Please elaborate. These days my thoughts are divided between football and fishing, with fishing soon to eclipse football for a few months. I was out twice this past weekend and didn't have a single thought about short running backs. Yet, I sometimes think about fishing when it's football seasons, especially on those 'truth or dare' crisp autumn afternoons when the trees are turning color, therby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
If that's what he wants, that's not what he's getting. Unless this new bowling ball (5'8" and over 200#?) is a thumper inside, we still don't have that tough yardage back who can get yards that aren't there. Kyren was a pleasant surprise last year; he can get low and find a crease but that's not the same as being big and strong enough to push a pile or simply truck somebody who's in the wby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Estime and Lloyd? They're too big.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
It's late at night, Gator, and I needed a good laugh! :yes Thanks for the line drive humor!by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Who does he remind you of? Bowling-ball physique? Short, choppy running stride, saw and ran through holes? I'm thinking of the guy who co-hosts interviews with J.B. Long... Everybody give up? :rolleyesby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
How tall is McVay? :spintoungeby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
About that 42-40 yard range: Is that with the ball clearing the crossbar, or how far it rolls after you kick it? :lol1 :lol1 :lol1 :lol1by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Does it have a screw-off top? :lol1 What's inside?:imsorryby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I don't hate much of anything. Disapprove of, yeah. Despise, maybe. But I hate this. Hate it. Hate the look, the subliminal messaging, how the colors are utilized, the whole appearance of it. First the wussy little goat horns, and now this. I hope it doesn't make it onto the team benches, into the lockerrooms, or anywhere into player's or coach's attire.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Good points. Mathis and Hampton have been question marks for me; I simply don't see enough tape to have much of an opinion - except that both showed promise last year and leave the question open as to how much they'e developed. Shula will have some interesting decisions to make. This should be an exciting camp.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
And one has to ponder: Was the Bowers leak somewhat of a smokescreen? Let one (or more) plausable interests be shown, let the guy we chose remain hush-hush, low on the radar. Now would Les Snead ever do something like that? :innocentby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Well, at least Bowers isn't a speedy little wideout --- :confused Seriously, Snead engineered a flexible, adaptable, matrix of Plan B's going in. Snead's job is to develop the roster that McVay wants. And that's a heavily nuanced and layered task. It's a collaboration between two forceful and unlike minds, within which Snead must take full responsibility for the decisions made and their ouby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I've seen Hoecht as a very bright, very adaptable and coachable big athlete who was drafted to play edge when there was no-one better who could play the position without making mental errors - better suited to the interior at the end position, not a tackle. Hoecht, Kobie and Brown inside, with Verse and Young on the edges would be a formitable group. They could hurry a few throws, possiblby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I got this same impression too, DD. Rams did their homework in depth, watched the tape, and weighed the intangibles, as they are called, behind closed doors. It's better that way. The outside-the-box Rams eval doesn't spark interest and catch fire with other teams. And I heard Snead clearly when he said that the Rams had developed deep profiles on three players they wanted with their fiby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I don't take this real seriously. Not now. Ian Rappaport says, (based on what we don't know,) and DaSilva repeats, builds a house of cards story around it, (based on having nothing original to say.)by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Mitchell changes your whole D for five or more years. Generational player. Watch.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Thanks for postine, JY53. Much info packed into just a few minutes. Wyche and Garrafolo are good interviewers who arrived with good questions, and who listen to the answers they asked for. They don't interview just to hear themselves talk. That lets us listen, too. Many gems scattered throughout. One that struck me: Who, besides Snead, reads multiple books by economists for their ideby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Snead by himself: Hidden draft gems, trades that bolster the roster. Coaches and scouts: Valuable input, but when stuck on a player, splash and bust. McVay: Speedy little wideouts.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Generational player. He'd singlehandedly change the complexion of the defense. Doubt very seriously that it would happen, with the signings of White and he other one. I've kept quiet about my secret wish that he'd be a Ram, but now that you've said it... You can't have too many or too good cornerbacks.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Goodell booed? Let's hope so. He's ruining the game, selling everything in it and about it for money - and when there's no game left?by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Thank you, thank you! :clap Jourdan is a harbinger, some of the other writers are, by comparison, a hairbrainer. :laughing Let the draft begin....................by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Spot on reasoning, my friend. Somehow Caleb and his nails remind me of the posturing, stubble-posing square-jawed heroic college phenom Matt Leinart - who fell from everybody's #1 pick to #10 for the Cards, who took him, sidelined Warner for the Golden Boy for a couple of misspent years until they sobered up and let Warner lead them to a Super Bowl. Leinart meanwhile showed some brilliant flasby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Couldn't happen. b]DaSilva says they're set to trade UP into the top ten. :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead WILL THE DRAFT PLEASE START, ALREADY??? My bold prediction: :confused:rolleyes :nerd The Rams will trade up, trade down, or stay put!!!!!!!!!!!!!by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
She said, then he said, then DaSilva read it and picked it up and wrote it. And I ain't buying. Not until I see it, and not because DaSilva was the third (in this daisy chain) to say so. :nowayby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Jourdan (and thank you, Jourdan! :bravo) is revealing the inner workings of what we should already know - but that we keep forgetting. For the most part, fans and writers are playing checkers while behind the scenes Snead and co. are playing 3D chess, with many moving pieces at many different levels. Or put in another way, while we're thinking at a linear level, the Rams are on a layered matriby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Back then the writers and scouts had to watch the players play - they couldn't just crush the numbers from test results and call it a report or a column. Youngblood got to play bestde Merlin Olsen and other Rams greats. Dierdorf? Got stuck with Conrad Dobler. For those too young to remember his best moves were holding and ilegal hands to the whatever, and if those failed, the leg whip. Odlby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Isn't this one of the first things Snead said going into the off-season? I think we got it the first time. Poor DaSilva - slow day, needs to meet his word count requirement, and no place to go.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
I guess Sean Payton wasn't listening when his Pappy took him aside and said to him, "Son, it don't make no diff'rence how smart you are or how much you know, if you go through life as a dirtbag human being and cheatin' piece of crud, it won't last foever. People'll begin to notice, an' sooner or later it'll all come back to bite you right in the ass." X(:thumbsup:yesby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
So... if sombody falls, or Latu goes sooner, what then? What if Quin Mitchell falls? If he's there Latu makes the most sense - and could turn into another Khalil Mack. Or he could re-injure his neck, and the Rams would look historically foolish for not taking Chop Robinson? Or will McVay's compulsion for a speedy wideout have us taking Adonai Mitchell? Thanks for posting!by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
The Rams may not be done. After he's played the market for high stakes and failed, he may come back a bit humbled. If he still wants to play for a winner we'd have a serious backup for White when injured, or a second corner with him and ball-hawking Williams in the star/nickel for a majority of snaps. Stranger things have happened.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com