The Los Angeles Rams seem to have a small problem in their locker room right now and that problem is that Matthew Stafford is apparently struggling to connect with his younger teammates.
That surprising revelation comes from Stafford’s wife, Kelly, who revealed the news during the most recent episode of her “The Morning After With Kelly Stafford” podcast.
“It’s kind of crazy,” Kelly said, via ESPN.com. “So, Matthew’s been in the league a long time. He’s like, ‘The difference in the locker room has changed so significantly.’ They have a lot of rookies on their team, they’re very young. But he’s like, ‘I feel like I can’t connect.'”
The biggest problem for Matthew seems to be that players are no longer bonding like they used to. Instead of playing something like ping pong in the locker room, everyone is always looking at their phone.
“In the old days you’d come out of practice, you’d shower, and people would be playing cards, interacting,” Kelly explained. “Who knows what they’re doing, but they’re doing something together. Playing ping pong, they have a tournament going on. They’d at least be talking. But now they get out of practice, and meetings during training camp, and they go…
