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David Deacon
Snead says the Rams knew they needed to make changes to get over the hump to win the Super Bowl. It seems like he is intimating that trading Goff for more experienced QB but I think that is explaining things in hindsight. Why do you give Goff a whopper of a contract when you have a year of control left and up to 2 franchise tags? The price for Stafford was steeper because we had to off load the Goff contract.
I agree it was worth making the moves to win a Super Bowl but making moves we made could have been more cap efficient in terms of the dead money we had to eat or avoid by paying extra due to bad contracts.
it's pretty highbrow---not sure Cameron does a great job
summarizing it...
Rams signed Goff in Sep 2019...he regressed in 2019 and 2020. They were not
intending on moving on when they signed him.
He'd just gotten them to the Super Bowl---so while second-guessing the
contract is fair game---it was not done knowing he was going to play
worse in 2019 and 2020 than he did in 2017 and 2018.
The way I hear it is they decided to move on from Goff much later. They
thought Goff could improve and be a winner of a Super Bowl but
began to show he was not going to get to next level
THEN they said they had guys at the peak or still great---Whit, Donald
Kupp and so on...and THEN had to move on from Goff and
wanted an upgrade and Stafford was that upgrade.
So, Cameron is saying that Snead said something he did not say
The podcast is excellent on the role of a GM--and the interviewer does not know
a ton about football (though he is a fan) so Snead explains things in a simple way to communicate to him
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This was a great podcast. I have always appreciated how well Snead and McVay work together which I think is a model for most of football. I still find it difficult understand how Snead/McVay seem to mess up on these big contracts. Gurley, Cooks, Goff come to mind. While they don't negotiate the contract it would appear that they are together in deciding who they are going to want to keep long term.
While they have made some contract mistakes I do take my hat off to them for how they have managed to work around those mistakes and put a playoff caliber roster on the field year after year. Even last year I thought they had a playoff caliber roster but the injury factor was to great to over come.
I think this year will be very interesting as we are resetting the cap going forward, or at least for 2024. In all likelihood it may be 2 years and some luck before we can compete for the top prize though I think if the defense comes along we have a shot at making the playoffs.
Anyway thanks for the podcast recommendation.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/19/2023 03:24AM by David Deacon.
