Getty ImagesRams coach Jeff Fisher says his team is set with Sam Bradford at quarterback, which means there’s a good chance he’ll trade the second overall pick in the NFL draft to a team that wants Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III.
And he says acquiring a package of players and picks from such a trade could potentially stock the franchise for years to come.
“There are going to be teams that have some interest in that pick,” Fisher told Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “What we do will define the future of this franchise moving forward.”
Fisher isn’t ready to say for sure that the Rams will trade down, but it certainly seems likely that some teams will love Griffin enough that they want to make the trade that guarantees they can draft him. Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck will almost certainly go to the Colts first overall, and Griffin will surely be the No. 2 player on many draft boards.
“If we stay there who do we take, if we move down who do we take, what if we move down and come back up,” Fisher said, running through the possibilities. “That’s going to define the future.”
Fisher said he doesn’t anticipate the Rams ever being in this position again, as long as he’s around.
“I promise you this,” Fisher said. “We will not be picking second again. This is the last time we’re picking second.”
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I’d lol if he picked first next year.
And with the 3rd pick the Minnesota Vikings select Justin Blackmon!
Why are we treating Jeff freaking Fisher like he is some great football mind?
3 and out.
Manning/Leaf 2.0. Except I’d laugh if this time around, the number 1 busts while the number 2 has a flourishing hall of fame career.
thats right next year your #1 in draft
Good point about not picking 2nd again Jeff. If Bradford goes down early this year (and he will go down) you might be picking first. Big talk for a man that has a marginal career record. I like the positive attitude, but c’mon man…. your winning percentage is .542 so it is not like you are Lombardi, Madden, or George Allen, all who won over 70% of their games. You are more in line with Jim Mora Sr, and Dennis Green, who actually has a better percentage than you. I wish the Rams luck, but the guy you hired has a track record of making the play offs once every 4 years and basically is an 8-8 guy the other 3 of 4, but a hell of a salesman!!
The perfect scenario is obviously to trade down to Cleveland so it insures they get either Kalil or Blackmon then another pick at 22. They better not screw this up
dondada10 says:
Feb 3, 2012 2:15 PM
I’d lol if he picked first next year.
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Well… at least he’d be keeping his word not picking second
The Rams need to trade their pick to a team that is willing to part with a stud offensive lineman and their 1st round pick. They then need to do whatever it takes to draft Reilly Reiff. That would be two offensive linemen now to help protect Bradford and actually allow him the time to throw the ball. Finally, they then need to spend the rest of the draft acquiring linemen and a secondary. I hope Kroenke has the football smarts to not allow Fisher to waste the picks on his “wants” and go after the “needs”.
Why would someone trade up to #2 with the rams for Griffin when someone could trade up to #3 with the vikes?
Just doesn’t make sense that a team would voluntarily pay more to move up than they have to.
Will probably come down to which team will take the least amount to move down.
Picks AND players? Fisher may be overly optimistic. Most recent trades into the top of round one have just involved draft picks. I can’t see the Redskins, for example, giving up more than their number one and two this year, next year’s number one and maybe next year’s 3 or 4 to move up. It won’t do them, or any other struggling team, any good to fix one problem by giving up a good player, thereby creating another problem.
I don’t know why this is a story this is common sense. The first 5 picks always define a franchise for multiple years.
Hit or bust, it will always define the team. I mean a hit can and typically will help the team get better, a bust means more of the same.
I think the Rams lost a little bit of trade leverage by stating they are not going to draft a QB. Now, the Vikings could trade down and someone could step into the 3rd slot for less of a king’s ransom, knowing that a QB will still be on the board (either Luck or Griffin-most likely Griffin).
they won’t be picking 2nd next year, BECAUSE THEY’LL BE PICKING 1ST!!!
Sam Briddleford is GARBAGE!!
I like Jeff Fisher. and even though he’s in my division now, I’d like to see him have some success. but if his track record is any indication, the Rams will be picking somewhere from 13th-20th every year until he gets canned. if I was a Rams fan, I’d rather be getting top picks than mired in mediocrity every year. at least he’d be right, I guess.
“….you can be 2nd, 3rd, 4th…heck.. you could even be 5th!”
C’mon! Jeff Fisher?! He should be thankful that the other 10 “big name” coaches decided they all liked their cushy outside of football jobs or this clown would still be raking leaves on a landscaping crew.
Cue the “Fisher has only a .542 win % and is not a good coach blah blah blah” like every other article that has jeff fisher involved.
We get it. Get over it. Bring something new to the table.
Anyways, I’d like to see the rams take either blackmon or move down and get a bunch of picks because they need an o-line like nobody’s business…and corners..probably safety too…and outside linebackers..
“The St. Louis rams select with the first pick overall……..”
If the Redskins offer the #6 pick and WR Moss or their 4th rd pick, he’ll bite. Nothing more. I’d rather lose RGIII.
brewcrewchamps says:
Feb 3, 2012 3:22 PM
Cue the “Fisher has only a .542 win % and is not a good coach blah blah blah” like every other article that has jeff fisher involved.
We get it. Get over it. Bring something new to the table.
Anyways, I’d like to see the rams take either blackmon or move down and get a bunch of picks because they need an o-line like nobody’s business…and corners..probably safety too…and outside linebackers..
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Ok, how about this- It doesn’t matter that you have an over rated coach who has never been in charge of personnel decisions before because in 3-5 years you won’t have a team anymore.
I can’t believe the stupidity of some people. The reason you trade with the Rams, if you want RGIII is, if you don’t someone else will. If you try to trade with Vikings instead of the Rams, you’ll draft right after the team that took RGIII.
You haters crack me up. From 1999 to 2008, Fisher guided the Titans to six playoff appearances – only two teams (Indianapolis and Philadelphia) have more appearances during that time. In fact, he presided over the most victorious and successful five-year period in the Oilers/Titans’ 49-year history, between 1999 and 2003. His 147 career wins rank 21st in league history.
Maybe you guys need to take more breaks from fantasy football to enjoy the real thing.
Cleveland is only two spots down. They will not give a bunch of choices to move up two spots. I doubt they would even offer their #4 and #22 for the Rams #2. Maybe their #4 and their 2nd round. Cleveland will not lose all their Julio Jones picks to move up 2 spots. The Ricky Williams days are over.
how about D Jackson, Asante, and 15
Kalil to the Vikes. Make it happen!
hatesycophants says:
Feb 3, 2012 2:28 PM
Why are we treating Jeff freaking Fisher like he is some great football mind?
3 and out.
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Because he’s got more wins and Super Bowl appearances than most NFL coaches, Goobs.
And oh yeah, he’s smarter than you.
rbirving says:
Feb 3, 2012 3:42 PM
I can’t believe the stupidity of some people. The reason you trade with the Rams, if you want RGIII is, if you don’t someone else will. If you try to trade with Vikings instead of the Rams, you’ll draft right after the team that took RGIII.
I’ll admit, rbirving nailed me on that one. Good point, he’s right. He was quite hurtful though. I would have just preferred a “boom, roasted!” at the end.
jbcommonsense says:
Feb 3, 2012 3:23 PM
If the Redskins offer the #6 pick and WR Moss or their 4th rd pick, he’ll bite. Nothing more. I’d rather lose RGIII.
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Goobs, no one will accept that pathtic offer, especially from your loser team with it’s loser owner.
Brilliant about thought D.Jackson. Have fun trading a free agent. Asante a cover corner that playes a mile off the Line of Scrimmage that you just want to get rid of.Next.
Better put your money where your mouth is 7 million dollar man.
Hello Cleveland and your 1st two round picks. You are in the driver’s seat for this and you need a name player to market in Loserland. Be prepared to pay up.
You can’t strike gold twice. Enjoy your next Tim Couch and Akili Smith.
Signed
The Carolina Panthers
Yes! Vikes get Kalil!
If Fisher were smarter, he’d tell everyone they were intending on drafting RGIII, but leave the door open to trading the pick. That way the trade value would be higher.
Those saying for the team that wants RGIII to trade with Minnesota are stupid. Why make that trade when a team can still jump infront of you to get him? Then you’ve forked over multiple picks for the guy you weren’t coveting.
St. Louis could also just draft RGIII and trade him like the Chargers did with Eli. This way they assure they get max value for him.
Just an fyi for everyone asking why someone would trade number two when they can just trade to number three….even if a team says no to a trade to the rams and decides to trade with the browns, doesn’t mean the rams won’t still trade that pic…a team would have to wait to negotiate with the browns until the trams are off the clock which would mean risk letting another team trade to number two…that’s why the rams will be the team to trade with
This draft looks like Stafford/Sanchez 2.0, not Manning/Leaf. The team who takes either of them isn’t gonna be very good, and Griffin doesn’t have the three-step-drop, quick-release thing down well enough to stay alive with a sieve for an offensive line. So, he’ll run, and he’ll get hurt (see Vick, Michael). The Newton comparison everyone is using is invalid, because Griffin is a much smaller guy and will take a lot more damage, and Carolina actually HAD some pro-level offensive linemen to block for Newton.
Truthfully, Stafford being injured for two years was prolly the best possible thing that could have happened in Detroit. They managed to piece together a usable offensive line by the time he was healthy and coached up enough to play. Andrew Luck is going to face that same kind of problem in Indy, just like Gabbert and Ponder did, last year. He’s gonna be throwing short, off his back foot a lot, and he’ll take some hits.
Griffin might succeed, but he’s gonna have to survive til he has the tools and help to do it, and I don’t think he’s that close. He really looks more like Sanchez than anyone else, to me…much better than Leaf, but not a good enough passer to be more than a game manager to start with, and much less talented physically than Newton. Maybe a faster Joe Flacco?
Go for it. Then the Vikings actually get first pick in a position they actually need and won’t have to worry about anyone swiping their guy! I wonder how they’ll screw it up …
wivikesfan says:
Feb 3, 2012 3:03 PM
Why would someone trade up to #2 with the rams for Griffin when someone could trade up to #3 with the vikes?
btowngetsdown says:
Feb 3, 2012 3:15 PM
I think the Rams lost a little bit of trade leverage by stating they are not going to draft a QB. Now, the Vikings could trade down and someone could step into the 3rd slot for less of a king’s ransom, knowing that a QB will still be on the board (either Luck or Griffin-most likely Griffin).
Because if someone trades up to #3, someone else can still trade ahead of them with the Rams and snipe RGIII or Blackmon out from under them…
ytownie says:
Feb 3, 2012 4:17 PM
Cleveland is only two spots down. They will not give a bunch of choices to move up two spots. I doubt they would even offer their #4 and #22 for the Rams #2. Maybe their #4 and their 2nd round. Cleveland will not lose all their Julio Jones picks to move up 2 spots. The Ricky Williams days are over.
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You understand that this is the Browns you are talking about, right? LOL
It’s funny gmen said were a loser team. We may be picking at 6 but we beat the giants twice by a combined score of 27. Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying we had a good year I just found that funny. Reminds me of antrelle rolle saying they could beat us 99 times out of 100…… But I hope the skins get RG3. This offense needs a franchise qb and a #1 reciever to compliment hankerson next year. It will probably take the 1st 2nd and 4th round picks plus a 3rd in 2013 draft
The first thing that needs to be considered is where Manning and Flynn end up. If Miami and Washington end up with these guys the price Seattle and Arizona would have to pay would be considerable and St Louis would end up with mid first round picks in 2012 and 2013. Cleveland could very easily end up with Griffin at 4. I think Fisher made a mistake by talking about this now.