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Let's talk about Rams roster, and how the team fumbled the plan so far

The team has not optimized the roster so far in 2024. Here's how:

By Bret Stuter

Jul 29, 2024; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay, general manager Les Snead, and chief of staff Carter Crutchfield talk on the field during training camp at Loyola Marymount University. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images
Jul 29, 2024; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay, general manager Les Snead, and chief of staff Carter Crutchfield talk on the field during training camp at Loyola Marymount University. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images / Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images
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The LA Rams are 5-6, which is an identical record as the team had at this time in 2023. But those 5-6 Rams felt like a team that had turned the corner. This Rams roster, a team that has lost two of the last three games, is a team that just suffered a TKO at the hands of the visiting Philadelphia Eagles. Somehow, the team must get up off the canvas and be prepared to fight in Week 13.

Optimism is at a low, and skepticism is rampant.

While all NFL fans risk overreacting, Rams fans can see the challenges of the team. While the records are identical, the way the team constructed this roster for the 2024 NFL season is anything but similar. While we can attribute injuries as the factor that depleted the team at key and vital positions, the front office had proven in the past to be on top of the first signs of trouble. In 2024, the response of the front office to a positional shortage has either been to do notion, or shoot from the hip to sign someone.

That someone may or may not help on the football field.

Ultimately, the shopping spree in the 2024 NFL Free Agency market has not improved this team as expected. Part of the blame lies in the fact that some free agents were among the first players injured. But even after returning from injury, many have had career-low seasons on the team this season

As well as the team has done at drafting, the same cannot be said of their free agency shopping. So what has been the problem? It's not one fatal stab wound. Rather, it's been a matter of death by thousands of paper cuts.

So where has the front office fumbled the plan so far? We have a quick five strategies that have not done the Rams any favors:

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