Andrew Brandt

Yeah, happy to be with you.

It's always a busy time, this time of year.

You know, for people in the business of sports, whether it's agents, whether it's team executives, now on the college side, which I'm doing for negotiating player contracts, the busy time of year is when there are no games.

So it's counterintuitive to coaches and players, but this is where it all happens, where front offices in the NFL, massage, architect, mold their teams for 26, and it's the busiest week of the year for them.

Well, there's agreed-upon trade parameters.

They go through it.

I mean, I'm sure the Raiders were talking to a bunch of different teams, and they got the best offer from the Ravens.

But any trade—and this is something that so many people don't truly understand—

Any trade is contingent on a physical, and every physical is subjective.

There's no standard NFL physical.

There's no physical that, say, the Raiders do, and everybody has to abide by it.

So every team does its own physical, and this has happened many times.

Maybe not so much a trade of this magnitude, but players are signed.

They think in free agency, go take a physical, and it's not a pass.

We saw this in the NBA last year when the Hornets traded Mark Williams to the Lakers.

Lakers sent him back.

So it happens.

So the Baltimore physical was a fail.

And that's kind of the end of story.

And then all the media attention on what really happened or they get cold feet.