slow Sunday before training camp

Progress. The Rams have replaced every center who on the roster last year.
69 SULLIVAN, JOHN 60b Eldrenkamp, Jake 66b Blythe, Austin
61 Barnes, Tim SF11 65 Rhaney, Demetrius 14/7 60 Kush, Eric W/Hou
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McVay said he had to tell Sullivan to quit calling the defenses and let Goff do it. Because he was making it too hard on the defense and screwing up the drills.
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The Rams still need to cross train someone, because Eldrenkamp and Blythe probably can’t fill in for both guard and center on the active roster. imo

Figured on Salary Cap of $178 million for 2018.

The rule is: 10-14 players can use 60 – 65 % of the Salary Cap. Or 8 players for 50%. Either works. Or something inbetween. The idea is to keep as many of your best players as you can. Sometimes you have to make value judgements. Is this player at X-amount a better value than this player at Y-amount. I use the franchise numbers as a percentage of the Salary Cap and put players in tiers to get a rough estimate.

Salaries under 3.0% are part of the remaining approx. 40% of the Salary Cap. We did a thread on Salary Cap Models. look here => http://theramshuddle.com/topic/one-kind-of-roster-model/

You have to decide which combination of best players at their best values gives you the most bang for the buck and still have enough left to fill out a reasonable roster.

I would probably drop Trumaine sign the rest that need to be extended and draft CBs and DLine.

I think the Rams could have done better on contracts and the Salary Cap the last couple years, but that is history. Today is Day Zero.

2018 is the big year, then it is just the Gurley Class, the Goff class, then this year’s class. The last 3 years won’t have the large number of free agents to deal with and they have a lower number of premium drafts picks on the roster to try to retain.

link: http://gbnreport.com/strengths-2018-draft/

Offensive Strengths of 2018 draft
By Colin Lindsay | May 14, 2017
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by Larry Parker, GBN College Football Investigative Reporter

May 15, 2017

The 2018 draft is still over 11.5 months away and much can happen between now and April of next year, but a preliminary perusal of next year’s draft class suggests that the offensive positions of strengths for next year’s draft will be Quarterback, Wide Receiver, and Offensive Tackle.

could make the QB position one of the strongest overall positions for 2018, depending on how many of the aforementioned underclassmen declare early entry.

Just on the senior class depth alone, regardless of how many underclassmen declare early entry, the WR position, in my opinion, has the best top to bottom strength out of all the different positions for the 2018 draft.

All in all, the 2018 OT crop is a pretty deep and solid group, that should have many NFL teams excited to get them on their rosters.

zn wrote:

Ag did you write that or is that part of the article from that post?

Either way I like the 65% for 10-14, 50% for 8 thing and from now on I will put it that way.

I wrote it. It originates from earlier stuff of “A Salary Cap Model”. Either way works, they are similar. The idea is that keeping as many “star” players as you can is the best way to maximize cap spending. I prefer working with percent and I think you prefer dollars. Just take my post and use the dollar amounts as part of a $178M cap. 50% is roughly $90M. Divided by 8 equals ~$11M per player. As of now, for 2018, the Rams have 9 players making 47% fo the cap or $83m of $178m.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Agamemnon.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Agamemnon.

zn wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

7 FAs starters on defense and only Sullivan on offense.
Mo Alexander should be on the list too.

Any early word on the strengths of the 2018 draft?

Cause…for the Rams, they need a defensive draft.

I can’t see them keeping all those guys. In fact I would make it just Ogletree. That means having to draft CBs, safeties, OLBS, and DEs.

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corners safeties olbs and des.

hopefully a guy like johnson can step in as a starter next year.

but yeah. re-sign ogletree.