Annual State of the Rams

The Bill Barnwell Show

ESPN

Sports

4.4 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On today’s episode of the Bill Barnwell Show, the Athletic’s Jourdan Rodrigue joins to discuss why the Los Angeles Rams are the most interesting team in football, the Rams' journey to clinching a playoff spot, and how Sean McVay evolved this year. Then, they break down how Kyren Williams became an essential player, how the Rams set up their rookie class for success, and the personnel department’s strategy in supplementing their roster. Plus, they discuss Sean McVay’s perspective shift this season. 2:30 Journey to clinching a playoff spot 9:16 The differences in Sean McVay and his coaching staff this year 17:00 Emergence of Kyren Williams 23:52 Success of the rookies 30:19 How the personnel department supplemented the roster 43:41 Sean McVay’s future Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Bill Barnwell show.
0:08.4	I am Bill Barnwell today.
0:10.9	I am very excited to have our annual episode,
0:14.3	which I didn't know was an annual episode until it occurred to me.
0:17.4	We need to have an annual episode on this very topic.
0:20.5	It is the state of the Los Angeles Rams, one of the most interesting teams in football year after year. And joining me to talk about that is one perhaps the most qualified person on the planet to discuss the Los Angeles Rams and the very compelling year they've
0:39.2	had after a conversation we had a year ago where it felt like they were in totally different
0:44.7	straits. Joining me to discuss that is the athletics. Jordan Roderick, Jordan, it's been a year.
0:50.2	Happy, Happy New Year, Bill. Yeah. And you know what? It's, it's, um, every year something interesting slash
0:58.7	chaotic is happening with this team. And when I say chaotic, I, I don't mean always chaotic
1:03.1	bad last year, chaotic bad probably, but, um, 2021 we talked, I believe we talked ahead of the
1:09.1	Super Bowl. 2020, we talked, uh, amidst the implosion and, we talked, I believe we talked ahead of the Super Bowl. 2022, we talked amidst the implosion.
1:14.7	And in 2020, we're talking above the, above the wreckage that grass has since grown over and trees are starting to bloom again.
1:23.7	So this is fun.
1:25.5	This is why we have an annual state of their hands is because
1:27.6	something they they whiplash so frequently. We just got to track it and hang on for dear life.
1:35.0	For an organization and a team where like the meme around them for so long was seven to nine
1:40.2	the Jeff Fisher era, it feels like that is the one thing they cannot do. Seven and nine
1:46.6	is lava. Seven and nine is lava. We will be great or we will be terrible and there is no
1:53.5	middle ground. And it's so fascinating. I went back and looked at our conversation we were having
1:59.0	about the show a year ago off the air.
2:02.4	And I'm just going to set the scene for people who have forgotten how far the Rams have come
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ESPN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of ESPN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.