Former Rams DE Chris Long on trolling Commanders: “We beat them up”

On the latest episode of his podcast Green Light, former Rams defensive end Chris Long recalled a story from Week 2 of the 2012 season when he came up with the idea of ​​annoying the Washington Football Team by putting every player they acquired earlier that year in trade for Robert Griffin III on the field. This story was also mentioned by Jeff Fisher earlier this year on Pardon My Take, but Long told his side of the story on Green Light when he interviewed Boye Mafe and asked him if he was in the Russell Wilson trade.

Before the game, Long told Fisher that they should only send players they got in the RGIII trade to the captain’s circle for the coin toss. Fisher liked the idea, as long as the players didn’t play crappy and lose.

“I’m wondering if you’re proud to be part of the Russell Wilson haul because when I was in St. Louis and we had a really good defensive line, a ton of first-rounders, we also had this sudden burst of talent with RGIII. We traded picks – we didn’t necessarily do anything with the picks – but what we had was we had this pick of guys that played a lot of snaps. I can remember playing the Redskins and RGIII back then, and I said to Jeff Fisher, ‘Hey man, would it be cool if we could take all the guys we have in this pick to go to the captain’s circle and flip the coin?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ I said it with an IV in my arm 20 minutes before the game and Fish was like, ‘That’s a damn good idea. The only problem is you all can’t play like shit.’ So we went out there and beat them up and we had all these guys in the middle of the field.”

The Rams have signed many more players, but by the 2012 season they were down to Michael Brockers (who wasn’t necessarily included because he was LA’s first choice anyway), Janoris Jenkins, Isaiah Pead and Rokevius Watkins. You can understand what Long meant when he stumbled over his words trying not to say that the Rams had wasted the loot they got for the No. 2 pick, at least to some degree.

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However, the Rams won that game 31-28 at home in 2012 thanks to a touchdown pass from Sam Bradford to Matthew Mulligan in the fourth quarter. Jenkins was the only player who contributed much on the day, however, with a tackle for a loss and a pass defensed.

Nobody actually won the trade, but at least the Rams won that day. Both before and at the end of the game.