Normally, teams are looking to copy anything and everything they can from Super Bowl champions. The copycat league of the NFL can often lead teams to chase trends instead of getting ahead of them. It also can lead to overpaying free agents from those championship teams.
The Los Angeles Rams seem to be setting an interesting trend that many are unlikely to follow. In a league where more information is always better, the team has announced that GM Les Snead and head coach Sean McVay won’t even make the trip to Indianapolis for the NFL Combine.
The two attended last year’s very limited event. In 2020, McVay was there for a day before flying back and Snead stayed behind. A tweet about the Rams decision references Snead’s “F Them Picks” shirt that he wore to the Super Bowl parade: