SEATTLE — Every year about this time, teams study the Super Bowl champion to see if their path to the title can be emulated, or copied, or, let’s be real, stolen.
It wasn’t too useful in 2020, because “sign the greatest quarterback in NFL history” isn’t a readily available tactic.
This year, however, the copycat league has a model to latch onto — or so it would seem. The Rams won by audaciously and unambiguously going all-in. They embraced the philosophy of one of their long-ago coaches, George Allen, who famously declared “the future is now.”