Pay the man

[Ricky Prickles]

35 minutes ago, rayzor said:

I don't know....that would be hard to pass up.

Especially if it included this years draft.

Problem is if you are offered two firsts, one of them would need to be at his position in an attempt to get someone as good as he has become. Then there's the risk that they are not nearly as good or their development does not happen. 

[Cullenator]

40 minutes ago, frankw said:

 

I never hear or say that phrase without this scene in my head

[rayzor]

35 minutes ago, Ricky Prickles said:

Problem is if you are offered two firsts, one of them would need to be at his position in an attempt to get someone as good as he has become. Then there's the risk that they are not nearly as good or their development does not happen. 

True, but that also frees up a lot of future cap.

I'm just saying it would be hard to outright deny it if some comes knocking. Especially after what we experienced with the Burns situation.

[Khyber53]

Perhaps the problem is looking at it from the perspective of Tepper. What does an investment guru know about paying labor? Get the most work for the least money.

Just one more wrinkle in the Tepper ownership that will screw the team again and again.

I do so wish he'd sell the team and move back up north.

Brown deserves the big pay check and honestly the sooner the better. You want to keep his performance up through out his career here. We don't need another guy just begrudgingly showing up and doing just enough to stay on the field and attract suitors.

 

[jfra78]

I'd rather keep him than trade, but if it looks like they can't reach an agreement then go ahead and trade before we get practically nothing

[WestPanthers]

Hurneymagic!

[CPF4LIFE]

On 3/15/2024 at 9:09 PM, CamWhoaaCam said:

Brandon Miller>Bryce Young

All day and twice on sunday

[CPF4LIFE]

Atleast the hornets drafted the better Alabama player

[WhoKnows]

On 3/16/2024 at 8:32 AM, Ricky Prickles said:

Problem is if you are offered two firsts, one of them would need to be at his position in an attempt to get someone as good as he has become. Then there's the risk that they are not nearly as good or their development does not happen. 

We’ve been through this before. Same argument for Burns and we all saw how that ended. If someone offers you the Rams’ Burns deal for Brown right now, you take it. If he was on his rookie deal for a few more years, might be different but like Burns, Brown will be expensive.

Ponder this, with Brown’s future money we could have signed Wilkins this year and had Wilkins plus two firsts and a 2nd. There are always good FAs who can replace all (Reddick) or at least 80% plus you have a chance to add 3 more starters with the draft picks, especially with Fitterer out of the building.

When you’ve sucked for 6 years, one edge rusher or one DL is not going to change your team’s direction. Hitting on a great trade and getting 3-4 above average starters will.

[Ricky Prickles]

1 minute ago, WhoKnows said:

We’ve been through this before. Same argument for Burns and we all saw how that ended. If someone offers you the Rams’ Burns deal for Brown right now, you take it. If he was on his rookie deal for a few more years, might be different but like Burns, Brown will be expensive.

Ponder this, with Brown’s future money we could have signed Wilkins this year and had Wilkins plus two firsts and a 2nd. There are always good FAs who can replace all (Reddick) or at least 80% plus you have a chance to add 3 more starters with the draft picks, especially with Fitterer out of the building.

When you’ve sucked for 6 years, one edge rusher or one DL is not going to change your team’s direction. Hitting on a great trade and getting 3-4 above average starters will.

Difference in Burns and Brown though. Brown actually plays with heart. 

I do see where you are coming from though and yes, two first rounders for almost anyone other than a franchise QB could very well be worth it as long as we dont have Fitt. drafting those pics. My hope is Morgan is a much better drafter than Fitt was.

[WhoKnows]

27 minutes ago, Ricky Prickles said:

Difference in Burns and Brown though. Brown actually plays with heart. 

I do see where you are coming from though and yes, two first rounders for almost anyone other than a franchise QB could very well be worth it as long as we dont have Fitt. drafting those pics. My hope is Morgan is a much better drafter than Fitt was.

It’s where we are as well. Burns could have had 12.5 sacks again and I would have still wanted the trade.

Look at all the “Morgan has one more move to make and he’s won the offseason” posts in here. We are better at the guard positions. We lost Burns. We added Diontae Johnson. We lost Luvu, YGM and Bell. We get some level of Shaq back and some other guys. We were a couple kicks away from 0-17. Maybe it’s just me but I’m not feeling special this year especially because I don’t feel Young has it anyway. I like some of the moves but I also think we need to hit the draft huge to get back to even 2017 competitiveness. Redoing the 2022 trade moves/not moves would have helped and while I like Brown, I know he’s not winning the SB. Getting 3 above average starters for him would be awesome.

Rams 2024 pick is 19. Here’s a smattering of guys picked at 19 or a few picks later the past few years: DJ Moore, JJefferson, Flowers, Addison, Kincaid, McDuffie, Paye, Etienne, Aiyuk, Love, Simmons, Jacobs, Brown, Sweat and a variety of starting OL. Actually seems like a sweet spot for OL and WR looking back at that early 20s pick range.