Monday Report

Recent Forum Topics Forums The Rams Huddle Monday Report

Viewing 9 posts - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #3297
    jimiramsboy
    Participant

    First of all there were numerous guys out today…some if soft cast walking boots. I got a chance to talk to one of the professional reporters whom we will term…..In the Nick of Time who said none of the injured were serious.

    QB-I tried to pay attention to Sam’s plant foot and see if pushing off caused him any issues and there were none. I have not heard if he is playing Friday but I would expect it to be one series if that.

    Hill had a really nice play that I mistakenly credited to Gilbert. Threw to Bayer on a crossing pattern where Bayer was bracketed and by a linebacker and a safety. Hill just dropped it in over the linebacker and it was about as good as I saw today.

    Early on the Rams were running a series of deep out with just QB and receiver…it seemed Gilbert really labored to get the ball deep

    RB-I have heard some camp observers commenting on Tre Mason’s penchant for trying to cut everything back or to bounce to the outside. Early on that was very evident. I think every snap he took until late he attempted to cut back. The last rep I saw him get he busted straight up the middle, found the crease and drove into the secondary.

    They did try to use him late in motion to the outside as a receiver with little success.

    Stacy is ready, lets roll.

    WR/TE’s-Pettis got into a fight with Joyner late in practice….which is time to point out that Pettis still seems to have a role on the team and still has an amazing catch radius. There was a play where he went in motion and tried to turn up the field that it was alarmingly evident that his speed just isn’t there. Now that the Rams finally have some professional caliber NFL type wide receivers you can see how his lack of speed holds him back even with his other skills.

    Speaking of which at one point I turned to my friend and said…”Britt is the first NFL professional caliber bona fide wide receiver Sam Bradford has had since Mark Clayton….which of course was Mark Clayton’s cue to come up and sit beside and tell us….”Hi I’m Mark Clayton.” He was in town for business concerning his new electronics venture and just coincidentally picked that moment to come up….that or the universe is calling to me.

    Givens was out very very early doing some extra route running work with one of the quality control guys…it was extremely hot and he was working his ass of on pivot routes.

    The tight end I touted early Justice Cunningham had some drops….Alex Bayer a 6:04 rookie out of Bowling Green looked much better. He is always out early with Harkey and Brodine.

    I made mention of a rookie named Jordan Harris out of a small New England school called Bryant on twitter last week and made a smart ass remark about not knowing where it was….and then promptly got buried by tweets back to me about both Jordan Harris and where Bryant was located….and today he dropped everything in sight so there Bryant.

    Oline-Wells and Long took part in almost every drill that I could track. Mike Person got his ass, hat and colon handed to him trying to block Quinn in the line vs line drills.

    Demetrius Rhaney has some ability and you can see it most of the time, run blocking is more his forte at this point and in the line vs line drills he really has issues at time.

    Barrett Jones sat out the day. Timmy Barnes consistently got turned in pass rushing drills and really did not look good at all. Even the UDFA’s worked him over.

    DLine-Follow me on this one rep that really got my attention.

    Its in the match-up drill, Oklahoma drill, quasi Okalahoma drill or Oline vs Dline drill or whatever you want to call it.

    Its Quinn vs Person….Quinn comes up out of his stance and does a stutter step and Person slides to his left to cut Quinn off. Quinn then counters with what looked like but surely could not have been a 5-6 foot stride and got the outside of Person’s left shoulder. At that point he planted his right foot and drove to what would have been a sack…yet again of the QB.

    Robert Quinn hardly sporting.

    Everyone around me ooohed and aaahed even Mark Clayton.

    Linebackers-Ray, Ray will be the next one to get into a fight with the offense. The line of the say was “conflict and drama” when they first went to 11 on 11.

    JoLonn Dunbar plays a pretty good MLB>

    DBs- It was as they all have been so far supposed to be a thud or touch drill.Joyner wasn’t the only one having issues with that…..TJ and Eugene Sims were popping pads all day long. Greg Reid played much better today and even had a pick on a sideline route late in the day. He also got a lot of work as a PR

    K-Zuerlein got some work in today trying to nail the tower guys.

    Fisher supervised a fake kick drill at one point where Hekker moved up under center and Zuerlein shifted to his tailback….somehow I don’t see them pitching out to Greg.

    Twitter handle is @jimiramsboy

    #3298
    Avatar photozn
    Moderator

    Speaking of which at one point I turned to my friend and said…”Britt is the first NFL professional caliber bona fide wide receiver Sam Bradford has had since Mark Clayton….which of course was Mark Clayton’s cue to come up and sit beside and tell us….”Hi I’m Mark Clayton.” He was in town for business concerning his new electronics venture and just coincidentally picked that moment to come up….that or the universe is calling to me.

    Great story.

    He say anything worth telling?

    #3299
    jimiramsboy
    Participant

    Not really…..talked more about the new electronics venture than anything else….but that move by Quinn believe me I wasn’t the only one making such a fuss.Clayton was also

    • This reply was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by jimiramsboy.

    Twitter handle is @jimiramsboy

    #3300
    Avatar photozn
    Moderator

    Not really…..talked more about the new electronics venture than anything else….but that move by Quinn believe I wasn’t the only one making such a fuss.

    I have a theory. They seem to be very conscious about working in the medium range (21-30) and deep (31+) passing game this summer. You hear about it when Fisher and Bradford get interviewed. Is that your impression too? I personally think that Fisher doesn’t just want to hold scores down and win close ones with tough defense. I think he wants to put that defense on the field with leads, and demolish teams. Anything to all this?

    #3303
    jimiramsboy
    Participant

    I see deep out and go routes being more of an option than before. I think that is a by product of the ground and pound attack featuring Stacy. I think Sam’s attempts will be down but YPA (yards per pass attempt) will be way up.

    Twitter handle is @jimiramsboy

    #3305
    Avatar photozn
    Moderator

    I see deep out and go routes being more of an option than before. I think that is a by product of the ground and pound attack featuring Stacy. I think Sam’s attempts will be down but YPA (yards per pass attempt) will be way up.

    That’s what’s needed.

    What do you think is going on with Givens?

    #3307
    jimiramsboy
    Participant

    Its so hard to tell with that guy, I was very encouraged by him being out so early. The crowds have been so big I got there early even though it was seriously hot.

    And there he was without a helmet running routes with an assistant coach. I also know he is staying after the rest leave and working with Austin Davis and the rest of the UDFA’s. Early on if he wasn’t led properly he would just give up on the route and never fight back and not make a play on the ball.

    That was one of the things last year that really made me sour on him.

    Then after about three days he was as competitive as the rest and was scrapping for every ball. If you could put his ability into Britt’s mentality you would have quite a wide receiver.

    At one point he was only getting reps with the third string and you had to wonder if he was going to get buried in the depth chart.

    Twitter handle is @jimiramsboy

    #3308
    Avatar photozn
    Moderator

    Do you think Cook will improve on what he showed last year? It’s just camp I know but your guess is better than anybody’s because you’ve seen him. I mean I know he showed promise, and I know he did catch his share, but early in the season for example I swear he was matador-ing on blocks.

    #3309
    jimiramsboy
    Participant

    I need to watch his blocking. I got a really good look at some of his blocking in the Jaguars game last year and was absolutely disgusted. No knee bend, just kind of shove at the pile and hope. I haven’t been paying that much attention to him this year so far.

    Twitter handle is @jimiramsboy

Viewing 9 posts - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Comments are closed.