Yet sadly warranted with this regime. Almost everything they do seems to be motivated primarily by something other than winning. We are in the unenviable position of hoping they can luck their way into something good on the field, like Georgia briefly did in St. Louis.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotebigjimram21 On the free agent signings was it signing players who ended up not working out because of injuries or were they just were bad signings straight up? I'd say it's been a combination of the two, and in the case of Jake Long, for instance, it was simultaneously both. One of the reasons he was a bad signing is because he was a huge injury risk and in decline already because of injuby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRockRam Passes only: 1) Drop 2) Sack/INT 3) Drop 4) Complete 5) Complete 6) Complete 7) Complete 8) Player not open, Miss 9) Drop 10) Sack 1) Drop - Not a drop. Ball thrown short over the middle into tight coverage and defender got hand in to knock it out. 2) Sack/INT - Yes 3) Drop - Yes,should have been caught, though ball thrown behind receiver. 4) Complete - Good throwby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
Byproduct of being in LA and next to ESPN LA and NFLN. You just hope it's going to be the good kind of attention for winning rather than bad kind going forward.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRam Fan Teacher 9er, I would love to argue your point about acquiring talent but I would be wrong when we look at the results. I can't argue with that and you're correct even if I don't want to believe it :? Would you say that there are better players on the team now than with Spags or Linehan? That has to be obvious. So would you say that the reason for the results is Fisher and Coby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRams43 Stocking the team with talent is one thing, 9er8er. That they have done. Developing that talent properly into a winning team is an entirely different matter. That they have not done. If that is your position, then we can certainly agree. But if you're sticking to a literal reading of your first paragraph? It just comes out as a silly series of statements. All these things hby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
The problem with the Gurley pick isn't Gurley himself. As I said, he's a great player. It's in roster construction and how you prioritize to win in today's NFL. And it should not be minimized that with one knee reconstruction already in the books, he could only be one more hit on the knee away from no longer being the same player. At a position that will take the pounding he will in this offeby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRams43 All due respect, 9er8er, but are you saying that you don't perceive that they've done a good job stocking the team with talent? TBH, your whole first paragraph leaves me speechless. I wouldn't even know where to begin unraveling it. Lol. Has nothing to do with my "perceptions." I'm not relying on that, I'm relying on the objective reality. And yes, unraveling that cby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
They produce regardless. Gurley and Donald are prime examples of that. Doesn't mean they have been maximized, but they produce because they are really good at playing football. Misjudged "talent" does not. The list is long for examples of that. You don't stay a below .500 team and show no improvement in your record for 4 straight years with largely the same people running thingby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
There is no separating the two when it comes to personnel decisions. Snead does what Fisher wants. I personally don't get the perception that they've done a good job stocking the team with talent. I think they've been incredibly inefficient in their drafting strategies and their trades and free agent signings have been a black-hole of failure. The intent to build a team around 1970's footbaby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
I don't know how accurate you thought those other guys assessment of GRob's progress was last year. If you thought it was accurate, then I can see why you'd still find their input more valuable. My assessment is not that. So, I find the perspective that GRob is still looking like a problem to be perfectly believable.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
He was not so much an escaper in college as he was an avoider. Once he gets comfortable in the offense and better understands defenses and where protection vulnerabilities and receiving options are, we might see the feet and pocket sense he had at Cal again.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
Those same people and JT were saying similar things last year, as I recall.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
Not sure what they said that should be considered uninformed or surprising.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
Player performances in these games means neither everything nor nothing. They are more than glorified practice, especially since teams don't tackle in practice at all anymore and barely even thud. Vets that have a proven history of playing well in real games shouldn't raise many flags when they don't do much in a preseason game, but when vets like Britt and Quick don't show up it's just a cby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
It was most likely part of the script going into the game should something particularly embarrassing about their performance show up. People don't seem to realize that much of the narrative and quips they hear during a game were determined during pre-production planning. Some are just much better at deviating from the scripts than others when the game itself deviates from it. Al Michaels, forby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
What a Rams writer wrote is true, all true. That has an exceptionally rare thing over the last couple decades.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
For the first several years at least, that thing is going to suck every major event its way.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
The throw Goff actually made in that situation was actually impressive for what it was, but the problem is it was the wrong throw. Cooper had the angle and position on Wilcox (#27). The throw should have gone over the top of him leading Cooper into the endzone, not to the back shoulder of Cooper putting him in position to get crushed in the middle of the field. I'm sure this is what they'll bby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
Try again. Arians and Keim also went and got a QB most had given up on in Palmer and has gone 29-9 with him. Arians never had a QB he claimed was the reason he was taking the job, yet he assumed a 5-11 football team and in 3 years has gone 10-6, 11-5 and 13-3. They're a Super Bowl contender. Yeah, an Arians type would be wonderful.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
Crowds that arrives in the 3rd and leaves in the 6th. That's more along the lines of what I was expecting.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
Which means investors are going to want a return on their investment, which means it needs to be a place that can do much more than host 10 Rams games per year. It is being built to host everything indoor and outdoor stadiums and arenas can do while maintaining as much off an open air feel as possible. We want billionaires to build these things on their own dime? Well, then expect them to bby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
It will confirm that he is not an owner who puts appropriate priority on results. Not a single winning or even .500 season in 4 years, likely will be 5 after this season, and you extend them? These are the results he expected when he made Fisher the highest paid coach (at the time) in the NFL? There is no reason what so ever to extend them now. They are both fortunate not to have been firby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
Definitely did look like Prescott was the QB the Rams should have traded all the picks to go get. Still, it's hard for me to get worked up too much either way by pre-season games. I think I have a pretty good idea of what to expect from this team this year, which isn't much different from previous years. This game may not serve as confirmation, but it did nothing to refute it either. The veby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
Failed at the most important stuff. Succeeded at the least important stuff. Managed to win a meaningless game in the process. I thought Mannion was better than you gave him credit for, but I've also watched him enough over the years to know he's capable of looking good.....for stretches. So, I don't put too much weight on a positive effort from him. He'd have to keep showing it for me beliby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
But mostly because he was playing behind scrubs and not because he was being reckless with his body. The hit in which he was probably injured was because an interior lineman didn't block.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
The Vikings played 5 games vs. the NFC West, plus we can see their schedule to see all the other context necessary to draw reasonable inferences that the Vikings where not as good of a football team as the Seahawks and Cardinals last year. The logical conclusions simply necessarily follow. It's not a result you like, but the evidence supports the conclusion I'm making. Again, doesn't mean thby 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteIowaRam On land they dont own Because there are benefits to doing so, mostly cost benefits. But the benefits don't come without risks. The cost/benefit is inextricably linked and inevitably people only want to accept the benefit and don't want to accept responsibility for choosing to ignore the risks when the downside occurs.by 9er8er - Bucky's Pub
It will be both a shocking and wonderful development. And I'm not just talking about comparable rookie raw counting stats.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com
The Vikings are the Vikings. The Rams do one thing well, and that's play the teams they're most familiar with in their division tough. The Vikings are a team on the rise, so I don't disagree there. It's just that they had assistance last year with their schedule and division. They'd have finished 3rd last year in the NFC West and likely out of the playoffs.by 9er8er - RamsFootballFans.com