LA Rams Don't Seem Committed To Bringing Back Matthew Stafford, Cooper Kupp

We're just a few weeks away from the 2025 Super Bowl, and the Los Angeles Rams and general manager Les Snead are making plans to try to get back to the NFL championship game. And they may or may not include two of the biggest faces of this era of Rams football: quarterback Matthew Stafford and wide receiver Cooper Kupp.

Snead spoke to Adam Grosbard from the Orange County Register about the Rams personnel decisions coming this offseason, particularly Stafford and Kupp. Several years ago, Snead described them both as "weight-bearing walls," and when asked if that was still the case, he didn't seem nearly so sure.

"They've definitely been weight-bearing walls," Snead said. "I know where you're going with that, kind of what's next for them - and again think with each player, and it's not just them, you can go to the players, the Higs, and those are going to be the players that have been here awhile, they're still under contract with us - and usually it's a question about do you want to keep playing football, similar to what Aaron Donald went through, all the contract structures that you go through."

"Our philosophy here, I know Sean mentioned it, we're going to decompress, we're going to try to get through this weekend because it'll be painful watching at least in the NFC two other teams vie for that conference championship instead of us. They earned it, even though they earned it I probably won't watch it. And then what we'll try to do is really, really get re-energized and come in because now you gotta start putting the puzzle together."

Usually, the way this thing goes, there's a subset of players that are on your roster, contracts, those are pretty much easier players. They're going to be here and we'll begin figuring