirely and just have a QB, two RBs, and eight linemen blocking than pay top of the market money on a WR.