ESPN analyst reveals why Brandon Aiyuk trade would make Rams NFC West favorites

It sure sounds like Brandon Aiyuk is getting traded. After an entire summer of juicy gossip and body language video breakdowns, there are now credible reporters out there suggesting that the 49ers are really about to do the damn thing.

And this being a Rams blog, I feel like it's important to point out, for the second time in 65 words, that a NFC West team is about to trade away one of their best players. Said NFC West team has a great player, currently on their team, and they're trying to get rid of him. It's a real chess-vs-checkers situation, if you consider flipping the table and watching all the pieces go flying all over the room a chess move. It's almost enough to wonder if maybe this makes the Rams the new division favorites? Dan Orlovsky thinks so, at least.

The Rams are so back now that the 49ers are trading away good players

In a recent(ish) TV hit, Orlovsky was brave enough to suggest what we all are thinking: the Rams are now undisputed kings of the NFC West. I should clarify that he doesn't exactly put it that way, but picking semantics is tacky. Here's some of his rationale.

"If Brandon Aiyuk is not a San Francisco 49ers, I would not take them to win their division," he said. "I would take the Los Angeles Rams. I think he's that important to this offense. Context matters."

Yes! Context matters! And that's why the 49ers' time is over. Because of context or something. Dan's a man of his word, so surely he'll pick the Rams now that Aiyuk is (probably) out the door, and also because historically no TV analyst has ever gone back on something they said a few weeks earlier, so I'm not sure why they'd start now.

Thank you, ESPN's Dan Orlovsky. And thank you, NFL's San Francisco 49ers. The Rams are back and you both can take as much credit as you'd like.