Burns, Taylor: How much would you pay?

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If the Rams decide they don’t want to wait until next offseason and decide to try to make a big move for Brian Burns or Jonathan Taylor now, how much would you be willing to offer?

Assume, for the sake of the hypothetical that the Rams are would be able to sign whomever the acquire to a long-term deal.
 
A 3rd and 4th max for Taylor.
A 2nd and 3rd max for Burns, preferably the 2025 picks.

Definitely not any 1sts and, even with the way we’ve looked through the first 2 games, we are 1 Stafford injury away from a legit Top 5-10 pick next year. That is not worth either of those guys.
 
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AvengerRam said:
If the Rams decide they don’t want to wait until next offseason and decide to try to make a big move for Brian Burns or Jonathan Taylor now, how much would you be willing to offer?

Assume, for the sake of the hypothetical that the Rams are would be able to sign whomever the acquire to a long-term deal.
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3rd this year and a 4th next year for Taylor.

2nd, 3rd this year with a 2nd next for Burns. Would consider giving up a first if it’s not this year.
 
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I'd do Akers and a 2nd (IF INDY PAYS PART OF HOS CONTRACT) for Jonathan Taylor.

Jefferson and next year's first and 3rd for Burns.
 
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they may try to strike now for players like this for sure...

Burns will likely be quite costly however.
 
The Burns question is interesting. Given that Carolina has failed to sign him to an extension, the clock is really ticking. Perhaps his price is lower now than it would have been last year?

As for Taylor, if we could acquire him without giving up our 2024 first round pick, I’d definitely be on board with that.
 
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Would rather not trade our early picks JUST to grossly overpay someone who we could acquire as a free agent anyways next year. Draft, develop some upper level talent (for a change) and have them under cost control for 4-5 years and use our available cap room for actual free agents. I am not a fan of trading high picks AND paying the return immediately out of the gate. This strategy may have worked once but Im not sure if it's sustainable.
 
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Burns next to AD would be a sack machine but unless the Rams would be willing to pay him Bosa money, he'll be a 1 and done player
If they're willing to pay that freight and feel he can give Bosa type production, I can see them offering a Jalen Ramsey type haul. If he stays in Carolina, he gets franchise tagged
Taylor? Wouldnt touch him for anything more than a 4th-5th round pick. He hasnt played since mid November and will want heavy cheddar after the season.
 
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Snead needs to 'stay the course'.
No trading for an elite EDGE at this time, wait to see how it shakes out during free agency 2024. I'd like to see if Ochean Mathis has anything to offer when he returns from IR, ... just imagine if he showed the 'right stuff' at OLB as has Nacua at WR or some of our other recent draft picks ?
The only position I'd like to see added to now is a cheap RB to help spell Williams at RB.
Save our draft picks for next season.
jmo.
 
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I'd go for Taylor and use CMC as the comp in order to pay less for him. He's excellent, but he's not CMC.

2ND next year, future 3rd and a couple of 5ths. Throw in Akers.

I'd hold off on Burns and would rather try to bring in Van Noy, Ingram or Dunlap and maybe even Hicks.

Taylor is worth a relatively modest investment, imo.. because he can help the Rams offense AND defense.

I don't want to break the draft capital bank on Burns, though.
 
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AvengerRam said:
The Burns question is interesting. Given that Carolina has failed to sign him to an extension, the clock is really ticking. Perhaps his price is lower now than it would have been last year?

As for Taylor, if we could acquire him without giving up our 2024 first round pick, I’d definitely be on board with that.
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But could we afford to pay what he's asking? Last I heard he was wanting McCaffrey dough.
And if we don't sign him, then what? Do we hit him with the Franchise tag for next year?
Seems to be a good bit of moving parts as far as Mr. Taylor is concerned.

~ArkyRamsFan~
 
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