The Stafford trade is so monumentally dumb for the #Rams on every level that I am astounded at how many people are outsmarting themselves trying to make it seem shrewd.
I mean, I get how well "I understand Matthew Stafford on deeper levels than you" plays #OnHere. He's damaged goods on the downside of his career. The Rams traded extreme draft capital and are eating cap $$ they don't have to get him. It's a disaster.
The #Rams are going to lose Leonard Floyd and others to free agency. Don't know how they even afford the Darious Williams tender offer. And they lack the draft picks to upgrade. They just attached an anchor to a sinking team.
Also, I know the #Rams ranked 1st in weighted defensive DVOA. Let's see what happens if they face less Nick Mullens/Kyle Allen/Chris Streeeeever/#Patriots in quit mode/NFC East next year. They're a top 10 defense, but they will lose pieces in the offseason.
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Some thoughts on how to be a little less afraid and anxious the days of Coronavirus, from your neighborhood NFL writer/former math teacher/parent from New Jersey, now under a pretty stringent emergency.
1 Try to “tune out” the national/international numbers. Worry about your phone booth: your family, loved ones, neighborhood. Are they safe/healthy/compliant? Our brains don’t handle huge numbers, international scale and long lags between actions/results/consequences very well.
2 If the last time you thought about exponential growth was an Alg II class 20 years ago, you aren’t going to process national data well: #’s too big, too many variables, and so on. It will only scare you. Let the experts do it. Do what you can to improve NEXT week's #s