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Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast presented by the United States Marine Corps.

My name is Dan Hansus.

I'm joined in a room filled with some heroes.

Chris Wessling to my left. Greg Rosenthal to my right. What is up, boys? Hey, Dan. A little three-man weave today. Mark Sessler back in the infirmary. So hopefully get him back on Thursday. Well, he wouldn't have appreciated that money drop anyway. No, that was teed up for him to make some type of dig about the length of the baseball season.

Which could end tonight.

And I bet it no matter what happens tonight in baseball,

it'll have a little more sizzle to it than this trade deadline.

Trade deadline Tuesday.

Yes, we waited it out until it was clear. And yeah, in a year where there were 20 trades since week one.

103 trades in 2019 overall before Tuesday. Hubba, hubba. That 20 trades since week one is up from 11 last year. And, you know, we had a couple big trades yesterday with a Jets Giants trade for the first time ever,

a notable running back on the move.

You thought that some big monster happenings would go down in the final hour leading to

the deadline with some big names.

It just never happened that way.

So maybe not as

an explosive a trade deadline, but still more fun than it used to be. Yeah, I get the people

are upset, but I remember the days when like Will Witherspoon, a random linebacker was the biggest

trade of the week, or Jonathan Casillas going to the Patriots. Right, we'll get to it. But the players that weren't traded were also very, it was interesting just to hear who is floated, who's trying to get rid of things. I think if the NFL really wanted to, and Kevin Patcher, our old friend, coming at you, you know, pointed this out, they would have to move. If they really wanted the trade deadline to sizzle, you'd push it back a little bit, and they have pushed it back, but push it back even a little bit more. And the compensatory pick formula is really what's holding it down. So let's say Robbie Anderson, for instance. A guy the Jets really don't have much use for, I don't think they want to keep them next year. They'd be happy to trade them. But they're only going to get a fourth round pick for him.

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