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L.A. Was One Place That Made Sense for Odell Beckham Jr.
With the Rams, OBJ can be a star among stars instead of a cog in a machine.
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The Rams love to line up three elite wide receivers and gun the football. Matthew Stafford has by far the biggest arm of any quarterback Beckham has played with, and the propensity for McVay to knife opposing defenses affords Stafford all the time in the world to allow longer routes to develop. That gives Beckham a chance to flash both his creativity and his unique movement skills. Take a quick look at the Rams’ route charts from this season and tell me that the vertical, party-streamer-like display is not the ideal home for someone who has made some of the best downfield catches of the decade.
More than this, it almost guarantees that no team, especially during a defensive back shortage, is going to be able to adequately defend the Rams so long as Beckham, Cooper Kupp and Robert Woods remain healthy.
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Unlike a Browns offense that was never developed with him in mind, forcing him into the role of replaceable cog, he can reclaim his spark as a critical piece of a high-wire passing act—a team that throws on well over half its downs and has a higher passing success rate than any other team in the league.