LOS ANGELES (AP) — For well over a decade now, general manager Les Snead and the Los Angeles Rams have consistently pulled off the aggressive, audacious moves that every NFL fan wishes their team would make.Their latest deal is among the biggest and the riskiest — and it’s totally their style.Myles Garrett walked into the Rams’ training complex in Woodland Hills on Tuesday after LA gave up budding star Jared Verse and three high draft picks to complete one of the NFL’s biggest trades in recent seasons.“To acquire a player like this, these things don’t come up often,” coach Sean McVay said.Yet this bold deal for arguably the greatest pass rusher of this generation is only the latest in the line of blockbuster trades engineered by Snead. In the past 10 years alone, he has maneuvered to get Jared Goff, Matthew Stafford, Jalen Ramsey, Von Miller, Trent McDuffie, Brandin Cooks and other veterans for trade prices that would have been too steep for many front offices.
The Rams have spent a decade chasing rings with an urgency that screams “win now,” but is actually rooted in an organizational confidence that McVay’s coaching ability will make up for the sacrifices necessary in draft capital and veteran talent.
