Todd Gurley Reveals When He Knew LA Didn't Believe In Him Anymore

[Angry Ram]

TG was a monster in 2018 man. So much he got a fake ass burger to eat:

Why dafuq does it matter if he's chill or not. Like damn not everyone has to go 1000% all day every day.

 

[VeteranRamFan]

Do you like fried pickles?

(We are playing the “Irrelevant Question Game,” right?)

I like turtles.

 

[Antonius]

TG was a monster in 2018 man. So much he got a fake ass burger to eat:

Why dafuq does it matter if he's chill or not. Like damn not everyone has to go 1000% all day every day.

Hahaha I remember that commercial but never keyed in on that burger emoji they fed him. Actually I think it was the Lakers owner’s husband that gave it to him in that commercial


Edit: I did some research and apparently two commercials aired! One where Tod eats an actual burger, and one with Carl’s Jr.’s edited fake burger. Why?? Can someone get TG on another pod and ask him?

 

[LARAMSinFeb.]

That was a fascinating and revealing interview for sure. Made me think more of Gurley and less of DeSean Jackson. Both DeSean and McCoy kept trying to goad Gurley into talking shit about the Rams or McVay, but he never took the bait. TG was genuinely happy for his ex teammates’ SB win, e.g.

 

[CGI_Ram]

View: https://x.com/ramstapes/status/1811413190246613108?s=61&t=lgp1gRmUcyNSF5v7CIHwMg

 

[Psycho_X]

Another Todd Gurley interview, just gonna put it here instead of a new thread. Not a whole lot else said but he's still respectful to Rams and his coaches for the most part. Rams stuff starts at the 50 minute mark if you don't care about his pre-professional career/life.


View: https://youtu.be/Mx78pWsHboY?si=DgX4VJ9EISUDiUl6

 

[Tumak61]

2017 was a great year for Gurley. Rams did right by him and gave him the biggest RB deal ever when they didn't have to. Started 2018 really well and then the knee issues started. Really smart player too. Knew when to go down and keep possession and the clock running at the end of a game rather than scoring. Great situational awareness.

 

[El Chapo Jr]

Gurley’s talent far outstripped his desire.

There… I said it.

So his desire would have fixed those arthritic knees? Ok

 

[El Chapo Jr]

His knee was shot. He couldn't do it anymore. He recognized it time to walk away. Aaron Donald just walked away because he no longer had passion for the game. Should we lecture him about desire?

Gurley couldn't change his health issue. I think it's good that he was at peace with walking away. Some guys wouldn't have handled their career being cut so short well. Would have devastated them.

Man went from a MVP-caliber player to a shell of himself almost overnight, before he hit what's normally the prime of a player's career. I'm not going to throw shade at him because he accepted what he couldn't change and moved forward with his life.

I see it as him being who he is. Some people don't see getting mad about stuff as a productive way to live life. I truly respect that because it's hard not to react in life when shit goes haywire. Just because he stays calm all the time doesn't mean he doesn't have a competitive fire at all. I'll give you an example of a chill ass superstar, Tim Duncan.

 

[El Chapo Jr]

His desire for the game aside -- I question it, too, from is post-SB appearance when he became a house-hold name -- he re-injured his rebuilt knee. We all know his story, injured it on one of the last plays he made in GA, rebuilt it & became one of the hottest RB's in the NFL. And yes, had his knee held out a season or two longer, at least for that SB appearance where we win with a healthy TG, a case could've been made for a gold jacket.
So, when it was OBVIOUS that he injured it late in that magical 2018 season, WHY did both he and the Rams org deflect, obfuscate, and at times, downright LIE?? He was obviously limping & in pain in the public appearances afterwards. Basically, there was no way to fix it anymore, and he & his agent were just stringing the Rams & all of us out as long as they could until they could get traded or released. They knew he had a degenerative knee, we knew too, I just wish he'd done the right thing & taken a season off to do whatever he could to fix it. Then MAYBE come back, but watching him come straight back to the team & run the same play over & over in 2019, when every D we played also KNEW he couldn't make a cut-back, was painful to watch. Asking the fans to have hope, and obviously not giving us ANY reason to, or any information about his health at all, wasn't right in my book. Whatever he & the Rams org needed to work out to do the right thing for the team & the fans needed to happen. I think they were just forced to play things out due to the massive contract he was awarded. Possibly (speculating) Stan wanted his "star player", who was already printed on much of the team's media, to play it out no matter what.
It was very frustrating to watch, mainly because of just how special TG was. With a healthy Gurley, we WIN that SB. No question. The icing on the disappointing cake was all the extra curricular activities that he seemed more interested in than football. His social media posts seemed to be all about everything BUT football, while as others mentioned, AD's posts were ALL about football, training, etc.

Judging a player that has other interests outside of football is crazy to me. For example, we all love the Rams here but if we have other interests outside of here, does that make us less of a passionate fan? We are all human and having multiple interests outside of a sport that only has a finite life span is a mentally healthy thing for an athlete to have. Life goes on when the game is done with all football players.

 

[JonRam99]

Judging a player that has other interests outside of football is crazy to me. For example, we all love the Rams here but if we have other interests outside of here, does that make us less of a passionate fan? We are all human and having multiple interests outside of a sport that only has a finite life span is a mentally healthy thing for an athlete to have. Life goes on when the game is done with all football players.

Oh I'm not saying he shouldn't have had any outside interests other than football at the time. But if you spent more of your time, effort and creativity on outside interests than your primary job, at some point your employer will notice the difference between your performance and others in your organization who are putting in more effort. Especially at the professional level.
TGII was paid a huuge amount of $$ at a position that normally isn't. If we wanted a journeyman's performance, we coulda just traded him before that contract & picked up some street free agents & saved a ton of $$, but prolly not make the SB. Once we made it, he lost interest in football--by his own admission. He didn't put in the effort, and instead branched out into doing a number of initiatives--which is fine, AFTER you retire from a professional sport. These weren't just "interests" he had, like fishing or chess--he was actively promoting a completely different sport, among other things.
I guess it's just hard to hear him admit these things, when he was such a special player. It's highly likely that his knee wasn't responding to treatment anyway, so he probably would've never regained his 2018 form. Which if fine... if he & the Rams were just transparent about this fact, it'd be easier to understand, but they were both so opaque, for the whole next year they just strung us all along.
That's what I'm having a hard time with.

 

[El Chapo Jr]

Oh I'm not saying he shouldn't have had any outside interests other than football at the time. But if you spent more of your time, effort and creativity on outside interests than your primary job, at some point your employer will notice the difference between your performance and others in your organization who are putting in more effort. Especially at the professional level.
TGII was paid a huuge amount of $$ at a position that normally isn't. If we wanted a journeyman's performance, we coulda just traded him before that contract & picked up some street free agents & saved a ton of $$, but prolly not make the SB. Once we made it, he lost interest in football--by his own admission. He didn't put in the effort, and instead branched out into doing a number of initiatives--which is fine, AFTER you retire from a professional sport. These weren't just "interests" he had, like fishing or chess--he was actively promoting a completely different sport, among other things.
I guess it's just hard to hear him admit these things, when he was such a special player. It's highly likely that his knee wasn't responding to treatment anyway, so he probably would've never regained his 2018 form. Which if fine... if he & the Rams were just transparent about this fact, it'd be easier to understand, but they were both so opaque, for the whole next year they just strung us all along.
That's what I'm having a hard time with.

If you're hoping for any team to be transparent about injuries you're going to wait the rest of your life for that. Every single team in the NFL keeps that kind of stuff under wraps for various reasons (trade value, giving time for treatments to work, etc). How many times have you heard reports after the season that such and such player was playing with a certain injury all along? I like to believe that the Rams keep stuff in house in respect towards the player. I'm going to say its safe to say that Gurley and the Rams were going through every treatment possible to get that knee better but it just wasn't responding.

 

[brucebruce]

I see it as him being who he is. Some people don't see getting mad about stuff as a productive way to live life. I truly respect that because it's hard not to react in life when shit goes haywire. Just because he stays calm all the time doesn't mean he doesn't have a competitive fire at all. I'll give you an example of a chill ass superstar, Tim Duncan.

I know several successful people who kill it in their field with this type of Gurley energy. But I know they worked their arse off to get to where they are. I wish I could have that type of energy more often.

 

[brucebruce]

Oh I'm not saying he shouldn't have had any outside interests other than football at the time. But if you spent more of your time, effort and creativity on outside interests than your primary job, at some point your employer will notice the difference between your performance and others in your organization who are putting in more effort. Especially at the professional level.
TGII was paid a huuge amount of $$ at a position that normally isn't. If we wanted a journeyman's performance, we coulda just traded him before that contract & picked up some street free agents & saved a ton of $$, but prolly not make the SB. Once we made it, he lost interest in football--by his own admission. He didn't put in the effort, and instead branched out into doing a number of initiatives--which is fine, AFTER you retire from a professional sport. These weren't just "interests" he had, like fishing or chess--he was actively promoting a completely different sport, among other things.
I guess it's just hard to hear him admit these things, when he was such a special player. It's highly likely that his knee wasn't responding to treatment anyway, so he probably would've never regained his 2018 form. Which if fine... if he & the Rams were just transparent about this fact, it'd be easier to understand, but they were both so opaque, for the whole next year they just strung us all along.
That's what I'm having a hard time with.

Different people need different types of hobbies to recharge. Some need fishing, some need BJJ, some need mental stimulation. Can you point me to where he said he lost his dedication to be an exceptional RB after he got his contract?

 

[El Chapo Jr]

I know several successful people who kill it in their field with this type of Gurley energy. But I know they worked their arse off to get to where they are. I wish I could have that type of energy more often.

I hear you there. I can be that way at times, but there are others where I'm most definitely not. Kinda depends on my caffeine intake as well lol

 

[RhodyRams]

Another Todd Gurley interview, just gonna put it here instead of a new thread. Not a whole lot else said but he's still respectful to Rams and his coaches for the most part. Rams stuff starts at the 50 minute mark if you don't care about his pre-professional career/life.


View: https://youtu.be/Mx78pWsHboY?si=DgX4VJ9EISUDiUl6

and here I was getting ready to jump all over So Ram for necroing this thread

 

[Psycho_X]

and here I was getting ready to jump all over So Ram for necroing this thread

SURPRISE!!!!

 

[fearsomefour]

Gurley’s talent far outstripped his desire.

There… I said it.

Stop it man.
Gurley was a beast in his prime and worked very hard.

 

[Jacobarch]

Gurley’s talent far outstripped his desire.

There… I said it.

No some people can't accept reality especially ones who achieved such great heights so early in their careers. He thought he still had it, he didn't

 

[Turducken]

Stop it man.
Gurley was a beast in his prime and worked very hard.

RB's get ground down at about 2x the rate of WR's.

Kupp in 2025 = Gurley in 2020.

Given a little time for perspective, most everyone figures it out.