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Rams43
Who cares how PFF graded the Rams draft, really?
As Rock pointed out in another thread, Rams no doubt have plans (note the plural?) for both OC and LOT in ‘22
Tell me what would be a good plan, 43, that would address both positions at the same time with pretty much very little cap space to work with.
They had a plan when they started Allen and Noteboom in 2019. Was it a good plan?
Buy a free agent LOT? Those are rare. That's assuming they have cap space and that they aren't paying for both tackle and center. So you can't count on that.
Draft a guy? LOTs are usually not there after round 1. In the 10 years from 2009-2018 (to 2018 so we can judge) 27 tackles were drafted in round 2, and of those 1 became an established starting LOT (though Whitworth was himself originally a 2nd rounder). For the same years doing rounds 3-7, it was 112 picked, and of those 6 became established starting LOTs. Rounds 2-7 combined, that's 7 out of 139, or about 5%. So you can't count on that.
And even if you count on drafting a guy, if AW leaves, you're starting a rookie.
Promote a guy they already have? Who? Noteboom? I have big questions about him as a starting LOT. Can they count on Noteboom?
So what plan COULD they have? If we go over all the options, none of them look that good.
There's only so many things they can do and we can go over the list of possibilities and assess them. I mean they can't bring a young Orlando Pace forward in time, they can't manufacture one in a genetic lab experiment, they can't get Whitworth to play forever...
...so name something they could do that we haven't already covered.
What kind of plan COULD they have.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/04/2021 05:36PM by zn.
