Earlier on Monday, Peter King of SI.com wrote that Dolphins V.P. of football operations Bill Parcells asked Boston College coach Jeff Jagodzinski to send along video of every pass thrown by Eagles quarterback Matt Ryan in 2007.

A league source promptly pointed out to us that this is a no-no.

But Dolphins Senior V.P. of Media Relations Harvey Greene told us via e-mail that no such request was made by Parcells or by G.M. Jeff Ireland.

And even though it’s technically a violation of the rules for an NFL team to request video directly from a college, it’s not to prevent pro teams from getting a competitive edge.  Instead, as NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told us, it’s designed to keep college from being inundated with requests from 32 franchises.

The goal is to maintain good relations with the 100-plus programs that make up the NFL’s free-of-charge farm system (as Maurice Clarett called it in his lawsuit aimed at forcing early entry into the draft).  Aiello explained that videos requests are coordinated directly through NFL Films.

In our view, an NFL team would only make a request directly to a college program in the hopes of keeping the folks at NFL Films (and, in turn, other teams) from putting two and two together.  Indeed, one of the breakthrough scoops for the site that blazed the path for us, the now-defunct NFLtalk.com, was that the Colts would draft running back Edgerrin James instead of Ricky Williams.  As we recall it, the report was based in part on a tip from a source at NFL Films regarding a request that the Colts had made for all college tape of James.

But if the Fins asked for the Ryan tape from B.C. in order to keep other people from finding out about it, King wouldn’t have known about it, either.  So that explanation doesn’t make sense in this specific situation.