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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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Good reply, zn. Several things...
1. Your point about whether he was a good fit is well taken. No argument from me (given my 20-20 hindsight). Lol.
2. At this point they probably felt that they had to keep and start him this season. I mean, what if he has a Pro Bowl year this 2nd season under Wade opposite a healthy Talib? And that is a real possibility, I think. They surely wouldn’t want to miss out on that both this year and in the future. The $9M is not an exorbitant price for a starting CB in today’s NFL, and it’s a cheap price if he blows it up. The spent 2nd is a sunk cost and no longer relevant moving forward in ‘19. Water under the ‘18 bridge.
3. I totally agree with your point about the unlikelihood of trading inexpensive picks for expensive vets in the near future. I mean, it could still happen now and then in special circumstances, but the draft will probably be the source of most of our future starters, along with a few 2nd tier FA’s here and there. The reason being that the Ram roster is pretty loaded, Snead can in fact draft well, and there is need to take advantage of inexpensive rookie salaries cap-wise.
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