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Re: Fitness = low injury rates = winning games - 18 days ago
Injuries happen in football. Got it. We have, apparently, assembled a good team to rehabilitate injuries after they occur. And I've asked the obvious questions, now, for three years on this board: Why the high incidence of lower leg and hammy issues pre-season and early season? What priority do the Rams give to strength and conditioning and who's in charge? And for the last coupleby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Looks Like The Rams Are Cooked - 19 days ago
I hear Joni Mitchell in the background...by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Not rising to the occasion? - 21 days ago
I kinda thought that once it got started, there'd be a sudden rise in yeast jokes. :Pby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: I don't think so..... but then again... - 21 days ago
Other than Puka and Coop, at this point I'm thinking down and distance/matchups rather than numerical order in the room. If we want speed down the field, 2nd and short from our own 38 against a team with a slowish safety, why not go empty set with Smith and Tutu on a deep crosser? Play gets us inside the 20, out they come and in goes _________. You get the idea. I see McVay possibly morphby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: JW: Here's an overlooked factor - 21 days ago
I found a 4:47 somewhere. Too lazy to look it up, but that clock time translates to what I see after he downshifts on the field.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Rams players pranked by Rams PR - 21 days ago
Fun moments! Team-building laugths, good times came from this event.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Who are these guys? - 21 days ago
I woinder that too - only name I recognize is TE Kalinic, a bruiser-type tight end who showed some juice preseason last year. I keep hoping McVay will occasionally go to two TE's or two backs - but I should know better. We'll see, later, what bringing up Nicola Kalinic is about. The other guys, no idea.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re:Yeast beiung waived - 21 days ago
Maybe he's gone flat. :lol1 Must be a slow morning. Nobodt beat me to it.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: LA Rams Roster Moves: - 21 days ago
Which guy you talking about? Please clarify - I'm lost.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: It might be smart to have two Jimmy G's on your roster knowing you will trade one in the first 6 weeks of the season - 21 days ago
I agree with you in theory; the only things that seems to contradict it arte availability and dolars against the cap. The Rams, like every team in the league, have to balance outlay for a playable backup against filling other needs. Meanwhile the schedule has expanded, mandating a bigger cap and expanded active roster. We keep getting the former - more bucks, but never adequately addressingby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: - ahh, the Fickle Finger of Fate touches the 49ers... - 21 days ago
CMC is one of the players on the 9ers I respect and admire admire, so I wonder: Why couldn't the Fickle Finger of Fate have come down harder on the outright dirty-filthy-nasty Greenlaw or Hargrave, one of their sneaky-dirty defensive backs, or that close-to-and-sometimes-over-the-edge, getting away with what you can, self-proclaimed "clean" player. Fred Warner? We seen his deliberateby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Could this be JW's breakout game??? - 21 days ago
Jordan Whittington. Rookie RB. Showed some good traits in pre-season, good receiver out of the backfield, willing to block, run inside, do the dirty work. Physical player Fast enough at 4.4-something, with good quickness, breakaway game speed.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Beaux Limmer - I keep going back to this - 21 days ago
Can Jackson? He's more laterally mobile, quicker. Avila, I keep thinking, is a made-to-order, perfect fit, potential All-Pro or greater, left guard. Plug him in there and keep him there. Center wouldn't fully utilize his skill set. And I just don't see Avila coming out of his plant and all-of-a-sudden having his feet look like Whit's feet. He just doesn't look like a quick lateral shuffle kinby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Yep - 21 days ago
Different game,different playcall, about the same distance pass in the same part of the field, shades of Cromwell... Hope he's got that one bad drop out of his system for his whole career!by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re:They'd really be fun to watch - 21 days ago
Yes! Great fun. Shuttle them in and out, keep them fresh all game and going into post-season when featuren backs typically are playing on tired legs. McVay would never do it, but I remember Arnett blocking for Bass when both were in the Rams backfield. I think these two on a sweep or zone-blocked run, OL leading it and Willioams picking up whever is left and Corum riding Kyren's hip until, plby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Another factor, and an underreaction - 22 days ago
McVay took some heat at the time of the play and immediately after the game for goinf for a 4th and 4 early on, instead of taking a likely FG with which, as things played out, the Rams would have won and there would have been no overtime. yards at that point. From McVay's perspective I can see his predicament in having been criticized for not going for 7's last time, and not wanting to repeby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Kyren Williams another on Hutchinson -- look on right side of defense - 22 days ago
Now that play was Faulk-like. He moves, does a quick read, decides quickly who to take and goes there, times and places the block to put the man on the ground. Kyren is a Football Player.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: I Remember Wanting The Rams to Trade for Deshaun Watson - 22 days ago
Character requirements. The so-called intangibles aren't - they always surface and are important.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: JW: Here's an overlooked factor - 22 days ago
His 40 time is within a 1/10th of a second of Tutu's. On the field he knows when to turn it on. He has that extra gear of game speed that makes him a legit downfield threat. Not a Tyreek Hill, but good enough to open things up underneath, and a legit threat to get some yards after first contact when thrown to anywhere. Now, son, I'd tell him, have coach Yarbs or anybody else on staff realby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Awesome story teller. I posted this video before but always a good watch... - 22 days ago
Both of these vids are classic. I remember Freddie. Living in a VW van on the beach while playing NFL football? Well, he liked to surf, wanted to save his money, and wasn't, despite the ink that his lifestyle brought, trying to promote an image of himself as a kook. It's just who he was, and he was comfortable in his own skin. Showing up at camp or home games wearing shorts and flip-by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: With Faulk is wasn't just his technique it was he ALWAYS knew WHO to block - 22 days ago
Yes, yes - I remember all of that well. Faulk had no peer in picking up blitzes. Timing - knowing WHO to hit, and WHEN. Sometimes he'd read a play and meet a blitzer in the hole. Play didn't look llike much, got overlooked as opposed to when he'd pick up somebody who leaked through into the backfield, but it gave the QB greater visibility than if he hd waited. Marshall was flat-out great at pby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Beaux Limmer - I keep going back to this - 22 days ago
The guy squats 700#. That translates into one 350#lineman in each arm . Well, maybe not really, but you get the idea.... the vets around him said they'd help Avila with blocking calls and whatnot. They'll do the same for Limmer. I saw Stafford reach down to below-knee level to one-hand a couple of snaps, but thought, that can come in time - I hope. I'm eacited to have Limmer in the lineby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: I Remember Wanting The Rams to Trade for Deshaun Watson - 22 days ago
Unlike you I was never that big a Deshaun Watson fan - real good, fun to watch, but he never caught hold with me. There was something missing. And as you point out - now we know. I had followed Stafford (as much as I could here in bumblesticks western Montana with a rabbit ears antenna and network TV) and admired him for his arm talent in his first season, his courage and leadership in playingby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: He played a lot of LT in the Scrimmages Brother - 22 days ago
Who will b he be facing if he plays LT against the Cards - I don't want to look it up and don't know much about the player if I did, so if somebody knows... please help. :help One thing I was extremely encouraged, positive, giddy even, to see vs. Detroit was McVay actually using a TE or a RB to chip on Hendrickson! Result: Stafford threw for over 300 yards. OK... that shows that theby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: I'll add only this: - 22 days ago
WQhile Hutch was going upagainst 2nd and 3rd tier tackles (although helped with some unexpected - from McVay - chip blocking) Vers was going up against reputedly one of the best OL's in football. Weigh that intangible into the stats. If guys got game balls in a loss, I'd give one to Verse. What a rookie showing!by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Thank you, thank you! - 22 days ago
Wow. Just wow. Thanks again.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Maybe, he's great, but S-Jax was no slouch, nor Gurley - 22 days ago
Yup, those are the ones I'd rank. I'd switch Jackson out with Gurley, though. As I recall when Jackson had it to do he done did it. But as you've watched all of them more than I have, and I saw very little Gurley, I'll willingly concede the point. I think we'd agree, though, MArshall was the best. He brought brains and technique along with beef enough to be an enforcer. Both he and Williby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: 2020 revenge tour - 22 days ago
Revenge tour. Love it. Stafford's revenge tour against Detroit didn't turn out the way he wanted although he played his butt off. And as far as Coach Mike the Genius is concerned, it's only one game. Let's see what he does by Thanksgiving before we decide he's all-of-a-sudden taken some sort of stupid pill. One thing: He's got an overload of interesting, shall we say, egos to meld into aby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: He'll come around... - 22 days ago
... let's hope so. He's always been hot and cold, show flashes one game and then unexpectedly fizzles the next. For my money he'd better get his arse in gear real quick, if not sooner - and I'd be looking real hard for a replacement right now. Wouldn't surprise me if Les has been on the phones for a while already, or if Shula doesn't have somebody he can coach up waiting in the wings.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Thank you, thank you! - 22 days ago
When this game was played, I was living in a converted tool shed, and at that time didn't have the rabbit-ears antenna and 15-inch screen used TV that I later acquired. My health was shot, I had no money, and had just been blindsided by a horrific divorce. I heard great things about Kurt Warner and the Rams, though, and mid-season I heard him speak at a Billy Graham rally over the radio - and hisby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com