Rams head to camp optimistic, and should be

The Los Angeles Rams head to Irvine with optimism and a new sense of direction. Something missing for some time now.

Los Angeles Rams fans can finally stop speculating and get down to watching their team on the field. Gone are the days of Top 10 Lists, endless editorials, and guessing how good, or not good, Jared Goff may or may not be.

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It’s Rams Training Camp 2017. The cumulation of the hiring of a new head coach in Sean McVay, a draft heavy on pass catchers, and a clean slate. A very much needed clean slate for a team looking for a new direction, new attitude, and optimism. If General Manager Les Snead was looking to check the boxes, he checked them all.

Well, most of them.

Let’s not gloss over anything, there ARE more questions than answers. Fans will have their fingers crossed on all things offense, hoping that what the blueprint says manifests on the field over 16 games.

It’s “hope springs eternal.”

It’s training camp.

The reasons for optimism are many. Rams fans can still look forward to Aaron Donald and a tremendous defense. McVay has injected a needed dose of “good feelz” in an offense long since dead and irrelevant. Maybe he can flip Goff and make him look like a top overall selection. Maybe Todd Gurley will turn it around and find some of that rookie magic that sent his trajectory sky high. Maybe Cooper Kupp is all that and more.

Maybe that offensive line will hold.

Maybe, and lots of them.

But that’s the deal as we head full steam into the twilight of July and the bright sun of training camp. It’s hoping some of those “maybes” become absolutes.

And the Los Angeles Rams have more than a few.

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So yes, optimism should be sky high. It’s what this time of year is all about.

For Rams fans, it’s about buying a ticket and taking the ride.

At the very least, it should be fun.