Matthew Stafford might play three or four more years with the Los Angeles Rams, but that will never stop the content about what the Rams are going to do to replace him. Rich Eisen stepped in for the clicks this week, suggesting that the Rams have a fork in the road ahead between drafting Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson or trading for Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
Of course, the Rams will almost certainly not do either of these things. For unknown reasons, Eisen avoids naming Burrow in the show but
then puts “trade for Burrow” in the headline of the clip.
“What’s more likely? Write this down. The Rams draft and groom Matthew Stafford’s successor. Or Matthew Stafford’s successor is someone else’s current blue chip A+ plus Pro Bowl All-Pro quarterback who’s going to raise his hand like an NBA player and say I’m out of wherever I am. Yeah, send me to Los Angeles. Yeah. Or maybe an MVP or a guy that’s played in the Super Bowl. I don’t know. I’m just throwing that out there.
Let them draft and groom the next one. Or, the next one is sitting and stewing in a spot where he’s sick and tired of being after it all said and done.“
What’s more likely? Drafting Simpson. The Rams still won’t be drafting Simpson. Not in the first round.
Eisen notes, unsurprisingly, that Simpson would of course love to go to Los Angeles and sit behind an MVP quarterback for a year or two.
“It would be great for Ty Simpson to go sit in Los Angeles, watch Matthew Stafford up close, get in Sean McVay’s offense, and marinate, and then when he’s ready, takes over for Matthew Stafford and has a career. That is a dream scenario. If I’m Simpson’s family, if I’m Simpson’s agent, if I’m Ty Simpson, that’s exactly what I would want 100%. Because being a quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams in McVay’s world with Les Snead creating all the necessary parts and a roster for you. That is it. Yeah, that’s it.”
Sure, any quarterback would like to be in a great situation. Especially a better one that Fernando Mendoza is about to land in with the Las Vegas Raiders.
But no matter how hard others try to hype him up, few are willing to go out on a limb for Simpson as a first round pick. He might be smart, he might have had a bad offensive line in college, but Simpson’s resume still lacks the polish to be the 13th pick and then L.A. doesn’t have another selection until the end of the first round.
Meanwhile, the Bengals will not be in a hurry to trade Burrow. That’s just offseason content filler for the NFL. He’s not being traded.
He’s also not being traded to the Rams while they have Matthew Stafford. And Stafford isn’t being traded to the Bengals.
So yeah, what’s more likely: This debate has any legs or Rich Eisen didn’t have anything real to talk about?
