The Los Angeles Rams entered the 2023 season with one goal in mind. General manager Les Snead and the front office made the difficult decisions to trade Jalen Ramsey and then cut both Leonard Floyd and Bobby Wagner. The 2023 season was a reset year to acquire more cap space heading into the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
Throughout the offseason, the national media called this “tanking.” However, this was a team that never had the intention to tank. Queue up the the Boromir meme, “one does not simply tank with Aaron Donald, Matthew Stafford, and Cooper Kupp on the roster.