What were the Rams thinking?? We ALL know the drill here. The sucker teams trades away a bunch of draft picks to get the player they want. Yes, the Falcons had a nice trade getting Julio Jones doing this, but even with Jones panning out as a super player, they still suffered from a depleted draft. And that was one of the few success stories. Contrast that with the more typical result, like the Great Train Robbery where Dallas traded Hershall Walker to the Vikings, and built a dynasty.
While, this trade is not of that magnitude, the Titans will be a better team in 2016 with the extra draft picks. Further, they will be MUCH better in 2017 when the 7-9 Rams will have to give them their no1 pick in 2017! This is a great deal for the Titans.
Given that, how can the Rams have made such a bad deal. The argument CAN be made that an elite NFL QB is worth 7-8 points to the line. Therefore, why not trade a bunch of picks for that chance? The problem is that the chance they will find the elite QB in this draft (if he exists) is virtually nil. We don't even know who they are going to take!! Surely, it will be Wentz, but do we really believe he has any real chance to be more than a decent NFL starting QB?
The Rams are a losing organization. Teams like that make bad short sighted decisions that doom them to mediocrity. Heck, the Rams in that division could go 4-12 this year, and BOOM, give up their 2017 pick where they could have found their starting QB NEXT year........
On the sidelines, if you proposed this deal before it was made, we would all laugh at it, saying 'no one' would possibly ever make that trade. Hell, if the NFL had a Fantasy Team Draft League, Stephen Nover would be SCREAMING at how unfair it was that the Rams "owner" could 'dump' to help the Titans and now he was going to lose just because he didn't have the Titans as one of his teams.........
What do you guys think? How bad a trade was this for the Rams?
On the capping side, my first NBA playoff selection comes out at 8am PST today! I am super excited about the playoffs, and we come out of the gate firing on the 1st game!
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