LA Rams coaches skipping NFL Combine to plan 2020 miracle

They’ve only just begun

The work for the LA Rams coaching staff is just getting started. While Les Snead and the team’s scouting staff work tirelessly to identify the best prospects for the 2020 NFL Draft, head coach Sean McVay and his staff work upon that shopping list. But the work doesn’t stop there.

While the coaches work to prioritize team needs (and there will be quite a few this off-season), the coaches are setting objectives for the new NFL season and then breaking down what the team needs to do in order to accomplish each goal.

As you may gather from our sample list, goals are interrelated, both simple and complex. But it’s a list of goals agreed upon by a group of coaches, virtual strangers, who are working together for the first time. Each coordinator realistically competes with the other for limited draft picks, limited salary cap, and limited time to bring this all together.

Of course, much of the planning for today is the overall planning phase. Until the Rams coaching staff knows how the roster shakes out, most of the work for today is guidelines and generalities. It’s not until the roster is set that the coaches can reconvene and lay details to the guidelines they are establishing now.

The greatest message right now is not that the Rams need to find ways to buy free agents. It’s not even that the Rams face an uphill battle in 2020.  It’s that the Rams coaching staff is taking their work so seriously that they are skipping the annual NFL Scouting Combine to collaborate upon the 2020 NFL Season game plan. The coaching staff coming together this quickly, forced or voluntarily, will mean good things for the LA Rams this season.