Hunt + Lewis >>>> Burns

[CBDellinger]

11 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

No they weren't. It was a 23' 2nd, 24' 1st, 25' 1st. That's QB value for a defensive player that wasn't even a top 10 edge overall player. You take that and run as fast as you can every damn time. 

I think it was a 24 1st, a 25 1st and a 25 2nd at the deadline of 2022 so 2 and 3 years out… which in Tepper years is like 3 or 4 new head coaches and 2 front offices worth of time.

 

 

[Daddy_Uncle]

Burns was never that great. He's always been severely overrated 

[WhoKnows]

2 hours ago, CBDellinger said:

Nah… the picks is were like 4 or 5 years out… rams just had a first round pick for 1st time in 7 years. I dunno why that’s not part of the conversation surrounding that proposed trade.   

In what world are you living. The first 1st would have just been made in the 2024 draft and we’d have two 1sts in the upcoming 2025 draft. The 2nd was pick 36 in the 2023 draft, so we’d have already used two of the three picks. 4 to 5 years out? It wasn’t part of the conversation because it wasn’t reality.

I kept saying that people who argued against it didn’t get that we’d get two solid starters with the money we saved (Hunt and Lewis) plus be one good GM away from also getting 3 rookie starters, any of whom might be better than Burns by himself. I was 100% right and everyone who argued against the trade was 100% wrong, period.

It was an awful trade to not make. Fitterer fuged up, simple as that. We made the Burns trade one 2-14 year later and turned a 2024 1st and 2025 1st into a 2024 5th and 2025 5th.

The biggest fug up by Fitterer was not using the Burns trade as our feeder into a rookie QB. Making the Rams Burns trade would have basically made the mistake of Young not devastating to our talent. Fitterer doubled down and lost both.

[strato]

4 hours ago, KSpan said:

Which was exactly the point of letting him go, to spread the resources. It was no guarantee that the FO would make the right moves but seems like they made positive decisions with that money thus far.

Yeah. I know. I am cranky over this toothless defense. 

 

all of a sudden having one matters. 

 

Edited 17 minutes ago by strato