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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 781192">On a tangential note, I would never have signed Gurley to that contract.  Make him work another year for the second contract with the 5th. year option providing some risk mitigation against the high work load fall off (if $9.6 mil guaranteed for 2019 could be considered such).  I would have used the Gurley signing bonus and the big guarantee to try to lock up Donald instead.As it stands, LA is pretty much committed to Gurley through his 7th. season with $8.4 mil in dead cap in 2021.  I wouldn't have done that.I'm not exactly comfortable talking about elite running backs as cannon fodder that get used up and then tossed after a few years.  But it's the way it works out more often than not, it's the way the league operates, those players make a ton of money even in fall off seasons, and then they keep making decent money even in decline as teams pick them up as "bargains" in the hope of a contribution often under a reduced work load.  The are highly compensated cannon fodder.As others have noted, the Rams are having trouble selling tickets, 26th. in home attendance last season, playing in front of 25,000 empty seats in the Coliseum in an average week last seasonnot counting no-shows.  The LA Chargers were dead last in attendance last season.While the Coliseum may not be the greatest game-day experience, the market is huge, the weather is terrific, and the Rams came out guns-a-blazing last season.  What gives?For decades conventional wisdom has said the NFL's history of failure in LA is attributable to it being a Saturday football town:  UCLA and USC.  This kinda looks like a repeat, with hopes hanging on the whiz bang new stadium originally scheduled to open in 2019, now delayed to 2020.What to do for the next 2 seasons to get more interest and butts in seats?  Right now you can get a ticket to the Rams home opener for around $28 in the aftermarket which is hardly auspicious for a purported Super Bowl contender.Well, one thing to consider is most fans don't go to games to watch All-Pro defensive tackles stuff runs and bull their way to the QB, even if he is the best defensive player in the league.  Fans like scoring and some new ones might like to go and see the NFL Offensive Player of the Year run and catch the ball.   That might go some ways in explaining why Gurley got his contract and Donald is stil waiting.</blockquote>

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