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Peter King | Sports Illustrated
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I don't think I've ever heard of a team that had such a major roster turnover from one year to the next as the Rams from 2011 to 2012.
• Exactly 60.4 percent of the roster is new: 32 of 53 men.
• Exactly 60.4 percent of the roster is comprised of first-, second- or third-year players.
• That means of the Rams' 53-man opening day 2011 roster, 20 players are still on the team this morning ... while 24 are out of the league. (The 21st Ram on the roster both years wasn't on the roster opening day last year -- Justin Cole, a linebacker signed from the Chiefs' practice squad in November.) So apparently a very young team in 2011 was not very young and talented if one year later, 45 percent of the men on the opening day roster aren't in football a year later.
GM Les Snead and coach Jeff Fisher will have one honeymoon season and another season where progress must come quickly. And then Missourians will want results, and they'll want them now.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/w ... z25SPrYL3j
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I don't think I've ever heard of a team that had such a major roster turnover from one year to the next as the Rams from 2011 to 2012.
• Exactly 60.4 percent of the roster is new: 32 of 53 men.
• Exactly 60.4 percent of the roster is comprised of first-, second- or third-year players.
• That means of the Rams' 53-man opening day 2011 roster, 20 players are still on the team this morning ... while 24 are out of the league. (The 21st Ram on the roster both years wasn't on the roster opening day last year -- Justin Cole, a linebacker signed from the Chiefs' practice squad in November.) So apparently a very young team in 2011 was not very young and talented if one year later, 45 percent of the men on the opening day roster aren't in football a year later.
GM Les Snead and coach Jeff Fisher will have one honeymoon season and another season where progress must come quickly. And then Missourians will want results, and they'll want them now.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/w ... z25SPrYL3j