Green bay isn’t in same ball park as the Rams though.
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Rams probably would have won the SB had they beat Seattle. And even though they lost to Seattle they were still arguably the best team. Had the Rams not made any moves at all they still would have been contenders. Then they add McDuffie and Watson at CB. They had a good defense then it’s like damn their defense is better now they’re the favorites to win the SB again. Now they get Garrett. Da fak?
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Add their weakness was the DB. Garrett just made their jobs easier.
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GB isn’t the Rams, and Micah isn’t Myles.
And STILL it was said that Micah would put GB over the top.
The center of gravity for the entire NFL has shifted, IMO.
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I get your point, but I don’t think the salary cap is why these trades are being made.
Cleveland is rebuilding just like when we traded them Stafford they are trying to get the assets
Philly is going a different route offensively and AJ Brown has become a problem and distraction. Giving them to McDaniels where he can force-feed him is a win-win for everybody.
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Tomorrow is gonna be like Rams trade Kyren Williams and a 1st round pick for Bijan Robinson
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I would imagine this was part of the thought process.
Stafford’s back is a hit away from putting him on the sideline. Not wishing it on him at all, but it’s a fact.
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Stafford has been1 hit away since 2019
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And before that.
But the odds get longer for him every season. He’s a warrior, but back issues tend to be chronic.
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Only one 1st round pick. Damn
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Sounds about right. Only time will tell if it was worth it.
I’m really curious what that “etc.” turns out to be.
The Rams’ 1st next year will be a very low one and Jared Verse is a nice young player, maybe he’ll be great. But, right now, he has 12 sacks in 34 games played. Sacks aren’t everything, blah blah blah - a low-first, that not-so-overwhelming production, and $millions saved in MG’s salary - that’s DIRT-cheap for a guy with 83 sacks in the last 5 years. 31 y.o. - yes, but also never injured.
EDIT: The #Browns are trading Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett to the #Rams for star edge Jared Verse, a 2027 1st-round, a 2028 2nd round, and a 2029 3rd, per me,
The Browns got jobbed. Even w/the money, that is NOT a good haul for the best player in the game.
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I am starting to think the Rams just hate those Rookie talent shows during training camp, so they just get rid of all their picks to they don’t have to see them.
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Which means they got more trades coming!
Tomorrow, Rams trade 1st round pick and Tutu Atwell for Ja’Marr Chase
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If they didn’t get rid of AJ Brown, they would have had to have gotten rid of someone else. They are close to maxed out.
Yes, Cleveland is rebuilding now, but it’s because of what they have done with their salary cap. Before the Garrett trade, they had borrowed $308M from future years (probably 2nd to Philly) to field the current 2026 roster in which they have no QB and a sub par team. Because of the cap, it’s not sustainable.
Philly is in a much worst situation, they have borrowed more than $400M from future years to field the current roster. Just in 2025, they let good players walk because they couldn’t afford to pay them Mekhi Becton, DE Josh Sweat, DT Milton Williams plus they signed Bryce Huff to a big contract in 2024 and traded him in 2025. What Philly is doing is not sustainable unless they let good players walk and they do that.
On the Rams side, they used to be one of the teams that had borrowed the most from future years to field the current team, but after Donald, Kupp, Whitworth, Ramsey (off the top of my head), they have reset the cap and have currently borrowed a small amount from future years to field the current team ($48M).
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They have $25M, Garrett should cost them $9M (depending on if there is any cash) less $4M due to Verse, so they’ll still have $20M, but they have the flexibility to restructure and create more cap space.
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Which means, tomorrow Rams trade Byron Young and a 1st round pick for Will Anderson Jr
When you draft well, it gives you the flexibility to do stuff like that (see Les Snead, Howie Roseman). When you don’t draft well and you do that, you enter cap hell (see Andrew Berry and Mickey Loomis, Chicago Bears pre BJ)
Who knows what the Wheel of Fortune will bring, but they sure rode that through the eye of a needle to the Super Bowl the last time they leveraged the future like this. In January, I might get to haul out my Dr Phil’s How’s that working out for you. And I might not.