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August 29, 2014 at 3:11 am #5451
Eternal RamnationParticipantMyself I have Bayer way ahead of Cunningham I don’t think that one is even close. I would put Watts ahead of Reynolds.I think Givens
has woken and showed his old self the last 2 games.Givens is a missed tackle from a td anywhere on the field and I just don’t see them giving up that speed. Pettis has a niche but has been quiet after earning the title “Mr.Spring”. I like Franklin he has some return skills he understands and runs great routes,makes plays and Watts credited him with the block that got Watts a td in the Browns game.With his limited touches he sure made the most of them. I don’t know if he did enough to bump Pettis but if he gets away I think the Rams will regret it.August 29, 2014 at 5:57 pm #5495
znModeratorJim Fadler @jimiramsboy
I predict that over the next 3 days, every QB in the NFL that gets cut will be linked to the #Rams at one point or the other #Don’tBuyInJim Fadler @ jimiramsboy
By the time its all over I expect both Michael Sam and Westbrooks will have made the #RamsJim Fadler @ jimiramsboy
I would believe that Kourtnei Brown has a great chance to make the practice squad. #GoRamsJim Fadler @ jimiramsboy
And Mitchell Van Dyk showed absolutely nothing in camp #GoRamsJim Fadler @ jimiramsboy
Gilbert has some physical ability and tools but ultimately you gotta turn loose of the ball and that he struggles with #GoRamsJim Fadler @ jimiramsboy
#Rams fan any jokes about the release of Sean Hooey qualify as low hanging fruitJim Fadler @ jimiramsboy
Does Conrath make the #Rams?….That might be Westbrooks slot right thereAugust 29, 2014 at 6:45 pm #5496
rflParticipantJim Fadler @ jimiramsboy
#Rams fan any jokes about the release of Sean Hooey qualify as low hanging fruit.Now that’s funny!
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August 29, 2014 at 7:03 pm #5498
TackleDummyParticipantJim Fadler @ jimiramsboy
#Rams fan any jokes about the release of Sean Hooey qualify as low hanging fruitDoesn’t that qualify as “low hanging fruit”?
August 29, 2014 at 7:12 pm #5499TackleDummyParticipantBefore all is said and done the Rams will have to come up with some cap space. This will probably mean reworking of the contracts of C. Long or Laurinaitis. Bradford might be a possibility, but I am not even sure if they could rework his contract while he is on IR or if they would want to.
Also, I think little, if any, of the current information is from official Ram sources. They keep tight lipped about such things. It likely comes from the players themselves or their agents. So we will be among the last to know.
August 29, 2014 at 7:52 pm #5506znModeratorBefore all is said and done the Rams will have to come up with some cap space.
I’m not sure that’s the case. If you listen to Demoff on the cap, they always look tighter than they are. That’s deliberate, because they are frontloading as much as possible. But in many cases, simple tweaks here or there to this or that contract creates space with minimal effort. So I think if they need space, they already have the names and numbers in mind and can change things quickly and painlessly.
August 30, 2014 at 1:31 am #5532znModeratorMyself I have Bayer way ahead of Cunningham I don’t think that one is even close. I would put Watts ahead of Reynolds.I think Givens
has woken and showed his old self the last 2 games.Givens is a missed tackle from a td anywhere on the field and I just don’t see them giving up that speed. Pettis has a niche but has been quiet after earning the title “Mr.Spring”. I like Franklin he has some return skills he understands and runs great routes,makes plays and Watts credited him with the block that got Watts a td in the Browns game.With his limited touches he sure made the most of them. I don’t know if he did enough to bump Pettis but if he gets away I think the Rams will regret it.So far, at this hour, that we know of, the only guy you list who has been cut is Franklin.
August 30, 2014 at 2:12 am #5542Eternal RamnationParticipantEternal Ramnation wrote: Myself I have Bayer way ahead of Cunningham I don’t think that one is even close. I would put Watts ahead of Reynolds.I think Givens has woken and showed his old self the last 2 games.Givens is a missed tackle from a td anywhere on the field and I just don’t see them giving up that speed. Pettis has a niche but has been quiet after earning the title “Mr.Spring”. I like Franklin he has some return skills he understands and runs great routes,makes plays and Watts credited him with the block that got Watts a td in the Browns game.With his limited touches he sure made the most of them. I don’t know if he did enough to bump Pettis but if he gets away I think the Rams will regret it.
So far, at this hour, that we know of, the only guy you list who has been cut is Franklin.
Well he was a long shot maybe practice squad? I doubt they keep both Bayer and Cunningham and could cut them both.After last night I don’t see how they could cut Watts.Marshal was impressed .
September 4, 2014 at 2:26 pm #6060TackleDummyParticipantBefore all is said and done the Rams will have to come up with some cap space. This will probably mean reworking of the contracts of C. Long or Laurinaitis. Bradford might be a possibility, but I am not even sure if they could rework his contract while he is on IR or if they would want to.
I guess I was right after all.
September 4, 2014 at 5:35 pm #6081znModeratorTackleDummy wrote:
Before all is said and done the Rams will have to come up with some cap space. This will probably mean reworking of the contracts of C. Long or Laurinaitis. Bradford might be a possibility, but I am not even sure if they could rework his contract while he is on IR or if they would want to.I guess I was right after all.
As you pointed out before, we were saying the same thing.
ME (above): “simple tweaks here or there to this or that contract creates space with minimal effort. So I think if they need space, they already have the names and numbers in mind and can change things quickly and painlessly.”I had in mind, for example, the last time they did that with Long. They just did it again.
That is, I took you originally as saying they were genuinely tight against the cap. At that point, most people saying that meant that they would have to cut someone.
My point was simply that they only look like they’re tight but can adjust that at any time. In a longer post, I pointed out that they generally do that by converting a portion of the cap into bonus money…so they decrease the frontloading a bit, and increase the stretched out bonus money a bit.
Turns out though, as you already pointed out, you were just saying the same thing from a different angle….you WERE talking about simple adjustments. When you pointed that out, I agreed…I originally had misread you (in this thread) as saying their cap situation was a problem. My point was that it only LOOKS like a problem–that they are set up to fix small cap issues with adjustments. That’s built right in to how they do things.
So in essence we were both right, but in the first go-round of this conversation (in this thread) I took you as missing exactly what in fact we were both saying.
Misreads happen. Mea culpa. But I thought this was already cleared up.
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