Contracts, salary caps, why do our favorite teams make some of the moves they do?

It's usually the money.

It's time for the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

Hey, welcome back to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

I try to do this every now and then every couple months, bring in my good friend Joe Banner,

former president of the Eagles and the Browns, work with me at ESPN.

Tremendous insights behind the curtain of the NFL from running teams.

And share my insights as well and try to have our listeners take a master class

and what's going on behind the scenes.

Really let you know how management thinks about these things.

And gosh, is so much, Joe.

I'll just start right away.

Your initial impressions, as we record this, just past the trade deadline.

I'll leave you a blank canvas.

There have been some major trades. I'll just

let you start, and we'll go from there. You know, I think like every fan, I like seeing it.

Yeah. I mean, we've always had a trade or two, but I don't think we've had at least names of the

quantity, quality that we've seen today.

Although, you know, interesting, you know, I think the, we saw some teams that were short-term thinking, trading players that maybe weren't part of their long-term plans.

So, you know, Brown is probably not a part of Houston long-term, although we can help them right now, and Seattle's trying to win right now, and, you know, Brown is probably not a part of Houston long term, although he can help them right now,

and Seattle's trying to win right now, and IJ with a trade to the Eagles, you know, thinking a little more short term,

but trying to keep the long-term good, too. So it was really what you should see at the trade line in the NFL, where you've got

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