[Elvis]

[PARAM]

I need help. Can someone do the math? (I don't know the answer)

What is the draft-point value that the Rams gave up to get Cooks vs the draft-point value that the Rams are now getting to get rid of him?

They gave up #23 (760) and #198 (12) to get Cooks and #136 (38)
They gave up Cooks and got #57 (330) for a net of -404 which equates between pick 49 and 50. For two years of service. How many teams pick at 49 or 50 and don't get 1 good year of service?

Hey I liked Cooks. Sorry he had the concussion problems. But they apparently got out of that and took 13 mil off the cap.

[Haden]

Cooks was a head case, literally. Needed to move on. They also need to stop signing players with concussion or injury histories.

[Ramsdude]

Can we get back to the "chinese virus" now?!?!?!?

J\k. I think this is a great move. A second and a fourth is great value IMO. Didn't we get Faulk for a second and fifth? And Faulk didn't have any injury concerns.

The last concussion he had wasn't even due to a "hit" from a player. Wasn't it from him going down to the ground? I remember being surprised he was concussed on the play. Didn't he have 2 last year alone? When you are getting multiple concussions in one season, it might be time to hang it up.

Good move by the Rams IMO.

[majik]

They can draft Cooks replacement at 52 or 57 and get out of that contract. WIN-WIN

[Call me Roman]

good trade, I like it

[aeneas1]

[Hacksaw]

Prudent and necessary.
Cooks should hang em up before he can't remember what he was going to hang up... 🤯

[BobCarl]

They gave up #23 (760) and #198 (12) to get Cooks and #136 (38)
They gave up Cooks and got #57 (330) for a net of -404 which equates between pick 49 and 50. For two years of service. How many teams pick at 49 or 50 and don't get 1 good year of service?

ok ... rounding up to 500 points makes for a solid argument. Valid point made.

Another good argument is net of -404 for two years of service, when one of those seasons put our team in the Super Bowl. Hard to complain about that. Valid point made.

I have a hard time deviating from a Zero Sum mentality. 1-1=0 (I know that in economics Zero-Sum is a fallacy)

But nevertheless, I feel like the team is weaker now by getting less draft points (a lower value) than we spent.

I'm sort of looking at it this way:

Not only did we give up two firsts for a Ramsey, now we have to show him the money. And since we have to show Ramsey the money, we have to give up 400 draft points which is the equivalent of a 2nd round pick.

So the way I see it, we have given up two 1st rounders and a one 2nd for Ramsey.

Love Ramsey, Love Goff, and Love Donald as much as I do Isaac Bruce ... but wow .. putting so much of our salary cap in three elite players. Quite a gamble ... especially with not much help from high draft picks ... hopefully this gamble pays off.

I hope the Snead-Demoff-McVay team know what they are doing.

[ramsrams]

Got freed.