Rams’ offseason approach has evolved under Jeff Fisher, Les Snead

May 26, 2016

The NFL draft is over. Free agency is over. We are now in the clear, with nothing really big planned until, you know, football actually begins. For the Los Angeles Rams, it’s a chance to come up for air after one of the most eventful offseasons in league history.

Still, there are plenty of questions facing this team as we trudge toward the summer and wait for training camp to start. That’s what we’re here for in the weekly Twitter mailbag. As always, you can find me on Twitter @nwagoner or shoot me questions at any time using #Ramsmail.

Let’s get to your questions:

@nwagoner how’s this offseason compared to say the last two? fa, draft, balance of o/d; have the rams been “smarter” or same ol? #ramsmail

— cocoon (@lemonjii) May 26, 2016

@nwagoner: I like this question but I want to flesh it out a bit. This is actually a good time to sit down and take stock of the way the Rams have approached the offseason in each of the years that coach Jeff Fisher and general manager Les Snead have been around. They’ve now navigated their way through five offseasons, and each of those offseasons has had a different personality. The first two years, they knew they had a depleted roster and wanted to build through the draft while also spending money on free agents in order to make the Rams competitive sooner than later. They did that by making the trade with Washington as well as spending big money on the likes of Jared Cook, Jake Long, Scott Wells, Kendall Langford and Cortland Finnegan.

But right around the time the Rams began running out of extra draft capital from the Washington trade, they …

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