The real takeaway from the 2018 season is LA was playing with house money and it didn't collect the ultimate pot. Those boosters were rooting for a Super Bowl title and ditto the Rams' salary cap number-crunchers. With a salary cap hit of $7.6 million this season, according to spotrac.com, the Rams could spend dough elsewhere. With significant salary cap ramifications coming in 2020 the future, as legendary Rams coach George Allen preached, really was now. That same trio counted as a $23.7 million hit in the season which just ended on a sour note.

Source: Forbes February 04, 2019 05:37 UTC