Move over, Dodgers.
Take a seat, Lakers.
The Rams want to win another Super Bowl in the worst way, and they are sparing no expense to make it happen.
In a move straight out of The Godfather — if not scripts penned by the Dodgers and Lakers — Les Snead and Sean McVay made the Browns an offer they couldn’t refuse for the best pass rusher in all of football.
The Browns were helpless to say no.
As a result, the most lethal quarterback slayer in the NFL is headed to Tinseltown.
Say hello to your newest star, L.A. His name is Myles Garrett, and he’s about to wreak havoc everywhere from Sofi Stadium to Seattle, The Bay Area and everywhere in between.
Are you kidding me? Is this real?
How is it even possible?
Call it the pursuit of greatness, if not a yearning to hoist another Lombardi Trophy. But after coming up inches short in that quest last year, largely due to a defense that lacked closers, the Rams have gone all in this offseason to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
First they traded for Chiefs cornerback Trent McDuffie and signed his defensive back teammate, Jaylen Watson, to turn their one defensive weakness into a strength.
You thought they were done at that point, right?
Not so fast my friend.
No one understands the importance of a closer more than McVay, who had a front row seat to watch Aaron Donald close out the 49ers and the Bengals on the Rams road to a Super Bowl championship five years ago.
As great as the Rams defensive front has been the last couple of years, what they lacked was a menacing force that could will himself to the quarterback when absolutely needed. Against double teams, blocking schemes designed to slow them down and anything else an opposing offense might throw at them to slow them down.
The failure to get to the quarterback in critical moments, or at least disrupt them just enough to force inaccurate throws or turnovers, was part of the Rams undoing last year when it mattered most.
Those two critical losses to the Seahawks late in the season and in the NFC championship game might have gone a different way had they had that kind of physical force.
Someone capable of willing himself to the quarterback in those high-leverage moments, let alone make game-altering players throughout every other phase of games.
If you went to the dictionary to look up that caliber of player, there would literally be a picture of Garrett, who has 122.5 sacks in his nine-year career and is coming off a record-breaking 23 sacks last season.
At 30 years old he is showing no signs of letting up, and will undoubtedly be rejuvenated by leaving the doldrums of the mediocre Browns for the bright lights of Los Angeles and all the possibilities the Rams offer.
Knowing that, the Rams were more than happy to send a first-round pick and promising young edge rusher Jared Verse and other draft considerations to Cleveland. Not to mention, take on the remaining portion of the four-year, $160 million contract he signed last year.
It’s assets and money well spent.
And why wouldn’t they considering the one-man wrecking ball Garrett is, and how he now fits on a Rams defense with an ample supporting cast at all levels.
That includes McDuffie, who has to be the happiest cornerback in the NFL knowing he’ll be working the back end of a defense that now features Garrett as the primary pass rusher?
The Rams are thinking big. And they are sparring no expense to make their dreams come true.
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