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Trade deadline usually results in lack of action

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Friday, October 11, 2002

That noise you hear in the background is the clock tick-tick-ticking toward the NFL trading deadline, which arrives at 4 p.m. next Tuesday, and which again figures to produce the level of excitement commensurate to that of the Cincinnati Bengals offense. This is not to be confused, for certain, with the incessant countdown of the famed 60 Minutes stopwatch every Sunday night. There is no sense of urgency, phone lines aren't burning up leaguewide, and once again old-fashioned wheelin' and dealin ...

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