Bootleg Football recaps Rams’ offseason moves and previews upcoming season

Bootleg Football—a podcast by Brett Kollmann and EJ Snyder—published an in-depth breakdown on the Los Angeles Rams’ prospects for 2025.

Recaps how the Rams made the playoffs last season, analyzes every offseason move, and contemplates their chances for the upcoming season. It’s a must-listen this time of the offseason for fans of the team:

These are the discussed topics that I found the most interesting myself:

• It’s tough to measure what the Rams were last offseason because most statistics are clouded by a slow start and injuries
• On...

Did Rams make colossal mistake by hiring Steve Spagnuolo in 2009? This writers says absolutely

Steve Spagnuolo has won four Super Bowls as a coach and is cited as arguably the most valuable so could it really be that large of a blunder when the St. Louis Rams hired him to be the head coach in 2009? According to a list of the worst coaching hires of the century by CBS Sports, the answer is yes.

Writer Cody Benjamin believes that in spite of his success as the Chiefs defensive coordinator, Spagnuolo was to blame for all of the Rams...

Rams schedule: Weeks 9-13 bring the Saints, 49ers, Seahawks, Buccaneers, and Panthers

We’ve done a deep dive through the first half of the Los Angeles Rams’ schedule through their bye week. Now comes the back stretch and a focus on three-fourths of the NFC South division.

Weeks 1-4, The Opening Quarter: Texans, Titans, Eagles, Colts

Weeks 5-8, Litmus Test Before the Bye: 49ers, Ravens, Jaguars

Weeks 9-13, Clash Against the NFC South: Saints, 49ers, Seahawks, Buccaneers, Panthers

Weeks 14-18, A Potentially Tough Close: Cardinals, Lions, Seahawks, Falcons, Cardinals

Clash against the NFC South

Weeks...

Jared Verse is already a top-10 edge rusher according to NFL executives

The period between OTAs and training camp typically becomes a time in which media outlets release player position rankings among others. While some of the rankings can be taken with a grain of salt, it is also a good indicator of how players are viewed around the NFL. That’s especially the case when those rankings come from league executives, coaches, and scouts.

Last season, Los Angeles Rams rookie edge rusher Jared Verse won the Defensive Rookie of the Year. Verse only finished with 4.5 sacks, but his impact...

While both players look to be future superstars, playing together has been the best thing for both of their careers

Iron sharpening iron might be the best way to describe the relationship between Los Angeles Rams pass rushers Jared Verse and Braden Fiske. Individually, each player is an up-and-coming star with votes for Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2024. While Verse may have claimed victory over the award in the end, Fiske’s team leading 8.5 sacks (which was double Verse’s total) could make some argue he actually had the more productive first season of the two teammates.

According to...

The NFC West is stacked with productive running back talent

I am not saying that the Los Angeles Rams have the weakest running back room in the NFC West, but I am saying that you can absolutely make the argument.

Please keep in mind this is not a knock on the Rams and Kyren Williams, as it’s more of a testament to how talented the running backs throughout the NFC West are.

The Rams have had Williams as their primary RB the past couple seasons, and if not for his costly fumbles, he might be a top tier back in...

Los Angeles Rams News and Links for 7/10/25

If reports are true that Kyren Williams is more explosive coming into this upcoming season, then fans and the team could be in for a very special year at running back with Williams at the helm.

As he enters his fourth NFL campaign, Williams has been a very good running back for the Los Angeles Rams (specifically the past two seasons), but has he been great? I think one could argue yes, and one could say no, depending on the stats you choose to look at.

In terms of yards and production,...

Les Snead and Sean McVay have constructed a balanced group

The start to the 2025 season is counting down with the Los Angeles Rams set to open camp in two weeks, July 23. The preseason campaign is one month away, beginning with an August 9 meeting with the Dallas Cowboys.

Head coach Sean McVay starts camp with a full 90-man roster and must navigate only one serious health problem, Alaric Jackson’s recurring blood clot problem. In spring workouts. both McVay and General Manager Les Snead made mention of how tough it was going to break onto the roster. An argument...

PFF offensive line rankings have Rams in the middle

Do the Los Angeles Rams have a top-10 offensive line? Not according to ProFootballFocus. In PFF’s offensive line rankings going into the 2025 season, the Rams were seen as league average, checking in at 15th overall. The article mentions Alaric Jackson, but the writers didn’t seem to even realize that Jackson is in danger of missing the start of the season, if not more time than that. L.A. signed D.J. Humphries as insurance in case Jackson misses significant action.

But PFF made no mention of Humphries, most likely because the writers...

Where did Warner rank in a top-10 list for best all-time QB seasons and is it fair?

The top six quarterback seasons by Fox Sport’s “top-10 all-time quarterback seasons” failed to do something kind of important. None of them won the Super Bowl that year. You have to get to Kurt Warner and the 1999 St. Louis Rams at spot seven to find that.

Should Warner’s ‘99 season be the best quarterback season of all-time?

Warner’s ‘99 season, which was so fascinating that they made a movie about it, wasn’t just shocking to people at the time and historic in...

Yahoo Sports tabbed Puka as the 6th-best draft pick of the last 25 years

Puka Nacua set the NFL world ablaze from the moment he began suiting up for the Los Angeles Rams. In just two years, Nacua has established himself as one of the league’s top young wideouts. He was a “once-in-a-generation” pick for the Rams, according to one outlet.

Frank Schawb of Yahoo Sports tabbed Nacua as the 6th-best draft pick of the last 25 years in his July 8 column:

“For years we’ll be asking the question, “Who is this year’s Puka Nacua?” And the answer,...

ESPN ranks Rams supporting cast as top-5 in the NFL

When Matthew Stafford spent the first 12 years of his career with the Detroit Lions, the narrative was always that the quarterback never had a consistent supporting cast to help him. That immediately changed when Stafford arrived to the Los Angeles Rams and was met with Cooper Kupp, Robert Woods, and a good defense led by Aaron Donald.

Due to injuries and a transition period on the team’s salary cap, the Rams haven’t been able to provide Stafford that same level of supporting cast since. However, that has changed heading...