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otherwise they woulda taken Rapp at #31.
The Rams kew "somethin"...what ? I dunno.
Now, I am NOT a conspiracy guy....I mean, at all, Alyo will tell you...not a conspiratorial bone in this broken body!! lol
However, if the Rams really liked a player and thot he was worth the #31st pick...they woulda stayed and picked him there and been happy.
The Rams knew...that many top Safeties would not even go until later in the draft. Think last year with Obo & Kiser? We were thinking they'd be gone in the 3rd...and they lasted until the 5th. There's somethin happenin here...what it is ain't exactly clear....blah, blah , blah....
There an obviously known "thing" around the NFL on draft day and it's not exact, but it gets pretty close....on how teams know when OTHER teams are gonna go for certain players. just sayin....what?! I dunno...just sayin somethin
I think that you’re missing the larger point, Sun.
Think of it like this. It’s early in the draft, our first pick, in fact. Rams have many players that they like more or less equally rated. Rapp was but one of them.
At each point for the Ram pick a trade offer came in (or Snead sought it) that enabled the adding of premium picks in a deep draft while simultaneously guaranteeing that several players that the Rams really liked would still be there. And it just kept happening!
We both know Snead loves such opportunities and couldn’t resist. And who could blame him? Gamblers call such a scenario a “free roll”, a can’t lose proposition.
I know that some cautioned against another “Bobby Wagner mistake”, but this was never that. Snead learned his lesson there and will probably never again put himself in a win-lose type of tradedown situation. These tradedowns were always win-win for the Rams.
One last thing. Rapp was never their only target with their first pick, despite what they may now be hinting. Oh, I’m sure that they love him and are very happy to get him at 61. I’m guessing that they had maybe as many as 20 potential targets when they traded out of 31. If you recall, Dead kept posting the names of likely Ram targets remaining after each trade and it was clear that several would mathematically still have to be there for the Rams at their “new” pick. Rams got real lucky with the way that this draft fell for the most part.
We are very fortunate to have Snead run these drafts. I think he squeezed about all that could be squeezed from it for the Rams.
