Todd Gurley released
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I do have a hard time believing the would outright cut him if he was 100% physically. If it was just attitude, well that's something that's fixable and the locker room culture is pretty good - his teammates would have leaned on him. But you can't reason with a bum knee.
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It's a business. The Rams gave Gurely his contract before his injury. He obviously wasn't the same player after that happened for whatever reason. It just doesn't make sense to pay a player that much if he either "doesn't have it" or is going to ride the bench. To add to that Gurely obviously wasn't happy about his reduced role and he let everyone know about it on the field and off. To me that's unacceptable but that's just my opinion. Also the Rams have to think long term, If Ramsey and other key players like Kupp, JJIII, Hill, etc want to get paid things like this HAVE to happen. Even if Gurely was healthy and was still in Beast mode, something has to give.
We also aren't behind the scenes so we don't know if the Rams tried to reason with Gurely and his contract, for all we know his representation probably gave them the finger, and that's their choice. I'm sure in the next couple of weeks we will see what's really up with Gurely's knee and how bad teams want him, in addition to what happened with the Rams before his release.
the players wanted free agency....they got it....this is the consequences for it....
Cowherd on the release of Todd Gurley.
“Last year Sean McVay would say ‘The reason we’re not using Todd Gurley is because I’m an idiot! Haha! This is all on me!’ – that was the ‘story’ the Rams were projecting. But I live in Los Angeles and know players and people on the staff. That wasn’t the REAL story. The story is that Todd Gurley got paid, Todd Gurley got hurt, and Todd Gurley changed. He’s not great for the locker room right now, and they wanted him out for a year and couldn’t figure out how to get rid of him. I've got intel on this. They don’t want him there… What was being said behind closed doors was ‘HOW DO WE GET OUT OF THIS CONTRACT?’”
“Last year Sean McVay would say ‘The reason we’re not using Todd Gurley is because I’m an idiot! Haha! This is all on me!’ – that was the ‘story’ the Rams were projecting. But I live in Los Angeles and know players and people on the staff. That wasn’t the REAL story. The story is that Todd Gurley got paid, Todd Gurley got hurt, and Todd Gurley changed. He’s not great for the locker room right now, and they wanted him out for a year and couldn’t figure out how to get rid of him. I've got intel on this. They don’t want him there… What was being said behind closed doors was ‘HOW DO WE GET OUT OF THIS CONTRACT?’”
Man get serious this has nothing to do with him. They’re going to spend that money no matter what it just depends on this player. On thing is certain with Stan he doesn’t interfere with the day to day operation of the team.
It's about clearing the books for 2021 when they need to extend Kupp, Johnson, and maybe Reynolds and Everett.
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But they made it a post June 1st which means they didn’t clear the future years totally.
We weren't gonna contend for the Superbowl anyways this year so it's the right call. Get it over and done with.