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The Mismanagement of the LA Rams
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nighttrain
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It's gonna get worse before it gets better. Gurley will leave it all on the field this year for his home team and everyone will jump all over the Rams about it. But he won't last much beyond that IMO.
We need a badass draft to settle down some of our roster gaps. Do that and we'll be in the playoff mix.
We need a badass draft to settle down some of our roster gaps. Do that and we'll be in the playoff mix.
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What's done is done and if the player is no longer in horns I don't care about them or their contract. We're a better team without most of the guys we lost and that's what matters the most to me. Crappy luck made the Rams look bad but now we can move on and upgrade those positions.
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I don't think he can leave it all on the field. I don't doubt Gurley has heart I think what we saw last year is just who is he going to be now. A good RB inside the redzone and a good blocker but he just isn't a number one back anymore.
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We'll see and I hope you're right. But IMO there was more going on than just his knee last season. So expecting the worst i.e. him looking great next season for Atlanta. But again even if that happens it won't last, we'll just have to weather more negative BS from the media.
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Mismanagement? I don't think so. As a former business owner for 33 years I know bad management when I see it. Mismanagement is like the Browns and Dolphins. Snead was fighting to quickly and I mean quickly win over a new market. So he made some splash signings to use them as bridge players while he signed and developed a talented group of young players. Even now this roster is loaded with talent top to bottom.
Two years of outstanding success won the market for the Rams and they fell one game short of their goal. That is not mismanagement. Mismanagement is when a team is perennially circling the drain like the aforementioned teams. IMO last year's failures were two-fold. Key injuries and two players on the right side of the o-line that exposed themselves to be the marginal players they are. Now add in coaching failures and again they fell short. Not because of a lack of talent but the failures of players like Havenstein, Blythe, and Zuerlein they fell one game short of making the playoff. But again they finished with a winning record.
The problem is with media and fans who are totally into instant gratification. One down season after two excellent ones is hardly worthy of the moniker of mismanaged. This is a young team and it's building a nucleus of elite players. Look at who they have now.
Ramsey, Long, Rapp, and AD with young veterans like Floyd and Robinson on defense. Brockers is a better than average DE but when you look at his age and contract he's a place holder until they bring someone up behind him. Both Gurley and Cooks are gone but they held significant long term injury exposures, and so how could the management anticipated Cooks concussions and Gurley's decline. The Rams did the correct thing in terms of management and cut their losses to move on from them.
In 2018 and 2019 the team invested draft capital in the o-line with two very solid prospects in Allen and Noteboom. When drafted did the doubters cast doubts when they were drafted? I don't believe they did. I still believe the team was correct in their evaluations. So the Rams won their market while building a core roster of a championship-caliber team. That is good management not bad. Anyone can nit pik and take things out of context but if you don't you see a team almost out of transition as a true contender.
Bad management are the Chargers who have shown their incompetence time and time again much like the Dolphins and Browns. There isn't a team in the NFL that can dominate the Rams if the Rams simply don't give the game away. As a fan what more can we ask? No, my friends, this team isn't mismanaged. Have there been some missteps? Sure, but what franchise including the Pats hasn't had them. This team is 33-15 over the last 3 years. They don't have that success (69% win ratio over the last 3 years) without good management.
Two years of outstanding success won the market for the Rams and they fell one game short of their goal. That is not mismanagement. Mismanagement is when a team is perennially circling the drain like the aforementioned teams. IMO last year's failures were two-fold. Key injuries and two players on the right side of the o-line that exposed themselves to be the marginal players they are. Now add in coaching failures and again they fell short. Not because of a lack of talent but the failures of players like Havenstein, Blythe, and Zuerlein they fell one game short of making the playoff. But again they finished with a winning record.
The problem is with media and fans who are totally into instant gratification. One down season after two excellent ones is hardly worthy of the moniker of mismanaged. This is a young team and it's building a nucleus of elite players. Look at who they have now.
Ramsey, Long, Rapp, and AD with young veterans like Floyd and Robinson on defense. Brockers is a better than average DE but when you look at his age and contract he's a place holder until they bring someone up behind him. Both Gurley and Cooks are gone but they held significant long term injury exposures, and so how could the management anticipated Cooks concussions and Gurley's decline. The Rams did the correct thing in terms of management and cut their losses to move on from them.
In 2018 and 2019 the team invested draft capital in the o-line with two very solid prospects in Allen and Noteboom. When drafted did the doubters cast doubts when they were drafted? I don't believe they did. I still believe the team was correct in their evaluations. So the Rams won their market while building a core roster of a championship-caliber team. That is good management not bad. Anyone can nit pik and take things out of context but if you don't you see a team almost out of transition as a true contender.
Bad management are the Chargers who have shown their incompetence time and time again much like the Dolphins and Browns. There isn't a team in the NFL that can dominate the Rams if the Rams simply don't give the game away. As a fan what more can we ask? No, my friends, this team isn't mismanaged. Have there been some missteps? Sure, but what franchise including the Pats hasn't had them. This team is 33-15 over the last 3 years. They don't have that success (69% win ratio over the last 3 years) without good management.
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Not going to even bother.
Snead saw a Super Bowl window and he rolled the dice. We didn't win it, but we got there.
I've spent almost 50 years of my life as a Rams fan, and I can remember countless years where our front office didn't have the fucking balls to go for it and try to win big, instead passively sitting back and letting the team settle for also-ran status or worse. Les and Sean went after the whole enchilada and damn near got it. I'd rather have a GM that rolls the dice and goes for it than one who is too gutless to gamble. Oh, and despite our cap issues this year, the team isn't in that bad of shape, it's certainly in better shape than at any time of The Great Suck from 2005-2016, not to mention the Nasty Nineties from 1990-1998.
So fuck that guy.
Snead saw a Super Bowl window and he rolled the dice. We didn't win it, but we got there.
I've spent almost 50 years of my life as a Rams fan, and I can remember countless years where our front office didn't have the fucking balls to go for it and try to win big, instead passively sitting back and letting the team settle for also-ran status or worse. Les and Sean went after the whole enchilada and damn near got it. I'd rather have a GM that rolls the dice and goes for it than one who is too gutless to gamble. Oh, and despite our cap issues this year, the team isn't in that bad of shape, it's certainly in better shape than at any time of The Great Suck from 2005-2016, not to mention the Nasty Nineties from 1990-1998.
So fuck that guy.
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I watched this a couple of days ago. I thought this was a really fair assessment of what has happened the last 3 years. He made it clear how different it could look with a healthy Gurley and Cooks. I admire McSnead for taking the cap hits and going in a different direction. It's rare to see FO admit mistakes that early. Usually they play the PR game and wait til the cap hits are favorable.
We have questions on the O line, LBs and edge rush as well. Things can fall into place and they can make a run again, but the Rams aren't going to be favorites for the division going into the year. Les needs to crush rounds 2-4 this draft. Need 2 of these players to be good starters by next year IMO.
We have questions on the O line, LBs and edge rush as well. Things can fall into place and they can make a run again, but the Rams aren't going to be favorites for the division going into the year. Les needs to crush rounds 2-4 this draft. Need 2 of these players to be good starters by next year IMO.
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I tend to agree with Liberator, although not necessarily about Gurley's heart. I was listening to the 11 Personnel Podcast today and one of the hosts brought up something Terrell Davis said after he blew his knee out, namely that you spend so much time trying to compensate that it eventually screws up the quad of the same leg. Given the way Gurley ran after he returned from his injury and all of 2019, that would certainly be one good explanation.
Either way, I don't care if the Rams get blasted for what Gurley does with Atlanta. They got blasted when they locked him up with a contract that he arguably deserved at the time he got it, it's just that injuries got in the way. And if the Rams fix the OL and get the ground game going with other guys, it won't even matter.
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If not having a crystal ball to see that both Gurley and Cooks were going to sustain injuries, then yeah ok....
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I hope not for his sake, but then again, the Gurley who kept opposing DC's awake at night is very likely already gone.
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Lol, I didn't learn shit from that.
Just another token video on money.
Sign a player = over paid and omgz the cap!!!!
Don't sign a player = should've kept him and, but what about the cap!!! omgz the cap!!!!
Rosters change. That's it. Its not exclusive to LA.
Just another token video on money.
Sign a player = over paid and omgz the cap!!!!
Don't sign a player = should've kept him and, but what about the cap!!! omgz the cap!!!!
Rosters change. That's it. Its not exclusive to LA.
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The guy puts together a nice video and has a good narrative voice. He showed GZ's expression on the missed FG against the Hags. He could have used that time to mention a make and the Rams are in the playoffs. I look forward to a video of how Snead managed to pivot quickly and keep the Rams in contention mid-season and beyond. Rams are still in the hunt even dealing with Cooks and Guley's contract hits mostly due to injures.
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