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So I asked the question in the EJ trade topic and really only got 1 person that I saw to respond sorry if I missed your response if so post here. Snead takes a lot of grief from fans for in their opinion his lack of a quality return for players we trade away. I think my biggest issue with this is I can't think of any players we traded away that legit were good after we traded them. He seems to have a pretty good record of trading away guys who turned out to be duds. Goff being the exception, even though he's one of the most disliked Rams in the last 20 years and there are people who still will not give him any credit. Add to that it's hard for me to accept anybody saying that trade didn't work out for us. And this is coming from me one of the most vocal after the trade that was against it.
So I'm looking for is give me a player that we traded away that went on to enjoy success for his new team. One thing to consider is the Rams and McVay are for some guys like Ramsey willing to take a little less to facilitate a move to a team the player wants. Not exactly cutthroat best business practice but it's one of the things that make him the players coach and winner IMO that he is. So hit me with your best ones.
The best that I can come up with myself is Robert Woods. Not Bobby Trees was coming off an ACL injury at 30 years old and had IIRC a $10 million cap hit that year. The part of me that doesn't want to consider him is he really since then hasn't done anything close to what he did for the Rams. 2022 for the Titans 53 receptions for 527 yards and 2 TD. And 2023 40 receptions for 426 yards and 1 TD. That was one season for the Rams and it took him 2 seasons to do it.
So who you got? And just telling me "We should have got more" isn't going to cut it! Don't care what you got in your Madden career mode or what you did in your mock off season. Who did we get rid of that actually did anything good. My contention in all this is we are selling players that Rams fans think more highly of than the NFL does since they don't amount to much at all after they leave LA. Prime example in my mind is Trumaine Johnson, and that may have been one of the best trade returns
But Tru was garbage after leaving the Rams.
So I'm looking for is give me a player that we traded away that went on to enjoy success for his new team. One thing to consider is the Rams and McVay are for some guys like Ramsey willing to take a little less to facilitate a move to a team the player wants. Not exactly cutthroat best business practice but it's one of the things that make him the players coach and winner IMO that he is. So hit me with your best ones.
The best that I can come up with myself is Robert Woods. Not Bobby Trees was coming off an ACL injury at 30 years old and had IIRC a $10 million cap hit that year. The part of me that doesn't want to consider him is he really since then hasn't done anything close to what he did for the Rams. 2022 for the Titans 53 receptions for 527 yards and 2 TD. And 2023 40 receptions for 426 yards and 1 TD. That was one season for the Rams and it took him 2 seasons to do it.
So who you got? And just telling me "We should have got more" isn't going to cut it! Don't care what you got in your Madden career mode or what you did in your mock off season. Who did we get rid of that actually did anything good. My contention in all this is we are selling players that Rams fans think more highly of than the NFL does since they don't amount to much at all after they leave LA. Prime example in my mind is Trumaine Johnson, and that may have been one of the best trade returns