How Lane Johnson’s Retirement Will Affect the Eagles and More Questions for Week 5

PelisseroThink about this. If the Bucs lose that game to the Cowboys, we can talk more about that game later. But if they lose to the Cowboys on Thursday night, they're 0 -5. And everyone's going to go. Is Todd Bowles going to get fired? What kind of big changes? Sell everybody.

PelisseroThey haven't played a division game yet. and they are still right now only two games back of the division lead. They literally can make up the two games against every team in their division. I think week seven, they play the Panthers. I think that that's the first division game they have on the slate.

PelisseroSo you haven't even played your own division, which right now nobody exactly is running away with, even though the Panthers and the Falcons are coming off of good performances. That's why it's so hard, man. Nobody wants to go sell mode really early in the season. I mean, even in Major League Baseball, I know you cover that closely.

PelisseroLike you kind of get to July before the full on, let's sell everybody in the NFL. You only have so many games. I think we're a few weeks away from like a lot of deals actually happening, but those conversations absolutely ramp up soon. I think it's

Kapadiathe playoff expansion in all this force where it's easier to convince yourself that you can stay in it. We sneak in, we get hot. Baker Mayfield gets healthy. We're still a talented roster. So I understand that you work all season for the games and for the season. And so it's hard to play like, you know, For me, it's easy to be like, oh, they suck.

KapadiaThey're 0 -4. They should just trade everybody and get rid of all these guys, get draft picks. If you're in the building and this is your livelihood, you kind of want to hang in until you can't. And then you figure out, all right, let's have a realistic look at where we're at. And then as you know, there's all the other interpersonal dynamics of a, does a GM want to save their job?

KapadiaDoes a coach want to save their job? Do they have stability? Do they have ownership support where they can say, okay, we can trade these guys. and even if we lose more games the second half of the season, it's okay because we have a long -term vision. So now all those things come into play.