Dream trade scenarios, Steelers-Ravens rivalry, what’s at stake for Drew Lock & more in our Week 8 preview

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Nfl Draft, Nfl, Sports, Football, Robert Mays, Football,

4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

With the trade deadline just days away, The Athletic’s Robert Mays and Lindsay Jones propose fake trades they would like to see happen. Who will be buyers and who will be sellers? What are the best landing spots for guys like J. J. Watt, Will Fuller and John Ross? They weigh in.

Plus, it’s rivalry week for the Steelers and Ravens. They break down the game of the week as well as what’s at stake for Drew Lock moving forward.

Finally, Bruce Feldman joins the show to discuss his new book with Ed Orgeron, 'Flip the Script.’

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0:00.0	This is the Athletic Football Show.
0:15.9	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.
0:18.3	I'm Robert Mays.
0:19.5	Fun show for you guys today.
0:21.0	A little bit later, Bruce Feldman is going to be joining us to talk about his new book, Flipping the Scripts, about Ed O'Jeron and the 2019 LSU Tigers. A lot of fun stuff that we got to with Bruce. Before that, though, joining me now. It's Lindsay Jones, and the Athletic. Lindsay, how are you? I'm great, Robert. How are you doing? I am doing great. I tweeted this earlier today.
0:38.0	Trade deadline is upon us. Jones and the athletic. Lindsay, how are you? I'm great, Robert. How are you doing? I am doing great.
0:39.9	I tweeted this earlier today.
0:44.3	Trade deadline is upon us, and there is nothing else we can do to start the show today except for fake trades because fake trades are one of my favorite things on planet
0:48.7	earth.
0:49.2	For the most part, fake trades have been a fetal exercise when it comes to the NFL.
0:54.2	The NFL is not a trade-heavy league overall.
0:58.2	Last year, that was a little bit different.
1:01.0	And I think that it's for a lot of reasons.
1:03.0	A lot of the smarter teams in the league, I think over the last three to four seasons,
1:06.1	had done a really good job of using the veteran trade market as a market inefficiency.
1:12.2	Trading picks for guys for that certainty.
1:15.2	I think the Eagles were doing it a lot.
1:16.5	The Rams did it.
1:17.5	The Patriots were doing it.
1:18.7	Teams that were winning consistently.
1:20.3	The other reason was the cap was just exploding.
1:22.9	It was going up so fast that folding in veteran contracts into your overall budget wasn't that difficult.
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