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Your point about virtually the entire O roster taking a back step in '16 is a good one, zn.
Gotta give you that much.
As I've posted multiple times before, I think that the Rams have no choice but to give both Tavon and GRob every reasonable opportunity this season to justify their draft status. A low risk, potentially high reward thing.
If any coaching staff can redeem them, it's this one.
But tbh, I'm not terribly optimistic. Both seem to have shortcomings between their ears, if you catch my drift. Not IQ shortcomings, necessarily, but "football smarts/desire to improve" shortcomings. Not coachable solutions, IOW.
I don't agree with that. In this sense.
To me Austin has already justified himself. 2015. But there's also a good chance that McVay may not want to use him that way.
I don't do "draft status." In fact, to be honest, I think it's a pointless endeavor. I don't need GR to "justify his draft status" because that's not a real and objective football criterion. If he pans out as a good ROT in his 4th year, I am not going to keep whining about where he was drafted. A football player is a football player. Once he's picked he has the same standing, to me, as a UDFA.
I never use that kind of thing to bash players.
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You're certainly entitled to your viewpoint about ignoring a player's draft status, zn.
But a lot of us expect a helluva lot more from a #2 overall, or a traded up for #8 overall than from a UDFA. To him to whom much is given, much is expected.
The higher draft status implies higher talent. That just seems beyond obvious to me. So, when a high 1st rounder is a bust, it's a MUCH bigger deal than when a UDFA doesn't make it. It's a gigantic missed opportunity.
I do take your point that once a player is brought in they should have an equal opportunity to earn a starting position. But that's a different topic.
Yeah you articulate very well the problem I am talking about. The "punish with expectations" thing.
I don;'t do that. I don't pay that much attention to it when others do. I don't think it makes any sense. There will always be players who should have been picked lower and there will always be players who should have been picked higher. If they work out that's all I care about. To me that's the only way to do real, and sound, football analysis.
I don't think in terms of armchair quarterbacking/20-20 vision stuff. If the guy can play he can play. If he can't, time to move on.
And this is not what I said--"your point that once a player is brought in they should have an equal opportunity to earn a starting position." What I
said was that I don't put much stock if any in the "fans judging a player by where he was picked" game. As I said, if he can play he can play, if he was "picked too high" I generally don't care about that.
Now SHOULD players be picked too high? Well no and that means personnel has to work on adjusting for next draft and getting that right.
BUT once he is a Ram I don't hold draft position against a player and generally lose interest when others do.
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