From McVay's presser: [
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(On how much vetting the team was able to do prior to acquiring Fowler and what they heard that made them decide that he might be a good fit here)
"There's always a very thorough vetting process that takes place any time that we bring somebody into the building, whether we're looking to acquire them or actually acquiring them. There's a lot of character references. A lot of coaches around the league that guys that have been in Jacksonville, that have been with him before that we've worked with, that spoke in a positive way about Dante. We feel like it was something that we wanted to be able to get him here. Heard nothing but good things as far as just a great kid, works hard, practices the right way, has great habits. Looking forward to getting to know him a little bit. I don't really know him – obviously know about him and you've seen some of the things that he's done from a production standpoint. But, we feel like with just the amount of resources that we were able to utilize and talk to as far as just the people that could speak on his behalf – people that we really value and take their opinion very seriously – it was good things and it was something we felt like we wanted to do."
Also keep in mind that if Fowler leaves after this season the Rams get a comp pick back. So the trade needs to be evaluated like this:
Jags get a 3rd in 2019 and a 5th in 2020
Rams get Fowler for 8 games (plus playoffs) plus a comp pick in 2020. (The Panthers are getting a 3rd in 2019 for Andrew Norwell (OG) who signed a 3-year, $39M contract. I bet Fowler gets at least that. He's a former #3 overall pick who was miscast as a 4-3 DE in Jax and could very well shine as a 3-4 OLB under one of greatest defensive coaches around.)
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