rating Rams personnel acquisition results–draft, UDFAs, trades, FAs

I just posted a bit about Wesley Bailey, the UDFA edge rusher who stood out in the Saints PS game. And the day before that, I posted some buzz about Josiah Stewart, who has impressed people in camp and then didn’t play in the PS games cause I guess he’s already elevated on the Rams roster. Then I posted a bit about Kobie Turner being a great pass rusher.

This is ridiculous.

Think of the sad, bad, empty days from 2000 through to probably 2017 when Rams drafting was sometimes downright awful though mostly was just mediocre. Name another team that completely wasted 2 #2 picks in the 1st round in the space of 5 years on complete busts at left tackle–Jason Smith and Greg Robinson. (And even saying that much leaves out the bottomless abyss of despair that were the Rams drafts from 1989 to 1997.)

Actually the McVay/Snead regime was pretty much okay but not stellar from 2017-2023. Then, somehow, in 2023, they found their wings.

Plus this is the only team I can think of that had 2 blockbuster trades in one season–McDuffie and Garrett. And they can afford those big trades because their lower round drafting (plus UDFAs) are so good right now.

It’s like Rams fans overpaid for a house that needed some fixing up, and more and more goes wrong (“now it’s the roof!”) then one day while digging in the weed-choked yard to start a garden, found buried treasure.

Now of course I am just talking about personnel acquisitions. They haven’t won anything yet. And I always remember the 2007 Patz, who went 18-0 through the playoffs and then lost the super bowl. Results are finicky. Luck is part of that.

But…they do have themselves some players.

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