Three Rams points: Tutu Atwell’s influence, the trade deadline, and the inconsistent kicker approach

California’s Thousand Oaks. We shall discover a great deal about the young and experienced players (as well as their coaches) every week during the Los Angeles Rams season, which promises to be erratic, chaotic, and always engaging.

The most intriguing or pertinent of these developments will be included below in neatly divided parts.

In addition, I add a small twist to the third edition of “Knows Ball Anonymous,” in which I invite an NFL coach, executive, scout, player, or pundit to provide a fascinating fact, whether or not it has to do with the Rams.

At the trade deadline, what’s going on?

The Rams, led by head coach Sean McVay and his wife Veronika, may have added players to their personal roster this week, but the team may not be playing as aggressively as it has in the past in the lead-up to the deadline of October 31. Yes, the front office is always inquiring about and monitoring the players, but there may not be any actual deals or trade efforts as a result.

“I don’t know that those talks will be as widespread as maybe in years past,” McVay said earlier this month. “You kind of have to have some money and different things like that for those to be possibilities.”

The Rams reportedly showed some early interest in Noteboom earlier this week, according to a league source. Despite dealing with injuries, which included an upper-body soft tissue injury that kept him out of training camp and a groin injury that hampered him in practice in the two weeks leading up to Sunday’s game, he has started games at left tackle and right guard. After starting at left tackle in 2022, he tore his Achilles, but he was cleared to go to training camp.