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Exactly. If you allow for hindsight on the Diggs trade, then you have to allow the 31 other teams the benefit of that same hindsight. In that case, Jefferson would probably be the first overall pick, given what we now know about Burrow's injury history. At worst, the second pick. Tee Higgins probably goes top five too.

They had better do that soon, because Gabe sticks out like a sore thumb when you look at WRs available on other teams' practice squads, and there is nothing but crazy-ass Dionte Johnson available amongst FAs. Someone else will claim him if we wait too long.

How would he know?

Football is entertainment, and downfield passing is fun to watch. I mean, look at this. Some people would rather lose like this than win the way we won.

I don't know that the Bengals can be seen as winners after back-to-back home losses to the NYJ and Bears. I know Flacco played lights out, but they still lost those games and might have lost them with Burrow. And those were the layup games. They are currently 3-6. After their bye, they play @Steelers, Pats, @Baltimore. There is a very real chance that they end that run at 3-9. They should have sold Hendrickson and Higgins for a haul and used those picks to build a functional defense, but Mike Brown is never a seller at the deadline and always ends up losing players for nothing in FA.

Jim Irsay’s daughter is running that team as a very hands-on owner. She appears to have went all in to win one for pops. But it’s a giant risk. If Daniel Jones turns into Daniel Jones again, they’re hosed for two seasons.

There was a lot of activity, but most of it was minor pieces. The only significant move today was the trade that Indianapolis made. But there was nothing like Von to the Rams or CMC to the 49ers. And the Pats and Chiefs also did nothing. I know the Steelers added Dugger (who seems washed), but they were shopping HARD for a WR and all they got was MVS to the practice squad. The status quo in the AFC didn't change. I wanted a WR too, but at least the Pats didn't use all that cap space to get someone like Maxx Crosby. That would have been a disaster.

But there really were not any big deadline deals this year, outside of Sauce to the Colts and Williams to the Cowboys. This was a quiet deadline, mostly because a lot of teams still feel like they're in contention for a playoff spot.

It's like when we traded for Douglass. The Bills negotiated with the Bears for a CB (stevenson, I think) all week, and when the Bears refused to move off their high demands, Beane moved on to plan B (Rasul), which took just a few minutes.

Well then lucky for everyone that he didn't go to the right team. They are literally playing stree FAs at both safety spots and they trade for a LB and a DT just because Jerrah had heard of the players.

The Cowboys are like the Yankees. They will be always be buyers, even in losing seasons. They just have to keep swinging.

I think he's under directives from ownership to remain competitive year after year at the expense of pushing all the chips into the table for one run.

The only actual deadline seller just happened to be in the division.

The Colts had 4 million in cap space at the start of the day and just traded for Sauce. You can make it work if you are willing to mortgage the future for the present.

Because we all want something badly, and we have no control over it. And we can all see that this team doesn't have enough, but for some reason the one person who could do something about it doesn't seem to feel the urgency that we all do. I think this direction is actually coming from ownership. You have to admit, watching other teams get better every year during FA and at the deadline while we do little to nothing is frustrating.

Beane's press conference in an hour and a half:

He's sad his buddy Shaheed got traded.

The Jets got his best years and he's already been paid. A first, hopefully, is a good player with cost control for 5 years. That's how GMs think of it and why firsts have so much value in trades.

Plus, they can trade him to the NFC. It sucks that the one team that is really selling happens to be in our division.

Still doesn't fix their secondary...

They could just sign MVS. He's still a free agent.

2 hours to go.

They just got 2 1sts and a developmental WR for a CB.

If it only costs like a 7th, why not? You might get half a year of a motivated player who might make a few plays. If it doesn't work out, no big deal.

Quick! Someone get a blood sample from Randy Moss! STAT!