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
Some guys grow significantly until they're 23-24. Maybe that's what Tomlinson is doing. I was more than excited with his clips from camp. But after seeing his aggressive play style erupt in penalties, I don't want to see him on the field until that's cured. Clever article - play on words. But Trey Tomlinson has a long way to go to belong on the same field with Tre' White.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Yards. Stafford threw for more yards than Goff. Quite a few more, you can look it up, or did, and chose not to report it. No matter - I watched that game carefully and saw the Goff-led Lions a couple of times before. He's growing and maturing (and healing up, I would imagine,) as a quarterback. And again, I wish him no ill will and was glad to see him come alive, you might say, with Dby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Once in a blue moon a person will say something in one sentence that is self-effacing and self-aggrandizing in the same sentence. Goff managed it here. First, if anybody ever said he was being sent off to die I missed it. I thought he was going to a team that all-of-a-sudden needed a quarterback and was resurging from a decades-long nightmare of bad management, with a new GM and a new heaby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
You wrote: "I am assuming when you say "DE" that you mean in place of Jonah Williams --- again, yeah, as a backup." As you say, I was thinking of Hoecht moved inside to Williams' spot. Who knows - he might eventually start here although I see him as a backup piece at first. Who'd have seen him as a starting edge? Yethe adapted, gave it all he had, and showed remarkaby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Whether the Bills and their management will be able to put enough tools around him to succeed, elevate what he brings, is not quite a crapshoot. In a crapshoot youat least have a chance. Without tools we see too much falloff in Allen's decision-making, trying too hard, getting too desperate, not playing his best football. To varying extents that's true of all QB's; moreso with Allen.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
You both make a batch of very good points that I won't reiterate - and thank you both for the discussion. My 2c: If we were set at edge, real set and didn't need a for-sure, out-of-the-gate starter, I'd be all over Robinson. Rare potential. Hard to pass. Immediate starter? 17 game season and still fresh for playoffs? Fact is, in my eyes, we don't know that we'd have that. At least I donby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Ye gads - I hope not! :noway Would that make me a cultist? Again: Ye gads, I hope not! :frown :nerd The fact that he's still around with the Bears speaks to his upside. And while Chicago has its share of cult heroes, I'm fairly certain Hardy isn't one of those. He isn't even in music - or politics. The league is full of late-round guys from low-end schools who flashed high-end athleticby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
What do you think of moving Hoecht in to DE? Either as a rotational player or situational passing down player? Has he ever played there? Let him rush or stop the run, and maybe bat down passes. Eliminate coverage from his presonsibilities. I think he's plenty strong and quick enough, and plenty smart enough to adapt technically; it always seemed to me he was playing out of position and preby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I remember watching that, thinking the Rams had finally put the game game away, a game they had won until then. All they needed was the icer. Bradshaw and his receivers were hot. The Rams D and O (with the exception of Wendell Tyler) were solid, dominating to that point. You could feel the air go out even though they tried to regroup, recover, they didn't. Bradshaw knew he just got a new leasby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I remember another young, tough qurterback who came in with all sorts of flashy arm talent who had a real rough rookie year with not enough pieces around him - took sacks, got hurried, threw picks, choked under pressure, overrated, bust went the narrative. In future yars he proved to be anything but - won a Super Bowl and now runs the team he played for. Not that Howell would be another Elby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
We had a freak athlete edge in camp a couple of years ago that I had high hopes for (great kid, team-oriented and highly motivated, northern California and Montana roots) with measurables similar to Robinson: Hardy's Pro Day 6-2, 235 34" arms 10" hands 40" VJ 10'7 BJ 4.57 40 22 Bench 6.78 3C The comp posted above between Robinson and Micah Parsons doesn't show a coupby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Like Kupp, Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin stand over 6' tall and weigh over 200#, competed for the ball, played physical after the catch, ran good routes, and had sticky hands. Didn't shirk blocking assignments. Both kept themselves in shape by living clean, working hard. Both recovered from injuries over the course of their careers. The similarities between them and Kupp are worth noting.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Freddie. One of my favorite all-time Rams players and characters.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Reads like another dropped device post to me. Try again, Silverback. (Technology: One step forward, two steps back and call it progress.) I think that his hammy and ankle injuries should be in good rehabbed and rested shape for 2024. The press, of course, likes to speculate otherwise, generate anxiety, controversy, and clicks. Or maybe it's not just them - do you have any reliable infoby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Reads like another dropped phone post to me. Try again,by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
From the writeup: "6-foot-4 305-pound defensive tackle Cory Durden remains ready to show up in 2024. ..." And later, " Durden is a 6-foot-4 292-pound defensive lineman..." I'm often confused when listed player weights don't match - in this case you're looking at a thirteen pound difference just a few sentences apart - and how much does Zach Evans weigh, really? I can'tby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I'm not worried at all about Avila's staunch pass blocking in the middle, nor his ability to get to a second-level linebacker and rub him out of the play in run blocking. Snapping the ball when Stafford is under center should be no problem. Unknown to me: Will he be able to make a fast, chest-high, on-target snap to Stafford consistently when Stafford is in the gun? This is important. Timingby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
How did you swing that?????? :bravo:bravo:partytime CONGRATS! :thumbsup Now that you've told us, I'm sure I speak for everybody here: Please, please, PLEASE keep us posted - with real posts - your observations, impressions, photos. You probaby won't be able to interview anybody or share inside info; we're all likely to be itchingly curious as to what goes on, and what it feels like to be thby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
If he got leaner and harder so much the better. Maybe Puka's training on tacos and enchiladas at the area's best family-run Mexican food retaurants is what put it on him, and that's on the Rams. Maybe they should have sent Tutu on that mission. He could use an extra twenty or thirty pounds. Maybe hanging around Aaron Donald, even if being told, "Move!" when he was in AD's way, iby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
My three grandsons elevated sibling rivalry into a form of guerella warfare. I was worried that if it continued into their late teen years that the younger one, who delighted in picking on his next-older brother, would get sent to the hospital. Fortunately he made his peace while he still had all his teeth. His brother, who works out three days a week is burly and hard as a brick. Siblingby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Diggs and Higgins are star performers, going by their stats. I've heard nothing about either's contribution to the lockerroom or receiver's room. Whether either has the rapport with his quartetback that Kupp does with Stafford is unknown to me but seems unlikely. Kupp's numbers last year taken as an isolate, journeyman pro. Is that his value? Kupp's presence on the field as a threat to beby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
April Fool's Day has been cancelled. Who needs it? Every news cycle for the past few years has scooped April Fool's Day. Nothing left to see or say, folks, in a world gone utterly mad. Move on. The truth is goofier than fiction. :partytimeby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com