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RockRam
It has been many years since we've had as good and pragmatic Rams' writer as Jourdan.
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She has had a lot of experience and time to compare players, plays, coaches, etc. to. A lot more than any of us.
She has access to info we don't have, and has said often that some of it she can't share. And because she stays true to her word, the Rams' brain trust clearly has a level of trust in her that they will share with her info knowing that if they don't want it repeated, she won't.
A bit?
Her erudition is a good thing. Her natural curiosity is a good thing. Her reporting skills are a good thing. The things she cannot say are very small details - who is running with the first team, what package they may be working on that week, if they use a trick play . . . it's the same thing that you hear in a telecast like John Madden or others agreed to. They'd go to practice, see a play or something and not saying anything until the trick play was rung "We saw them working on that Friday, Pat"
In 1983 John Robinson was talking to the media about the upcoming wild-card game vs Dallas. There was a chalkboard nearby, he was answering questions and so on . . . he stood up and on the board wrote "Rams 24-21" but then said don't use it until after the game.
When Rams won 24-17 it was in the papers. Jourdan and all the other reporters not revealing details of practices is totally normal and applies to every writer who goes to an NFL practice.
If reporters gave out details about practice it would hurt teams chances of winning a game. So teams prevent that from happening.
In 1985 when Jack Youngblood worked for ESPN he was doing a remote at the 49ers practice before a big MNF game. Bill Walsh was concerned that Jack would tell the Rams what he was seeing, even though networks were obligated not to say anything. What goes on a practice or in camp or OTAs matters and
this isn't the government there is no "right to know" and if we knew little things like who was playing star right now, or who is playing the point in the bunch set, what would it matter?
You're right Rams fans lucky to have her and no one has better Rams information than she does. Not the fans sites, not national writers, not national TV.
She's pretty good.