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"The NFL is an exhausting place if you lean into all rumors," McDaniel explained, per Marcel Louis-Jacques of ESPN. "This is a business of rumors. People are paying attention or buying subscriptions, or watching television, and there's a game once every seven days, or four, I guess, if you count Thursday. I think, ultimately, coaches and players have to adjust to the fishbowl that is the National Football League. I'm sure some guys probably had some thoughts or feelings [about the trade deadline] ... the unknown is the greatest source of stress and anxiety for human beings." "To be honest, you have a team playing a division opponent that we very much are familiar with and are eager to position ourselves to put our best performance out there and compete against these guys," McDaniel continued. "So I think it was a breath of fresh air to have a unilateral focus on an opponent and what we have to do." "It was a normal trade deadline process where you are, contrary to popular belief, you generally talk about a ton," McDaniel added. "...There's conversations all over the place with every team because everyone's trying to get better and seeing what competitive advantage they can get."
