Wow. How sad.  JPMiller was one of the originals.  A good person and a good fan.

Stuff like this is bound to happen when you  post with the same people for nearly 30 years, but that doesn’t make it any easier.

If Tre White can stay healthy, they will have turned a team weakness into a strength (the secondary).

And that’s good, because they will need guys that can cover a LONG time.

Zooey wrote:

zn wrote:

They have Jones and Turner in the front 7

Turner is going to get a good deal more attention this season, and I expect his effectiveness to drop. Nothing would make me happier than to be ridiculed for this comment at the end of the season.

Yeah, I was never sold on Turner. I think he’s probably ok, but just ok.

zn wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Kroenke needs to erect a Ring of Honor in SoFi and Donald needs to be the first person on it. He should have a statue outside the main entrance as well.

Then they should animate the statue and draft it.

“With the 19th pick in the draft, the Los Angeles Rams select <pause for effect>… Android Donald.”

Unfortunately, everything that made AD a great DT would violate one or more of Asimov’s Laws of Robotics.

wv wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Okay. Just don’t draft Bill Hawkins, Adam Carriker, or Sean Gilbert.

3/4s of Some sort of Mt. Rushmore, there. w v

Plus Mike Shad, Jimmy Kennedy, Lawrence Phillips, Trung Candidate, et. al…

You would need an entire mountain range to hold all the visages of shame.

Sad day.  I thought for sure he would play this season and then retire. Try for that second ring…

The Rams *were* back in the Super Bowl bubble.  The pass rush sucked last year but with Donald it wouldn’t be too difficult to fix that in a single offseason.  They didn’t need to find the next Lawrence Taylor to turn the pass rush around with AD occupying two or three o-linemen every pass play.  Now it’s going to be a much harder  fix.

Donald was my favorite player of the past couple decades.  I wish him well and hope he sticks around the team like Whit has done.

Man, that interior of the Rams oline is going to bully people. Hill, Smith, Harrah part deux.

zn wrote:

In every single respect, the opposite of Atwell.

That’s because in addition to a love of food and drink, Shire-folk love football.

zn wrote:

What can he do in this offense with a full offseason of work?

Imagine this offense with a healthy Kupp, an improved D. Robinson and an improved Puka Nacua (is that even possible?).

Zooey wrote:

But occasionally I think a little “Rate the Flamer” is missing from the stew. So wv comes in here with a traumatic film of the Rams’ loss to the Vikings in the playoffs, and sharpens it by omitting all of the good Rams plays. Then reminds us that the Rams used to have the greatest sports uniforms of all time. I dunno, though. 3.5 stars from me.

Yeah wv’s good but he’s no Calif-Tom.

zn wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Fine, but I’ll remind you that land-damning is a time-honored tradition on Rams boards, going all the way back to The Herd.

We go back to the PD board, right? I started in 98. So that’s what, 60 years?

At least.

The PD board was like Lord of the Flies, with GRITS playing the Jack Merridew role.

zn wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

If memory serves they won a few games in those uniforms.

Remember the rules–no figurative lynchings on the Huddle board. For us, lynchings have to be literal. Unfortunately that would usually mean driving long distances to accomplish it. So we’ll try peace and reconciliation instead. It’s more convenient.

Fine, but I’ll remind you that land-damning is a time-honored tradition on Rams boards, going all the way back to The Herd.

zn wrote:

Head coaches

• Head coach – Sean McVay
• Assistant head coach – Jimmy Lake

Offensive coaches

• Offensive coordinator – Mike LaFleur
• Quarterbacks/pass game coordinator – Zac Robinson
• Quarterbacks – Vacant
• Running backs – Ron Gould
• Wide receivers – Eric Yarber
• Tight ends – Nick Caley
• Offensive line – Ryan Wendell
• Assistant offensive line – Zak Kromer
• Pass game specialist – Jake Peetz
• Offensive assistant – KJ Black
• Offensive assistant – Nick Jones

Defensive coaches

• Defensive coordinator – Raheem Morris
• Defensive coordonator – Chris Shula
• Defensive line/run game coordinator – Eric Henderson
• Defensive line/run game coordinator — Giff Smith
• Assistant defensive line – Andrew Carter
• Linebackers/pass rush coordinator – Chris Shula
• Linebackers – Vacant
• Outside linebackers – Joe Coniglio
• Secondary – Chris Beake
• Defensive backs/pass game coordinator – Aubrey Pleasant
• Defensive assistant – Mike Harris

Special teams coaches

• Special teams coordinator – Chase Blackburn
• Assistant special teams – Jeremy Springer
• Assistant special teams – Chili Davis
• Coaching analyst – Tim Berbenich

Strength and conditioning

• Director of strength training and performance – Justin Lovett
• Assistant strength and conditioning – Fernando Noriega
• Assistant strength and conditioning – Dustin Woods

Damn that’s a lot of coaching changes.  Has there ever been a team that’s had to replace as many coaches as the Rams have every year?

That is as good of an indication of the respect the league has for McVay as anything.

I noticed the Rams created a new coaching position – Defensive Coordonator.

I suspect that that position is actually the same as Defensive Coordinator.  The Rams are just trying to hide their coaches behind new and unfamiliar titles so they can’t be pilfered…

Other team’s general manager: “We need a new defensive coordinator.  Let’s see who the Rams have.  Wait a minute, according to their coaching roster, they don’t have a defensive coordinator.  Damn.  Guess we’ll have to look elsewhere…”

Zooey wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

wv wrote:

SF fires their DC. w v

Somebody had to pay.

Yeah, I don’t think this is a scapegoat situation. There were some problems between Wilks and Shanahan throughout the season, and they had different philosophies for the defense. Wilks was supposed to embrace Shanahan’s system, but there were times he didn’t do it. Shanahan and Lynch overruled Wilks on his gameplan against Seattle, and Shanahan called a timeout in the Super Bowl to overrule a defensive play call at one point. There was also some kind of fiasco at the end of the first half against Minnesota. This wasn’t the 49ers throwing somebody under the bus for the loss.

Well look who comes running to Shanny’s and the 9ers’ defense.  What a surprise.  Not.

Sorry if I struck a nerve. I know you’re struggling to get over the Super Bowl loss and here I am adding insult to injury.  I’ll try to remember that not everyone is as happy about the 9ers implosion as Rams fans are.