Over two years ago, the Los Angeles Rams made a splash move and pushed all of their chips into the middle of the table when they traded away Jared Goff and draft picks for Matthew Stafford.
Before I get started here, I want to make one thing clear, and it’s extremely important. The point of this column isn’t to say that the Rams shouldn’t have traded for Matthew Stafford. Sean McVay and Les Snead got a Lombardi Trophy out of it and they obviously wouldn’t trade that for anything. The Rams-Lions trade is the rare case where a trade works out in the way that it was supposed to for both teams.