00:00Washington stood pat yesterday.
00:04I think we have a bunch of Adam Peters audio.
00:07Adam Peters was on with the junks this morning.
00:10And it would be good for them to get AP the day after the trade deadline
00:14and the day before a must-win game.
00:16That timing was fortuitous.
00:20I'll get to the AP audio here in a minute.
00:22But your initial reaction would be at the end of our show,
00:26I felt pretty confident Washington wasn't going to do anything.
00:30They didn't do anything.
00:32Yep.
00:33I think –
00:34I'm not necessarily shocked at that.
00:39Because when Wichicom said they weren't going to trade Brian Thomas,
00:44I felt they were doing it as a negotiation ploy.
00:47But then again, when you start looking to see what we really have to give up,
00:50I don't think – I think that would have been a move that made sense
00:53because you get him and you still have some more time with him.
00:56Right.
00:56I don't think it made sense to go get most people or go do most things
01:00because what is going to be, one year, a trade, a rental?
01:04You know, and basically you give up stuff for a guy not to be here next year?
01:08That's what we're complaining about right now.
01:10Right.
01:10You know, so I didn't expect anything, so I'm not shocked whatsoever.
01:14This is Adam Peters this morning speaking with the junks
01:17about being inactive at the trade deadline.
01:20Yeah, I think you're always looking to do things that you think you can help
01:24to make your team better.
01:25And our guys were really, really over the last month, like, working tirelessly,
01:30like, making calls, inquiring on guys, you know, taking inquiries on our guys.
01:37And really there's calls that were made on our players.
01:40And, you know, I had a lot of – I was on the phone a lot the last few days,
01:44you know, with teams inquiring on our guys.
01:46And same thing with us.
01:48We looked and tried to find guys that could help us really short and long term.
01:53And, you know, we made some efforts.
01:54But ultimately, you know, those guys weren't moved.
01:57And so – but we definitely, in a time when you can make player acquisitions
02:04and make your teams better, we wanted to do that.
02:06But nothing really made sense in the end that was a great value for us.
02:10And then other teams, you know, decided to hold on to their guys.
02:15I think that Brian Thomas Jr. thing, other teams decided to hold on to their guys.
02:20Right.
02:20That could be one of those.
02:21I think it's important to point out that because nothing got to the finish line,
02:31doesn't – like, don't confuse –
02:33Nothing not happening to the people who wasn't driving.
02:36With inaction.
02:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:37Right, like, just the nature of the beast, guys were working the phones.
02:42And that means guys were calling, guys were making calls.
02:46Like, there's no way there wasn't action.
02:51You do wonder –
02:53And you don't do stuff just to do it.
02:55I think – I don't know that people are incorrect that are saying
03:00you should have just traded other people away to get more picks.
03:03Like, I can wrap my brain around that completely.
03:06But that –
03:06The rationale why.
03:08I can see why he's not going to do it.
03:10That mindset, though, you should have just traded other people away.
03:14Who the hell did other people just want?
03:16And what were the other people going to just give you?
03:19That's what you have to understand, too.
03:21I – it amazes me how in this area we talk as if because we want to trade,
03:28everybody's going to be willing to do what we expect them to do.
03:31No, you don't just do it.
03:32You don't want to make no trade and get worse.
03:35And don't put yourself in a great position.
03:37So, no, I don't buy that.
03:40I think don't confuse a lack of results with inaction.
03:45And if you want to knock them for not selling, not getting – like, there is –
03:51what is the finance phrase?
03:55Cut your losses, right?
03:56Like, if you own a stock that is plummeting, eventually you just sell it and cut your losses.
04:01You buy something for $100, even if you can only recoup 40, you still want the 40, right?
04:07If your mindset is Washington should have cut losses and just – even if they're only stockpiling
04:13fifth, sixth, seventh round picks, they should have acquired them.
04:16Because a lot of times what you see later on draft day is you're able to move up in the
04:21second
04:22because you package a third and an extra seventh or something, right?
04:25Like, I can wrap my brain around that.
04:28But I think for Peters, like, there's got to be some reality here where there's probably
04:37real pressure, certainly on Quinn.
04:39I don't think anybody would deny that, especially with these end-of-game scenarios and the weirdness
04:44to which they're losing and tying games.
04:47I don't think Adam Peters is without pressure.
04:50Like, Quinn got asked earlier this week, how often do you talk to Josh Harris?
04:53And he said, well, every Monday after a game we talk, sometimes on Friday, usually game day.
04:58But, like, around the NFL, this is not a commander-specific thing.
05:03The game is generally Sunday.
05:05Let's assume it's a Sunday game.
05:09Generally, around the league, every owner has a standing call at whatever time they deem appropriate.
05:1510 a.m., noon, maybe it depends on the travel schedule.
05:18They want to talk in the middle of practice, you talk.
05:20Right.
05:20But, like, everybody's talking to the owner.
05:23Yeah.
05:24And I cannot imagine.
05:26It's unclear.
05:28I don't think there is anything opaque about the situation.
05:33I think it's transparent.
05:34Everybody's aware Josh Harris is probably quite pissed.
05:38Yeah.
05:38And the bizarre nature of these losses aren't helping.
05:43All that said, for Adam Peters, to trade away, like, what is realistic?
05:50Steph Diggs going somewhere for a seventh?
05:53Chase on for a sixth?
05:56We talked about Kirk and Booker McFarlane, who you and I both like.
06:01And I appreciate his insight.
06:03And he's like, man, if Mike has got to do a one, do a one.
06:06Kirk ends up going for a third.
06:09I mean, that's a quarterback, a starting quarterback, to come in and maybe save a season.
06:14Yeah.
06:15And Vegas wasn't looking.
06:16And they were desperate as hell.
06:17They need something.
06:18Right.
06:19You know, I think there's an inflated sense of what you can recoup in some of these traits.
06:24That's the exact thing.
06:26Like, you know, just because you need something don't mean the other person is willing to work in the way
06:32you want to work.
06:34And sometimes you got to just say no.
06:37Might not benefit you as much.
06:41Certainly.
06:42And I don't know.
06:44Well, over the phones.
06:45800-636-1067.
06:47800-636-1067.
06:50Philly is able to tank.
06:52I mean, that's what they're going to do.
06:54Like, they don't care how many games they win the rest of the way out.
06:57Because they've achieved so much success.
07:00And they have good players.
07:02They are operating.
07:03Just like I said about college football, if you start off and you're ranked in the top 20,
07:10and you're not ranked in the top 20, you can lose some games and still be higher than the person
07:14that doesn't lose any games.
07:16Philly started off higher.
07:19And they're going to seem to be ready or closer to where they need to be than any other team
07:24around.
07:25And look at all the stuff they got in their stockpile.
07:29That's saying a lot.
07:31With what they've done and what they have,
07:36they were smart to do what they're doing.
07:39Because this year, they're bad.
07:42Within the next two years, they're going to be right back where they were before this year.
07:46Agreed.
07:47I mean, Philly is in a different position where trading makes a ton of sense.
07:55There is a part of me, and I think you and I disagree on this,
07:58I wonder how different this would all look if in the NFC East you had a really good team.
08:08If the Giants were 7-1 at this point, or even Philly.
08:15If Philly had the season a lot of people probably expected, at least Vegas did,
08:19and they were 7-2 instead of 2-7.
08:21If there wasn't this hope to cling to of chasing down a bad division,
08:27I wonder how different everything goes yesterday.
08:30But like you said yesterday, these are the facts.
08:33The math is, if Washington can win tomorrow night, they're two games out with 8 to play.
08:37And that's just the reality.
08:40And I don't know.
08:43You know what I thought of driving in this morning,
08:45trying to just put my brain around everything,
08:47and you try to use your experiences and knowledge base
08:52to apply that to current situations, right?
08:57Now granted, it was the first game he owned the team,
09:01and he had owned the team about a month.
09:03Do you remember when we were in Cleveland a few years back for that preseason game?
09:07There was a lightning delay and all that.
09:09And Josh Harris went down and sat with the fans,
09:12and then he was down on the sideline.
09:14And I remember talking to him after in the tunnel,
09:17and he's like, yeah, I know it's preseason, but I want to win every game.
09:21Yeah.
09:22And I think in basketball with the Sixers or even the Devils,
09:26like those 82-game seasons, I think owners take a much broader,
09:29like big-picture appeal.
09:32And certainly he was the owner during the process for the Sixers.
09:37But like if Quinn and Peters can tell him honestly,
09:42dude, we've been in a lot of games.
09:44We've had a lot of terrible losses.
09:45I know we've got to talk about that after the year.
09:47But if we can get hot and go 6-3 down the stretch here,
09:51like I can understand how that sells.
09:55Whether it's realistic with the way they've played
09:57and their inability to play complete games, I don't know.
10:00I don't know that I see a hot streak coming.
10:02But I can wrap my brain around how they wrap their brains around it.
10:07I don't know.
10:07I don't know.
10:07I don't know.
