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merlin
Right price being basement-level pay that you would pay a guy who is a backup type. This insistence by some of the fans that Blythe was some sort of answer to the Rams is incorrect. It's also been elevated by Jourdan's being duped by the team's typical spin on players they're not really interested in, as well as PFF's idiotic grades on Blythe's play. Both were wrong.
Rams never saw Blythe as anything but depth. They finally saw enough thank God. Even the Chiefs in a FA environment that results in guys being overpaid only brought him in on depth pay.
If the Rams really wanted Blythe back they would have signed him. Period.
I think you've got the FA environment wrong. In this 2021 Covid market, guys really weren't being overpaid. It's much more of players being underpaid compared to previous years. Look at DJax with $4.5M if he hits incentives. Look at Ryan Kerrigan with $3.5M.
So Blythe being offered $1M this year is not far from his $2.5M his previous years. In the current market with the salary cap decrease it's hard to say that players signing for lower than previous years means it's for depth. That doesn't accurately analyze the affects of Covid and the cap decrease.
I don't think it's a matter of them finally seeing enough. They were never in love with him which is why they kept reupping him on 1 year contracts. But I don't think it's accurate to say they didn't want him back. If they really didn't want him back they wouldn't have made an offer for him and it certainly wouldn't have been the highest offer. They also wouldn't have waited until he decided to pull the trigger on other moves.
