If it was easy to buy a championship, it would happen far more often. That it doesn’t happen far more often isn’t from a lack of effort on those owners, executives, and coaches who decide to throw all kinds of money and draft capital at their roster problems.
“Dream teams” are nightmares more often than not. What you usually wind up with is salary cap purgatory and a long loss of draft picks that can impact your franchise for years after the failed attempt.
So how did the Los Angeles Rams get away with it? After all, that’s what they did, right? Spending all those picks on Jalen Ramsey and Matthew Stafford? Mortgaging their futures by trading for short-term gap players who may or may not work out?
That’s the surface version. In truth, the Rams’ approach was risky and unconventional, but it worked with a Super Bowl LVI win over the Cincinnati Bengals for a number of reasons, and it’s not just the big-ticket stuff.
General manager Les Snead and head coach Sean McVay were…
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