Don;t doubt your scouting knowledge at all, would just wonder about waiting until 4th round to address offense when the O was roadkill bad last season. Would like to see the line strengthened by FA if possible, but someone who can catch the ball in 2nd or 3rd seems a must.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
Drops way too many passes and will want too much cash following his 1000 yard season.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
It's very hard to get a long term read on Goff when the O-line and receivers are terrible. He has zero running game to hide behind. I'm not saying that his play's been without fault and there aren't concerning aspects. Just that he's in the middle of an all round hot mess. Funny, reading Joe Montana's biography at the moment and Bill Walsh hardly played him his first two years because he diby Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
The caveat here is that we don't know who was Fisher's picks and who was Snead's. But that said: Donald Tru Janoris Brockers Ogletree McDonald Mo Alexander Rodney Mcloed All brought in under Snead's GM tenure. All pretty good picks/FA pickups. Personnel dept did their job well there. That GM can stay. Greg Robinson Brian Quick Isiah Pead Barrett Jones Steadman bailey Tre Mby Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
We disagree, fine. But I think it's all about the circumstances there. If we're down by 5 in that situation and the game's on the line. OK. But we're 42-7 down. Part of good leadership is picking your battles.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
anyone got a clip of that? I missed it.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
'That was not a qb run call. It was a qb read option. It's up to the qb to decide to run. And he's not the only qb who does that. I like the toughness it showed.' It probably was Goff's decision based on what he saw at the line. My opinion is that it was crazy to have that be an option there. If the game's on the line, yeah. But you're 42-7 down in garbage time, and you put your franchise QB aby Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
O-line the no. 1 priority. WR no. 2. Someone who can, y'know, catch.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
'Multiple offensive linemen called for illegally being down field.' They actively cannot run a screen. It's unbelievable. Never seen that on an NFL team before.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
Down 42-7 late in the game where absolutely nothing is on the line and Boras calls a read option sending the franchise quarterback who they traded all those picks for into two tacklers where's he's going to get smashed. After the amount of hits Goff had taken already thanks to the joke of an offensive line. Unreal.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
I'm far from an expert on O-line play, but it strikes me that the center and the two guards are just moving no one this season and getting beaten constantly. The tackle play is hardly great but the interior of the line looks simply awful. I've read that the Rams moved from a power blocking approach to a zone blocking system this year? Which would certainly go some way to explaining why a teamby Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
Every game seems to get pushed backwards consistently. Yet a two year starter. The O-line is really bad guys. really bad. And that's the 2nd overall pick in the draft (watch Long's sack yesterday, what is Robinson DOING?, he just taps him on the shoulder with one hand), a second rounder in Havenstein. Brown was a third rounder... Gurley's running into a brick wall every play. There's a hby Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
I think the bottom line with Fisher is the Parcells quote: "You're as good as your record." Fisher's teams - the personnel change but they're 7-9 every year.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
I said at the time that the Buffalo game was huge. Because it would've broken existing patterns. We know they can beat the Hawks, Cards and Bucs, they've done that in prior seasons. Buffalo at home - an out of division game - is exactly the games they haven't been able to win. And so it proved. Agree that they inherited a complete mess. And 7-8-1 in his first year was laudable. They had Bradfoby Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
5 years in, personnel change, but this is EXACTLY the same team as his first year. Zero progress in 5 years. Same strengths, same negatives. And, sadly, the negatives far outweigh the positives. Tough within the division - hey, we were 3-1 - can't win games outside the division - now we're 3-4. The patterns repeat every year. The offense being somewhere around 30th in the league. despite diby Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
Is Goff going to make the O-line run block and the D play better?by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
they're going to need a CB high in the draft next year. Whether Tru re-signs or not.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
They wanted it to be a statement call - you know we're coming up the middle, we're going to do it anyway. But the line, and in particular Barnes, got blown off the ball. ugh.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
I guess it depends on if Keenum leads them to a win in Detroit, ultimately. But London's a weird vibe - not really a home game for either side. The crowd's not got that partisan noise. Might be a good place to give him his shot.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
And Fisher inherited the no. 1 overall pick in Bradford. OK, Sam then missed the bulk of two seasons. But it's still a little galling to see how well Bradford performs in a Norv Turner offense, which suits his skillset. The main point here is, no matter how the personnel changes, or the coordinator, Fisher's offenses are usually near the bottom of the league.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
2012 - 23rd 2013 - 30th 2014 - 28th 2015 - 32nd 2016 - 32nd Whether it's Schotty, Cignetti, Boras, Bradford, Keenum... the personnel change but the output remains the same. This is Fisherball. I'm not sure how we can expect Goff to come in and magically change this. The system, the personnel around him, will all be the same.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
Because if the Rams get to 4-1 there's a - iirc - 77% chance of them making the playoffs. They're at home with a full, loud house. And, more than that, it'll show if progress has genuinely been made. We know Fisher's Rams can beat the Seahawks, the Cards and the Bucs. They've done it before. It's games like Buffalo at home where Fisher's teams have laid an egg. Good in the division, lousy oby Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
Longacre flashed. Not sure how he goes back to inactive, but who do they drop? Sims' 15-yarder every single game makes you lose patience. But doubt Fisher does that. Gaines being back was huge. Run blocking's by far the main issue right now. People can say Gurley seems slower but there no holes and most of the time he's getting hit in the backfield by two men.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
'20) Keenum taking the sack when we were in field goal range.' That call drove me crazy. You're in FG range with a chance to go up two scores. Run up the middle. Throw a quick slant. Don't put yourself in a position to lose ten yards. Just dumb. Forrest started the game at LB I think. They opened in 4-3.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
He sounded less than thrilled with the playcalling, reading between the line: "I don't know, I'm not the OC." "I just run the plays they call." etc.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
It's not just the O-coordinator. Schotty, Cignetti, now Boras. the offense is pretty much the same. This is FISHER'S offense. It's Fisherball. And it doesn't work in this league. Year 5 and this is what they serve up on opening night...by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
Right now it feels like the Rams have one NFL quality WR in Britt. Tavon's more gadget player. Cooper maybe. We'll see. Everyone else... not going to last long in the NFL if they can't catch. How many passes has Goff seen dropped in three preseason games? Spruce looks very likely to make roster after just one showing, mainly because no one else can catch. But Tavon, Cooper, Spruce are all mby Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com
Well done to the third string for outplaying their 3rds, but for most of three quarters that looked like the same old Jeff Fisher Rams. Same flaws. Higbee & Spruce showed they deserve prominent roles, but do we have any paremeter WRs who can get open or catch the ball? Starting secondary looked porous. Yes, it's preseason and no Gurley or Quinn, but still... Similar patterns.by Glyndwr71 - RamsFootballFans.com