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Matthew Stafford on Rams Trade: I Wanted Deal to Team 'Ready to Win' Super Bowl

Matthew Stafford, 33, has never won a playoff game in his career, so it probably comes as no surprise he wanted to win wherever the Detroit Lions traded him.

He expressed his appreciation that the only NFL team he has ever known dealt him to a contender in the Los Angeles Rams.

"What's accurate is—and this is an incredible thing by [the Lions]—I asked to go to a team that was ready to win a championship," Stafford said in an interview with Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press (h/t Adam Maya of NFL.