2018 Rams: lose/lose situation?

if this was major league baseball and there was no hard salary cap, i might tend to agree with that. but they have to work within a real budget. so no. i can’t really say they bought this team.

and if the rams lose aaron donald as a result, i will be pissed. they need to sign donald. i’d like if they could sign at least one of peters or cooks long-term. preferably both. but not at the expense of gurley and goff. although i realize that’ll be hard. but one of either peters or cooks and then donald. with enough cap space to fit gurley and goff? that would be fine.

i just want to see that they have a long-term plan. and right now. i’m losing faith that they’ll be able to extend donald. and that would be a travesty. transcendent player that donald.

PA Ram wrote:

Let’s assume the Rams win the Superbowl.

Will everyone say–well, yeah–but it was a bought and paid for dream team?

Well first who cares.

But second this isn’t the first time a team has added to a solid roster the way the Rams have.

Denver in 2015, their superbowl year, had these free agents on the team: Emmanuel Sanders, Louis Vasquez (a good free agent guard), Evan Mathis (another good free agent guard), Owen Daniels (a good free agent TE), Demarcus Ware, Aqib Talib (signed from New England), and of course Peyton Manning (who was not the player he was but had value as a smart veteran and leader).

I agree with Invader. There’s a salary cap. And the Rams weren’t the only team with room under the cap. Besides which… most of the additions to the players they drafted were via trade, not FA. Who was a FA? Suh?

That doesn’t resemble the Steinbrenner Yankees.

PA Ram wrote:

Look, people, I’m trying very hard to
Find something to be miserable about in all this joy.

Look, PA, I;m sorry. I really am. But the hard cold inescapable facts of the matter are this: because of the Rams dizzyingly proactive off-season, Rams fans really and genuinely DO have reasonable grounds to anticipate something good this year.

You’re just going to have to adjust to that.

It’s the bitter, hard, cold reality, and you might as well just learn to live with it.

Before anyone gets too excited, the Eagles will still be considered the favorites out of the NFC. That is they will look at it, they won with Nick Foles, to the media, they will say, just think what the Eagles can do with Carson Wentz, in these playoffs.