Marcus Peters: ‘F’ them. I felt disrespected’ by LA Rams

It was the 2019 NFL season. The LA Rams were battered on the offensive line and shredded on the defensive secondary. The team had already lost veteran defensive back Aqib Talib to a season-ending injury after the fifth game of the 2019 NFL season. His teammate, veteran defensive back Marcus Peters, only lasted on the Rams roster for one more week.

By week seven, Marcus Peters was gone, starting for the Baltimore Ravens. That same week, the LA Rams had pulled off the blockbuster trade and pried All-Pro defensive back, Jalen Ramsey, from the Jacksonville Jaguars. It was a complex series of trades to create the cap space necessary to take on Ramsey’s salary.

So the LA Rams traded DB Aqib Talib and a fifth-round pick to the Miami Dolphins in an NFL version of the salary-dump transaction. That move pushed over $4.2 million of salary-cap space off the books of the LA Rams and onto the books of the Miami Dolphins.  But the best was yet to come when the Rams traded starting cornerback to the Baltimore Ravens for a fifth-round pick and a reserve inside linebacker named Kenny Young.

The truth is that Marcus Peters played poorly for the Rams, but got a huge wake-up call when he suddenly found himself playing for a team thousands of miles away. Apparently, he needed that sudden shock-to-his-system because he played lights out for the Ravens in 2019. Those two  trades looked like this:

The Ravens were happy. The Rams were happy. The Jaguars were happy. Jalen Rams and Kenny Young were happy.  But Marcus Peters? The player whose anger seemed to haunt him wherever he played was not surprisingly angry.