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PHDram
you said "no plan for just 2021 covers 2022"
That's true. The plan for 2021 does not cover 2022.
Which does not mean they have no plan for 2022. No one is saying that and it just mucks up the discussion to pretend someone did.
I can say that my medical insurance doesn't cover dental but that does not mean I said I don't have dental.
There are any number of things they can do for 2022. But, they are all riskier and harder to do. Basically the plan in 2021 was to rely on already acquired players to fill in spots. In 2022, a lot of their players are free agents (both restricted and unrestricted) plus AW is 41. So they have to do something--and what they didn't do was acquire players in advance for 2022.
They can sign their own guys, draft new guys, sign FAs, make trades. BUT the hair in the ointment is that it's harder for teams to get a starting LOT that way. That means a lot rests on Noteboom, and he is one of the free agents. Whitworth will maybe still play in 2022 but even then they need to acquire someone to put behind him. You don't count on a 41 year old making it through the season.
So what's really being said is that the situation in 2022 will be more challenging, for all the above reasons.
And that's just true. It's a simple fact.
Even Rodrigue says as much. She says of the Rams lack of picks on OL this draft that "It’s a gamble by the Rams"
More Rodrigue on this:
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The reality is — and prepare to clench up — adding along the offensive line was not a priority for the Rams in this draft … not even in preparation for a future in which three currently rostered players (Joe Noteboom, Corbett and Allen) are unrestricted free agents in 2022, Whitworth has an “out” in his contract after 2021 (he and Havenstein are free agents in 2023, as are Evans and Edwards — and those contracts could come due a year early depending on their playing time in 2021).
