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Welcome to NFL Daily, where we embrace the NFL becoming like the NBA.

I'm Greg Rosenthal here in the Chris Wesleyan podcast studio. The trade deadline

has come and gone and there's no one. I would rather have break it all down for me. No one?

Maybe like one or two people. But Mike Garifolo is very high on the list. Welcome.

Sidney, no? I mean, I don't think she really has a hot take on the list. Welcome. Sidney Sweeney, no?

I mean, I don't think she really has a hot take on the Jonathan Mingo trade. Like, hey, what are the Cowboys doing? That's what I'm into. Maybe not a hot take. I don't know what gets you going in the morning. Actually, I do. Button up. You don't need to button up. And yes, we're on YouTube. Everyone, check out the show there if you want,

but for everyone else, it's mostly in the ears here. And they're just going to hear the great voice. I woke up early, you know, the daylight savings, lots going on in this country. Maybe I slept a little less because of that. Who knows? I don't know what it is. What happened in the day? No. And, you know, we, we turned it on and it's like six in the morning. There's Mike Garifolo on my screen already on Good Morning Football. And here you are eight hours later. You've done three shows in between. You've got another more shows. I'm just making up numbers in terms of the shows. It's all good. Don't you like that the NFL actually is worthy of a trade deadline special? Sure. It makes it interesting. It adds a little wrinkle that we never had before. And it gives us a reason to make calls and say hello to some people during the season. And it's fun to, you know, a little rush when you get to break some news on a day like this or really.

I mean, the thing that's surprising is it starts earlier and earlier every single year.

And even now to the point where you had eight deals today, I believe eight trades was the number,

which matched last year, not as high as the 13 from 2022.

But I had a conversation with a personnel guy the other day and I said, well, why is this now a thing when it didn't used to be a thing? And they said there was a number of reasons, analytics and all this stuff. And he said, but the one thing that he really believes is there's so many coaches out there, coaching trees overlapping that a lot of the terminology is the same these days where it wasn't necessarily 10, 15, 20 years ago. And so now guys are able to come in and get acclimated a little bit

more quickly. But even to the point of DeAndre Hopkins in his second game with the Chiefs,

there were a couple times where he went out there in Mahomes. No, no, no, no, no. He had to flip to the other side of the formation as they're lining up. There were two plays to the end of regulation where he wanted to hit him one time. Almost cost him the game. Didn't turn around. And then you saw Mahomes back to the sideline to Matt Nagy. Again, again, again. And he looked for him coming off the line. He had to have told him in the huddle. Looks for him coming off the line.

He's not looking.

So with those hiccups, they're still off to a great start there. But it just tells you it is still difficult in season to get acclimated to a new team and a new player. Maybe that helps explain why teams were hesitant to do it in the past. And we're going to get through all the trades. We're going to talk Marshawn Lattimore, going to the commanders.

That's fun.

The Zidaria Smith trade finally happened. We'll talk some winners and losers. Jordan Rodrigue is coming up later in the show. We'll see if the Rams press conference ends in time for her to join you, but we'll also preview the Thursday night game between the Bengals and the Ravens. But since we're starting big picture, I think this is interesting because, first of all,

they moved the trade deadline back.

And when I joke about them becoming like the NBA, it just was a weird place the NFL was in

for a long time.

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