(09-18-2019, 02:52 PM)D6 Wrote: Bullseye, great post to begin the thread.

The negative impact of the Eric Dickerson trade for the LA Rams was so great that it likely was a key factor in the Rams 21 season stay in St. Louis.

Thank you D6!

It's uncanny how spectacularly the Rams blew that trade.   They wound up with three first round picks and three second round picks over two years.  This excludes their own picks.

https://www.profootballhof.com/football-...-or-trade/

They botched every single one of those picks.  Every. Single. One.  Particularly noteworthy is not only did they get two veteran RBs in the deal, they alwo spent two first round picks (1 in 1988 and 1 in 1989) on the RB position, trying to replace the superstar RB they traded away!

A bounty like that should have given the Rams enough talent to legitimately challenge the 49ers and Cowboys for NFL supremacy in the early 90s for years.  This was before free agency.  The Rams could have kept these players as long as they wanted.  Instead, by 1991, just four years after the trade, they were a 3-13 team.


As for that trade contributing to the relocation to St. Louis, as far as I can remember, California has seemed quite reticent when it comes to building new football stadiums.  In my 42 years as a football fan, I have known the state to build exactly two-the one in Santa Clara which is the current home of the 49ers, and the one currently under construction in Los Angeles (which I believe is privately funded).  I can't imagine the aftermath of that trade helped keep them in L.A.

Given the Jaguars history of botching the draft, especially in the first round, I continue to be mystified as to why so many are so eager to deal away one of the few legitimate superstars we actually drafted in the first round.  What would happen to this franchise if we either got a similar haul and botched it similarly, or botched it by not getting sufficient value in the first place then compounding it by botching the picks?

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