Being a GM means - You must identify and acquire talent, manage the talent with regards to the cap, and keep your core talent in tact as much as you can - keeping windows of opportunity open for as long as you can. That's how Snead should be judged. My question is - is he doing a good job? If he has a degree of control then he's not really been doing a good job as they have had 4 losing seasby promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
One way to beat a crowded box and open up the running game is to run play action and take some deep shots. Case cannot stress a defense deep. I think Mannion can.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
I don't think the swap for Foles was great. Then the signing of the extension looks even worse, then the way they handled his situation this year probably could have been better. Overall kind of looking like a bungle. If Sam plays well this year on a team with a running game and good defense (I think that's what we're trying to build), giving up on him will look pretty terrible.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
That's an issue. Same issue with Jenkins - what good is it to get players with upside and watch it come to fruition in their play - if you just watch them walk away? MCleod and Jenkins don't help us. We finally get good, consistent performance from them for a full season and then they're gone. That's not how you build a winning roster.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Not a lot of proven performance over multiple seasons.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Gaines looks good - if he can stay on the field. Same can be said for Havenstein. Tree has show flashes but has had injuries and we don't know what his career will look like at MLB. Austin is a good gadget player - running and catching + special teams, but not a top flight WR. Again - a good player but not someone other teams would covet as their main receiving weapon. The Jenkins thing plby promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
I see a lot of praise / support for Snead on this board. Even those that dog Fisher seem to separate the two when it comes to blame and advocate for retaining Snead and dumping Fisher as if the problems were all coaching issues. Les had picked two outstanding players with two high draft picks. But even in the dark days of Martz drafts we were able to select the phenomenal talent of Steven Jackby promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Not dogging you, I respect your belief in the team in the face of overwhelming low expectations from the rest of the world. I sincerely hope you're right and we're all going to be eating crow in a few months. I will willingly eat a plate if that happens and will be eccstatic. Just knowing this team and getting my hopes up so many times, I just feel we're looking at another lost year.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
It's not just this board that's concerned. Or chicken littles. Everything written about him on Espn, LA times, Nfl.com is calling attention to his poor preseason play and the fact that he looks completely overwhelmed. I want to believe in the kid and hope he can turn it around but he's looked pretty lousy overall. Even when you compare him to other rookie QB's this year. His accuracy seems oby promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
They draft a guy who doesn't have a history of taking snaps or complicated playcalls and they hand him the standard issue playbook, tell him good luck and then shake their heads at his failure. Maybe it's payback for the dorm fan incident. The nerve of that rookie! They couldn't install a package for him to ease him into the league? A wrist band? Is our passing offense so complex and preby promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Cut him for the opener, and play that game with only 4 wr's dressed, then re-sign him after that game and keep him until Cooper comes back. Not sure how his contract is structured but for Vets, often if they're on the roster week 1 their season salary becomes guaranteed. Then after that you can pay them per game.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Is Les Snead OK? I believe we saw him for a flash tonight, but at this point I'm not ruling out a body double covering for a more sinister reality. Snead, the NFL's most photogenic general manager and a man front and center at various league events, continues to have no presence in this series. What gives?by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Was thinking about it last night - I wasn't even sure at first that was him sitting in the chair. He hasn't been shy in press conferences and talking to the media, not sure what's up. Maybe he asked to not be part of the show at all. I wouldn't read too much negative into it, but it's clearly a purposeful omission.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Hopefully he can lead with game performance like Ray Lewis and Singletary did. Blowing up a teammate at practice when he's not expecting it doesn't strike me as leadership.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
That's what I'm judging him on. I agree that playing ability and coaching are often not correlated at all. I've yet to see anyone refute his poor results as an NFL QB coach.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
The more guys they dress the more they have to pay. It's owner's being cheap. They will tell you it's about competitive advantage or some other nonsense, but it's BS. It hurts the fans too. When you get multiple o-line or db injuries in a game, you're often just sunk. I don't want to watch a game where they're lining up safeties at corner because they couldn't dress enough guys. Or watch a gby promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
This preseason? Last year he average 138 yds a game passing and threw 4 touchdowns. In 5 games!by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
I think this season is going to be 8-8 or worse whether it's Keenum or Goff. Might as well get Goff the reps. Last year we stumbled to 7-9 behind sub-par qb play. How is this year going to be different with Keenum?by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Maybe that's his edge. Look, I'm not knocking the guy just because he was a terrible nfl QB, my bigger issue is you invest the whole franchise future in a QB and then hand him over to a guy with no track record in the nfl of developing QB's. His work last year with Foles speaks volumes. Fisher wanted the best for his defensive coordinator and so he waiting until he got his guy in Williamsby promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Maybe that's why I'm feeling crusty about the whole thing. This is a textbook case of how not to prepare your #1 pick to be ready to play week 1.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
That's an actual QB he worked with as QB coach at the NFL level - not a summer camp.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Just looked it up. Um, this guy is telling Goff what to do? Weinke only had two wins in his entire NFL career and won the first game of the 2001 Carolina Panthers season and then lost the rest. He also has the second longest losing streak in NFL at 17 behind Dan Pastorini (21).by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
I think that's the point of the poster. You spend all this capital to bring in Goff then you hand him over to a QB coach with questionable credentials rather than bring in a QB coach and / or OC with a proven track record at developing QB's.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
It's not unrealistic when pretty much every other top draft pick QB has started in the last couple of years. Marriotta also had no under center / playcalling experience and Tenessee let him struggle and learn and now they're looking at a 2nd year QB who's got game expericence. Same with Tampa. They should have done everything they could to get a system Goff can learn and grow in and let him taby promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Maybe extend a fifth. If he's even mildly competent he's going to demand a lot of money.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Really nice work, much appreciated.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
Doesn't really add much to the defense. That pick could have been used on a safety or a non-munchkin corner or a linebacker.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
They have all kinds of analytics that tell them how dangerous kickoffs are to all the players, much more so than Punts as the players are running half the field at full speed and colliding so they're looking to minimize that a bit. Nothing wrong with that, it's just the solution they came up with is terribly flawed. I heard Ryan Longwell on NFL radio saying they should have talked to more kickeby promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com
I have no problem with live tackling and practice contact, but high shots and cheap shot aren't just dumb in practice they are repeatable in games and as we've seen, this team isn't afraid to unleash a sea of yellow hankies week in and week out.by promomasterj - RamsFootballFans.com