For higher or for worse, Los Angeles Rams common supervisor Les Snead could have endlessly modified the way in which championship groups are constructed within the Nationwide Soccer League: As a substitute of taking the traditional method of constructing by way of the draft and complementing draft picks by way of free company, Snead has employed superteam-style crew constructing ways, opting to fill his roster with celebrity gamers complemented by a smattering of home-grown expertise.
As evidenced by the Rams’ triumph in Tremendous Bowl LVI, the superteam method — one which observers lengthy mentioned could not be finished within the NFL — labored. And on the Rams’ Tremendous Bowl parade on Wednesday, Snead celebrated his conquest with a not-so-subtle approach of bombastically declaring he advised everybody so.
Through the Rams’ Tremendous Bowl parade, Les Snead wore a t-shirt of his personal meme: A picture of himself with the caption “F— them picks,” poking enjoyable at Snead’s behavior of dealing away draft picks — together with first-rounders — in trade for star gamers.
The Rams have not had a first-round choose within the NFL Draft since 2016, and so they will not till 2024 because of trades for gamers like quarterback Matthew Stafford, cornerback Jalen Ramsey, and large receiver Brandin Cooks (now with the Houston Texans). At midseason, the Rams traded second and third-round picks to the Denver Broncos in trade for out of doors linebacker Von Miller. The cumulative impact of that commerce exercise is that the Rams will solely have a third-round compensatory choose, a fifth-round choose, and a few seventh-round picks to work with within the upcoming draft.
Snead, for his half, has hardly apologized for his method: In truth, he confirmed off a mug with the exact same meme simply after the NFL commerce deadline final November.