Welcome back to Scoop City! James Palmer and The Athletic\u2019s senior NFL insider Dianna Russini are breaking down the midseason stretch of the NFL heading into Week 9 \u2014 including which teams are surging, who\u2019s slipping, and what\u2019s still to come at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n
As the NFL trade deadline nears, Palmer and Russini dive into the biggest questions around the league, including why big-name players like A.J. Brown and Chris Olave aren’t likely to move, which front offices are actually taking calls, and how Week 9 results could change a team’s outlook.<\/p>\n
James and Dianna also take a closer look at the Vikings’ quarterback situation with J.J. McCarthy returning under center this week against the Lions. What does Carson Wentz\u2019s season-ending surgery mean for McCarthy and Minnesota’s chances of making the playoffs?<\/p>\n
Then, it\u2019s time for some Scoop Superlatives: their midseason awards, high-school yearbook style. From “Most Unexpected Glow-Up” and “Best Couple” to “Most Popular,” James and Dianna dole out their picks at the season’s halfway mark.<\/p>\n
Episode published Oct. 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to Scoop City! James Palmer and The Athletic\u2019s senior NFL insider Dianna Russini are breaking down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-257679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}