Here is what Peter King said
Colts owner Jim Irsay said to local reporters the other day: “There was an article recently saying the Rams mortgaged their future and now they’re paying for it after they won the Super Bowl and had all that success, with the draft picks not being there. To me, that’s what you have to be careful about.”
I get what Irsay’s saying, but let’s make some numerical points here. Which team would you rather be:
The Rams, 49-33 in the last five regular seasons with two conference titles and one Super Bowl championship, $5.1 million under the cap (per overthecap.com), with a franchise quarterback, with 11 draft picks overall this year and three in the top 100?
Or the Colts, 41-40-1 in the last five regular seasons with zero conference titles and zero Super Bowl championships, $12.5 million under the cap, searching for a franchise quarterback, with nine draft picks overall this year and three in the top 100—albeit the fourth overall pick?
Teams should be in this to compete in Super Bowls, and the Rams have played in two of the last five Super Bowls. The Colts have one Wild Card win over those five years.
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The GM is Kwesi says:
April 3, 2023 at 5:42 pm
As a fan of a franchise that has never won a Super Bowl but is almost always competitive (Vikings), I’d rather go the Rams route than the Colts route. Start with the Rams won the Super Bowl. Now they’re going to be bad for a while but before long being bad will reward you with high draft picks again. Then you build your team up through the draft and start trading away the picks again to get the players to put you over the top for another Super Bowl. This league rewards bad teams so it doesn’t take long to get back to being good. If I can have a five-year stretch where I go to the Super Bowl twice and win it once and have to pay for that by being bad for five years, it’s more than worth it.
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From what I read most would rather have had a team get to 2 SBs and win one than be average and still---who knows what they will be going
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the0wloftruth says:
April 3, 2023 at 5:15 pm
It’s very easy to make fun of the Rams now but let’s be real. If given the choice to have a guaranteed Superbowl championship by mortgaging your future, most teams and fanbases would do it. The Rams strategy worked. You can’t say that about most teams in professional sports that tried to do the same thing. If i’m a Rams fan, I acknowledge that the immediate future isn’t bright, but I wouldn’t have done anything differently. They have a Superbowl championship.
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nancyisaclarafan says:
April 3, 2023 at 5:27 pm
Colts are +12500 to win the SB next year and I have not been competitive. Rams won a SB and are +3500 to win the SB next even with all the doom and gloom projections. That’s an easy Rams.
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truthprofessor says:
April 3, 2023 at 5:23 pm
Do what it takes to win SOMETHING, even if you have pay the piper afterwards. Even the Patriots, the prototypical example of a team refusing to mortgage the future, got into some cap hell as Brady left. I would rather win a title and fall off a cliff now and then, as opposed to bring a 0.500 team all of the time.
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realfootballfan says:
April 3, 2023 at 5:52 pm
It’s a silly question. Of course, the Rams. The Colts haven’t been good since Andrew Luck started getting hurt, and even then, it was smoke and mirrors with him covering up a lot of holes. There is no guarantee they’re going to figure it out now either. Rams built their team top heavy, and it worked. Irsay should know a bit about that since that’s exactly how the Manning Colts were built.
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patsdrukker says:
April 3, 2023 at 6:13 pm
Don’t get me wrong, it is bad to have a bad team, but Green Bay has 2 rings in the last 30 years while they had 2 bona fides franchise QB-s.
Well, guess what: the Rams in the same 30 years have exactly the same amount of rings and they were bottom feeders for the most of those decades.
The Colts have one ring in these 30 and they had 2 franchise QB-s.
So Rams.
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