The two teams that made the biggest deal of the day are in different situations than we may have expected before the season. Plus, the Steelers finally strike and more in Albert Breer’s Tuesday notes.
My Tuesday notes were a bit delayed this week, waiting for the trade deadline to pass. Now that it has …, is really a mark of two teams pivoting and changing direction at midseason. Two months ago, New Orleans would have been the far more likely of the two to be buyers at the deadline, with a veteran roster and a staff coaching for its survival. Washington, conversely, was there with a first-year staff and what felt like a significant rebuild ahead.
Is Lattimore the same guy he was earlier in his career? Talking to execs who’ve watched him, the answer is no—he’s still good, but not what he was a year or two ago. Although one mentioned to me that he hasn’t looked as engaged this year, so it might simply be a matter of turning up his effort, which Lattimore presumably can do for his new team.
Either way, it’s done now, and highly regarded special teams coach Darren Rizzi will get a half-season audition. And though Rizzi’s now in his sixth season in New Orleans, having spent three under Sean Payton and the past two and a half under Allen, there will be change. Veteran assistant Joe Woods will take over as defensive play-caller with Allen gone, and there will be other changes at Rizzi’s direction.
• Pittsburgh Steelers GM Omar Khan has been more aggressive with trade discussions in general this year, negotiating with the San Francisco 49ers on Brandon Aiyuk to the very end, and engaging with the Las Vegas Raiders on Davante Adams . On Tuesday, finally, the Steelers broke through a bit, adding Mike Williams from the Jets and LB Preston Smith from the Green Bay Packers.
• That brings us to the Tre’Davious White trade. The return on that one was probably the most miniscule I’ve ever seen. The Baltimore Ravens traded a 2026 seventh-rounder to the Los Angeles Rams for White and a ’27 seventh-rounder. You can’t trade picks more than three years out, so this was, for the Rams, moving a pick from the last round of the most far-off draft possible up a year. And that kind of stinks, just because it’s an example of how injuries impacted White.
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