Winners and losers of the trade deadline

The NFL has become an event-driven league. Long gone are the days when the season was just the season. Now it’s a year-round schedule of things that somehow become major talking points like the draft, the schedule reveal, and the annual “Will Aaron Rodgers finally retire?” stake-out. The latest one is the mid-season trade deadline, where we spend weeks arguing about which teams are going to go all-in on this season, and who needs to give up and settle for draft picks. Like every NFL interaction, we can always pick winners and losers from Tuesday’s trade deadline. Loser: The Cowboys. Dallas did nothing to improve their roster. Winner: Also the Cowboys, because neither did anyone else in that division. The Eagles have sold this season out for draft picks and Washington didn’t improve, but the Giants tried to get a big name running back and whiffed. No offense to Cam Skattebo, of course, the league loves a Gronkowski type who hits things with his head and gets injured a lot.

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