The only one I can think of that fits the profile you're describing is Brandon Cooks. I guess if you want to call Goff and Gurley acquisitions on level with Michel, Miller, and OBJ we are that dead money. I personally think there's a huge difference between trading for a guy and drafting one when looking at their contract extensions/re-signing. I don't think we ate a ton of dead cap for Peters or Talib. Or Watkins. We're not eating dead cap for Floyd or Ramsey.
We ate cap for Cooks, Gurley, and Goff. Two became injury issues overnight. One turned out to be a Cinderella story played in reverse, but again unexpectedly.
And through all that we remained competitive. That's pretty decent cap and talent management.
From my entire post that's the part you took out of it? Strange
Cap management isnt what they do best, player acquisition is
Rams had the highest dead cap in the league for a couple years in a row. Thats not good management.
And frankly, like 1st round picks, they dont care.
Thats the point, they arent about saavy cap moves or drafting talent with high draft picks. They're about player acquisition and caution to the wind on the rest. Its not a criticism, its the way they do business and the reason we are in the NFC Championship for the 2nd time in 3 seasons, in playoffs 4 of 5.
Who the Rams are? If there's a player out there they want, they'll figure out a way to get him over teams who cant figure it out
Who they arent? Smooth cap operators that can figure out a way to make it work when others cant
