Scout(s) Business as Usual

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(01-23-2019, 08:47 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: I am pulling for the Rams and think McVeigh has done a tremendous job as HC that calls the plays. 

That being said, the Rams put ALL their chips on the table for THIS YEAR.  They signed a talented, yet very troubled Marcus Peters.  It panned out.  He could have just as easily been suspended or become a cancer on the team.  Ditto Suh.  The Whit signing was awesome for them because it gave them stability at LT and a veteran leader.  They gave up quite a bit for Brandon Cooks, but they couldn't wait for a rookie to develop.  All of this takes guts, and as a Bengals fan I am a little envious.  However, a small part of me thinks if they don't win the Super Bowl this year, they could come crashing back to earth and have a very different team next season.  

Praising the GM for getting up off the mat after a huge draft bust is fine, but any GM could have put everything on this one season and taken risks on guys like Peters.  Whether they end up with a sustained success is another matter.  

At the end of the day, a coach who has won a Super Bowl will be looked at in a better light than someone who perpetual had good-not-great teams that never won a championship, even if the coach that won a Super Bowl had an overall losing record in his/her career.