Isn't this one of the first things Snead said going into the off-season? I think we got it the first time. Poor DaSilva - slow day, needs to meet his word count requirement, and no place to go.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I guess Sean Payton wasn't listening when his Pappy took him aside and said to him, "Son, it don't make no diff'rence how smart you are or how much you know, if you go through life as a dirtbag human being and cheatin' piece of crud, it won't last foever. People'll begin to notice, an' sooner or later it'll all come back to bite you right in the ass." X(:thumbsup:yesby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
So... if sombody falls, or Latu goes sooner, what then? What if Quin Mitchell falls? If he's there Latu makes the most sense - and could turn into another Khalil Mack. Or he could re-injure his neck, and the Rams would look historically foolish for not taking Chop Robinson? Or will McVay's compulsion for a speedy wideout have us taking Adonai Mitchell? Thanks for posting!by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
The Rams may not be done. After he's played the market for high stakes and failed, he may come back a bit humbled. If he still wants to play for a winner we'd have a serious backup for White when injured, or a second corner with him and ball-hawking Williams in the star/nickel for a majority of snaps. Stranger things have happened.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Can he block? How quickly could he learn the McVay system? And how soon would he be the starter? If the TE is actually in the pattern (and I'm just pulling numbers out of the air for the sake of making a point - please bear with me) and is the first option for, say, 5 offensive plays out of 50 or 60, and blocking the rest of the time, what's the big deal about how good a receiver he haby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I feel a the same way, bro. The media tends to look at their own hype, team-oriented accomplishments, stats, and records in selecting players who make the hall. Some who make it are questionable - some who should get in based on personal accomplishment, unique skill and style of play, respect earned over the course of a career, lasting influence on the game, leadership, inspiration and eby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I thought he came in at 196 or something. Maybe combine? He did sample a bunch of Mexican food courtesy of the Rams $10,000 program for the hardworking small business owners of those mom and pop restaurants. If that were me, I could have easily put on the 25 pounds. SoCal Mexican food is the greatest! :thumbsup But I digress. :offtopic Another scenario: He says he played most of theby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
This is the thing with me I've know several young men who kept growing until age 23-24. And I mean growing. From 20 until fully sprouted, an extra inch or couple of inches of height, while the body fills out with additional pounds of muscle or blubber, depending on genes and/or temperament. Is Chop all the way filled out as a man, yet? We don't know. Is he all the way coahed up into whatby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
... with an unanticipated surprise or two before the ending! I'm way, waaay past second-guessing Snead. I'm kicking back, chillin', watchin' and waitin'. :partytime :partytime :partytime Got my popcorn. :thumbsupby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I remember, a few years ago, when there were two defensive players who were potential draft choices for the Rams. One had the measureables and a pedigree, the other showed flashes of brilliance and was too light, too short. I liked him because I liked the intangible stuff he brought as a football player. I wasn't active on the board then - had taken a long break from posting. The Rams draftedby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Outstanding look at the man and the quarterback, inseperable. He brings depth and qualities to the field that some more famous quarterbacks will never have.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I think the speedy little wideout fixation is more McVay than Snead. If coach wants a certain player, Snead will get him. That's his job. If the player fizzles, Snead doesn't cop out on McVay.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Yeah, Berendsen, you and i have been harping about sound tackling for... how long? Pete Carroll's video should be a must watch for anybody remotely interested in football. The object switched, a couple of decades back, to make the highlight reel Dive shoulder and head first at the ball carrier. Never mind wrap and bring down, or wrap and drive through. In an old Fred Dryer highlight video yoby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Lack of help at safety made all the Rams CB's look bad until those positions were fixed. Keep the play in fromt of you, don't give up big plays was the mantra for an understaffed secondary - especially at the safety positions. Even Jalen Ramsey was made to look bad when a safety didn't arrive in time. Williams probably could have made more picks, passes defensed, if he were playing closer toby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Glad to have all of them back. Revealing stats about AJ. Ranked #7 with 5% sacks allowed? I though he played right well in the late season games, showing much improvement over what I'd seen, say when he first became a starter or stepped in for Boom when injured. He was competetive, yet prone tpo mistakes, and underweight. He doesn't look underweight to me now. In the last two games I saw hiby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Wow, bro - you've been thinking. Too much for me to get a handle on for now. You been reading Snead's mail? Trying to find words for a PM; not ignoring you, just unable to process the response. The closest I can come for now is the burtchered Latin, non illigitimati carborundum. ;) Keep up the great posts. I'm still learning.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I too have high hopes for Tomlinson, but he's got to learn to not be a penalty machine - and to keep his head instead of losing it in situations that have triggered him in the past. There's enough tape on him already for opposing DC's to coach against, to find ways to test and hopefully trigger him. Trash talk, a little bit of an unnoticed shove that will spark a reaction, etc. He's got to leaby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Or the All-American center that he tried to turn into a tackle based on body type? John St. Clair? St. Clair was excoriated on this board but never complained. He decidedly under par performance was on a head coach who ran a good team into the ground.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
The Bobby Wagner lesson learned. Don't wait for the guy you want to fall and tryto squeeze another pick in. Get him. Works. :thumbsupby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
He can manage the game and get the ball into the playmaker's hands. That's enough to ask from a backup.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Some guys grow significantly until they're 23-24. Maybe that's what Tomlinson is doing. I was more than excited with his clips from camp. But after seeing his aggressive play style erupt in penalties, I don't want to see him on the field until that's cured. Clever article - play on words. But Trey Tomlinson has a long way to go to belong on the same field with Tre' White.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Yards. Stafford threw for more yards than Goff. Quite a few more, you can look it up, or did, and chose not to report it. No matter - I watched that game carefully and saw the Goff-led Lions a couple of times before. He's growing and maturing (and healing up, I would imagine,) as a quarterback. And again, I wish him no ill will and was glad to see him come alive, you might say, with Dby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Once in a blue moon a person will say something in one sentence that is self-effacing and self-aggrandizing in the same sentence. Goff managed it here. First, if anybody ever said he was being sent off to die I missed it. I thought he was going to a team that all-of-a-sudden needed a quarterback and was resurging from a decades-long nightmare of bad management, with a new GM and a new heaby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
You wrote: "I am assuming when you say "DE" that you mean in place of Jonah Williams --- again, yeah, as a backup." As you say, I was thinking of Hoecht moved inside to Williams' spot. Who knows - he might eventually start here although I see him as a backup piece at first. Who'd have seen him as a starting edge? Yethe adapted, gave it all he had, and showed remarkaby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Whether the Bills and their management will be able to put enough tools around him to succeed, elevate what he brings, is not quite a crapshoot. In a crapshoot youat least have a chance. Without tools we see too much falloff in Allen's decision-making, trying too hard, getting too desperate, not playing his best football. To varying extents that's true of all QB's; moreso with Allen.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
You both make a batch of very good points that I won't reiterate - and thank you both for the discussion. My 2c: If we were set at edge, real set and didn't need a for-sure, out-of-the-gate starter, I'd be all over Robinson. Rare potential. Hard to pass. Immediate starter? 17 game season and still fresh for playoffs? Fact is, in my eyes, we don't know that we'd have that. At least I donby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Ye gads - I hope not! :noway Would that make me a cultist? Again: Ye gads, I hope not! :frown :nerd The fact that he's still around with the Bears speaks to his upside. And while Chicago has its share of cult heroes, I'm fairly certain Hardy isn't one of those. He isn't even in music - or politics. The league is full of late-round guys from low-end schools who flashed high-end athleticby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
What do you think of moving Hoecht in to DE? Either as a rotational player or situational passing down player? Has he ever played there? Let him rush or stop the run, and maybe bat down passes. Eliminate coverage from his presonsibilities. I think he's plenty strong and quick enough, and plenty smart enough to adapt technically; it always seemed to me he was playing out of position and preby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I remember watching that, thinking the Rams had finally put the game game away, a game they had won until then. All they needed was the icer. Bradshaw and his receivers were hot. The Rams D and O (with the exception of Wendell Tyler) were solid, dominating to that point. You could feel the air go out even though they tried to regroup, recover, they didn't. Bradshaw knew he just got a new leasby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I remember another young, tough qurterback who came in with all sorts of flashy arm talent who had a real rough rookie year with not enough pieces around him - took sacks, got hurried, threw picks, choked under pressure, overrated, bust went the narrative. In future yars he proved to be anything but - won a Super Bowl and now runs the team he played for. Not that Howell would be another Elby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com