The Los Angeles Rams have yet to make a splash in free agency --- mostly because in years past, their splashes have turned out to be belly flops.
Rams Chief Operating Officer Kevin Demoff recently gave a presentation at a Los Angeles high school on the franchise's move from St. Louis, detail of the new stadium and its intended amenities and how the Rams will operate before the new stadium is built, according to SB Nation's Turf Show Times.
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At the end of the event, Demoff took questions from audience members and gave an honest, if startling, admission about the Rams' relative inactivity so far during the free-agent period, despite the team being some $60 million below the salary cap.
"I will say, we've been really crappy in free agency," Demoff said. "I've written a lot of bad deals. We just haven't found a lot of success in free agency. And so I think there's a buyer beware in all of that, in terms of going out and buying other people's players, that we just haven't figured out."
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Demoff added that most of the $60 million will be used to retain the Rams' own free agents.
"Really, most of our money, because we have $60 million this year ... right now we're scheduled to have about $75 million next year, all of it is so we can re-sign our own guys, and keep drafting and developing and moving forward."
Los Angeles cut defensive end Chris Long, linebacker James Laurinaitis and tight end Jared Cook in a cost-cutting move prior to free agency, and they allowed cornerback Janoris Jenkins to sign with the New York Giants.
The Rams also are in the market for a quarterback, but when pressed for a preference, Demoff gave a less than sexy answer:
"My favorite free agent quarterback is Case Keenum," he said.
Demoff added that he believes the Rams will become more active when the second wave of free agency later this spring when unrestricted free agents signed by other teams don't count toward the compensatory draft-pick formula.
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