But this isn't a court of law with a criteria of proof that is necessarily higher if it is determining the fate of individuals. I'm interested in literature and history. If you take a figure like Thucydides, he creates histories with plausible speeches he couldn't possibly have verbatim notes to. He based his work on a reading of human nature and the particular characters of individual figures. I think you have a predisposition to mistrust Beane. I don't really dislike Jerry Jones, but I am more inclined to believe he would lie to save face and I also believe the Cowboys wanted Kincaid.
It's also true that Kincaid was my favorite player in the draft and I am very happy the Bills traded up to secure him. If I was a GM and I thought a team might take him ahead of me and he had fallen within trade up range, I make the trade to secure the player. And I personally wouldn't mind embellishing a tale to explain the move, but I don't think Beane is that kind of fella.