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The NFL was busy yesterday with the trade deadline happening at 4pm. Lots of trades went down, including Kirk Cousins headed back to Minnesota.
Kevin Sheehan gives his perspective to the moves from yesterday and also reacts to Adam Peters' comments on the Commanders approach with The Sports Junkies from Wednesday morning.
Kevin Sheehan gives his perspective to the moves from yesterday and also reacts to Adam Peters' comments on the Commanders approach with The Sports Junkies from Wednesday morning.
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00:01was there a was a was there a lateral option on that play or was chig just supposed to break
00:06like
00:07100 tackles yeah i think i mean there's a couple things on that um but i think you know the
00:14bottom
00:14line is the ball needs to go in the end zone there and um you know at that point when
00:19chig
00:19does get that and he did a nice job breaking tackles and trying to make a play of it then
00:24at that point you have to make it you have to lateral the ball and try to get it in
00:27the end
00:27zone but really uh in essence you gotta get the ball in the end zone right on that last but
00:32it
00:32wasn't designed was it's a lateral to jayden daniels was it designed to lateral at all
00:39i don't want to get into the specifics of the play but i think i think you guys know that
00:43you know
00:44on the last couple plays we got to get in the end zone there to have a chance yeah you
00:49know when
00:49you're down seven uh and there are three seconds left the ball actually has to go into the end zone
00:55at some point or you're going to lose the game uh the general manager somebody texted me and i just
01:02asked max to pull that cut somebody texted me and said uh your general manager sounded upset about the
01:10last play see these are the things winning on the margins where once the front office and ownership
01:18lose confidence in those that are in the arena on game day handling these things it's really hard
01:26to fix that uh especially if you end up with a second consecutive losing season good morning
01:34everybody wow the trade deadline yesterday produced a stunner not really a stunner because i think a lot
01:41of us that have followed you know certainly kirk cousins career and kirk cousins season this year
01:48knew that minnesota and kirk would be a great fit like it could be the piece that's missing the irony
01:58of it is
01:59that when they signed him to that first ever fully guaranteed contract in 2018 they had been in the nfc
02:07championship game led by the defense the year before case keenum was actually the quarterback
02:13and they lost to the eagles in convincing fashion uh in that nfc championship game but they
02:18signed him as if he were the last piece between what they were the previous year and what they thought
02:26they could do which was win a super bowl if they had better quarterback play and he's back
02:31eight years later different circumstances because it's midway through the season and it was a trade
02:38and it's a much lesser contract but they view him as the piece that is missing right now between
02:45the team they have and a potential championship watching them the rest of the way will be very
02:51interesting adam peters by the way on the junkies this morning also weighed in on the trade deadline
02:59and sort of explained what they were thinking uh and well you know what they
03:05not specifically what they tried to do but you'll hear what he said the net of it is they didn't
03:11do
03:11anything uh yesterday which was really kind of the easy prediction i know that i have felt that way for
03:17a week uh or two weeks heading into this thing and it wasn't out on a limb by any stretch
03:23it was
03:23definitely the higher probability that this team believes that it is one win away from springboarding
03:32into a much better second half of the season one that could keep them in contention and potentially
03:38land them a division title and a home playoff game uh and that's why they weren't going to sell if
03:47the
03:47trade deadline had been post giants game on thursday following a loss or if they had lost to
03:53the eagles last sunday night it would have been a different circumstance but that's the feeling in
03:59the building and look you know every nfl team until they're mathematically eliminated you know especially
04:06if they have a couple of things going for them and right now i whether you believe it's delusional or
04:12not inside that building they believe their defense is decent and getting better they believe
04:19that they do have a young offensive coordinator and he'll continue to get better and they've got
04:25a high level quarterback uh so they feel like they have those pieces and then uh surrounding that is the
04:33context of bad division with a chance to win the season tiebreaker against the division leader
04:40tomorrow night um that's what they think uh and look i i this is the nfl anything can happen
04:49it's week to week teams that look a certain way in september and october can look completely different
04:57late november and in december it happens every single season where teams are counted out with bad records
05:05and then all of a sudden they find themselves hosting a playoff game in january you know
05:10see carolina last year see last year not that they were hosting a playoff game but see houston last
05:17year after an oh and four start not necessarily comparing our team to houston and the defense that
05:22they had but every year it happens um and this year it will happen somebody right now even halfway
05:30through the season somebody that you don't expect to be in the postseason is probably going to get
05:37there i mean i was looking at the standings before the show to kind of pick out some of the
05:41teams the
05:42easiest would be to just point to the nfc south and say that any one of those four teams could
05:47end up
05:47being the nfc south champion like the bucks and the falcons are three and six but they're a game back
05:53of first place so they could easily be a division champion and in tampa's case they started the season
06:01oh and four and were completely counted out you look into um uh the the division like the afc south
06:10where houston is three and five right now would anybody be shocked if they went on a run ended up
06:15ten and seven and snagged the seven seed or the six seed or potentially even contended for the division
06:22um so these are the things that you know right now they don't look great for a lot of teams
06:27and usually we still end up with you know before the season starts we always end up with surprises
06:33you know this year the surprises certainly would be uh you know a team like the chicago bears being
06:40as great as they are a team like the giants for sure not a lot of people had them um
06:46you know
06:47pittsburgh being atop the afc north not a lot of people had pittsburgh being in this position
06:51with a 43 year old or a 42 year old uh quarterback so but even halfway through the season we
06:58can end up
06:58with surprises and that's what these buildings know these buildings understand what this league is
07:04and how dynamic it is and how you know it's always changing everything's changing all the time and
07:12washington's front office coaching staff and locker room believes it can change it probably believes
07:19it's not that far away from some sort of run of course tomorrow night would snuff all of that out
07:27if they were to lose the game tomorrow night is the absolute you know stay alive game and they were
07:34in
07:35one of those against the eagles at home uh last week on sunday night football the eagles are a lesser
07:42team than the giants uh and that game was at home not on the road uh real quickly too uh
07:48i don't think
07:49i've mentioned this uh about the game tomorrow night weather is going to be a factor in east
07:55rutherford uh there's a storm you know and sort of an east coast storm and rain is going to be
08:00um a a big issue tomorrow night with the game uh it is supposed to start sometime mid-afternoon and
08:07rain
08:08throughout the game uh tomorrow night so the field the conditions potential wind um not a lot
08:17of wind but perhaps a lot of rain leading into the game and during the game uh so keep an
08:26eye on that
08:27as a possibility for tomorrow night um all right uh i did want to play some of the adam peters
08:34sound
08:34from the junkies right here to open up the show and i wanted you uh max to play what he
08:40said about the
08:42trade deadline and what their plans were of course he can't get into specifics but i thought it was an
08:48interesting part of the conversation um in which you kind of laid it out for me so i want to
08:53hear it
08:53go ahead and play it all right uh i think have we asked the the end of game questions that
08:59we have
08:59you have any yeah it might pop up in my head again let's see let's get to the deadline we'd
09:04ask you
09:05leading up to it i'm not surprised you didn't make a move it seemed like you were kind of insinuating
09:09that yes of course you guys take calls you take calls all the time and the calls had been accelerating
09:13over the last few weeks but i just got the sense from your answers i just didn't anticipate you
09:19necessarily making a move to be honest with you certainly not a major move were you guys close to
09:26anything were you out there seeking to make a move yeah i think you're always looking to do things that
09:33you think you can help to to make your team better and our guys were really really over the last
09:38month
09:38like working tirelessly like making calls inquiring on guys you know taking inquiries on our guys and
09:47um really there's there's calls that were made on our players and and you know i had a lot of
09:52i was
09:52on the phone a lot the last few days um you know with with teams inquiring on our guys and
09:57and same
09:58thing with us we we looked and tried to find guys that could help us really short and long term
10:03and
10:03you know we made some efforts but ultimately you know those guys weren't moved so um but we definitely
10:10in a time when you can make make player acquisitions and make your teams better we wanted to do that
10:16and
10:17and but nothing really made sense in the end that was a great value for us or and then other
10:22teams you
10:22know decided to hold on to their guys i mean it sounds like both things were explored buying and
10:29selling in that mode by the way this is the second time i'm just going to share a little bit
10:34of inside
10:35second time that i mentioned that the philadelphia game was kind of a you know a moment a pivot point
10:42moment for the front office and this is the second time i've been texted by somebody that i would just
10:48say is in the know that said the philadelphia game was not a make or break game for adam peters
10:54and
10:54his decision process i have a hard time believing that um that if they were sitting here at at this
11:03point one six and one uh through through eight games i have a hard time believing that they wouldn't
11:10have been really pushing uh to sell some of their expiring contracts at the very least look it is
11:16possible it is possible that they didn't necessarily feel like anything that they could move would
11:24bring back something that made sense from a compensation standpoint because there's a lot of
11:29things to weigh right there are things like hey this is a player that really likes it here if we
11:35trade
11:35him with an expiring contract it is possible we could re-sign him in free agency and bring him back
11:42with you know a fifth rounder or a conditional sixth rounder or whatever but it's also possible that the
11:48player just doesn't want to be moved and we really want to keep him here or if we end up
11:53spending less
11:55than what we lose in aggregate contract value in free agency the compensatory pick could be equal to
12:03or larger than what we would get back uh with a trade deadline deal so this is an area that
12:10we know
12:11the least about i mean most things when it comes to the operations of these teams we know very little
12:18about we can handle the hey you probably should have clocked it or thrown it out of bounds or not
12:26run a play against the giants and kicked a field goal to potentially win the game that that stuff we
12:31can handle hey on the last play of the game maybe don't check it down to chig if you're going
12:36to check
12:36it down maybe have a some organization a play called or throw it into the end zone for crying
12:41out loud we get that part but in terms of all of the trade deadline stuff and what they actually
12:47could have done versus what they could get back in the form of compensatory compensation etc
12:53it's it's we're guessing we're guessing so for those that are i'm really pissed that they weren't
13:02sellers that they weren't aggressive sellers like the eagles were at the trade deadline you don't know
13:09what those offers were and it's very possible that some of those offers are less than what you would
13:16get down the road in the form of a compensatory pick or somehow would affect the ability for that
13:23player to come back next year if they really wanted that player but i think the key environment
13:30despite some pushback from people uh towards me in the nose saying the philadelphia game was not
13:38necessarily the linchpin for peters's decision making i just have a hard time believing that
13:43i just one six and one is season over going into the trade deadline all right one six and one
13:52is season
13:53over now if if they want to say well if losing to philadelphia but if we had beaten the rams
13:58well they
13:58didn't beat the rams and they weren't supposed to beat the rams even though the game was somewhat
14:04winnable um i i think that that the giant game obviously comes two days too late but that's the
14:11way the schedule breaks and there is a belief in that building and look i don't i don't begrudge nfl
14:17teams for thinking this way i don't want them to think any other way i want the gm to think
14:23other ways
14:23but for the coaches and the players i want them to think like hey we got more than half of
14:28our season
14:28left we have nine games left each one of these weeks they really are their own entity and anything
14:36can happen see the seattle game for us you know uh and we are going to take them one at
14:43a time and
14:44we're going to try to get it done tomorrow night though is obviously the key i think overall now that
14:49we know the team they have moving forward that they weren't a seller that they're not bailing on
14:54this season uh with nine games left they have to win seven of them nine seven and one and one
15:01of those
15:02seven has to be obviously tomorrow night if they can win seven of those nine they will likely be the
15:09division champion six of those nine they're probably in the hunt maybe uh but dallas then at you know
15:17eight if it nine and eight would win the division over eight eight and one so there you go uh
15:24will
15:25you hit the what do you got sounder for me max
15:33so um somebody told me this yesterday and i'm forgetting who it may have been ben may have been
15:40ben who told me this remember jacob martin from our team last year outside edge pass rusher
15:48super try hard dude um you know had been in the league for a while and then washington signed him
15:56to a one-year free agency deal in 2025 with really the idea that he would be primarily a special
16:02team's contributor uh and he had never really had big impact as a pass rusher his best year prior to
16:12last year was four sacks he had done that in houston all the way back in 2021 i mean jacob
16:18martin
16:18was 30 years old he's been in the league since 2018 and yet last year he was you know along
16:25with
16:25dorance armstrong um he was one of the best players defensively on the team on a very bad defense
16:32understood steve suitor i remember after about the second or third uh film breakdown he had done
16:39of washington's team last year he said to me number one jeremy reeves should be on the field more than
16:45any other safety he's your best safety on the team i think any other team any other coaching staff
16:50would start him and of course he ends up being a starter with a new defensive coordinator and he
16:56said you got to keep jacob martin he'll get a contract he just he's way too high energy great
17:03effort and you know the ability to pass rush the passer he's going to get a contract he was right
17:09about those things he also said allegretti right from the beginning is a backup um but anyway uh jacob
17:15martin because i have a feeling most of you aren't paying attention to this jacob martin leads the
17:23tennessee titans in sacks with six and a half in eight games he is 10th in the league in sacks
17:32right
17:32now six and a half sacks is good for 10th in the league jacob martin it wouldn't have taken much
17:43to keep him now they went out and got caleb on chase on they went out and got and spent
17:49the fourth
17:50most on any player in free agency adafe away some of you forget that adafe away was the fourth biggest
17:56aggregate deal in free agency um but caleb on chase on and adafe away are nowhere near where jacob martin
18:05is right now 10th in the league in sacks with six and a half and i'll mention that he's only
18:12played
18:12eight games some of the league has played nine games uh the leader in sacks right now is will
18:21anderson jr houston with nine and a half second in the league or tied for second in the league
18:27chase young with greg rousseau from buffalo so for uh two former uh washington players jacob martin
18:36and chase young are in the top 10 in sacks in the nfl good for him he was truly a
18:45try hard player
18:47uh and he got a contract it wasn't a massive contract but there was a market for him and there
18:55will be an even bigger market for him although he is getting older but he proved last year that he
19:00could
19:00really rush the passer he ended up with five and a half sacks for us and now he's got six
19:04and a half
19:05not even halfway through the season looking like a guy that will end up with double digit sacks
19:12jacob martin all right uh i'm gonna go through all of the trade deadline moves and talk um a little
19:20bit
19:20in length about the kirk cousins deal from vegas to minnesota kevin chancho the team 980 and theteam980.com
19:29you