Box #1: Part of the deal for McVay (and for Snead) is that the Rams want guys who love to play football. If they're looking for the best deal they can get, fine - just so long as they love to play football and aren't in it just for the money. If the Rams want the player, they'll make a fair offer.
Box #2: Do they fit into the Rams culture and lockerroom mix expressed in "we not me?"
White will have to checks those boxes before the questions of medical risk, talent and fit are considered.
Players who check those boxes but have rough edges (I'm thinking Jalen Ramsey) come to the Rams and have those rough edges smoothed off. Ramsey's frustration-driven jaw-jacking when the players around him didn't do their jobs grew into his becoming a virtual player-coach on the field. McVay saw that potential in Ramsey and brought it out, developed it, and Ramsey left as a bigger man than the one who arrived - more focused, less troubled, less controversial, more fully realizing the best version of himself.
McVay has a rare ability to recognize and develop the human potential in his players. That trait is posessed by only a few people in any profession; in the NFL I've seen it in Lombardi, Walsh, and Dick Vermeil.
He'll join their ranks as his history continues to grow.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/19/2024 02:01PM by mtramfan.
