Here’s a slightly different possible perspective regarding the trade decision.
Snead and McVay were looking for bold moves to quickly turbocharge an existing 11-5 team into SB status. Peters seemed like a potential quantum leap at one CB side for an acceptable price. At the time I was a big fan of the trade. Kinda still like it, tbh.
As to Peters struggles? Some is certainly on him, but some is on his injury and a lot is a result of losing Talib for 8 games. Finally, I blame Wade for taking so long to figure out how best to utilize Peters. Shouldn’t have taken half the season. IOW, there were many factors resulting in Peters’ struggles. Too many. And impossible to foresee at the time of the trade decision.
At this point we can all probably agree that Peters’ Ram future is up to him in an almost “prove it” final season exam kind of way. I make it 50-50 whether he’s extended at this point. It will become far more obvious as the season unfolds.
Stay tuned.
