Ernest Jones IV trade request has been granted!

that see so fast cuz they don't have quarterback all right I got some breaking news Rams uh so this is just in from Jordan wa wait hold on hold on let me brace myself okay go ahead you ready yep uh the Rams are trading uh Ernest Jones to the Titans per multiple sources I don't know what they get back I don't know if this is what for what that's all I have the information on again the Rams are trading Ernest Jones to the Titans per multiple sources from Jordan Schultz enjoy Tennessee oh my God what goes through your head first other than you rubbing your face real hard I can't say it on air just give let me get to break and I'll tell you but do good Lord why why now why now why now why now so Christian Rose boom is your starting middle linebacker Rose boom hmel and reader and Omar Spates are you guys now with Chris Scher is your defensive coordinator yes no Aaron Donald no ad and a pretty good defensive front who's the leader that's a great question aie no you know what it might be Jared and that's fine just got here and he's kind of laid back he's a corner you know he's a he's a jet pilot jet fighter pilot he's he's a little bit different uh but it might be verse verse is the guy that's not afraid to drag you into a street fight rookie but that's okay sometimes they're special out of the gate I think he might be one of them every play that happened if it was close to the sideline Jared ver is the first person to run up and just like get in that guy's face in terms of encouragement so maybe some you need that guy that's going to drag you into a street fight uh but this is a big try to put a positive spin on this there isn't one I I don't think there is either but I'm G try you DeMarco one thing you need to know about me is that I'm always positive I'm with you I'm with you I just I this is the worst case scenario yeah it it's not great could they have really found something in Omar Spates could could that and I get it's preseason God only knows what that means probably not much but he kind of did Flash he kind of did pop and I know that it takes some time but not unlike what they did with Cory Littleton a while ago where an undrafted player all of a sudden he's in the middle of your defense he's calling the defenses to he's an important part of what you're doing it takes there's a little bit of an evolution there he's a special teams guy to start but they ultimately found a starter at that position in a similar starting spot with Spates you can get lucky you can find London Fletcher an undrafted guy you plug in and he turns out to be better than you think and he plays 16 years doesn't miss a game uh that could be Omar Spates but it also could be an absolute disaster what I did know is Ernest Jones was the best middle linebacker you had on this football team and now he's gone you know what else I know what and I'm I'm not trying to be flip they don't mess around the Rams yep yeah I know they they're you're not going to have a staring con contest with them and win like if you if you are noisy bye I see here's what I don't know I'm gonna find out because I'm gonna talk to him what were you asking for yeah cuz that's that's what I don't know like how far apart you were okay I I get that but let's just say whatever it is whatever he's asking for and the Rams are like there's just no way we're doing that like if they feel that we're not doing that I get what he wants I get what they want to pay and maybe there's a a big gap between those two things but you're going to lose now you're going to Tennessee okay you probably get your bag at some point good fine I get it but you better know who you're in a negotiation with that if they're going to budge or not because sometimes they say no give me what I want or I want out fine you can leave isn't that what the uh the Jets are doing the Jets had an issue with that right with uh the guy from the Eagles I'm blanking on his name right now yeah you you traded for a guy that wants another contract may maybe they got an insurance that that they're going to give him what he wants I look if he says 100 million bucks I don't know what to say to you I don't like it but I'm gonna roll with it it it's like you said it's it's not good news but I also don't know if it's a hole in the side of the boat much bigger question for me is what you do at the tackle positions for the first two weeks of the Season lar Jackson is suspended he's gone havenstein might be dinged havenstein Sean Shan McVey said yesterday that he might not be ready for opening night dude Aiden Hutchinson's a pretty serious dude he's he's a hunter he's a pretty serious dude yeah and he's you're going back there I have never heard such vitriol coming off a sideline ever and I've been some weird places I've been to the black hoing about the Detroit fans yes I've been to Candlestick I've been the Levi I've been to the worst places on the planet college and pro and I have all everything everything at you at Matthew Stafford okay I mean kids little kids you weren't even alive when he was here or you were a baby and you're saying this stuff your son is cussing him out stop him maybe learned it I learned it from you dad I those old PSAs everything is okay today scream what you want and it's going to be loud it's going to be CRA why do they have hard feelings at M Matthew Stafford I think it was more of we love Jared fine yeah he didn't break your heart he didn't he didn't do what what Ernest Jones just did he didn't leave a week before the season started did everything he possibly could for the Lions I know and I think it was over a decade and then said Hey listen man I got to take a swing at this it was about as amicable of a separation as you could possibly have it's more that the lions are mad at the Rams for not valuing Jared gof who now is and he's the scap goat quarterback yeah because you can't boo St Kony yes mat you know what I'm saying Matthew sh mcve which they do right but Stafford is kind of everything that that that that they feel and they were supporting Jared and they went overboard the point is you got to go back there without Ernest and maybe you're gonna be down both of your tackles that's scary so we're talking about Ernest Jones o over the weekend there was a report that he requested requested a trade I'm having a hard time with that word today requested um he got one today yes Rams and Titans are in agreement on a trade for Ernest Jones no specificity of what the Rams get Titans get besides that probably picks um otherwise they probably would have said uh what is coming the Rams way so I know you're going to hit that waiver wire yeah I know you're that waiver wire give me let's for the sake of this conversation the Rams defense with Ernest Jones your expectation for what it could have been give me a letter grade for that is that a b defense I thought they're going to be B Young and they're going to be young and they're going to make a lot of young mistakes they're also going to make make a lot of young big plays too okay fast defense now what without him what is it you're kind of rudderless right now is it worse than a c I'll give them a c i mean you you still have a pretty good front your front is going to be pretty good no matter who's behind them but you still have to deal with San Fran twice a year that's what it takes to to win a division and this is not something you want to go to without a an experienced middle linebacker so that's what I'm you're going to hit the waiver wire at some point I I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that this is how it ended up because this is how they handle their business when they get somebody that doesn't want to be there they're not there very long right they they they girly gone goof gone uh there's no two cam Acres gone Ernest Jones gone like they they're not playing with that but I really thought that maybe this might be the expect the expectation or the exception I should say um there's no way they wanted to do this well clearly clearly they weren't entirely opposed to doing it because it just happened it see what it looks like crazy like if they didn't do this trade would Ernest Jones just play the rest of the season yes so then why would what choice would he have right why would you do the trade if you think they don't do noisy I just it doesn't make any sense I I'm with you unless what they're getting back is something super valuable to well but what you're getting back is not going to be here for a while if it's piss right unless you're going to give me a guy with that much experience then no Factor cap fact this sucks that's coming up next it's Travis SLE DeMarcos in for SLE on 710 ESPN is your vehicle the Titans get Ernest Jones and a 2026 sixth round draft choice coming back the other way the Rams will receive a 2026 fifth round draft choice so this won't even be a pick in next year's draft this is a pick in two years from now in the fifth round which you know the Rams have done pretty well in the late rounds of the draft they found puka in the fifth round last year they found some good players deeper in the draft but your starting middle linebacker for a fifth round pick two years from now uh they must have really not felt that they were ever going to come close to getting an agreement there yeah there was an impass and it's it's in and I'm looking up Tennessee's personnel and Rand carthon I know him very well he was their GM I think he and lesne overlapped uh so there's a great relationship they did so hey look I got an issue uh he's not happy we need to send him some place they need help so it makes it makes sense this seems like a a favor type thing you know what I mean a favor for your best linebacker they have they have reached an impass he thinks he's worth X they're willing to pay Y and it's going to be a problem all year and I'll tell you this you don't have time for distractions man I guess not but like this is this is where I keep coming back to we're not going to give you what you want you can either not play or play for us he's going to play well maybe he doesn't that's what I'm saying maybe he doesn't if if you give him that ultimatum and I've heard this with other coaches uh it used to be the coaches would just tell us to do something and we do it now you have to tell these players why so if you push him to that situation either you're going to play or you're not he might not he may sit at home and then you've got a problem I I got maybe DeMarco you you know the man more than I do but here the guy's a football player he wants to make money he wants to get the bag he wants to go out there and do if I said to you and by the way the the clock is ticking on every athlete right you you know you only get so many chances to go do this and I get that he won't like it but I really don't think a lot of guys are going to choose not to play well I don't know how this Situation's better going to Tennessee are they going to pay him what he wants that's what I'm saying I mean it's going to be the same situation there it's just not here that's what I'm saying if you're trading a guy like Ernest it was it was beyond it was not going to get fixed you burnt the bridge something happened so that's why he's not here and there's there is a connection between GMS yeah so that if you read between the lines yeah this is a tweet from Jordan rodri just now she said she's GNA follow up later on this week but Jones was held the command of the Green Dot for the Rams defense which we've talked about a couple times it's not just the person who's the leader but he's also helping to do commands on the field sure uh she says she can see Quinton Lake uh or Cam curl that over and this player obviously has to be on the field full time in the short term Breer and Hummel will have to have done it too so not exactly yeah I think uh Quinton lake is a good player can play a lot of different positions but this is a guy that was struggling to get on the field last year at certain points he's going to play a lot I know he is but again this isn't somebody that's been embedded in this defense for a long Cameron curl came from Buffalo he's brand new too like You' you've got these guys that are not not that they're not good players but usually that leadership role comes from somebody that's been around the block once or twice that kind of knows and understands what it is that you're asking to do that this is going to go to somebody who's a relatively new starter or relatively newcomer or a rookie like you were suggesting earlier that means a leadership void to me that that means that there's nobody willing to to not willing but ready and just the obvious choice to slide into that role Green Dot as a safety is hard you're in the back end man I mean you got to communicate everything going forward I mean the best spot for it is your lineb backer he's right in the middle he can turn talk to the safety turn talk to the front he knows everything uh and he was going to be out there every single play so that's just that's you're losing a lot of leadership going forward without a guy like Ernest Jones and that's just it's it's impossible to replace how do you avoid it like and I'm not even talking about Ernest Jones specifically I don't think you can is that is it just is I want this this is what I think I'm worth and the team saying understand what you think we think something very different and we just can't is there a way to work around that okay personal experience okay so I was there in the room when the Rams brass told Kevin Carter if you do X Y and Z we will pay you we will give you another contract right this is the same year we also went to the Super Bowl Isaac had a run Curt Warner came out of nowhere so of course everything changed in six months now wait we can't pay you now we have to pay Isaac and Kurt first can you wait he got mad he pouted yeah he played half speed for an entire season he wasn't the same guy he was clearly upset that hurt us so I've seen that it happens when guys think they should be in lying to get paid and they don't and they see other people making big money or getting the bag it upsets them if you don't massage that correctly or take care of them they turn into problems all year I don't know how you massage it correctly right like the the examp example that you're talking about we're going to pay you a year from now okay year from now comes back hey you know what something's come up and I get it Isaac Bruce and B Warner PUK I I staff yeah but that's not what you told me we were GNA do now I'm pissed now now you were maybe not lying to me but you've changed your plan I get that right but how do you massage that I don't know if you can that's what I'm saying that's how you get to Tennessee Tennessee is not expected to be a very good football team that's that's that's what happens but this is what happens in the business you're expected it doesn't happen now you're upset how do you handle it all right there somebody's phone better be ringing right now and you know who and I know who we'll tell everybody else when we come back it's Trav it's Dem Marco it's Trav and SLE 710 ESPN