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The TonyHunter87 Game Time Forum is the message board to use to chat with fellow Rams fans during Rams games. TonyHunter87 was a Rams fan/friend of RamsFootballFans.com. R.I.P Nelson. ALL RAMS GAME-TIME posting to be done on this forum.
Re: first pitch at the Dodger game last night - 2 days ago
Maybe he assumed the batter stood 6'7" too. Baseball is usuakly played by smaller people than Myles Garrett..by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: "WR's with wheels" - 3 days ago
The WR with wheels who got the most mileage here was Brandin Cooks. I think if McVay could get a 190# WR who could block and run routes at 4.3 he'd make more use of him. Speed isn't enough in this offense. Meantime we've picked up players designated as TE's who can play in the slot or maybe split wide. Think mismatches, chunk plays coming from safer, shorter passes and YAC based on timiby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: LOL.. You called it... - 4 days ago
I was thinking he could watch some Lorenzo Neal tapes, clearing the runway for Ladanian Tomlinson to take off, and become a blocking back. That would be brutal. :clapby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Baker Mayfield has an opinion on this… - 4 days ago
McVay is an inspirer - an inspirational leader. I think that's what Mayfield is saying, as applies to him. Every proven player he and Snead have brought in play better here than they did with their former teams.Look at the list: Jalen Ramsey, Von Miller, OJB, Andrew, Dotson, Kam, and we'll see about Garrett. That's in addition to Mayfield. They all up their game. Our position coaches do weby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Is Stafford a HC whisperer? - 4 days ago
McVay is a bloody genius at what he does well. He's a football mind at another level, and a motivator of men to excel and do their best, to buy into a tem phiolosophy and culture based on sound principles and connection with his players and staff as human beings. But is he a coach who has an uncanny abiliity to develop the specific skill sets of quarterbacks? I think not. Does he have thby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: I thought the issue with Karty was the coaching and holds? - 4 days ago
Too bad about Karty. Kicking consists of three parts: Timing, approach, and leg swing. A kicker and his snapper/holder duo spend countless hours to groove in that process, fine-tune each element. Snap, placement, ball angle cthen oordinate with timing, approach, and leg swing. You don't disrupt a kicker's timing, approach, and leg swing, all in one year of downright disruptive and abusiveby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Coop - gotta love him - 5 days ago
Still the love and respect, plus good rapport, with the guys he played with and now will play against.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Is Stafford a HC whisperer? - 5 days ago
That's the question that gets a positive response from me. Remember the video of Stafford trying to make McVBay shut up so he could get the play called in the huddle? :P Goff couldn't process quickly enough to anticipate when a rfeceiver would break open - and get the ball out beforehand. Still cvan't. Some QB's have it, some don't. Goff has improved in a system designed to compensate forby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: weaknesses... are they? - 7 days ago
I remember when the board was lamenting the lack of offensive interior players when we had Corbett (too light, too slow) and a copuple others waiting in the wings. I remember when we had AD but no complementary pieces when Gaines (too raw, too weak) was waiting in the wings. The coaches were saying, "Chill - we've got it handled." And they did. Today we have potential good journeymanby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: True, but...CB's play - 9 days ago
You said it before I could post the same thing. What was wrong showed in the playhoffs, especially against Seattle. Opposing QB hot reads were seldom a factor. They didn't need them in the playcall. All they had to do was wait for a receiver, first read, second, didn't matter which - to break containment in under 2 seconds and throw them the ball. Darnold made passes into tight windowwsby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Stupid Poll Saturday: Are You Older or Younger than Stafford? - 10 days ago
If I had sired a child when I was between 23 - 24 years of age, and that child bore or sired Stafford at that same age? I'm old enough to be his grandpa. :biggrin That's a rather touching or disquieting or poignant or inspiring thought, depending on how you look at it. :P:(:S8-):)by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Athletic = no show? - 13 days ago
Jourdan got us spoiled. I think that's the problem. When she left and her successor (up to now) has underperformed,as a result the other beat reporters, with no competition, slacked off as well. We need to send some wakeup calls. :snicker: :pcmad :argh The holiday weekend is over. Get to work!by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: I don’t look at Simpson as an insurance policy… - 17 days ago
Yes to that, and they no doubt weighed Simpson against the upcoming draft class, weighing two factors - among others: One, the availability of one with a higher ceiling than Simpson, and two, the maneuvering it might take to draft that quarterback. I've only seen highlight reels. But what I've seen there shows me things that don't often show up that some qurterbacks have - an others don't.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: the above post - 19 days ago
Internet up-down-up difficulties yesterday. Had to abandon this post for some time and what went up is scrambled. One point that got lost in the jumble: The first three to four seconds after the returner touches the ball are critical. Either the blocking to set up a return is there or it isn't. Take a look at the Hester highlight tape with that in mind. I can't recall seeing, on any NFby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Youn and I had that conversation - 19 days ago
In no way do I think X. Smith is another Hester, and I agree - "I do agree our schemes and coaching were not very good but I still think a better returner than Smith would have made a bigger impact than Smith did ESPECIALLY if that player was as good as Shaheed.." And again my poiunt is: Shaheed or any other returner behind blockers who run into each other, fall down and go boom asby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Rogers says this is it: his last year playing ball - 20 days ago
I'm worried for Tua. He has the same presence on the field as a punch-drunk fighter back in the day had in the ring. He can go through the motions, a little off-tempo, because he's taken too many hits to the head - and it shows. I'm afraid it's time for him to cash in his chips, return to a good easy-by-slow life in the islands or wherever he chooses that he can enjoy with family and friends.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Davante for AJ???????????????? - 20 days ago
God help us. No. If AJ has had the personal epiphanies that would transform his life, and would play for $9 mil, then maybe. But within the realm of foireseeable probability, I think not - or let's hope not. Maybe AJ to KC, where he could assume the tarnished succession of Rasheed and Tyreek, before something happens and the train jumps off the rails. Davante will give you his veryby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: McVay Discusses his Mishandling of Goff Before the Trade - 20 days ago
His character, background and intelligence is more Stafford-like than like Goff. As far as sheer talent, the ability to throw a football accurately, on time, to any part of the field is concerned, (not just arm strength, but that, too,) who for the past and present generation is like Stafford? Very few. Goff could never carry the mental load that Stafford does. Simpson, at some point in tby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: KC likely in the market for another WR: Rasheed Rice going to jail - 21 days ago
What parole stipulates that it's OK to have THC in your system? Tokers think they can get away with stuff. They think that because they think weed is OK that it IS OK. The rest of the world is wrong, so it's OK for me to clean the seeds from the roaches and have just one little toke... that's not enough for them to detect. It's part of the denial syndrome that affects drinkers, tokers, andby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: POtsmokers think they can get away with it - that nobody'll notice - 22 days ago
Just like vodka drinkers think that with no alcohol on their breath (even if there is) nobdy'll think they're drunk. Dumb. That's not how it works. Ask Britanny Griner. Some borderline young men can turn the corner and redeem themselves (with help) in a positive and uplifting team setting, others no.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Not a fan of X Smith as a returner... OK Dude, gotcha - 22 days ago
I guess we'll see in camp - does Smith have it, or no? And with a preseason to learn under new coaching and a few new faces, will our coverage units (first priority) and return units (second priority) show marked improvement this season? After all that's been done, I certainly hope so. Coverage = first priority b'cuz the opposition can score points against poor coverage, or be a couple ofby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re:Evans - 22 days ago
Regarding Evans, he droppeda cupleof punts in unbelievable places last year. With good coaching he should get even better. HOWEVER!: His slow holds, laces still on the football somewhere but not facing where they should be, were disastrous for the first part of last year. Over the season he got better. Not his fault that he got galvanized into being a holder, rather than bringing that skilby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Have we done enough to address the Special Teams? - 23 days ago
NO returner can turn the corner when his blockers 1. miss assignments, and 2. RUN INTO EACH OTHER instead of blocking the opponents. That's pretty basic. When Smith turned upfield he was swarmed. He caught his foot on loose turf, fell back, and mishandled one kick. Once. He fielded the rest. He's taken a bad rap since. A bad rap. We have a return man. Having a returnerby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Rampin' up the Work at OTA's- Video - 23 days ago
McDuffie #22 is looking fast, smooth. Marked roster improvement. Adams #90? Was the video speeded up, or is he the fastest meatball alive?by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Rams NOT DONE gearing up for 2026?- Schrager Video - 24 days ago
I don't believe they're "done" developing the 2026 roster, either. I think we all know that, or should. There's a difference between being done as in working on it, and gettin' it done, however. I think we all know that as well, or should. I don't think Snead will hire any player, however talented, who is an anathema to team chemistry. He will appear to overpay for value at tby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: God loves/hates me - 24 days ago
Grandma Doordash to the White House? Daughter NFL cheerleader? Nonpolitical wife on the cover of WSJ? OK... you've outdone Forrest Gump and Andy Warhol rolled into one! :bravoby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Puka had Coop, Matthew - 26 days ago
Early-on we saw the clips of those two students of the game teaching Puka the "little" things that add up to greatness. Their role in his deveklopmewnt can' be overestimated. CJ will have Davante and Matthew, honing the edges of every step, every head-move, every cut, foot plsacement, etc. of every play. I look for McVey to hold CJ back, present him gradually at first and haveby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: God loves/hates me - 26 days ago
God love you, your grandma, and your daughter - even if some of us won't be following the cheers she leds. Life is strange, wonderful, exciting, stretches us, sometimes breaks us, and unlike Humpty Dumpty, we can be put together again. In its best moments, including those where we reflect on others, it's uncertain, a wild ride. Congrats to you and your loved ones. As one who is force-fed Sby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Puka's roots - and where he might grow - 26 days ago
Let's consider these things about Puka: He's a fun-loving, life-loving young man, with cultural and home roots in the Islands - where it's different, shall we say, from the ordered LDS life of Utah. He has a foot in both worlds. Now he's in LA, where everything is available to a young man who wasn't fully exposed to it early-on, the guardrails are down, and he's a young star athlete with fuseby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Another incident - 26 days ago
Let's not go there. Let's not breathe death into the situation. Life is not without missteps and stumbles. Let's hope for better things, believe in better things.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com