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Offseason Brainworms
One of my favorite offseason things is how desperate football fans start grabbing at morsels of news like they have been trapped in a desert and just found a delicious bug to eat. Not even an oasis, just a bug with some nutrients. My favorite way this manifests is with extremely minor “nothing” trades. Some dude gets traded for a bag of chips and the fans start salivating about how they might be able to unlock him.
Most of the time, these posts are jokes. People understand these trades are for camp bodies, or like buying a penny scratch-off in the off-chance you score. When it starts being funny is when one of the teams involved is actually good, and the fanbase is huffing the Kool-Aid. Howie Roseman is one of the best GMs in the league, possibly the best. He’s earned that reputation fairly. But if the Eagles do anything, you’ll see a small subsect of people praising the man as if he’s god and just uncorked another plague upon the heathens of the rest of the league. This was a common sentiment with Bill Belichick during the golden era too. Bill didn’t hit on all these guys. Just some. The vast majority of these nothing trades amount to exactly that.
This is all harmless but I’ll always find it funny when you get a bunch of overly passionate fans arguing about nobodies in the comments section of a trade announcement they will forget happened in 6 hours.
Okay, sure, yeah, but let me write a six paragraph essay about how Seattle’s trade for Irv Charles (conditional 2028 7th round pick) means they’re going to repeat as super bowl champions!
Fine, but like, DUDE. Have you heard the Giants might trade Kayvon?!?!? Some random dude on the 9ers subreddit put together a trade proposal, and it basically involves the Giants giving the 9ers $4m, Kayvon, and in return they get… 25 cents. Wow, like that is a SERIOUSLY GOOD DEAL. And I can’t wait for the major news outlets to be so desperate for content that they report on this as if it’s a serious thing the Giants are considering!
And the hilarity when that player has one above average/good game in the middle of the season that justifies the trade before disappearing forever.
Every little detail is gone over with a fine toothed comb only to have the starting qb get injured in the first game of the season.
It’s funny how Howie was seen as a pretty decent problem when Doug got fired and now is seen as one of the best GMs right now. Funny how that works out.
Sometimes, the coach really is the problem