{"id":11182,"date":"2024-10-17T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T01:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=11182"},"modified":"2024-10-17T01:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T01:52:07","slug":"struggling-afc-team-shocks-everyone-by-acquiring-los-angeles-rams-qb-matthew-stafford-in-blockbuster-trade-proposal-that-would-blow-up-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=11182","title":{"rendered":"Struggling AFC Team Shocks Everyone By Acquiring Los Angeles Rams QB Matthew Stafford In Blockbuster Trade Proposal That Would Blow Up The NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/los-angeles-rams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>\u2019 Super Bowl window all but closed, GM Les Snead and head coach Sean McVay should sit down with quarterback\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/matthew-stafford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Stafford<\/a>\u00a0and see if he would welcome a trade.<\/p>\n<p>Now, trading Matthew Stafford would require a lot of moving parts. The 36-year-old is signed through 2026 with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/player\/matt-stafford\/1060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">base salary<\/a>\u00a0of $23 million for 2025 and an even larger sum of $26 million the following year, per OvertheCap.com.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford\u2019s recent injury history cannot be overlooked, either. Only so many teams would be interested in trading for an ageing quarterback whose production could fall off at any moment, but there\u2019s one club that actually makes sense here.<\/p>\n<p>That would be the QB-needy\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/las-vegas-raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>, who have struggled to replace Derek Carr since his release in 2023. Their $25 million free agent signing, Gardner Minshew II, was just benched in favor of inconsistent sophomore Aidan O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Oh heck&#8230;here&#8217;s Staffords first touchdown as a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ram?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ram<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ha6uXEtxd\">https:\/\/t.co\/1ha6uXEtxd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0MAkZG552b\">pic.twitter.com\/0MAkZG552b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 East Coast Rams Pod (@EastCoastRams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EastCoastRams\/status\/1834288972249354619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mark Davis\u2019 Raiders haven\u2019t had a true top-10 signal-caller since Carr\u2019s career year in 2016. Before that, you\u2019d have to go back to Rich Gannon\u2019s MVP-winning season in 2002, the year the Raiders last reached the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Brady just purchased a minority stake in the Raiders. If there\u2019s one person who can sell Matthew Stafford on the idea of coming to Vegas for the final stretch of his career, it\u2019s the seven-time Super Bowl champion.<\/p>\n<p>For the Rams, trading Stafford puts them in a spot to bottom out and snag a top QB prospect in the 2025\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0Draft like Georgia\u2019s Carson Beck, Colorado\u2019s Shedeur Sanders or Quinn Ewers of Texas.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-what-raiders-should-offer-rams-for-matthew-stafford\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Raiders Should Offer Rams For Matthew Stafford<\/h2>\n<p>Because the Raiders would be doing a financial favor for the Rams by taking on Stafford\u2019s contract, GM Tom Telesco probably wouldn\u2019t have to give up too much for the Super Bowl-winning QB.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders should offer a 2025 third-round pick, a 2026 fifth-rounder and Minshew to the Rams for Stafford. The latter could do wonders with Jakobi Meyers, Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer as his main weapons, while the Rams can use Minshew as a bridge QB before drafting their new signal-caller of the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; With the\u00a0Los Angeles Rams\u2019 Super Bowl window all but closed, GM Les Snead and head coach Sean McVay should sit down with quarterback\u00a0Matthew Stafford\u00a0and see if he &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11184,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions\/11184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}