Awe man, you're missing some good gif's and picsI honestly opened this and read the first two words and stopped.
No.
And the thread gets crazier...You could probably get that same sort of deal for Goff (with two years left on his rookie contract). If I had to choose, I'd rather trade him than Donald (and I like Goff). Pick whichever QB falls to 4 (Rosen? ) and have four years of cheap qb play. No SB next year but the window would be open a little longer.
Aaron Donald may be the best player in the game but I don't believe the Rams should be paying QB money to a DT. Now that we have Suh, he can replace Donald. We all know that Goff will eventually get big $ and if we want to be able to afford to keep Peters, Cooks, Gurley and perhaps Joyner and Suh, I think we need to trade Aaron Donald. If I were Les Snead, I'd give Cleveland a call and offer them Donald for pics 4, 33 and 35. With the # 4 pick, they could get Wade his pass rusher, Bradley Chubb or if they wanted, they could probably turn around and trade the # 4 pick to Buffalo for pics 12 and 22. Cleveland has the money to pay Donald and Gregg Williams would be doing cartwheels to pair Myles Garrett with Aaron Donald.
I consider both of them untradeable. I was just making the point about who (gun to my head) I'd rather deal. Goff might become Aaron Rogers-great someday or he might just always be what he was last season - a pretty good second tier qb (who we'll be obliged to extend for $30m/yr in a couple seasons). I think McVay could prepare any of the top 4 qb's in this draft to become franchise qb's. AD is in a class all his own.WTF?
Blowback on this thread is a hurricane...!
Another way of framing the OP’s idea is to ask, is AD truly untradeable?
OP suggests pick #4, 33, and 35. Draft value chart gives that a total of 1,800 + 580 + 550 = 2930 points.
So, another hypothetical question. Would anyone even consider taking the #1 overall from CLE in addition? If (hypothetically) CLE offered for AD the #1 plus #4 plus #33 plus #35, that would have a value of 3,000 + 1,800 + 580 + 550= 5930 points.
Keep in mind how desperate many teams are to get the next franchise QB, and how Trader Snead could parlay those picks. Dominance for a decade?
While also keeping in mind that AD is entering the fifth and final year of his rookie contract, and after 2018 he’ll never be underpaid again?
My point is: is there ANY trade scenario for AD that wouldn’t elicit a dog-barfing-spaghetti-gif?
Ultimately, I think trading AD wouldn’t happen because it would be a public relations disaster for the Rams. But knowing Snead, I do think there is a hypothetical trade out there that he would actually consider the “unthinkable” and trade AD. But the compensation would have to be astronomical.