2 Trades, One Grand NFL Plan & More

Holy sh**!

Forgive my French, but wow. Myles Garrett, the man who just set the NFL record for most sacks in a single season with 23, has been traded from the Cleveland Browns to the Los Angeles Rams. 

I can confidently say I can count on one finger the number of times the best player in any of the four major U.S. sports has been traded in my 24 years of life. This kind of thing just does not happen, but on Monday, it did. 

From massive trades to scheduling news, we’ve got you covered in the latest edition of the Huddle Overtime!

It has been over 48 hours, and I’m still in shock.

This entire offseason, everyone’s been speculating as to whether or not the Browns would actually trade Myles Garrett, but I don’t think anyone thought Andrew Berry had the cajones to actually do it.

There will be a lot of people slandering the Browns online, but I don’t think it was a horrible move. They’re not in win-now mode, and in return for the best player in the league, they got one of the best young edge rushers in the league, a first-round pick, a second-round pick, and a third-round pick. That’s a massive haul, and one that’ll help their rebuilding process.

As for the Rams, they are all in on winning a Super Bowl (or two) before Matthew Stafford retires. They were already a couple of plays away from making the Super Bowl last year, and what did they do? Add two All-Pro defenders to the mix.

Les Snead and Sean McVay have assembled one of the best rosters in NFL history. Now, the pressure’s on.

We haven’t had a ton of time to marinate on it yet, but this might be the biggest NFL trade of my lifetime. And if it’s not, it’s certainly the biggest one involving a defensive player. I’m a huge Micah Parsons fan, but that trade doesn’t even come close to the magnitude of this deal.

Myles Garrett wasn’t the only superstar player traded on Monday. Former Tennessee Titans and Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown was dealt to the New England Patriots in a trade that we’ve all seen coming for a while.

On paper, this is a pretty even trade. The Patriots get the true No. 1 receiver they desperately needed, while Philly gets rid of a locker room cancer and picks up a first-round pick in a couple of years.

Daniel Rios broke down his trade grades for both sides.

On paper, the Rams have the best roster in the NFL. Matthew Stafford, Puka Nacua, Trent McDuffie, and now Myles Garrett highlight a roster filled to the brim with All-Pros. The question has to be asked….

It feels like ever since the NFL expanded to a 17-game schedule in 2021, everyone has been talking about the possibility of an 18-game schedule.

It took 43 years for the NFL to go from 16 to 17 games, but it might only take six years for the league to move from 17 to 18 games.

That’s right. Nothing is official, but the door is still open for Roger Goodell & the NFL to implement an 18-game schedule as soon as 2027.

Team owners have met twice this year, and they still haven’t nailed down a date for Super Bowl LXII. The obvious date for the Super Bowl on a 17-game schedule would be February 13th, 2028, but if they can get the 18-game schedule approved in time, that date could get pushed back a week or two.

So what would an 18-game schedule look like? The honest answer is, we don’t really know…

Would they eliminate another preseason game, like they did when they added the 17th game? Would they move the start of the season up a week to compensate for the extra game and likely put the Super Bowl on a holiday weekend? 

There are a lot of questions about what the 18-game schedule could look like, but it does feel like one thing is for certain: if the league gets an 18th game, the players are going to get a second bye week. 

I took a deep dive into what an 18-game schedule could look like and when we could see it implemented.

The NFL is the pinnacle of American football. The absolute best players in the world make up the 32 teams, and there is no argument that any other league has anywhere close to the same talent level.

But with parity in the NFL at an all-time high right now, there are a ton—and I mean A TON—of great matchups on this year’s schedule.

From Texans vs. Bills in Week 1 to Rams vs. Seahawks in Week 18, I identified the best game from every single week, so you know which games to tune into this year.

While I looked at the schedule glass-half-full, Daniel took a glass-half-empty approach. 

Even when you have a league full of the best players in the world, it’s not always going to be a fair fight. There are always going to be a handful of teams that just aren’t good, which can result in quite a few ugly matchups. Daniel went through the full 272-game NFL schedule and identified the seven worst games of the upcoming season.

Buckle up. It is going to be absolute chaos in the coming months…

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