Cafeoutdoors.com: 2014 Play Off Bound SAINT LOUIS RAMS.........

Welp, it is finally over. The "2014 Playoff Bound Rams" showed us yet another losing season, topped off by a pathetic performance in Seattle yesterday. That was a pretty good representation of what the Fisher-era Rams are all about. But rather than complain about 2014, let's look ahead to 2015 and evaluate how they can keep this streak of losing seasons going:

First, keep the same coaches and front office that have shown absolutely no reason to believe they will draft or acquire any offensive weapons, get mistakes and penalties under control or create an atmosphere of winning football. Apparently, the strategy is to try to shutout every team and win 3-0 and 6-0. But hey, we're told players love playing for Fish'... So we got that going for us...

Second, make sure we don't have a QB that could even be the back-up on a good team. In a QB driven league, you can't keep a record of losing seasons if you have a decent QB that can carry you through some tough games. As it stands this should be easily accomplished. They have the option on the always-injured and now permanently knee-damaged Bradford. He is set to make about $600 million dollars again so you will have to release him and resign him. The problem with that is you can lower his salary but you will have to commit to 2,3 or 4 years. If you don't someone else will. Odds are good he is no longer a Ram. That leaves you with a draft pick in a particularly weak draft for QB's and/or trying to bring in a veteran that can do the job. The problem with the free agent veteran is that there are really none available that can take you to a winning season. In short, the Rams are screwed at QB next year, barring something unexpected happening... This alone is a pretty good start on another losing season. But there's more...

Third, make sure you leave giant, gaping holes in your offensive personnel. They need at least one top-tier WR, a TE that can actually catch the balls that hit him in the hands, about 2 O-linemen and a QB. With the most shrewd free agent moves and draft picks, the odds of filling all of these gaping holes are pretty slim. And based on the 3 year history we have with this group, I'd say they will be lucky to get it right on even one of them. Drafting guys like Austin and bringing in guys like Finnegan, Britt and Long give us a pretty good idea of how they will spend their top picks and use their premium dollars for free agents.

Fourth - Keep pretending guys like Janoris Jenkins are good enough to play for you. The defense is generally strong but the secondary gets exposed at least 2-3 times a game. By keeping guys like Jenkins and letting them try to cover premier receivers, you will certainly lose more games.

Finally, make sure the owner stays away from any commitment to keep the team in STL or even give small bits of information that he would like to and is trying to make that happen. This keeps fans from being fully committed and engaged, as they wonder from season to season if they will even have a team the next year. Kroenke is doing a fine job of helping to keep this a losing organization...

And that folks, is how you can keep this team a loser for 2015.

last stand - Feel free to point out the flaws in my evaluation. I know you are the optimist but even you have to see the difficulty in being upbeat about this team for 2015. I am particularly interested in hearing you take on the offense. Is there anything positive other than the emergence of Mason? How can they possibly solve the QB problem?

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