Washington Commanders Secure Biggest NFL Trade of the Deadline

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00:00If you look at Deadline Day, the biggest move was Marshawn Lattimore, which was made by

00:08the Washington Commanders.

00:09I'm not sure anything else really came close.

00:13There's some moves that happened before Deadline Day that you could argue were as big, if not

00:19bigger.

00:20Devontae Adams to the Jets, DeAndre Hopkins to Kansas City.

00:22A lot of the wide receiver movement was stuff that we were talking quite a lot about on

00:27our show.

00:28I think we can get into some of the exacts in a second here, but Don, was there anything

00:32from the deadline that really stood out to you?

00:36Not necessarily, because I think the teams that made the moves were in the right position

00:41for those.

00:42You didn't want to go, like for me, let's just take the Baltimore Ravens.

00:44Boy, if they could get Devontae Adams to swing for a real number one wide receiver, that'll

00:48shift the scales.

00:49No, it doesn't.

00:50That is an unbelievable offense now that added Deontae Johnson, which looks like they might

00:52want to send him packing already, which is the type of performances that he's getting.

00:57Let's take a look at the Pittsburgh Steelers out there needing a secondary threat, but

00:59didn't want to go all in and disrupt their game plan.

01:02They get Mike Williams, who I really think is going to be a help on the outside.

01:05There wasn't really anybody outside of, let's just say, Detroit, who I think made a great

01:09move with Tadarius Smith.

01:10If they really want the ladder up, which we're talking about, hey, maybe go and get a Myles

01:14Garrett to be an all-in type of situation.

01:17But I thought it was an eventful and fruitful deadline, Joe, for me, because I think teams

01:22picked up where they needed, but I didn't see one where I was like, ooh, they really

01:25made a mistake by not doing this, or maybe they didn't swing for the fences.

01:28Yeah, I like the moves that Pittsburgh made in terms of Preston Smith and Mike Williams,

01:32because I think both of those players can contribute down the stretch, especially for

01:37a playoff run, and I believe Mike Williams will have a factor, potentially, in terms

01:40of today's game.

01:41I'll throw out Minnesota.

01:42You know, we saw Darryl Shaw go down.

01:45They get Cam Robinson to solidify the offensive line, and Cam Akers, as well, is still a productive

01:50running back to bail out Ty Chandler and Aaron Jones.

01:53They've both been injured throughout the year, so that can benefit Sam Donald in the

01:58rushing attack.

01:59So not bad moves.

02:00They didn't cost a lot, but I think Minnesota did a pretty good job, as well.

02:04I think, to me, what is interesting, we don't have, within the NFL still, I guess, the level

02:11of Major League Baseball, or maybe even within the NBA, of sellers, where you can come in

02:16and call a team and actually extract superstars.

02:21Lattimore, again, is close to that situation, but, man, there's a big distance for what

02:26was done on deadline day.

02:28Devontae Adams was a very unique situation, and Hopkins is more, I mean, clearly he had

02:35a great game for Kansas City, but Hopkins is not one of the five best receivers in football

02:39anymore.

02:40That's just the reality.

02:41You know, we wondered if people were going to be able to call the Cleveland Browns and

02:44successfully get big Miles Garrett offers on the table.

02:49And I don't know if it was something that the Browns would ever consider, but I wonder

02:54if just the way the NFL is, they would never consider it, right?

02:59Where even if the Lions did offer up the outrageous suggested two firsts, gibs, two seconds, golf,

03:05you know, what would actually have the reaction been there?

03:09Because on one end, just using the Lions as the example, because that's who they were,

03:14if they brought Miles Garrett in, I'll tell you what, I also would not have been betting

03:18Detroit minus 15 and a half tonight.

03:20Like, you got to be kidding me.

03:21I wonder if there is some still hidden value within the NFL, because I think it's something

03:26that teams still don't really want to do of embracing a teardown tank and giving yourself

03:33some time to process Donnie a little bit at this level.

03:36And also the NFL is getting, because I always say, like when I was growing up, eighties

03:40and nineties, whenever we have Adam Kaplan on, it's like nobody ever made a trade.

03:43Like there was the trade deadline, but nobody ever talked about it because it wasn't a single

03:45trade that was actually going down.

03:47I think they might be even a little bit better, Kevin, holding off maybe another week or two,

03:51because then you really start to say, we're not in it at this point, but when you have

03:54seven wildcard spots and you have a team with three wins and let's just say four losses,

03:59are they really going to sell?

04:00I say, you know what?

04:01Coaches don't want to do the general managers because you can say, oh, hey, look, the owner

04:03gave me my blessing to sell.

04:05And at the end of the season, they turn out to be two and 15.

04:06You get fired.

04:07Like, well, then I was just going to cap.

04:08Everybody won three more games at this point and kept my job.

04:11I think if they push it back, maybe an extra week and also sometimes we see things play

04:14out that the Rams were up for sale for that one Thursday night game.

04:18We're even hearing stuff like Matthew Stafford's going to go.

04:20Cooper Cup is up in the air.

04:21Anybody that you wanted on defense here, they win a game or two, and now they're looking

04:24to be back in because that's seventh wildcard spot.

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