There's a great scene in the criminally underrated 2001 film Joe Dirt when the titular character meets a man in the desert selling fireworks. Dirt, quite naturally, is looking for things that go "boom" like Roman candles, but he is told that at this fireworks stand, all that's for sale are snakes and sparklers.

That could be today's 2025 NFL trade deadline .

We've warned you for weeks that things may not go boom ahead of the 4 p.m. ET deadline. There are more buyers than sellers, even after the NFL pushed the trade deadline back a week in part to create more of a boom like its baseball and basketball rivals.

There aren't that many sellers. Teams who should be sellers aren't. The big positions of need are also the big money positions: offensive tackle, pass rusher and wide receiver. I

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