Thanks for postine, JY53. Much info packed into just a few minutes. Wyche and Garrafolo are good interviewers who arrived with good questions, and who listen to the answers they asked for. They don't interview just to hear themselves talk. That lets us listen, too. Many gems scattered throughout. One that struck me: Who, besides Snead, reads multiple books by economists for their ideby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Snead by himself: Hidden draft gems, trades that bolster the roster. Coaches and scouts: Valuable input, but when stuck on a player, splash and bust. McVay: Speedy little wideouts.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Generational player. He'd singlehandedly change the complexion of the defense. Doubt very seriously that it would happen, with the signings of White and he other one. I've kept quiet about my secret wish that he'd be a Ram, but now that you've said it... You can't have too many or too good cornerbacks.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Goodell booed? Let's hope so. He's ruining the game, selling everything in it and about it for money - and when there's no game left?by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Thank you, thank you! :clap Jourdan is a harbinger, some of the other writers are, by comparison, a hairbrainer. :laughing Let the draft begin....................by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Spot on reasoning, my friend. Somehow Caleb and his nails remind me of the posturing, stubble-posing square-jawed heroic college phenom Matt Leinart - who fell from everybody's #1 pick to #10 for the Cards, who took him, sidelined Warner for the Golden Boy for a couple of misspent years until they sobered up and let Warner lead them to a Super Bowl. Leinart meanwhile showed some brilliant flasby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Couldn't happen. b]DaSilva says they're set to trade UP into the top ten. :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead WILL THE DRAFT PLEASE START, ALREADY??? My bold prediction: :confused:rolleyes :nerd The Rams will trade up, trade down, or stay put!!!!!!!!!!!!!by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
She said, then he said, then DaSilva read it and picked it up and wrote it. And I ain't buying. Not until I see it, and not because DaSilva was the third (in this daisy chain) to say so. :nowayby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Jourdan (and thank you, Jourdan! :bravo) is revealing the inner workings of what we should already know - but that we keep forgetting. For the most part, fans and writers are playing checkers while behind the scenes Snead and co. are playing 3D chess, with many moving pieces at many different levels. Or put in another way, while we're thinking at a linear level, the Rams are on a layered matriby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Back then the writers and scouts had to watch the players play - they couldn't just crush the numbers from test results and call it a report or a column. Youngblood got to play bestde Merlin Olsen and other Rams greats. Dierdorf? Got stuck with Conrad Dobler. For those too young to remember his best moves were holding and ilegal hands to the whatever, and if those failed, the leg whip. Odlby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Isn't this one of the first things Snead said going into the off-season? I think we got it the first time. Poor DaSilva - slow day, needs to meet his word count requirement, and no place to go.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I guess Sean Payton wasn't listening when his Pappy took him aside and said to him, "Son, it don't make no diff'rence how smart you are or how much you know, if you go through life as a dirtbag human being and cheatin' piece of crud, it won't last foever. People'll begin to notice, an' sooner or later it'll all come back to bite you right in the ass." X(:thumbsup:yesby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
So... if sombody falls, or Latu goes sooner, what then? What if Quin Mitchell falls? If he's there Latu makes the most sense - and could turn into another Khalil Mack. Or he could re-injure his neck, and the Rams would look historically foolish for not taking Chop Robinson? Or will McVay's compulsion for a speedy wideout have us taking Adonai Mitchell? Thanks for posting!by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
The Rams may not be done. After he's played the market for high stakes and failed, he may come back a bit humbled. If he still wants to play for a winner we'd have a serious backup for White when injured, or a second corner with him and ball-hawking Williams in the star/nickel for a majority of snaps. Stranger things have happened.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Can he block? How quickly could he learn the McVay system? And how soon would he be the starter? If the TE is actually in the pattern (and I'm just pulling numbers out of the air for the sake of making a point - please bear with me) and is the first option for, say, 5 offensive plays out of 50 or 60, and blocking the rest of the time, what's the big deal about how good a receiver he haby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I feel a the same way, bro. The media tends to look at their own hype, team-oriented accomplishments, stats, and records in selecting players who make the hall. Some who make it are questionable - some who should get in based on personal accomplishment, unique skill and style of play, respect earned over the course of a career, lasting influence on the game, leadership, inspiration and eby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I thought he came in at 196 or something. Maybe combine? He did sample a bunch of Mexican food courtesy of the Rams $10,000 program for the hardworking small business owners of those mom and pop restaurants. If that were me, I could have easily put on the 25 pounds. SoCal Mexican food is the greatest! :thumbsup But I digress. :offtopic Another scenario: He says he played most of theby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
This is the thing with me I've know several young men who kept growing until age 23-24. And I mean growing. From 20 until fully sprouted, an extra inch or couple of inches of height, while the body fills out with additional pounds of muscle or blubber, depending on genes and/or temperament. Is Chop all the way filled out as a man, yet? We don't know. Is he all the way coahed up into whatby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
... with an unanticipated surprise or two before the ending! I'm way, waaay past second-guessing Snead. I'm kicking back, chillin', watchin' and waitin'. :partytime :partytime :partytime Got my popcorn. :thumbsupby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I remember, a few years ago, when there were two defensive players who were potential draft choices for the Rams. One had the measureables and a pedigree, the other showed flashes of brilliance and was too light, too short. I liked him because I liked the intangible stuff he brought as a football player. I wasn't active on the board then - had taken a long break from posting. The Rams draftedby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Outstanding look at the man and the quarterback, inseperable. He brings depth and qualities to the field that some more famous quarterbacks will never have.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I think the speedy little wideout fixation is more McVay than Snead. If coach wants a certain player, Snead will get him. That's his job. If the player fizzles, Snead doesn't cop out on McVay.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Yeah, Berendsen, you and i have been harping about sound tackling for... how long? Pete Carroll's video should be a must watch for anybody remotely interested in football. The object switched, a couple of decades back, to make the highlight reel Dive shoulder and head first at the ball carrier. Never mind wrap and bring down, or wrap and drive through. In an old Fred Dryer highlight video yoby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Lack of help at safety made all the Rams CB's look bad until those positions were fixed. Keep the play in fromt of you, don't give up big plays was the mantra for an understaffed secondary - especially at the safety positions. Even Jalen Ramsey was made to look bad when a safety didn't arrive in time. Williams probably could have made more picks, passes defensed, if he were playing closer toby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Glad to have all of them back. Revealing stats about AJ. Ranked #7 with 5% sacks allowed? I though he played right well in the late season games, showing much improvement over what I'd seen, say when he first became a starter or stepped in for Boom when injured. He was competetive, yet prone tpo mistakes, and underweight. He doesn't look underweight to me now. In the last two games I saw hiby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Wow, bro - you've been thinking. Too much for me to get a handle on for now. You been reading Snead's mail? Trying to find words for a PM; not ignoring you, just unable to process the response. The closest I can come for now is the burtchered Latin, non illigitimati carborundum. ;) Keep up the great posts. I'm still learning.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I too have high hopes for Tomlinson, but he's got to learn to not be a penalty machine - and to keep his head instead of losing it in situations that have triggered him in the past. There's enough tape on him already for opposing DC's to coach against, to find ways to test and hopefully trigger him. Trash talk, a little bit of an unnoticed shove that will spark a reaction, etc. He's got to leaby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Or the All-American center that he tried to turn into a tackle based on body type? John St. Clair? St. Clair was excoriated on this board but never complained. He decidedly under par performance was on a head coach who ran a good team into the ground.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
The Bobby Wagner lesson learned. Don't wait for the guy you want to fall and tryto squeeze another pick in. Get him. Works. :thumbsupby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
He can manage the game and get the ball into the playmaker's hands. That's enough to ask from a backup.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com