REDDING-FOR-PETERSON DEAL DONE

According to FOXSports.com, via Tom Kowalski of Mlive.com, the deal that will send defensive tackle Cory Redding from Detroit to Seattle for linebacker Julian Peterson is done. Though we’d previously heard that the Seahawks would be sending a draft pick to the Lions, as it turns out the Lions are sending a fifth-rounder to the Seahawks. As Kowalski pointed out earlier today, the trade could take the Lions out of the running for linebacker Aaron Curry with the first overall pick, unless they plan to use him or Peterson or Ernie Sims in the middle. UPDATE: A reader in Seattle says that ESPN’s John Clayton, who hosts a Saturday radio show on KJR, was asked by a caller about the report of the Redding-Peterson trade before it was reported by FOX to be a done deal. Per the reader, Clayton declared it’s the first he had heard of it and that he can’t imagine the report to be true. On the bright side, his dog’s ass is clean as a whistle. (Or as clean as a dog’s ass ever gets.) SECOND UPDATE: For those of you who didn’t get the reference to the dog’s ass being clean, it’s part of a running joke we hatched earlier today regarding the things that might appear on a weekend to-do list as created by the real head of the household -- the wife.