Matt Stafford Traded to Rams

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PhillyRam said:
Even if that player takes up a significant percentage of the cap and forces you to cut or let other significant contributers leave via FA... Then have limited resources to fill those gaping holes?
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Yes. If the player obtained is a quality QB, CB, Pass rusher, or LT. Or maybe even an All-Pro at another position.

Most others can be replaced and/or the salary cap can be massaged to keep who they really need.
 
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oldnotdead said:
Whitworth, Havenstein and Brockers being released or traded would clear almost half of their CAP deficit. Noteboom proved he can play LT at this level. Edwards is out of position as a OG his build and feet are OT not OG. Edwards would be an upgrade to swinging door Havenstein.

LT Noteboom
LG Corbett
C Shelton
RG Evans
RT Edwards

I'm sorry but Whitworth's age is showing. He can play but he's no longer the elite LT he used to be. Rob's play always has been spotty but when he's targeted he's dead meat. Blythe simply lacks mobility and sand to pass block. Shelton plays with a mean aggression and is far better blocking on the second level than Blythe. Evans has the prototypical build and feet of an OG. He lacks the feet and length to play OT in the NFL.

IMO that is the o-line they projected when they drafted Noteboom and Edwards and Evans. Time to play them and see if Snead was right. I feel that if played in those positions this could be a very good power gap blocking o-line making McVay's play-action passes even more effective.
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I think they will keep Whitworth and Havenstein is an excellent run blocker.

I also think with Stafford, McVay is thinking Havenstein will be a good enough pass blocker since Stafford is mobile. Shelton or Corbett at center. Edwards Evans Corbett at guard. Again this is just my guess.
 
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Aikman repeatedly claimed that because of Goff McVay was always trying to be too perfect.

Here is a possibility of fans reading less into things than what is really happening. Many of us made the deduction that McVay began using roll outs to get Goff away from the interior pass rush. If you recall the Niners did the same thing with Kaepernick. But the reason. Was to simplify the offense by giving him only half the field to read. What is that was part of the reason McVay did it with Goff. I recall after ne loss McVay saying to the press that our quarterback has to see the field better, or he’s not seeing the field well.Goff did have open receivers that were not thrown to often this season.
Then we here that McVay is excited to get Stafford and it means he can really open the playbook. So Goff apparently was limiting the playbook, not just the Oline play like many thought. So if McVay adds plays will he really be adding them or will he just be using more of what he wished he could have with Goff?

Then there is the other issue of Goff not being able to adjust well when defenses would change to a different look before the snap, which is another thing Goff struggled with and Stafford is supposedly good at....improvising.
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The Rams beat writer Jourdan Rodrigue pointed out that very thing in her podcast.
 
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Can I just stop thinking about Reynold's drops for a second.
 
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So I bit the bullet and purchased a pff subscription bc why the fuck not...and according to them the lions had a stud at LT and a stud at C. Which kinda makes sense with film I watch on Stafford where he steps up in the pocket well. Point being...we need to upgrade the C position
 
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Memphis Ram said:
Yes. If the player obtained is a quality QB, CB, Pass rusher, or LT. Or maybe even an All-Pro at another position.

Most others can be replaced and/or the salary cap can be massaged to keep who they really need.
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So you can win Super Bowls that way?

Seems that teams that win SBs need a balanced roster.

Having top heavy rosters with high priced players AND no first round picks, is not a great method to win.

The Pats have not drafted well, but they also didn't overpay players. They spread their costs out throughout the roster and not on 4 guys.

Now I think you can have a top heavy roster...if you draft eventual replacements. Tough to do that with no high picks to do so. They now have to be perfect in rounds 2-4 to keep this going.
 
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So I bit the bullet and purchased a pff subscription bc why the fuck not...and according to them the lions had a stud at LT and a stud at C. Which kinda makes sense with film I watch on Stafford where he steps up in the pocket well. Point being...we need to upgrade the C position
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Frank Ragnow is a stud Center. I would have loved him to be a Ram
 
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I keep hearing all day today about the trade which is great in living in NY it's a welcomed treat. However all I hear is every and I mean every talking head about the rams cap and up against it etc. Why do we know more than them? Even LA guys. Are we missing something we went over all this yesterday. We will have money AD and Ramsey are a given so restructure them alone let alone Stafford if we/he chooses to and the salary converted to bonus for woods and cooper with some other little tricks. So what's the deal why can't anyone get it right?? It obnoxious I get excited then I feel deflated then excited and so on.
 
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