Acquiring Myles Garrett proves Rams are all in on Super Bowl-or-bust mentality

Move over, Dodgers.Take a seat, Lakers.The Rams want to win another Super Bowl in the worst way, and they are sparing no expense to make it happen.In a move straight out of The Godfather — if not scripts penned by the Dodgers and Lakers — Les Snead and Sean McVay made the Browns an offer they couldn’t refuse for the best pass rusher in all of football. The Browns were helpless to say no.As a result, the most lethal quarterback slayer in the NFL is headed to Tinseltown.Say hello to your newest star, L.A.His name is Myles Garrett, and he’s about to wreak havoc everywhere from Sofi Stadium to Seattle, The Bay Area and everywhere in between.Are you kidding me? Is this real?How is it even possible?Call it the pursuit of greatness, if not a yearning to hoist another Lombardi Trophy.

But after coming up inches short in that quest last year, largely due to a defense that lacked closers, the Rams have gone all in this offseason to make sure that doesn’t happen again.First they traded for Chiefs cornerback Trent McDuffie and signed his defensive back teammate, Jaylen Watson, to turn their one defensive weakness into a strength.You thought they were done at that point, right?Not so fast my friend.No one understands the importance of a closer more than McVay, who had a front row seat to watch Aaron Donald close out the 49ers and the Bengals on the Rams road to a Super Bowl championship five years ago.As great as the Rams defensive front has been the last couple of years, what they lacked was a menacing force that could will himself to the quarterback when absolutely needed.Against double teams, blocking schemes designed to slow them down and anything else an opposing offense might throw at them to slow them down.The failure to get to the quarterback in critical moments, or at least disrupt them just enough to force inaccurate throws or turnovers, was part of the Rams undoing last year when it mattered most.

Those two critical losses to the Seahawks late in the se...