One can hope we learned our lesson about paying players before there contract is up, but im not holding my breath.
Matt Stafford Traded to Rams
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Sorry Merlin, I meant to say where we were money wise, which I know read is actual 7 million more.
Talent wise we are in a big gain! I wasn't on board with Stafford as the guy because I thought McVay wanted a mobile QB and it didn't make sense. I was done with Goff in the superbowl loss.
Saves 12.4 mill until they have to pay Stafford 19.5 mill. So its costing 7-8 mill more to have Stafford than Goff.
Restructure can save cap space, but it means extensive guaranteed money, and dont kid yourself that Stafford doesnt care about money. After what they just gave up to get him, he's in the drivers seat about an extension.
Which has not been the Rams strength, their extensions have been a bit disastrous
So now it comes down to one drop?
Oh, BTW, cooks is gone as well.
Idk man...something is fishy with that scenario.
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After having more time and seeing more details I’m not as pissed and actually think we have a better opportunity in the next few years to win at least one SB.
I wish Goff luck but haven’t seen him improving and don’t think he will. He has never carried this team, he just isn’t that guy.
We now have Stafford who doesn’t have to see a guy open before throwing it. Has a WAY Bette deep ball. Has better pocket presence. Doesn’t fumble.
I know the money is part of it all but have no insight to how they work it out so don’t spend a lot of time trying to figure it out.
Welcome to the Rams Matt Stafford, let’s get er done!
I wish Goff luck but haven’t seen him improving and don’t think he will. He has never carried this team, he just isn’t that guy.
We now have Stafford who doesn’t have to see a guy open before throwing it. Has a WAY Bette deep ball. Has better pocket presence. Doesn’t fumble.
I know the money is part of it all but have no insight to how they work it out so don’t spend a lot of time trying to figure it out.
Welcome to the Rams Matt Stafford, let’s get er done!
Elmgrovegnome
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And the offense carried the defense in 2018. You're the one who took the unnecessary crack. I simply fired right back.
Actually, he'll miss 9 games with injury behind this line.
Or, if he doesn't, along with his 35 TD's will be 27 interceptions.
Elmgrovegnome
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Plus he's played in cold wether in Chicago and Green Bay. Cold weather games shouldn't be a big factor
Florida_Ram
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Until the Rams rework Stafford's contract, they have $20 million on the books for Stafford and $22 million on the books for Goff. It's a net loss of about $8 million. Spotrac isn't correct. We have to eat Goff's dead money. Detroit cannot take it in a trade.
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Brother this is about winning the SB in the next 2 seasons while Donald and Ramsey are in their prime.
Who cares about Sporttrac and over the cap and all that crap.
If the Rams are holding up the Lombardi in the next 2 seasons, I could give a rats ass about the cap.
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@jrry
Brother this is about winning the SB in the next 2 seasons while Donald and Ramsey are in their prime.
Who cares about Sporttrac and over the cap and all that crap.
If the Rams are holding up the Lombardi in the next 2 seasons, I could give a rats ass about the cap.
Stafford is just as capable of shitting the bed. He's older and a little less prone to it because of his experience (unsurprisingly, this is what happens with pocket passers as they age; they are less prone to being fooled by defenses and having bad games), but he's very much capable of doing the same thing. I'll never forget the guy going out a few years ago and throwing 4 picks in Week 1 against the shitty Jets while having a top OL and one of the most gifted groups of WRs in the NFL:
New York Jets at Detroit Lions - September 10th, 2018 | Pro-Football-Reference.com
New York Jets 48 at Detroit Lions 17 on September 10th, 2018 - Full team and player stats and box scorewww.pro-football-reference.com
The fact that we have to discuss hypothetical scenarios where injuries that happened IRL didn't happen to convince ourselves that Stafford might have taken this team farther isn't a good thing. If you don't think Stafford could have beaten the Packers under our circumstances this year in the playoffs, he's not the sort of upgrade we needed.
By that logic we should trade for JJ Watt or spend a high pick on a backup for Donald in case he gets injured again, or spend more money on pass rush in general since not touching Rodgers is why we lost to the Packers
You can't transfer dead money cap. It's literally never happened.
The defense allowed an average of 19.3 ppg in the 2018 playoffs....
Wonder if the Rams would be interested in looking at Kenny Golladay or Marvin Jones, or if they think Jefferson can take they next step and be a deep threat.
Well, the Rams need to sign Stafford to a big fat one now or else they're in even worse shape, so...
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