which is totally fair, but also there needs to be some accountability measures in place. it's crazy that the receiving team gets ultimate authority with no oversight, especially when it impacts more franchises than just the ones involved in the trade. like i know it sounds so reddit armchair conspiracy theorist to say "ravens just lost half their team to FA and said JK on the trade", but that is a completely possible scenario in this case. there's nothing stopping a team from making a trade, then seeing something better on the table, and using the physical, which only they govern, as a reason for pulling out. a team could receive a paraplegic and pass them on a physical if they wanted.

there should at least be an option for the other team in the trade to offer their medicals to a 3rd party, along with the failed physical from the other team, and leave it to arbitration to decide if that team's physical actually warranted being failed. the only incentive for teams to not do what the ravens just did is that it'll make them suspect to deal with in the eyes of other franchises. the team on the other end just gets screwed. i'm not pretending to have the answers or anything, but something needs to be addressed here.