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If Gurley goes out you work around it.

he's heart and soul of offense......best receiver, play action is all based on him not Malcom Brown and entire run game

I do think Rams draft a back up in the 4th

And with a good coach and good contributing players you work around it.

For example put in a nice solid short ball control passing game and find the productive strengths of your remaining backs. Any coach worth a damm can do that.


On the other hand, lose Whitworth, and neither the current offense with Gurley nor the hypothetical offense without him I just described works anywhere near as well.

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I think they can work around Whit going down just as easily as Gurley missing. And when I say just as easily I mean both would be challenging.

IMO, they would slide Saffold to LT, and Austin Blythe would move to LG. The offense would still work with Saffold.

That's my vote, I get that yours if different.

Yeah my vote IS different. To me, if they lose Whitworth, they should just hire a couple of bad guys to take tire irons to Goff, and injure him. That way they just get it over with.

That's me in dark humor mode.

I see the dark humor mode and I think the kernel of truth I'm extracting is that you don't believe Saffold has the ability to do the job at all. Right?

I guess I'm thinking he'd be between Whit and GRob level of bad but adequate for a short period of time.

FWIW, I agree that they need someone to start developing. I've got my eye on Tyrell Crosby (3rd - 4th), Jamarco Jones (3rd - 4th), and Geron Christian (2nd - 4th).

I'm very underwhelmed with the supposed 1st round OTs besides McGlinchey who I think will be gone by #23.

My guess is that Saffold would be a lot closer to Whit than to GRob. It's not just that I think he's a better player than he was was he was being yanked all offer the line back in the day, it's that this is a completely different team w/a completely different vibe. This is a team where individual players are much more likely to over perform than underperform. Sullivan goes down, we worry, then Blythe comes up and more than holds his own. I'm not even sure that Goff going down would sink this team - as in, make it a .500 team of worse if everything else stays in place.