Dan Graziano

You're like, okay, I'll never believe you again when you say it's not about the money.

But this year he kept it quiet.

They adjusted the contract.

to push back the date of his option bonus from, it was originally April 1st, I guess now it's September 1st.

So that made him kind of easier to trade because that money, when it kicks in, now becomes the new team's problem.

And as opposed to Cleveland having to fit it under their cap.

So they still kept saying they weren't going to trade him.

He's a career Brown.

He's on our Mount Rushmore, et cetera, et cetera.

But then the Rams came.

They wouldn't stop asking.

And once they put the young pass rusher, Jared Burse, in the deal, I think that made it, in addition to a first-round pick next year, I think it made it very hard for Cleveland to say no.

Yes.

I think, well, obviously what the Rams are trying to do is replicate what they did in 2021 when it was October when they acquired Von Miller, but they still, they, they kind of looked at him as like the finishing piece for a contending team.

And also the end of the year, they acquired Stafford in the off season.

So you have Matthew Stafford at 38 years old.

It's a team that was right there last year.

When you think about it, like a Thursday night game the week before Christmas, if they pick up a loose ball in the end zone that Seattle picked up and got for a two-point conversion, you're talking about being the one seed in the NFC, having the NFC championship game at home, maybe winning the Super Bowl.

So that's how close the Rams were.

So they add veterans to their secondary, which was a weakness, and then they get...