Jared Verse reveals what he told Rams teammates after being traded to Browns
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Jared Verse was hit with some tough news earlier this month when the Los Angeles Rams informed him that he was being traded to the Cleveland Browns in a deal for Myles Garrett. Verse has admitted he was upset and shocked by the trade, but he knew there was nothing he could do besides get ready to help Cleveland win.
Before leaving Los Angeles, Verse asked if he could address the team one last time, which Sean McVay was happy to let him do. He wanted to tell his teammates that he was being traded and share a message with them before heading to Cleveland.
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In an interview with Browns broadcaster Nathan Zegura, he revealed what he told his Rams teammates in that meeting room.
“When he gave me that news, my mindset wasn’t, ‘Oh my god, I’ve got to leave. I’ve got to pack up my house. I’ve got to go across the country.’ My mindset was, ‘I’ve got to leave my teammates, I’ve got to leave my brothers behind, because I don’t want to leave my brothers,’” he said. “So if I'm going to, I want to address them. I don’t want them to find out from ESPN or from this news site or that news site. I want them to hear it from me. Went to the team room, Coach, he released it, he told everybody that, ‘We’re trading Jared,’ and I got to tell everybody. I said, ‘It sucks I'm not going to be here. I love you guys to death. You guys are going to go out there, you guys are going to dominate, you guys are going to do everything you can do and you guys are going to play the best you can. You guys got 17 games for sure. Who knows what’s going to happen after that but just go dominate.’"
Verse left the Rams with one last thing, which he says was most important: beat Seattle.
“And I told them the most important thing, ‘Make sure’ – and I'm not going to cuss – ‘Make sure you beat the Seahawks. That’s all I care about,’” he said.
Verse said this earlier offseason that he has “disdain in (his) heart” for the Seahawks and doesn’t like their players, their coaching staff, or anything about them.
"They're a division rival, all that good stuff. But like I genuinely don't like them," Verse said in February. "Like, l got a disdain in my heart for them. Like, I hate them. I don't like the Seahawks at all. There's nothing I like about them. I don't like their players. There's nobody I like about their staff. I don't like them.”
No one on the Rams likes the Seahawks, and there’s no love lost on the part of Seattle, either. These are two bitter rivals, and the rivalry was taken up a notch this past season when the Seahawks beat the Rams twice, including in the NFC title game.
Verse won’t get to face the Seahawks twice a year anymore, but you can bet that hatred toward them won’t soon fade.
This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: Jared Verse reveals final message to Rams after trade to Browns