Diante Lee

I don't know if anybody in the AFC looks as strong as the Rams do, or maybe only Seattle does right now in the NFC.

Nobody's hanging a banner based off of Super Bowl odds as of March 9th, 2026.

It absolutely did.

And I think that they did exactly what they were supposed to do, given the cards that they were dealt this offseason.

Right.

I think that ultimately the transition tag for Daniel Jones was probably the right idea.

Right.

No matter how I feel about him as a quarterback, based on your options, you got to be OK with that.

And then they went out and they traded Michael Pittman to Pittsburgh to open up the cap space, really essentially to be able to pay Alec Pierce what they're paying Alec Pierce now.

And I think if you walk out of the offseason saying, hey, we haven't made any long-term determination on Daniel Jones, I'll say yet at the end of that, right?

Because there is some reporting out there that they're still going to be kind of working on maybe getting him an extra couple of years on the end of this deal.

I am terrified of what that contract details are going to look like.

But I think that ultimately, if you exit this offseason saying, we kept the most important pieces of our hot start to last year together, and we're just going to cross our fingers that the trade for Sauce Gardner means that this defense gets a lot better than what it was in the second half of last year as well.

I think that you kind of just have to grit and bear it, I think, if you're Indianapolis.

The die was cast, right?

The team was already pot committed as it was.

You weren't going to tear it down.

I don't think you were going to play hardball with Daniel Jones, right?

That's something that we can talk about on podcast, but I don't know if you're a GM in the league.

That's the way that you want to be operating.