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Only because Jones and his agent want an extension. Today he was not at camp.
This is an irritating situation to occur two weeks before the opener. It’s seems peculiar that the Rams tell Jones to seek a trade just out of the blue. Do you really think they want him off the books that badly. He’s on a third round rookie deal.
Say the Rams wanted Speights, or Rozeboom to take over at ILB. It would make more sense to have Jones split snaps with the other player throughout the season to ease him into starting. They could phase Jones out by midseason and keep him as security. Trading Jones wouldn’t create a large amount of cap space.
This contract issue is spurred on by his agent and not the Rams.
McVay said today though that he did NOT request a trade. That's both Jones and McVay having said that now.
We also spent a lot of time in camp without him with his iniury - and we know that the Rams are more pro player in these situations than most (if not all) teams.
To me this says it went down this way:
Jones and his camp say they wanted x amount. The Rams talked about it internally and decided we will NOT meet that.
The two sides were likely so far apart, and knowing the injury and potential injury concerns, I bet the Rams went to him and said "we arent going to sign you to an extension, and we won't franchise you. If you can find a team to give you that extension now and they give us at least a (insert minimum pick, probably a 4th or 5th depending on the team) - we will go ahead and trade you. Otherwise you can play out your last year.