LA Rams must avoid building team of extremes in 2020

The LA Rams NFL Free Agency moves from 2018 did not pan out. Look for an active trade market out of LA this season to realign team for another Super Bowl run

The LA Rams never seem to hesitate to talk terms of a possible NFL trade or signing a new player in NFL Free Agency. The team is always building, adding, trading, discarding, acquiring new players in the search for a championship caliber team to win the Super Bowl.  The tough part is, 31 other NFL teams are trying to do exactly that aw well.

It’s as though the front office never rests, never pauses a moment to turn and look back at the roster they’ve created.  When the LA Rams made it to the 2017 NFL Playoffs, the team did not rest in the off-season that followed. That off-season, the team traded away a very productive edge rusher in Robert Quinn to the Miami Dolphins for a fourth round pick and swapping 6th round picks with the Miami Dolphins.  That came right on the heels of the Rams trade with the Kansas City Chiefs for cornerback Marcus Peters. Both deals happened in 2018.

Peters did not work out for the Rams and has since been traded to the Baltimore Ravens.  Similarly, previously signed veteran cornerback Aqib Talib was traded to the Dolphins when the Rams placed him on injured reserve in 2019.  They  traded Talib AND a 2020 fifth round pick as a salary dump.

Now the Rams have a defensive backfield of Jalen Ramsey, David Long Jr., Troy Hill, Nickell Robey-Coleman, Eric Weddle, Taylor Rapp, and John Johnson. By March 31, 2020, the Rams may have already parted ways with some of these players. And that merely addresses the defensive backs on this team.  The LA Rams focus on building a better defensive backfield sprang from the Rams 2017 playoff loss to the Atlanta Falcons, when the team was simply unable to shut dowh the passing game of the Falcons.