For not liking the Rams, you sure seem to have your pom poms out. It's odd how worked up you're getting over an opinion. I'm not going to apologize for having my opinion. Don't like it, I couldn't care less.
Have a good day. GO HAWKS
All I've done is ask you to clarify what you think the Rams are doing wrong on the cap. I've also asked you for evidence of any wrongdoing, which of course you could not provide. I provided the public contract breakdowns, especially gathered in convenient ways on sites like overthecap and spotrac, as evidence that the Rams are within the cap rules. I then lowered the bar for you, asking you to provide just one example of anything even questionable that the Rams have done on the cap. You couldn't come up with even one. I then lowered the bar again to the absurdly low level of anything that could
conceivably be construed as
potentially shady (and I cited the funny business with Brady's TB12 company being housed inside the Patriots' complex and having the Patriots as a client as an example of that).
Even after I'd lowered the bar twice, you couldn't even come up with a single example of anything the Rams have done on the cap that could conceivably be construed as potentially shady.
Further, I made the argument that if the Rams had different cap rules from the other 31 teams, as you've alleged multiple times without providing even a shred of even circumstantial evidence, even when asked to do so, the other 31 owners (technically, the other 31 ownership groups) would be furious and complain. The fact that no other teams have complained about the Rams' cap suggests very strongly that the other 31 teams, including the Seahawks, don't believe the Rams are doing anything against the cap rules.
I've provided two different kinds of evidence that the Rams are not violating the cap rules: actual contract breakdowns for the full rosters of all 32 teams on overthecap and spotrac, plus the fact that none of the other 31 teams is saying the Rams are doing something wrong on the cap.
All you do is add to your proven-false accusation against the Rams by making a false accusation against me. You accuse me of having my "pom-poms out" for the Rams, when all I've done is say that there's no evidence that the Rams have done anything wrong on the cap. If you had provided some, I'd be outraged that the Rams were getting away with such a thing. But even when I lowered the bar to anything that
could conceivably be construed as suspicious, you couldn't even provide anything that met that absurdly low standard. You've got zero actual real-world reasons to believe the Rams have done anything wrong on the cap, yet you continue to make false accusations.
My "pom-poms" are not out for the Rams. The last time I rooted for the Rams was in the 1999 season, when I lived in Sacramento and I had a friend who was a Rams fan, and I watched several games at his house and was very happy for him that the gods of sport were smiling on him after so much suffering. Worth noting: the Seahawks, who have been my team since 1976, were still in the AFC at the time. I'd also have rooted for the Rams against the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI in February of 2002 (after the 2001 season) if I'd been able to watch it, but I had moved to Brazil and I've never signed up for any pay-TV services (cable or satellite) here, so there was no way for me to watch the game. The Seahawks would only move to the NFC in the following season.
On the other hand, I was actually happy the Patriots shut down JaGoff and the Rams to the tune of just three points in Super Bowl LIII after the 2018 season, because by that time, the Rams had been a division rival long enough, and the Rams fans that went to pester us on the Seahawks fan site I frequented at the time had annoyed me enough, that I was happy not to watch the game (in my view, the best possible outcome would have been the whole field falling straight into Hell, taking both teams with it, and I considered that unlikely to happen), but it was nice after hearing what an offensive genius McVay supposedly was week after week, to read that that offensive genius's team only mustered three points in the Super Bowl.
My pom-poms are out for reality and evidence. You've made accusations, and I've just asked you to give evidence of what you're alleging, later lowered to any circumstantial evidence that what you're alleging might conceivably be happening, and you couldn't provide even that.
It's not a matter of opinion at this point. There's evidence the Rams aren't doing anything wrong on the cap (the publicly available contract numbers, plus the silence of the other 31 teams' ownership groups and front offices), and you're unable to provide even a single piece of evidence that
suggests the Rams
might conceivably be doing something against the cap rules. You're making wild unfounded accusations. Worse, now that you've seen the evidence that the Rams are following the salary-cap rules and been unable to come up even with some datum that suggests they
might possibly be doing something shady, any reasonable human being would have to come to the conclusion that there's no basis for accusations like that at this time, so now you're
knowingly making false accusations. That's pretty ugly.
I dislike the Rams (still not as much as I dislike the Raiders, and probably about the same as I dislike the Broncos, from the Seahawks' days in the AFC West), and I wish them much failure on the field, but I just can't agree with accusing them of cheating on the salary cap without even a shred of circumstantial evidence suggesting even the possibility that they might conceivably be doing anything wrong on the salary cap. Wishing it were so is not an adequate standard.