Breaking down the blockbuster Garrett trade
Dan Patrick dives into the blockbuster Myles Garrett trade between the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams, examining what both teams received in the deal.
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We knew A.J.
Brown was gonna be traded.
We just didn't know the exact details of what the Eagles would get in return for him.
So now he's a New England Patriot.
Myles Garrett getting traded, I don't know if anybody had that one.
It certainly felt like there was something, but I've been saying for the last year, a guy who said he wanted out, then you paid him to stay, then he restructures his deal.
The new coach comes in, hasn't met with Myles Garrett, and I kept-- I even said it to Paulie, I'm like, "There's something there.
I don't know what, but something is there."
And then all of a sudden he gets traded.
Wow.
And I give, I give the Rams credit.
I didn't like the Ty Simpson.
You know, you might take him and that's your future.
you know, it's the future next year.
But you know what?
You're all in for Matthew Stafford, and I still would've been all in on a wide receiver, tight end, skill position player, because if you're all in to get Myles Garrett, be all in to get another weapon here.
But then you start to look at the numbers here, and this is why the Rams needed to make this move.
They've added two All-Pro defenders.
So you got Myles Garrett.
They got Trent McDuffie from Kansas City.
In the games the Rams lost last season, they gave up 33, 26, 31, 38, 27, 31.
In two of those games, they gave up 38 to the Seahawks, 31 to the Seahawks.
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And if you're gonna bring in Myles Garrett, he is 30 going on 31, coming off the sack record.
You hope that you're gonna get at least, two or three, maybe, maybe four more productive years out of him.
You do trade Jared Verse, who is a really good player on a rookie deal.
And I think both teams won.
I think it feels more like the Rams won the bigger, bigger picture because they're favored to win the Super Bowl.
The Browns, you know, once they move on from Deshaun Watson, then I think they'll be in pretty good shape.
Draft picks, they've done pretty well.
They've made some moves.
You just gotta solve that position.
But that's a can you solve that position question that you're not gonna answer this year, unless Deshaun Watson actually plays like somebody who's getting paid what he's getting paid.
Last year of his deal, and this might be a situation of, Deshaun Watson, can you play well?
If you can't, we'll be drafting a quarterback probably pretty high next year.
All right, what do you have for me there, Dylan?
Our one poll question, and keep in mind, Jared Verse, in two years has 12 sacks.
In weeks eight through 12 last season, Myles Garrett had 13 sacks.
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And the Rams have been trying to get Myles Garrett for a couple of years.
This wasn't just a overnight, "Let's go for him."
They've been trying for quite some time.
I thought then when Myles Garrett wanted out, that he was gonna end up with the Rams.
They-- Think that-- You know, when, when you think about the Cleveland Browns, they had to overpay, Deshaun Watson.
Deshaun Watson wasn't going to Cleveland.
They're like, "What do you want?"
"All of it guaranteed."
"Okay.
All right, I'll go to Cleveland."
Myles Garrett wanted out.
"What do you want?"
"I wanna be the highest paid defensive player in the game."
"All right, you got it."
That's the only way they got these big-ticket items.
Now you're moving away from that.
Now-- And you're gonna eventually have to pay Jared Verse, but that can be a good thing if he produces the way you want him to, you hope, and he's only 25.
So I like what Cleveland did.
I, I don't know why you didn't trade Myles Garrett the year before when he did want out, but I wondered if maybe you weren't going to get the return you thought, but he would've been 29 at the time.
Now at 30, going on 31, and I think you did pretty well trading him away.
you got a lot of attention with the sack record.
Nobody is really, you know, tuning in to see a Cleveland Browns game unless they're just the curiosity of Shedeur Sanders and Myles Garrett.
Well, I don't even know if Shedeur is gonna be your starter this year, but for the Cleveland Browns, I think they did a pretty good job yesterday.
I'm sure Joe Burrow probably went, "Wait, he got traded where?"
Lamar Jackson.
That'd be funny if Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson called up each other.
"Hey, did you hear the news?"
"Yeah, I know."
"How do you feel?"
"A lot healthier.
A lot healthier."
