Diante Lee

I think that the Rams make this kind of move knowing that, Hey, whatever comes out of this season, Matthew Stafford is going to take that, is going to give that long wave goodbye at the end of the year.

And they're going to be resetting with the rookie contract quarterback, or maybe it's a bridge guy, right?

For 20 to $25 million a year, right?

We saw that with Malik Willis, who has very limited tape.

And if he's able to go out and net,

20 to $25 million, you know, go out and able to net a $25 million a year, um, or somewhere in that neighborhood.

I think that you should probably feel good, you know, as a, as a team feeling like whenever Stafford is done, we can go get a guy on the cheap.

We'll have an expensive defense, but that will be the strength of this deal.

And Sean McVay, it's time for you to earn that highest paid NFL head coach, you know, salary that you get.

So I think that that's kind of the thinking, if you're trying to roll the ball, um,

a little bit further down the hill than 2026.

But specifically for this year, I think that this was clearly the Rams saying, if there was one thing that precluded us from getting to a Super Bowl, what was it?

I think it felt pretty clear that it was our coverage out on the perimeter.

And I think that they just took the biggest swings possible to go address it.

So I like how inspired those moves were.

I mean, even Caleb, I mean, the weather was messy, you know, but Caleb was good outside of like those, those in the game kind of turnovers.

I think that he was able to rip the ball too.

They're no worse than second in Super Bowl odds, I would say.

And I would bet that the distance between them and whoever the best team in terms of Super Bowl odds out of the AFC is probably pretty sizable, I would guess.

I don't know if there's a roster that's anywhere near Los Angeles' quality on paper on the other side of the league.