Yeah, I'm not feeling much optimism right now.
Brutal season. Hugely disappointing but the excessive injuries helped make sense of things for me.
The Rams have had some really bad years but I'm not sure they came when the expectations were as high. Usually, after those terrible seasons, there was a high #1 pick to get excited about (although, often blown). Not this time. The Rams have two good picks and will have some cap space (but likely limited); plus a roster where most of their best players are approaching or over thirty years of age.
The McVay thing is very troubling and disappointing to me. Being exhausted, frustrated, even angry makes sense but McVay seems defeated, uncertain and uncommitted; and that makes me angry with and disappointed in him.
Do any of you guys remember Goff at the post-game press conference to close-out the horrible 2016 season? Goff was being called a 'Bust' after going 0-7 but he stood-up there and said something along the lines of ...
'I will do whatever I have to do to fix this'.
I loved that; and that's what I would like to hear the head coach say to close-out a bad year ... something like ... "We're frustrated and disappointed, and there's a lot of work to do. We will re-group, we will re-focus, and ... WE WILL come back strong."
Personally, I accepted the disappointment of the 2022 season a month ago; and have since been focused on the off-season. However, this McVay Limbo Bull-Shit has knocked me off my feet. As a 50-year Rams Fan, I will keep getting-up and hope for the best but I am struggling right now.
I don't like where the Rams are right now and I don't like the head coaching options. Even if McVay decides to remain with the Rams ... and I hope he does ... I am not impressed with how he has handled things regarding his future. Wearing your Heart-on-Your-Sleeve sounds good but a Head Coach needs to be more of a Rock-of–Stability in my opinion.
I will close this lousy post ... I am really hating it as I write it ... with some positives about my prior 50+years. Some of the Rams’ best seasons came when I expected very little ... 1973, 1983, 1999 and 2017 ... the Rams had new head coaches in three of those four seasons.
