Trade Deadline Winners and Losers

The Bill Barnwell Show

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On today's episode of the Bill Barnwell Show, Bill breaks down the most significant moves of the trade deadline, which teams should have been more aggressive during the deadline, and the biggest missed opportunities of the trade deadline. Plus, who is going to win the NFC South? 1:00 Commanders trade Montez Sweat to the Bears 8:42 Commanders trade Chase Young to the 49ers 11:42 Vikings trade for Joshua Dobbs 15:00 What went into the Giants' decision not to trade Saquon Barkley? 17:57 Should the Lions have been more aggressive this deadline? 21:26 Is the solution to the Chiefs' current offensive struggles on the roster? 24:40 Teams who should have traded players this deadline 27:04 How NFL compensatory picks work 30:13 What is the ideal time for the trade deadline? 31:57 Why are the prices for trade deadline low? 37:30 Did Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler get fired from the Raiders due to their inaction during the deadline? 38:34 Can the Broncos go on a run in the second half of the season? 41:00 Who will be the seventh seed in the NFC in the postseason? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bill Barnwell Show. I am Bill Barnwell. Today, it's just me. Yes, it is a mailbag show. But before we get to your mailbag questions, which are mostly about the trade deadline and the trades that did not happen.
0:22.0	I'm going to start by breaking down some of the trades that did happen yesterday during the trade deadline.
0:30.2	And give my thoughts on those. Obviously, that's the big news of the week.
0:34.2	Also, the Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler firing in Las Vegas, which I wrote about at
0:38.7	length for ESPN today. It's a free article. You can check out on ESPN.com. Mostly with my
0:44.7	thoughts there on the McDaniels situation. But let's talk about some of these trades because some
0:52.4	very interesting decisions made around the NFL.
0:57.1	And let's start with the biggest trade of the day, which was surprisingly, and yet maybe
1:03.2	not surprisingly, given what they did last year, the Chicago Bears going out and getting
1:08.3	Montez Sweat from the commanders for their 2024 second round
1:13.9	pick. And very similar, at least in terms of structure and theory, to the Chase Claypool
1:21.5	trade we saw a year ago where the Bears traded a second round pick, assuming that Claypool was going to be the
1:29.3	best receiver available to them, that he would be better than any of the receivers who were
1:34.1	available as free agents, better than any of the receivers who were available in the draft,
1:39.9	chose to add Claypool to their roster, and it went about as poorly as possible. Claypool was a
1:46.7	mess. He was basically a replacement-level player, was traded to the Dolphins for a late-round
1:52.4	pick after the season. Now, yes, let's acknowledge that not every player is going to be Chase Claypool.
1:59.5	Montes Sweat is a better player
2:01.9	than Chase Claypool. He's also an older player. Sweat is, I believe, 27, will turn 28 next year.
2:07.5	So nothing wrong with getting a player at that age, but not a player who we would assume is going
2:12.1	to be ascending over the next few years. He's probably at his peak right now. So the Bears made this trade for a player in
2:20.2	sweat who is about to be an unrestricted free agent. Now, by trading for sweat, the bears accomplish a couple
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