QuoteSpeed_Kills I am so out of the loop on MD bball... fill me in bro!!! Fernando and Huerter both decided to test the NBA waters, but didn't sign with an agent, so they can come back. Justin Jackson signed with an agent, so he's gone. From what I've heard, Fernando hasn't been that impressive so far at the Combine, but that may change. He's a surprise in the wrong direction. Expected to kby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSpeed_Kills go to the games I want... watch the others from the comfort of home its a great time to be a Rams fan.... talk of the league and most importantly they are winning. I can't wait to see this team! But I'll be watching 99% of them from home. Maybe a local sports bar. It is a great time to be a Rams fan . . . and I think that stadium is going to help them with free agentsby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotewv ram ...i would have them play in a cow pasture. With some nice bleachers on one side. And Jack Youngblood would be coach. And a real Ram would be the mascot. And the games could only be telecast in Black and White. I'd insist on that. The horns always look better that way. And they play on natural F'ing grass and mud and dirt and cow manure. The way football was meant to bby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteCROMWELL21 Rams signed Nick Holley, a QB with two knee injuries as a RB, to a UDFA contract out of Kent State University. His twin brother, a safety at the same college, acquitted of kidnapping charges in the spring of 2017 and a UDFA last year was also in Rams camp and may eventually be signed. (He had a tryout last year with the Vikings and played in the spring league) I lookedby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotemax thats what they said on their recent podcast. For some reason, some people believe Goff surprised defenses and isn't very good. I will enjoy them getting egg on their faces. The thing is, if he's learned his way around the pocket, after he drops back, he should go one step forward, and two steps back. :booby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Can't remember where I saw it . . . maybe ESPN . . . but they did a ranking of top offenses. Rams were eighth, I think. We're several months early on any of this, but I think the anti-hype has now reached absurd levels. Yeah, proclaiming the Rams as Super Bowl champs in the early spring was silly, but pushing them down and almost out of the top ten . . . that's silly too. I'd be veryby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSunTzu_vs_Camus ;) I think it was left out. My best position. :cryby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotewaterfield Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feelingby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotepromomasterj There is TV money, ticket money, licensing money, concessions, etc etc. Who gets to keep it all - Billionaire owners? The owners need the players and vice versa. They negotiate a deal that works for both sides. There's no bigger morality in it - write or wrong it's a business transaction. How much is it worth to a team to keep a player and pay him? In the end accountants mby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotezn You didnt' respond to what I actually said. As soon as you and I are among the mere 20 or so people on the planet who can perform a crucial task at a high level for a multi-billion dollar industry, we'll get that kind of money too. The rest is just "contract resentment" and I don't do that. For example, I never sit there during a good move resenting how much the topby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotezn QuoteBilly_T Quotezn QuoteOhiorams How many 100 million dollars QB won a super bowl? If you adjust money for the years they played, going back to superbowl 1. ... record-shattering salary back in 1965 (427K for three years) comes to a bit more than 3.1 million today, in buying power. At least via online calculators. Again, who knows how accurate these things are? So there's beenby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSpeed_Kills Goff's ranking is fine he could be higher <shrug> Garoppolo's ranking is absurd. No way he should be ranked over Ryan, Rivers, Big Ben, Matt Stafford, Alex Smith, Newton or even Cousins He simply doesn't have the body of work to warrant it Well put, Speed. And concise, as usual. I wish I had the gift of brevity and pithiness. I'm betting most folks on this boarby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRockRam Of course its relevant. It's important to understand just how much money these football guys make as compared to a Dr. or Lawyer, or better a school teacher, a cop, a truck driver, or a small business owner. $30 mil per year is staggering. And for some of the better known football stars, that's only the beginning. They get huge dollars for endorsements. The lowest base wageby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotezn QuoteOhiorams How many 100 million dollars QB won a super bowl? If you adjust money for the years they played, going back to superbowl 1. ... record-shattering salary back in 1965 (427K for three years) comes to a bit more than 3.1 million today, in buying power. At least via online calculators. Again, who knows how accurate these things are? So there's been inflation even when yby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quoteoldschoolramfan $30,000,000 a year for the next 5 years..........Watch this, and try not to cry. $30,000,000 a year That's about $82,000 per day, everyday for 365 days. (Its takes him 1 1/2 days to make what I do in an entire year.) :(:(:( That's about $3,400 per Hour, every hour, on the hour for the next 5 YEARS.......When M.Ryan sleeps for 8 hrs, he wakes up to about $27,000 nextby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotemax This is nuts. The messiah has played, what, 7 games? That Top 100, unleast until now, has tended, if anything, to wait a coupla of years too long to give players their due. It typically errs on the side of too much caution. And, then, perhaps, keeping players near the top who are in pretty obvious decline. Somebody has a really, really good PR staff.by Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotejemach Merry Christmas! It's not July yet!! :nowayby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteAbout 5,000 miles away from Miami, Joe’s brother Sonny Namath sat at his kitchen table in the married quarters of Sullivan Barracks in Mannheim, Germany. Sipping a cup of coffee, he looked over the headlines in the Army Times. When he saw his own last name he read more closely. Something about the Alabama quarterback signing a big professional contract. That would be his little brother Joey,by Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRams43 I remember thinking that was nuts. But now, “nuts” is in the eye of the beholder. The law of supply and demand is alive and well in professional sports, huh? Excerpt from the book, Rising Tide, by Randy Roberts • Ed Krzemienski : QuoteThirty-five days separated Alabama’s victory against Auburn at Birmingham’s Legion Field and its New Year’s Day game against the Universby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotedzrams QuoteRams43 I remember thinking that was nuts. But now, “nuts” is in the eye of the beholder. The law of supply and demand is alive and well in professional sports, huh? It's not just supply and demand; it's also inflation. As long as league revenues are increasing salaries will increase at a corresponding rate. Personally, I don't see it as a matter of supply and demandby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Eventually, this period of the crazy will end in the NFL, and in every other sector of the economy. But Ryan's new contract shows it's got some more life in it yet. As I've mentioned many times, I'd rather see the players get it than the Suits, but no one should make that kind of bread, IMO, unless everyone is at least in the same ball park. Upton Sinclair once said: “It is difficult to geby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
A LOT. Drafting them waaay too high, too low, or not drafting them at all, when a different decision would be better. It's among the toughest positions in football to project well, judging from NFL history. How many first rounders have been busts? How many really good backs have been drafted late? And the Rams found Lacy and Cunningham after the draft, and both men gave them excellent proby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotealyoshamucci The average career in the NFL is 3 year last I remember. I'll happily take a one contract player. But that's likely why he wasn't drafted after posting those measurables. Or will be 26 in-season. That probably hurt him as well. Not many 6'6" guys can play three sports, and well, though. McElroy came to football kinda late. But I agree with you. Do a "show me&by Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteCROMWELL21 Curtis Mikell, CB from Southern Miss. Fast Pre draft article Would love to hear more about him from our resident Draft/College gurus. I don't remember seeing him play, but he sounds impressive, athletically, and he produced while in college, too. Offense, Defense and ST. From your article: QuoteMikell has run the 40-yard dash in 4.35 seconds with a 38 1/2 inch verby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quoteidaram The more I look at this draft, the less I like it. Talked with a former head coach Monday, his thoughts were, pretty much, "The Rams had a backup draft, with some picks just thrown away." I think McSnead were looking for backups, primarily. They likely thought they had added excellent starters via trades and FA. But I think they ended up with at least two starters --by Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRams43 I think the Rams are in exceptionally good shape in their secondary in either nickel or dime packages, Billy. Far, far better than most teams, IMO. So much talent and depth that it almost seems unfair. Lol. But, 43, again, I'm a greedy fan. I want them to at LEAST be able to field two dozen starting-caliber DBs, two dozen starting-caliber linebackers, and two dozen starting-calibby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRockRam He was brought here for one reason: stopping the run. He'll be subbed out on obvious passing situations. Or will play fewer snaps for pass heavy teams that run more 3 WR sets as base. But he is plenty athletic enough to drop into a zone, provided it's not a deep zone or asking him to chase a TE down the field. Agreed. But the Rams like to go to hundreds of DBs anyway, in thby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSoCalRAMatic If you're right then this is a great pick. JL was a very consistent player. He is the Rams all time leading tackler. He was good dropping into zone and he usually was in on the tackle. What I didn't like about JL was he was often dragged down the field before getting a runner down. Kiser looks like a heavier tackler to me. If he's as smart, durable then we got a steal. That stby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotezn QuoteBilly_T As in, smart, heady, always ready, knows where the play is going, fills the right hole . . . but, far more likely to get TO the ball carrier before the ball carrier gets to him. Both guys, one could say, aren't "elite" athletes. Solid. At least average. Not "elite." But they make this work on Saturdays/Sundays. They overcome their athletic limitationsby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com
As in, smart, heady, always ready, knows where the play is going, fills the right hole . . . but, far more likely to get TO the ball carrier before the ball carrier gets to him. Both guys, one could say, aren't "elite" athletes. Solid. At least average. Not "elite." But they make this work on Saturdays/Sundays. They overcome their athletic limitations with smart play and aby Billy_T - RamsFootballFans.com