Los Angeles Rams icon Eric Dickerson is not pleased with how the team’s return has gone so far.
Dickerson even went as far as to dub the team’s Monday night performance against the San Francisco 49ers as “an embarrassment.”
“The city is happy. You know, the one thing about Los Angeles is you got to win,” Dickerson said Wednesday on NFL Network, via NFL Media’s Kevin Patra. “That’s the No. 1 thing — you’ve got to win in that city. And what they showed Monday night was an embarrassment. As a football team, they got to pick themselves up for the Seattle Seahawks and kind of get it back together.”
Dickerson also seemed unimpressed with the roster construction, particularly the lack of veterans.
“I’ve been saying from Day 1 to the fans, ‘Be patient, this is a young football team,'” Dickerson said. “But you can’t live by that. They’ve been saying that for the last four, five years. But hey, you’ve got to keep some veterans on the team. You’ve got to have some leaders on that team, some veterans.”
It has taken about a week for the Rams to become something of a laughingstock. Dickerson isn’t laughing, but his blunt honesty probably won’t make anyone feel better. The Rams are in danger of being buried immediately in a city that demands to win and be entertained — two things the Rams probably won’t be doing a lot of in 2016.
