I still don't think that's a terribly accurate representation of what it yielded, but I digress.
I think the reason you can say the Chiefs won the trade decisively is - scoreboard.
Ronnie Stanley has played 12 games the last 2 years. Those were two years with Lamar Jackson in his prime and on as reasonable a contract as he'll ever have again. 2 years coming off Jackson's MVP season where they expected to contend.
And in both of those years they could've DESPERATELY used Orlando Brown. He'd have been an enormous benefit for them; someone that could've stepped in for Stanley and kept things humming in an offense designed in a way that really covers for his weaknesses. They'd have been a MUCH better team with OBJ than they were without him over those 2 seasons.
Meanwhile we played in an AFCCG and won a SB in our two seasons. Seasons where we were playing Andrew Wylie at RT and Brown, for all his faults, was available. he played 39 of a possible 40 games and in that time was...credible, even in an offense that empashizes his flaws.
Oh, and we got Nick Bolton, who's awesome.
I think we won this deal in a walk, especially if you're looking at it in a zero sum capacity. The deal made our team better and it made Baltimore MUCH worse due to the Stanley injuries over the last couple seasons.
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