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For those who have been fans of the Rams since the 90's, consider this: The Rams signed a player who had a not-so-good attitude, and his first three years in the NFL showed some sorry trends in his stats...his first year he did good, 314 attempts for 1282 yards, but then his 2nd year he declined to 289 attempts for 1098 yards. His 3rd year was worse. 198 tries for 587 yards. YPC went from 4.1 down to 3.0.
Traditionally, a rookie is supposed to find his 'stride' in his 3rd year. Apparently, this guy didn't. I'm sure that numbers like this raised a lot of eyebrows, yet the Rams traded off two draft picks for this guy.
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The part you left out, though, is that Faulk's third year in Indianapolis, he was hindered by an injury early in the season, and he had two more good years after that before we signed him. It's not like we traded for him immediately after his worst season. When we signed him, he was coming off a year with 1,319 yards on the ground plus another 908 receiving. I get where you're going with this, but I think you're exaggerating the gamble on Faulk.