Free agency’s not actually over; it just feels that way. On to this week’s MAQB …
• In this morning’s column, we highlighted Matthew Stafford’s entrance in L.A. But just as interesting, I thought, was his departure from Detroit—and just how much thought and consternation went into the early January trade request that he logged with Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp and president Rod Wood. “It was tough,” Stafford told me Friday.