Once again, the Los Angeles Rams are taking their infamous 'F them picks' approach to speed their way to a Super Bowl. Sean McVay's team was already dangerous, and adding Myles Garrett surely made them a force to be reckoned with.
This is, obviously, a major issue for the Seattle Seahawks. They already had a huge target on their backs as reigning champions, and having such a stacked and dangerous team in the division is certainly worrisome.
Nevertheless, as great a player as Myles Garrett is, it seems that this move didn't actually change the equation that much. As Bleacher Report's Gary Davenport showed, the Rams still don't have the best defense in the league, not even after giving up those valuable assets.
The Seattle Seahawks are still right there with the Rams
In the post-Myles Garrett trade defensive rankings, the Rams' defense only moved up one spot from No. 3 to No. 2, with the Seattle Seahawks at No. 4 and the Houston Texans still holding onto the top spot.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the Rams won't be dangerous or that trading for Garrett was a mistake, but not always is the most stacked team the best. They already had a rising star in Jared Verse, who was younger and cheaper.
This team essentially gave up one of their former first-round picks while still on a rookie deal, a future first-round pick, and two valuable Day 2 selections, and they didn't even get that much better. The Seahawks, on the other hand, are still absolutely stacked -- one may even say they're much deeper -- and they got to keep their draft capital.
Garrett is coming off a record-breaking season in Cleveland, but it's almost impossible to believe he'll be able to replicate or improve that type of production. The Browns' entire game plan revolved around helping him break the record, and that won't be the case in Los Angeles.
It takes much more than a guy or two to get a team the distance. We've seen it in all sports. Assembling an Avengers-like roster isn't a guarantee, and while it obviously helps to have the creme of the crop, they still have to prove themselves on the field and not just on paper.
The Rams will obviously be a force to be reckoned with, but it's not like that wasn't the case before. They may just have jumped the gun and gotten a little anxious to fix something that didn't need fixing, and that decision might come back to haunt them in a couple of years when their stars are older, and they don't have the draft capital to replace them.
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