Matthew Stafford’s Second Chance

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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When the Los Angeles Rams traded for Matthew Stafford this offseason, they delivered one of the NFL’s biggest arms to one of its biggest brains: head coach Sean McVay. Over a dozen years in Detroit, Stafford put up big individual numbers, but the Lions’ lackluster talent meant that his ability was often squandered on teams that had no real chance at contending for a Super Bowl. That is no longer the case, as Stafford, McVay, and the rest of the Rams franchise know that nothing less than the Lombardi Trophy will be considered a success: it’s Super Bowl or bust in LA. Today, Seth Wickersham takes us behind the scenes of how the Stafford trade went down, what it all says about quarterbacks in the modern era, and how Cabo, apparently, is the nexus of power in the NFL. Then, Pablo shares his ode to the creepiest college mascot in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is brought to you by Goodyear, helping you discover the road ahead.
0:06.2	Goodyear. More driven.
0:13.1	Why did you feel like the Rams were the right fit for you?
0:16.4	Looking at it in the short term there, it was really exciting just based on their recent past success.
0:23.2	You know, it had been a bunch of years in the playoffs, a bunch of years with winning records.
0:27.0	Once the trade happened and it was decided that I was going to be there, I wanted to make sure that I was pulling my weight.
0:32.7	When the Los Angeles Rams traded for Matthew Stafford this off-season, they handed one of the NFL's
0:38.5	biggest arms to one of its biggest braids, head coach Sean McFay. And while Stafford in
0:45.8	Detroit was pretty easy to overlook on account of the general awfulness of the Lions, there is
0:51.4	no ignoring the quarterback now. Not in Hollywood, not when nothing short of a
0:56.9	Super Bowl, which will be hosted in LA this postseason, would disappoint. Today, Seth Wickersham
1:04.4	takes us behind the scenes of how the Stafford Trade went down, what it all says about quarterbacks
1:09.8	in the modern era, and how Cabo, apparently,
1:13.6	is the nexus of power in the NFL.
1:17.9	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Wednesday, August 25th.
1:21.7	This is ESPN Daily.
1:26.3	So, Seth, I've summoned you here today because you've written this cover story on Matthew
1:32.1	Stafford, who I have now learned, likes to be called Matthew and not Matt, a mistake I've been
1:38.1	making for years and years now.
1:40.5	And it got me to thinking that I really don't understand anything, actually, about Matthew
1:46.0	Stafford or his interior monologue what he's actually like.
1:48.7	But you do because he spent all this time with him and his wife and his new coach, Shaw McVeigh.
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