Winners and losers of 2018 NFL trade deadline

Before we reach the NFL "Winners and Losers" deadline, let's take a second to consider that we are all winners here. The decision taken by the NFL a few years ago to roll back the two-week trading deadline has made it a simple nothing to play a fun game.

There are many reasons why we are seeing more transactions in recent years. Teams are more aware of how to take advantage of the compensatory choice formula: swapping mid-course choices for players but later picking up choices in the middle of the round when those same players are not re-signed in as autonomous agents. (In addition, teams are now allowed to exchange compensatory choices, which was not the case a few years ago). Teams at risk of not meeting the 89% cash expenditure threshold prescribed by the 2011 collective agreement may add a salary in the trades to achieve this. And of course, all you hear about the fact that young CEOs are aggressive and forward-looking, yada, yada.

But the most important thing is the decline of the deadline towards the middle of the season. At that point, more teams are able to decide whether or not they are candidates. There are people in the league who would like to see the deadline pushed even further, to give teams even more information about it and unlock even more offers. But for the moment, let's take that.

There may not have been as many business as many thought before Tuesday's deadline, but there were many, and they included big names.

Let's take a look at those who took the lead and stayed a little behind when the smoke dissipated and transactions were concluded at 4 pm. AND.

WINNERS

All teams from NFC East, with the exception of the Giants

Remember that the Cowboys started the process a week ago, exchanging a first-round pick for much-needed receiver assistance in Amari Cooper. The Eagles, who tried to join Cooper but did not give up in the first round, forced Golden Tate away from the Lions on Tuesday for a third-round pick. And we were all ready to rank Washington among the "losers" because they needed the help of the receiver and were not able to get Tate or Demaryius Thomas and the teams that made it are all two in the second period (including the Eagles twice). But as Washington rushed on the deadline and added more security to Ha Ha Clinton-Ten, which would help them at least limit the production of adverse recipients while theirs was healthy. The top two security rankings of Pro Football Focus so far this year are D.J. from Washington. Swearinger and … you guessed it, Clinton-Dix. As for the giants, they are in the other section.

I do not know if the agreement that sent Fowler from the Jaguars to the Rams is a "win" for the Rams because Fowler has not shown himself capable of maintaining consistent production despite his talent. I do not know if it's a "win" for the Jaguars, who are deeply on the defensive line and have not chosen Fowler's 2019 option because they've been frustrated that he does not live up to his project. But I know it's a "win" for Fowler, who moves from a 3-5 year old team to the only undefeated team in the league and has the chance to play alongside Aaron Donald and Ndamukong Suh in his last eight games played before the free match.

The Jaguars have searched but have not traded for a quarter, which means they remain all-in on Bortles. Jacksonville thinks that it will be best for Leonard Fournette to come back healthy in the second half and that the defense will resume its trajectory, which means that they will not have to ask as much for Bortles as & # 039; 39, they have been. Last year, they were convinced that they could be running for the Super Bowl with Bortles at QB. By not adding a QB by the deadline, they doubled that belief.

Bell continues to exert all its weight. He told our Jeremy Fowler a few weeks ago that he did not want to be exchanged. He had control over that. By not signing his franchise offer before the trading deadline, he prevented the Steelers from negotiating it. I do not know if he will come back this week, next week or November 13th – the last day he can report and still be eligible to play this year (that is, the day his indebtedness will be exhausted). However, if one of Bell's goals was to put the NFL team / player control dynamic to the ears of his ears, he seems to devote himself fully to it.

Everyone involved in the Texans-Broncos trade

You must love this trade for the Texans, who needed the help of a receiver after losing Will Fuller after being injured last week. They had a type of experience known as a strong presence in the locker room that will help keep at least some attention from DeAndre Hopkins. That should appeal to Denver, which has recruited two recipients this year (Courtland Sutton and DaeSean Hamilton), knowing that they would not bring back Thomas for $ 14 million in 2019. And this should appeal to Thomas, who is part of a Broncos team. That makes it four games less than the team in first place, which twice beat the Texan team, which has won five straight victories. Everyone wins here.

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Field Yates discloses the Ha Ha Clinton-Dix acquisition by the Washington Redskins from Green Bay Packers.

losers

Northern NFC Parity

It seems to be about to turn into a two-team race between the Vikings and the Bears. The Packers exchanged some key pieces (including Ty Montgomery, an obvious choice for the seventh round of 2020) and the Lions exchanging Tate, who was the target of 27% of Matthew Stafford's passes this season, a week later. acquire Damon Harrison in what watched like a winning shot now. On one side, if Green Bay does not give up on Clinton-Ten and Detroit does not give up on Tate, you can understand why they wanted to be selected for them now. But the Packers are half-fought and the Lions have a lost game. Everyone has made his current composition significantly worse on Tuesday.

Here is what happened in 2018:

• Deadline follow-up: latest offers, reaction
• Golden Tate, one of the best WR in the history of Lions
• Why the agreement of the Eagles for Golden Tate makes sense
• Texans trade of WR Demaryius Thomas needed

While their rivals in the division have all added players to help them try to win the division, the 1-7 Giants have spent Tuesday on the quarterback. Kyle Lauletta follows a strange stoppage of traffic. What further aggravates the problem is that Lauletta was heading to a cabinet where he would have received a considerable number of representatives, since the Giants were giving Eli Manning a day off, and they intended to use that week off for to rest. find ways to play a game in Lauletta in the second half of the lost season. Now who knows if they will be able to watch it? The Giants also stopped their mid-term sales without getting any value for cornerback Janoris Jenkins or safety Landon Collins. This latest decision will look good though they do not lose Collins at liberty after the end of the season, but that is far from certain. This franchise is a total mess.