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Rams43
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.
Well obviously there are many possible views of this but here's mine--I don't think he was ever a fit in the first place, or it took a while to fix that, so maybe overnight turbocharging with a high draft pick trade for a player at the end of his rookie contract is not an optimal strategy. Spending 9 M and a 2nd round pick on a "prove it" just seems too hit n miss for me.
I bet we see very little of that in the future (trading high picks for late rookie contract players). In fact I bet a lot of the minor side issues I am mentioning here will get smoothed out in the future.
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