The Seattle Seahawks will have to deal with elite edge rusher Myles Garrett twice a season for the foreseeable future. The Cleveland Browns traded the star to the Los Angeles Rams this offseason. The odd part is that a recent article by ESPN grading each team's offseason doesn't like what LA did overall.
Head coach Sean McVay and the Rams received a C+ grade from ESPN's Seth Walder. That includes the move for Garrett. What Walder truly disliked was the obvious from the 2026 NFL Draft.
Los Angeles chose quarterback Ty Simpson while the team still had Matthew Stafford. The issue is that the selection might somewhat mirror what the Green Bay Packers did when they chose Jordan Love in 2020, when they still had Aaron Rodgers. Stafford might match Rodgers in importance, but Simpson is not Love and likely will never be.
Seattle Seahawks rival, the Los Angeles Rams, receives brutal critique of their offseason
Love was a much more NFL-ready player than Simpson is, and that includes when he might eventually play after a season or so of seasoning. Simpson might have decent raw skills, but he needs to learn while he plays. He won't have that chance with Stafford as QB1.
Walder wrote, "Selecting a player who won't play without a Stafford injury is the opposite of maximizing their current window. And it looks even stranger after the Garrett trade...Not to mention that Simpson was a reach at No. 13; the Rams could have traded back and still had a good chance to select him later."
Of course, for Seattle Seahawks fans, it's impossible to feel badly for LA when it is trying to take everything head coach Mike Macdonald and his team earned last season. The Rams were so good, after all, that they would have also likely destroyed the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. Seattle was the best team in the NFL. Los Angeles was the second best.
What the 12s don't want is for the moves that the Rams think are positive from this offseason to be long-lasting. Seattle wants to dominate its division, as well as the rest of the league, for quite some time. Los Angeles trying to improve is a reaction to what happened last year.
The positive part in the long run is that the Seahawks are unlikely to be diminished for many years. General manager John Schneider has made decisions that build the core of the team for the foreseeable future, while Rams general manager Les Snead appears to be in win-now mode.
By 2027 and beyond, Schneider, Macdonald, and the rest of the team should still be contending for titles. Los Angeles might be looking at a long and dirty road to ruin.
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