Yes, actually, they had been asked about Bradford and his future with the Rams before that trade. Remember he was coming off of two seasons of torn ACLs. Both Fisher and Snead assured everybody that Bradford was our QB going forward pretty much until the time he got traded (and I still remember how salty Jim Thomas of the Post Dispatch was about being lied to by them).
I think what they are doing now - publicly giving Goff a vote of no confidence - is much worse. I weakens their negotiating position if they want to trade him and poisons the well with him if somehow they can't and have to keep him for another season. It would have been much smarter to keep the negative comments behind closed doors and publicly state confidence in him even if they were planning on trading him.
How do we know that this is toxic and Snead hasn't been totally forthright with Goff?
"Listen, so you and your agent know, we're looking at moving on, so you may be traded. If you're not traded, we'll expect you to compete just like anyone else. We can keep this quiet if you'd like or we can go public and maybe help you find a better landing place if that's possible?"
Goff doesn't like the public sphere very much so he just sits quiet until he knows more.
I dunno. It may turn out that the Rams are just not playing this one with class.
That seems totally out of character to me, but we won't know for some time, if ever.
Honestly, outside of Ram fandom, NO ONE even considers the Rams an option so when it's announced, it's gonna be a SHOCKER.
What's funny is that based on what we know, it's moved from "that's crazy" to "that's crazy, but it'd be nice" to "wow, technically it could happen" to "OMG, it may ACTUALLY happen!"
We'll see. We have almost two months to wait (GAAAAH!!!)
