tweets … 8/30 & 8/31

zn wrote:

Joel Corry@corryjoel
Tom Brady (yes Tom Brady) was the NFL’s highest paid player in 2011 at $18M per year when the salary cap was $120.375M. It’s now Aaron Rodgers at $33.5M with a $177.2M cap. The QB increase (86.1%) is easily outpacing the growth in the salary cap (47.2%) during this span.

That is just totally wrong. Rodgers won’t make ~$33.5M until 2020-2023. The est. Cap will be between $200 – $230 million in those years. The Cap will have gone up about 78%, maybe more if it beats the estimates. Some people should not be allowed to do Math. 😉

Brockers. Suh. Donald.

{snicker}

Zooey wrote:

I really am having a hard time believing that the Rams have so many young pro-bowl level players, all on the right side of age, under contract for years.

We have all lived long enough, and seen enough promising seasons end in heartbreaking losses, to know better than to assume anything…but…damn.

I cannot name a Rams team I thought was this loaded throughout the roster, and on the sidelines. McVay, Phillips, Fassel. Offense, defense, special teams.

This is a fucking assemblage of talent.

As great as the Rams were in the 70s, they did not have a top shelf QB. The 80s teams had quality players, but there was always the feeling that the defense relied a bit on smoke and mirrors to cover weaknesses. The GSOT caught lightning in a bottle, and those teams were good. But there were some dysfunctional sinews holding that together.

The Rams have never looked brighter than they do heading into this season, imo.

It may well be that in six weeks we are talking about having too many Special personalities, or the consequences of not playing starters in preseason, or a series of unfortunate events.

But I don’t recall looking around and being more satisfied with the team top to bottom as I am right now. And they are lined up for several years.

good post. and i agree.

although if they can’t replace whitworth, that’d be the only stumbling block i can see. apart from injuries. so i’ll be playing close attention to noteboom.

but damn. with snead’s scouting. they could be set up for some real success for years to come. and i think that’s key too. snead’s ability to find gems each year. and this year might be his best yet?

InvaderRam wrote:

good post. and i agree.

although if they can’t replace whitworth, that’d be the only stumbling block i can see. apart from injuries. so i’ll be playing close attention to noteboom.

but damn. with snead’s scouting. they could be set up for some real success for years to come. and i think that’s key too. snead’s ability to find gems each year. and this year might be his best yet?

I know.

But right now, the drafting ability of this team appears to be…excellent. May I use the word “excellent?” It’s been really good. Hence all the young stars. Also, they are making pretty impressive moves in trading for talent.

Noteboom looks really promising (early, yes), and he may be Whitworth’s replacement. But even if he isn’t, we know Saffold is at least “decent” over there, and he has said money isn’t his biggest priority anymore. Whitworth was a 2nd round pick. Noteboom is a 3rd round pick. The Rams may not get a HOF to replace Whitworth, but I am not losing sleep over his replacement right now.

Of bigger concern to me is the LB position, and Sullivan’s replacement.

But right now, I look around, and I don’t think, “Rams are screwed at ______. That HAS to be a draft priority.”

Right?

We are in a condition right now of picking depth, and future starters.

It doesn’t get better than that. I mean…if you are going to complain about needing to draft for the future, you have no hope of ever being happy as a football fan, right?

I will anticipate some games with anxiety because there are a bunch of good teams in the NFL, particularly the NFC.

But there is not going to be a game that I look at right now, and concede to the Loss column beforehand.

The Rams can beat anybody. Doesn’t mean they WILL. But nobody overmatches the Rams this year. Nobody.

Let’s go. Let’s start the Gruden II Era off right.

Sure, if all those guys are Hits, then the Rams are in great shape for years.

But for years, we have been reading draft reviews, and camp reports, and so on.

Remember Noa, and Spikes, and Barrett Jones, and even Eldrenkamp. Christian Bryant got lots of praise, Mo Alexander. Nelson Spruce was the greatest pickup ever. You know.

I just…dunno.

If between Noteboom, Kiser, Kelly, Ogbo, and Franklin-Meyers…if TWO of those guys get a second contract, I will be extremely happy. Extremely happy.

I’m gonna bet Noteboom is the safest bet, and I wouldn’t put a dollar on any of the others. I hope I’m wrong, obviously, but….

Zooey wrote:

I just…dunno.

i hear ya.

i wonder what we’ll be saying about snead 10 years from now.

but. can’t think about that now. gotta just enjoy it all right now.