What's interesting about the Miles Garrett trade is when it got reported by Schaefter, all the texts I got asked, could the Niners have done this deal?

From buddies, their text threads are blown up, your text threads are blown up.

A guy in the league text to me and said, do you think the Niners made an offer?

My answer is no, I don't, I don't like, not like this real offer, right?

The report was the Rams hounded the Browns because Miles Garrett's a player worth hounding the Browns four.

And what surprised me in the last several hours, reading some of the stories the last couple hours,

is these like statistical comparisons.

Look at the pressures for Jared First.

Look at the pressures for Miles Garrett.

I mean, you know,

it's a fraction of the player, but a large fraction, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, fine trade,

I guess, for the Browns. It's a, if you're a team that is never going to actually compete,

then it's a fine trade. And you need ammunition for your next quarterback because Achilles Smith and Tim Couch

always need more company, although maybe just maybe, just maybe, if they can get Arch

Manning, the curse will finally be broken, Arch Manning believer here.

So I get why you do the deal.

But of course, to me, of course you do this deal if you're the Rams. Similar situation, the 49ers run last year just in the sense that they're hosting the Super Bowl. They've already gotten one. They want to go for another. If you're going to pay Matthew Stafford, then you might as well try to win a championship with him. I mean, that's what he's there for it It feels like if you do it this year, this would be the year that he retires. But I watched McVeigh on Bustin with the Boise today because I saw somebody say, well, is this is McVe and Stafford going to retire? I think that McVeigh thing, you can never rule out because there's so much money potentially coming as an analyst, although he joked, you know, when you,

when you don't come off a Super Bowl win, there's less money. But I watched his bus in

interview. I've watched him talk a ton. You know, I think the guy that almost broke or that did

break and walk away from coaching is he called it quitting. He's like, let's be honest, I almost quit.

That's not what this is for McVeigh. This is just an opportunity to get a generational player, maybe the best non-quarterback

in the league, maybe the best player in the league. At 30, 31 years old, he'll be 31 this year.

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