This is a must watch video for Sam Presti. I wish he would have had someone take him aside before Kevin Durant’s free agency season and eventual escape from Oklahoma and made Presti come to terms with what he should have at least tried to do in the summer of 2015.
This is what you do as a GM with a talented game changer star with a closing window…or at least try to do.
So what did the LA Rams and Sean McVay do this off season? I would say what the Rams did was come to the realization their window with Aaron Donald, perhaps the best player in the NFL, was closing.
Sean McVay came to the realization he wasn’t going to win a Super Bowl with Jared Goff as his quarterback.
He then pulled off the trade which brought Matthew Stafford to LA to team up with perhaps the best receiver in the NFL in Cooper Kupp.
He acquired a second quality running back in in Sony Michell.
He saved Odell Beckham-Junior from the Cleveland Browns trainwreck of a season and restored OBJ’s brand as game changing wide receiver.
He then put the finishing touches on his rebuild by acquiring former Super Bowl MVP Von Miller to be an elite edge rusher paired with Aaron Donald.
What did Sam Presti do in front of the 2016 season?
He hired Billy Donovan away from the Florida Gators and acquired a washed-up Randy Foye to be his bench catalyst scorer off the bench.
Interesting. You think Jerry West and Bob Myer’s were licking their chops much?
The Rams later today are a Vegas 4.5 home favorite unless the game is postponed due to the Truckers for Trump zealots paralyzing the LA highways leading into So-Fi Stadium.
How quaint these Adorables are at every level of human existence. Perhaps some of the Proud Boy-Oath Keepers on military payrolls, pensions, and Social Security should fly to the Ukraine border and volunteer for the imminent invasion which we hope doesn’t occur during halftime of the Super Bowl.
We shouldn’t be shocked if in following their modus operandi on January 6th, circa 2021 they stop their tanks periodically to pee and shit all over the Ukranian countryside just like they did in D.C. Kiev…get ready, just saying. These people love to pee and shit on everything within their bodily function range.
So to me the key to this game is very simple. LA has a tremendous defensive line which did not allow San Franciso to ever get anything going with their ground game in the NFC Championship Game.
But Joey Burrow isn’t Jimmy G and that gives hope to the Bengals.
But the fact remains Joe Burrow was sacked more than any NFL quarterback this NFL season.
From my view the Bengals will have to do this to win the game…they’ll have to utilize both running backs in Joe Mixon and Samaj Perrine on a multitude of creative screens, bubbles, and wheelhouse routes to keep the Rams front seven off-balance. You would think Ram corner Jalen Ramsey has been dreaming of the challenge to shut down Ja’Mar Chase and solidify his status as the best lockdown corner in the league.
My heart is with Bengals, but my head says take the Rams.
I hope Walter the Cat is somehow in a Budweiser ad with the Clydesdales.
Matthew Stafford…this should be your One Shining Moment, buddy.