Bradford is done for the year

Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter · 1m

RT @mortreport: Rams QB Sam Bradford is out for season after MRI shows he did tear left knee ACL, per sources. Rams will announce later.

Winnbrad wrote:

This is a bummer. I can’t believe. Damn I hate preseason.

Well, at least we’ve got some receivers stepping up. Maybe Hill can move the ball.

They can’t go into next season counting on him. They will need a qb.

I hope they aren’t going to get silly about it and trade for one now. They will need the picks next year to trade up for one.

joemad wrote:

@caplannfl: Shaun Hill is the only QB remaining on the #Rams roster who has started a game (26 in career).

Joe, have you noticed yet that we HAVE the game if you want to see it?

Right here—>

http://theramshuddle.com/topic/the-browns-game-here-w-cleveland-announcers/

That sucks!

Yeah–it’s time to get another QB.

Sam certainly has talent. But there is no way they can hang their hat on him.

Bummed about Bradford. I’m thinking my mom’s chicken noodle soup, my pony blankey, and my fuzzy brown bunny slippers are all necessities this wonderful day.

I think they’ll keep him but they will look for a starter–a young guy–in the draft and, as you said, next year is his last year. At best he will placehold the position for the rookie they’ll bring in. They certainly won’t give him big money now. He is no longer their guy. They have no choice but to move on in terms of the future. I don’t know if they save anything by letting him go at the end of this year–unless it’s a significant cap move.

Otherwise, they will hope that Hill can do a bit more than Clemens did. Davis has to be the back-up for now, unless they bring in another vet. Some interesting choices ahead.

Well, it was a fun season while it lasted. Oh, wait. It hasn’t started yet. Feel really bad for the vets on the team. Another precious season likely to go by the wayside. Really, 8-8 might be one of the great coaching jobs in recent years. And I’m not against them going after a vet. Waiting for a rookie draft pick next season only means two or three more seasons of waiting for development. I can’t see that happening, nor would I necessarily want to see it happen.

Sonufa….

I don’t know why, but I have a very good feeling about Shaun Hill, tho…

Just sayin… I’m not counting us out, yet.

Back-ups CAN win Superbowls.

Tom Brady
Kurt Warner
Trent Dilfer
Doug Williams
Jeff Hostetler
Jim Plunkett
Earl Morrall

It CAN and DOES happen.

Keep the faith.

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• This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by PA Ram.

i didn’t see anything out of the ordinary with that hit. i think most qbs don’t injure themselves on a play like that because most qbs aren’t injury prone like sam is.

i don’t care if he’s taken big hits. big hits is not what i’m talking about. shoot i can get in a car crash and walk away from it. stress is put on the knees and joints all the time in football. his ligaments. the ones that hold his shoulders, knees, ankles, and whatever else together. they just can’t take the stress of an nfl game. it’s not about awkward hits anymore. four times in five years? it’s not just about bad luck anymore. he’s injury prone. it might not happen on the next hit or the hit after that. but at some point. he’s gonna break something again.

I will say that if Jake Long doesn’t play better they might as well start a line of discarded QBs outside Rams Park. They’ll need them.

Say it with me now: TE-BOW.

Just kidding.

zn wrote:

They might let him go in the end, but, why? Next year is his last year.
You bring in a new qb and see what you have.
If they kept Saffold and Long they are going to keep Bradford.

I think Bradford is a very good QB that just started to have an offense around him.
2 ACLs is a nasty bit of luck…but ZN is right, we own him for another year.
We draft a QB high and let them both duke it out…winner stays and so does the loser if Sam beats out the young QB and plays great..
we keep both cuz the QB will be very cheap…but we’ll have our bases covered.

I want Sam…still do especially after watching him throw downfield to WRs that caught the ball. We were ready for a helluva fireworks show. We can still be successful. It’s a team game….and Sam is still a part of this team. He should re-negotiate his contract, but if he doesn’t do you think a QB hungry team would pay him 15mil + incentives to come to them??? I sure do.
Sam is head & shoulders better than most QBs out there. imo of course.

Let’s keep Sam for his last year and draft a kid for cheap. I’ll bet Sam may even renegotiate for cheap too after this season and put much into incentives…or maybe not. LOl

I just really liked Sam finally throwing downfield like a freakin monster…
and Quick & Britt…out fighting the ball for the catch!!!

Guys, I’ve always liked Sam a lot. I’ve defended him and figured he got lots of unfair, bad raps.

But.

2 ACLs on one knee?

In my view he is toast. He’s toast in this sense:

There is no way to trust him to remain healthy. No way.

Look, here’s my sense of how they went into this year. They were firm in seeing this as Sam’s offense. Very firm.

However, they were wondering about his health. He has not been robust going all the way back to college. They were wondering if they could really trust him with a whole season. That’s why they were flirting with thoughts of Manziel.

OK, what about next year? Well, there is no way they can simply put the offense in Sam’s hands. He has played, what, 6.5 games in 2 years? 2 ACLs in one knee? There is absolutely no way to count on him for a significant number of games next year, much less a whole season.

Now, I am not calling on the team to dump him. I’d be happy to see them give him another year to compete, as guys are saying. But they CANNOT go into next year without having another viable option as a starting QB. Vet or young guy? I dunno. But they absolutely cannot put the team in his hands for next year.

It’s very, very sad for me. But in my view, he is more or less finished as a starting QB.

yeah. i can’t think of another starting qb with the injury history this guy has had who’s made it.

alex smith?

he had a shoulder injury which they chose not to do surgery on. they finally decided to have surgery on it when they realized it wouldn’t heal on its own.

then he had to have a second shoulder surgery. mind you this was not necessarily contact related rather it was related to a wire they had left from the first surgery.

besides that he blew out his knee.

bradford has had three major ligament injuries. he had an ankle injury which still hadn’t healed going into the next season i believe.

and i’m just taking a guess at this. but my guess is one ligament tear is bad enough. the prognosis for a SECOND tear on the SAME ligament. my guess is the prognosis takes a huge dip.