The MLB trading deadline on July 31st of every season is typically a festival of familiar faces going to new places, the media on standby waiting to be first to report comings and goings and phones in every GM’s office ringing like ear drums after a 1988 Guns ‘n Roses concert. The NFL trading deadline usually is more reminiscent of my teenage rotary phone on a Saturday night in that very same year...it barely rang.
That was then, this is now and the now may be uncharacteristically more like baseball and less like the norm that has featured a smattering of swaps over the years.