Inside Brian Burns' trade from the Panthers to Giants

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- New York Giants general manager Joe Schoen was standing on the field in early February watching the Senior Bowl practice with Dan Morgan, the president of football operations/general manager for the Carolina Panthers, and Bills GM Brandon Beane.

The three NFL GMs had worked together in Buffalo, and they have a long-standing friendship and working relationship -- Morgan's and Schoen's families have vacationed together as recently as this past summer.

Their on-field conversation began with Schoen joking about whether Morgan or Beane wanted to trade up for the Giants' No. 6 pick, in a scene aired on HBO's "Hard Knocks" this past summer, before the…