From the pessimistic side
The Rams are painted into a corner now. Having gone all-in for a 2019 playoff run which came up short, the Rams have squandered their NFL Draft 1st round pick yet again. The team’s running game, the bread-and-butter of the offense, is in steep decline. And when the Rams tried to ad hoc a pass-centric offense, Jared Goff‘s accuracy plummeted.
But perhaps the worst part of this is the realization that the Rams were so eager to fly to the 2019 Super Bowl that they failed to put in parachutes if the plane broke down along the way. Five players on the Rams consume more than half of the team’s total salary cap allocation in 2019. The Rams stand to lose 18 players from the 53 -man roster of last season.
Three of the team’s leaders: quarterback Jared Goff, running back Todd Gurley, and wide receiver Brandin Cooks, all experienced deeply disappointing seasons in 2019. And while many point to the offensive line as the entire problem, the Ram exhausted practically all the team’s resources already, leaving nothing left to address the short-comings on that line.