Akers hit the market as tainted goods - that of his own making. He damaged hisown career when he quit the team last year - and his agent didn't help. When he carried that attitude forward for another year, he made a potential headache of himself for any team that mght pick him up. You can't expect much in trade for a player whose hubris sabotages his own best iterests.
Ramsey would have cost too much to keep, and as such, it had to cost the Rams something to trade him.
As to bragging about making the spread against the 49ers, the expectation going in was that the Rams would have their horns and rearmost body parts handed to them that they'd be out-manned talent-wise, out-coached, and physically manhandled up and down the field.
That didn't happen. Until the Williams bounce-off pick, we were in the game - not hanging from a thread, but out-playing the 49ers in many categories with a chance to win until the latter half of the fourth quarter.
I can feel your exaspiration at much that the Rams do, but when I think it through I'm often driven to different conclusions than I started with.
