Myles Garrett Traded to Rams

[WUnderhill]

3 hours ago, electro's horse said:

I find it funny that the Panthers aren't in win now mode, even though they have a 4th year qb on his rookie contract, just made a couple huge splashes in free agency, won their division last year and made the playoffs.

we all know it's bullshit. we're already on the backside of the Canales era. 

How can you say they aren’t trying to win now with all the moves made in free agency? Or is trading first round picks the only way to be win now? I’d be fine never trading another first round pick again, win now be damned.

[PantherBoy95]

So what package would you all have been willing to put together for Garrett if he were offered to the Panthers? Because we'd have to let go of someone with J. Verse level talent.

Oh man Myles and DB with the rest of this line would have been nasty lol.

[UnluckyforSome]

30 minutes ago, PantherBoy95 said:

So what package would you all have been willing to put together for Garrett if he were offered to the Panthers? Because we'd have to let go of someone with J. Verse level talent.

Oh man Myles and DB with the rest of this line would have been nasty lol.

I'd give them Young. As it is the Panthers are not 1 player away from the Superbowl, and the Browns like collecting ineffective starting qbs.

[MechaZain]

17 hours ago, WUnderhill said:

How can you say they aren’t trying to win now with all the moves made in free agency? Or is trading first round picks the only way to be win now? I’d be fine never trading another first round pick again, win now be damned.

Truth is we're somewhere between in "Do We Have A Franchise QB" mode. It's a rebuild but not a complete fire sale because our window to assess Bryce is closing.

 

[Donald LaFell]

On 6/1/2026 at 2:53 PM, CPF4LIFE said:

Yeah this is good for the Rams. Remember...trading first round picks for players never seems to hurt them it only helps. Last time they done it i think they won a superbowl.

Imagine if you know who decides to come out retirement now

I’d love to see that if he’s still in game shape. He has nothing to prove but that would be amazing. 

[PleaseCutStewart]

22 hours ago, PantherBoy95 said:

So what package would you all have been willing to put together for Garrett if he were offered to the Panthers? Because we'd have to let go of someone with J. Verse level talent.

Oh man Myles and DB with the rest of this line would have been nasty lol.

Yeah, I don't even know who we have on our team that is on their rookie deal and the Browns would want. Maybe we could have subbed in TMac for Verse and given away the same level of draft picks, but I would rather not.

Garrett is somebody you go after when you are a Superb Owl contender. We aren't that

[SmokinwithWilly]

On 6/2/2026 at 10:57 AM, electro's horse said:

I feel like this trade just lives rent free in people's heads and keeps morphing into different things.

First thing is that the rumored trade was for future firsts. They wouldn't have any extra picks in 2023; the firsts would have been for 2024 and 2025. With very few exceptions, NFL GMs don't value picks that far away. You have to have a lot of job security to pull that off. Like Chiefs, Eagles, Rams kinda stability. That's obviously not the case with David Tepper, especially since he'd just fired his head coach. No GM except for like Howie Roseman is going to trade an asset you have now for a future asset you probably get to use. 

Second, at the time you'd have to assume these are first rounders late in the first round. Obviously currency is currency and the panthers need young players, but these weren't slam dunk top ten picks. At the end of the day there's one pick that separates a first and second round pick. 

Lastly, the only place that ever reported this trade was the Rams. All the reporters just repeated what McVay said and it became gospel. We have no idea how serious the negotiations were, if they ever really happened, if the offer was real, etc. And I personally believe McVay and Sneed are the kind of guys who would make up rumors like that to fug up other teams, mostly because I assume if I've thought of it someone smarter than me has. 

I don't know how you'd call it the greatest draft haul of all time. Firsts quickly lose their value the farther out they are and Burns had 16.5 sacks last season.

And anyway those picks would probably just been tossed into the burning inferno of the Bryce trade up so it's a moot point anyway. 

From what I remember it was for 2 future 1sts and an upcoming 2nd. For a non QB, that's a haul of an offer, if true. The problem is once we declined it, we lost any leverage with Burns to not make him a top paid edge rusher. As good as he was last year, he has never been a complete edge player. He has always been susceptible vs the run as we saw over and over. 

The picks may not have been top 10, but 1st rounders are valuable when you're in the middle of a rebuild, which we were, but Fitterer was in denial trying to act like we were only a player away from being a SB contender. It really is amazing how terrible of a GM he was. 

Of course, I also don't put it past McVeigh to put out a fake trade offer just to fug us over in contract negotiations because we wouldn't trade him away. 

God Fitterer's ability as GM was worse than swimming in a 3 week old construction site porta potty.