Feature Article
"I know you feel these are the worst of times, I do believe it’s true."
The WatchDog
Staff Writer
Is it really true though?
Enter Chip Rosenbloom. He has the opportunity to make a clean break from John Shaw and Jay Zygmunt. These two have been with the organization for over 30 years. Shaw has essentially run the franchise for Frontiere. Certainly Shaw has been a successful team president. His main weakness wasn’t knowledge or football intelligence, it was friendship. Shaw and Zygmunt are simply too close. Zygmunt has been promoted from CFO to CFO, VP of Operations/GM. Too much on anyone’s plate especially one whose background is finance, and not football personnel.
‘It feels so helpless, like a boat against the tide, I wish the Greatest Show, would bring back paradise.’
Though most of us … underappreciated Georgia Frontiere, her passing symbolized the passing of what remained of the Rams championship era like a neon headstone in front of the Ed Dome. Three and thirteen, rebellions in the ranks and sit here today with no money left in the bank to buy their way out of the mess, right?
They came with all the flash of a hundred-thousand dollar Corvette, and left with a piston sized hole in the side of the motor.
The Rams are as done as a Iranian piano player who just got caught stealing right?
Wrong-O Mary Lou.
As I sit here, even to this very minute, I can’t believe how many people, even “experts” who have pulled the blanket over the Rams collective face and declared them beyond the help of God himself.
Doesn’t anyone remember the beginning of the pre-season last year; remember all the Greatest Show II talk? The Rams were the majority pick of the West and … what happened?
The injuries came and wiped out the game plan. Marc Bulger started wishing he had taken that rodeo-clown job he passed up. Scott Linehan had to pull the “Missing man” Randy McMichael in to block instead of out to participate in the mass of “Overwhelming” offensive options. With no one to block of course came no running game, no time to pass, and the all of one season experienced Head Coach found himself guessing wrong under all the pressure.
It must have been the mother of all nightmares for those guys. But in the wake of all that mess, and the accompanying panic over the salary cap room, this has got to be one of the greatest smoke-screens of all – intentional or not.
Things aren’t nearly as bleak as they appear.
Really Watchdog, tell us why … and please pass that kool-aid over hmm?
First of all, this is much stronger than Kool-aid, and second of all, the Rams will improve their offensive line to an all-pro level without spending a dime, for when training camp opens and the first pre-season game kicks off, we’re all going to be staring like giddy girls at Orlando Pace, Ritchie Incognito, Mark Setterstrom and Alex Barron, plus whoever else wants it bad enough. Couple that with the big man Al Saunders holding the joystick, and the Rams – without any additions at all - are still going to be a real threat to take back the West.
But wait, there’s more. Oh yeah, we got an early first round psycho entering the mix too. Whether it’ll be Dorsey, one of the Long’s, Gholston…doesn’t matter, it’s going to be very exciting after the long cold winter.
Too bad we can’t keep warm in front of the dumpster fire that last season turned out to be.
I am the Watchdog, and I approved this message.
Go Rams!
