Winners and losers of trade Dead Line

How do you know? How in da hell could anybody know? Im sure there were other offers on the table

You look at any national article about any of the trades and correct the narratives yourself.

Bears are the only ones who can negotiate with Sweat until they tag him and they are STILL the only ones can (practically speaking) negotiate with Sweat. His production (which they are now guaranteed to have) is greater than the potential of the 2nd round pick. People need to stop overvaluing the potential that a draft pick represents. If they don't extend him (which will be cheaper than the bidding war at the start of next season--but shhhhh we won't mention that) then yes, Poles deserves to be canned. But (and no one is saying this) Sweat is a piece you can build on or at worst not have to worry about obtaining.

I don't think national media actually know anything about football to be truthful, they post knee jerk reactions that drive clicks. (I clicked on the articles, so it works!) Just look at the number of writers celebrating the Vikings trading for Dobbs as their QB while admitting he won't even play this week and most likely not even next week. Vikings didn't save their season, they doomed themselves with their start and would haven been better off trading more of their vet pieces away once Cousins went down. Packers did the right thing, they should have dumped more vets and collected picks. Lions added a low risk WR, well done by them. Washington is going to fire Rivera and retool, they also did the right thing. (Now we'll have to hear post after post about hire Rivera--link to the successful years!!!)

The author who wrote this likely lives in his aunt's basement.  This is ridiculous.

First of all, other teams reportedly made offers for Sweat--Atlanta at minimum.  Secondly, how do you know he wouldn't be extended by Washington?  And if he did hit FA, he was gonna get a massive deal (he's having a career year) and would have multiple teams to chose from.

It's not nearly as simple as this guy makes it seem.

Would I have liked to give away a 3rd instead of a 2nd?  Sure
But pass rushers are HARD TO FIND.  Way harder than even WRs.  That's why Carolina was willing to part with DJ Moore last offseason but not Brian Burns.  Supply and demand is real.

Finally, Dane Brugler was on H&J this week and confirmed what I have already been reading -- this years draft class at edge isn't strong.  So you weren't gonna get a guy in the 2nd anywhere near the caliber of Sweat and that's even if that draft pick worked out which most don't.  

PS:
Oh and one more thing:  if Fields plays well enough last 8 games to enact the 5th year option and reload for next season, then you still have 2 high FRPs to work with.  If they decide to move on from Fields, you should be able to recoup that 2nd by trading him.  Dobbs brought a 5th and Lance brought a 4th so don't tell me Fields wont be worth at least a 3rd -- QBs have inflated value because of obvious reasons.

That's the key right there. Maybe they have a behind the scenes contract agreement they are going to sign. If they don't then Sweat has some real leverage over the Bears after 9 games. He is no longer under contract at that point and the Bears will have spent a (very high) 2nd round draft pick for 9-games out of this guy. They could franchise tag him to temporarily get more out of him. But if they want to keep him here then the Bears have given Sweat some real contract leverage over them.