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ArizonaRamFan
Yes, to me it seems a sharply insightful story. Granted, it is written in a very particular manner to promote a very particular view: that the Rams culture has been losing forever, and he really glosses over that brief time when the Rams ruled the roost.
I think this article would be much more convincing to me had the GSOT never happened, and mediocrity continued 30+ years unabated. He only glosses over it, never addresses the fair question: how did this winning aberration of the GSOT occur in a culture of losing? He could have given many good, convincing answers to that question: lightning-in-a-bottle, a brief Vermeil-fueled departure from losing culture, a "bad bet" that ended up working great, etc etc etc. But instead he opts to handwave it away and ignore it.
To me the article just shows how empty the term "culture" is when used this way. The Rams have lost, and that must mean losing culture. That's like saying I am sick, what's the cause? Illness. It doesn't say anything.
It also acts like 3 owners, 2 team presidents (which is how I count Demoff), 7 coaches (counting 2 interim coaches), and 4 GMs are all the same thing. I argue that they didn't lose in 2007 for the same reasons they lost in 2014. How can they all be the same? Well they all lost and losing is a matter of "culture" and therefore, they have always had a losing culture. Which given the amount of change (including 3 owners) must mean that the "culture" resides in the logo, since that;'s all the Brooks regime had in common with the Spags regime.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2017 04:15PM by zn.