Bill Barnwell on NFL Mega Deals: Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Aaron Rodgers is staying in Green Bay, and Russell Wilson is heading to Denver to the Broncos! While the details of the Rodgers deal are still being ironed out, Russell Wilson will call the Mile High City his new home, and he enters an AFC West that’s loaded with star QBs like Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert. Bill Barnwell unpacks the latest in these blockbuster NFL moves and explains how they’ve upended the seats of power in the NFL. Plus, Calvin Ridley’s gambling suspension. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks reached agreement on a trade that will send nine-time
0:06.2	Pro Bowl quarterback Russell Wilson to the Denver Broncos in one of the biggest NFL trades
0:12.2	in NFL history, an enormous package of players and picks going back to Seattle.
0:18.9	That was Adam Schaefter, ESPN's Human News Alert, announcing one of the biggest trades in NFL history.
0:27.2	A culmination of not just highly secretive negotiations that nobody saw coming, but also a football
0:33.5	news cycle that took over my phone this week and still hasn't given it back.
0:40.1	Because yes, Russell Wilson is somehow a Denver Bronco suddenly.
0:46.0	And yes, Aaron Rogers is somehow, after a year of very public drama, still a Green Bay Packer.
0:52.7	And right, oh yeah, before that, a star receiver also got suspended for all of next season for betting on NFL games.
1:01.9	So today, Bill Barnwell makes us smarter about a football news cycle unlike any other.
1:08.8	And he explains the aftershocks to come.
1:12.3	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Wednesday, March 9th.
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2:00.5	So, Bill, as someone whose main goal in life at this point pretty much is to not get fooled into retweeting a fake trade announcement from like any number of the parody Twitter accounts that populate social media, I got to say that my brain immediately sent this Russell Wilson trade into its spam folder.
2:17.7	I did the triple check.
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