Matthew Stafford’s wife, Kelly, details Rams trade rumor saga — and the ‘inappropriate’ text she held back

The NFL waste and acquisition deadline has travel and gone, but not without Kelly Stafford pondering a awesome “what if?”

During Tuesday’s installment of her podcast, “The Morning After pinch Kelly Stafford & Hank,” nan woman of Rams backmost Matthew Stafford expanded connected caller waste and acquisition rumors surrounding nan 36-year-old awesome caller, who had been concisely linked to nan Vikings.

“Matthew to nan Vikings: Now, location was nary legs to this, which was very interesting, because I opened up Instagram 1 time and, ‘Oh, do I request to commencement looking for a location successful Minnesota?’ What’s happening?” Kelly said.

“… And that’s 1 point you don’t want to matter your husband, ‘Hey, person you heard if you’re getting traded?’ And that didn’t hap origin I’m not going to matter him that. I besides conscionable deliberation it is inappropriate successful a measurement erstwhile he’s pinch a squad for maine to moreover bring it up unless he brings it up, origin he’s seeing it too, it’s not for illustration he’s not seeing these rumors, correct?”

Stafford, now successful his 4th play pinch nan Rams aft being dealt to Los Angeles by Detroit successful January 2021, was astatine nan halfway of Minnesota waste and acquisition chatter successful October arsenic nan Rams continued to rebound from a 1-4 start.

Now connected a three-game winning streak, nan Rams person improved to 4-4 and person retained different captious portion of their offense, wide receiver Cooper Kupp, besides suspected to beryllium connected nan trading block.

Even arsenic nan tides person turned successful nan Rams’ favor, Kelly questioned what would person transpired had it not.

“I was reasoning astir it, successful our world now, what would hap if that rumor was true? What would hap if we hadn’t won a crippled again and Minnesota offered thing for Matthew that nan Rams were like, ‘Yeah, this works,'” Kelly said. “… The what-if for maine was like, OK, I’ve ever told myself we will ne'er abstracted our family origin it’s not adjacent to anyone. It’s not adjacent to him to not beryllium capable to spot his girls, it’s not adjacent to nan girls not to spot their dad, I would suffer my mind without him.”

The mother of 4 expressed empathy for nan families who person to header pinch nan reality of “moving successful nan blink of an eye” and starting anew.

“When nan first rumor hit, I was for illustration what’s happening? Obviously, I’m a go-with-the-flow benignant of girl, and to beryllium honest, I deliberation what, and this is what I said I would do, I would prime up, go, lease a spot for six months, put nan kids successful a nationalist schoolhouse location for nan autumn and past travel backmost successful nan winter,” Kelly said.

Recognizing her daughters would beryllium “devastated” had that been nan reality, Kelly — who has been joined to Stafford since 2015 — said she’d effort to make nan champion of a challenging business for nan kids.

“You effort to make it an adventure, that’s what we did for nan move here, but they were measurement younger,” she said. “You consciousness for nan families that are conscionable benignant of getting moved astir a bunch.”

The Rams, now 2nd successful nan NFC West down nan Cardinals (5-4), big nan Dolphins (2-7) adjacent Monday night.