Matthew Stafford Faces Win Now 2023 NFL Season
Rams general manager Les Snead says the franchise is going to lean on quarterback Matthew Stafford in the short term.
Luckily Matthew Stafford is good enough to build around, because it’s not as if the Rams have a choice. Their short termism paid off with a Super Bowl win in 2021, but came back to bite them in 2022.
With Matthew Stafford and others dealing with injuries, the Rams muddled towards a 5-12 finish. Les Snead cited Stafford as well as Aaron Donald and Cooper Kupp as key pieces in the remodeling of the roster.
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“Step one of this thing is getting under the cap, and unfortunately to get under the cap, that usually means deletion, right, with some of your better veteran players who are making higher salaries, and it can also mean there’s an unrestricted free agent or two or three or four that you can’t necessarily re-sign to get under the cap,” Snead said.Â
“But there are some players that have been here, that have done that, that have shown they can change the math in a football game, Matthew Stafford being one of them. Unfortunately last year he went through a tough time with the injuries, so the recency bias in the last year is inconsistent for him other than the fact that there was a lot of injuries around him. He’s definitely someone we’re going to rely on, and someone we’re going to have to rely on as we do remodel this. …
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“And the reason I said remodel and not rebuild is a player like Matthew Stafford. To me in a rebuild you would just bulldoze the house down, and again rebuilding from the ground up. But when you have someone like Matthew Stafford, players like Cooper Kupp, Aaron Donald, there’s some weight-bearing walls there that we still have, and we’re going to rely on those — don’t want to put pressure on them — and then at point remodel around them with maybe different teammates, different partners.Â
“And then even ask some of the players who’ve been here to keep evolving and going in that direction, so it’ll be interesting. But I did want to articulate that that’s why I’ve turned to the remodel.”
