Indianapolis – Let’s talk about the strangest confrontation I can remember at some point covering the league.
NFL Scouting Week collects from the media perspective, and is always ridiculous. Correspondents who flow here usually begin to communicate with network information and provoke rescue operations outside the city on Thursday and Friday, which is the specified time when training begins in the field that is the cause of the event-on paper, in any case-at the Lucas Oil Stadium.
There will be time to worry about the draft category later. Because in conference rooms, cafes and bars in Indianapolis, there is only interest in one name: Matthew Stafford.
Veteran Corterbbeck has become the largest figure in the American Football Association this week, like Rams He gave him permission to talk to other teams about his market and what his services might deserve. This, in turn, led to a storm of speculation about who might be ready to not pay Stavord a new contract, but rather trading serious capital to gain from Los Angeles.
Everything is very interesting, because commercial speculation tends to be. It is also confusing, because for me my life, I can’t know how it is logical.
Perhaps I should not be surprised that Staveford has become the first and most influential domino pending falling in 2025 this season. He told me during the Super Bowl week that he decided to play this season, and even admitted that he was not sure of the place where he was suitable. These are facts of 37 years earlier this month, and I got the salary of 2025 salaries of about $ 49.7 million on books.
However, recently in the past week, it was impossible to do something to keep Stavord in Los Angeles in Qurtubbere usually change the difference only when their salaries exceeded its performance, or when the path appears to the dispute is dark.
None of these Stafford, who fought by infection to spread his best classification in three years and direct the small Rams team to the qualifiers. As we all remember, Stafford Rams had a 13 yard from hosting the NFC tournament before Gallin Carter handed over the post -season astringent theater to get Philadelphia on the finish line.
So, if the rams are a play or two away from another legal operation in Super Bowl, is the money a good reason enough to chase the midfielder? Monday, I didn’t think so. Today, I am not sure.
This is what happens when the teams of Qurtubbere need to the mixture, as the rams did by opening the door for these conversations.
At that time, it looked like a sound strategy to reach an acceptable number for a new contract. The Raven team did something similar two years ago by marking Lamar Jackson, which allowed other teams to assign the parameters for a long -term deal that he expected in Baltimore at the end. It is better to allow someone else to hit an offer you can match instead of displaying against yourself.
Unless this external show explodes expectations, which may occur here well here. The league revealed on Thursday that the salary cover jumped another $ 24 million for the next season. We have already written words about the extent to which this draft category is frustrated by Qurtubbere in recent years.
In a world where nine Corterbox achieves a value of $ 50 million annually, it is logical if a desperate bank dubbed the veteran cortresse capable of leading Super Bowl – which is exactly what happens, as teams such as giants and invaders expressed “great interest” in Stafford. If any of the two teams is ready to pay a salary that would exceed its current average of 40 million dollars, the rams may have no choice but to circulate it.
With all this context in mind, I am not sure how we get here.
Stafford has handed over everything that the rams could dream of when they acquired it in the scent of Qorsbbe, four years ago. He won 34 games, delivered 95 declining, reached the qualifiers three times and hung the Super Bowl banner to get a privilege that needs to find a foothold in the crowded La market. He is also in Twilight of his career and not in a big position in the beginning.
Don’t make me wrong, Stavord will make a team in New York or Las Vegas. It is very fun to imagine that he is throwing to Malik Nabers or Brock Powers, and the two teams get the choice of the best 10 drafts, as they refuse (supposed to refuse in any trade. Changel and giants themselves can make them competitors with Stavord in haste.
Is it enough, though? Can the giants really reshape themselves from the worst team in NFC to a competitor before the Stafford profession ends? Will Stafford really be the reason for Raiders staying in the AFC arms race?
Are any of these cases improved in the current situation of the Stafford context, with the rising RAMS team that could be a piece or two away from another championship?
It is unlikely, especially with the passage of the Stafford profession. And as long as we are diving deeply on this, it is worth noting the old side of it.
Many people believed that Stafford has already has a case for the professional football celebrity hall. He does not have an all-PRO gesture or even the Pro Bowl that you expect from honor, but it is tenth at all times in both passers-by and landing passage, and has a Super Bowl win is very important. Another strong season or two can see it climb to the fifth rank in the squares and the sixth decline. Another championship will make him only the fourteenth midfielder to win the multiple Super Bowls. This, in addition to its individual numbers, feels enough to reach the hall.
The wrong choice here will have repercussions that last longer than the number of Stafford’s yards in 2025.
This applies in the same amount to rams, of course. This is not the general manager Les Snead and the main coach Seun McVay has ever allowed the awareness of the decision -making, but I do not see the way to improve in the short term without Stafford.
The draft is not independent this year, between the rams that chooses No. 26 in general and the absence of Qurtubbere talents. The free agency is not inspiring.
It is difficult to imagine that Rams wanders to pay Sam Darnold if he is not willing to do the same for Stavord. After Darnold, the best options available in March are either attracting (Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, maybe Kerk Cousins) or inspiring (Justin Fields, James Winston, Mac Jones, Daniel Jones). With such options at the top of the plate, it makes sense that people are thirty -three years old Jimmy GarboloThe reserve version of the Stafford context last year, as a possible Corterbok Bridge for a new future.
My question is, who wants hell to build a bridge for the future when the current team is one of the best league in 2025?
All this will be more logical if the rams still pay the price of their aggressive approach to the Super Bowl LVI championship, but they are not. They have been formulated like crazy people during the past three years, and their money is in good condition. No one says that the rams need to pay their chips the way they did several years ago, but this is a team ready to win now.
Stafford’s era is a source of anxiety, and often fights injuries during his period in Los Angeles, but makes rams a competitor in 2025. This does not seem true if Garoppolo – or any other realistic alternatives – below the center instead.
Money, as usual, is the main motivation here. Stafford has outperformed his current deal, and his maximum numbers cannot be defended. It is logical if the rams do not want it to reset the Qurtubbere market, but certainly there can be a number that the two sides can agree on.
Stafford knows of experience how he feels that he has joyful professional profits without any success to show it. Snead and McVay know how they feel the QB, which comes in the post -season.
The two sides had a long and difficult thinking about all before the trade is not really working for anyone.
David Hilman The US Football Association covers Fox Sports and hosts the US Football Association on Fox Podcast. I have previously spent nine seasons covering the cow’s sponsors for the official team’s website. In 2018, he won the Emmy Regional Award for his role in the production of “Dak Prescott: A Family Reunion” for the time of Qurtubbere in the state of Mississippi. Follow it on Twitter on Davidhelman_.
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