Rams Pre-Draft Event tonight

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CoachO

Rams Pre-Draft Event tonight. its a fun event at Rams Park, and can get a little insight if you pay close enough attention to how things are said. Just got home. Event was good. A little disorganized as compared to past years. The “guest players” included our first intro to Nick Foles, as well as Greg Robinson, Aaron Donald, Coach Mike Waffle, James Laurinatis, and the Rev, Ike Bruce.

Once again the event was Emceed by Kara Henderson-Snead, and Les Snead. Coach Fisher made a brief appearance, mostly to publicly welcome Nick Foles to St. Louis.

They once again conducted a mock draft thru the 10th pick. With the Rams pick being Andrus Peat, OT – Stanford in an unplanned “trade-up” with Atlanta to the 8th spot. Needless to say, Kara was not happy with that, as it was not part of the “rules” of the draft.

Live video feed from a member of the Rams PR staff from Chicago, showing the set in the Auditorium the actual draft will be held. Also, a live skype interview with Charles Davis discussing his feelings about the upcoming draft, and his choice for the Rams in his latest mock. He also had the Rams picking Andrus Peat.

This year, more than any other, they didn’t address any possibilities. They really didn’t spend a lot of time talking about the potential draftees, other than to gloss over some of the higher picks as they were “selected” in the mock draft.

I also found it interesting, but very noticeable, that they did NOT entertain ANY questions from the audience this year. I think we all know why!!!!!! I don’t think they wanted to face the elephant in the room being the stadium issue and/or relocation. It’s a safe bet that questions were bound to touch on those topics. This was more about show casing previous draft picks (Robinson, Donald) and the faces of the franchise in Foles, Laurinaitis & Bruce.

They spent less time discussing this years prospects (then they had in previous years) and never mentioned a thing about “current events”

The one comment that got a reaction was from Greg Robinson, when asked if he wanted to draft another “brother to join him on the O-Line”, he said, “I hope so, we NEED one”!!!

And Mike Wauffle, who was on stage raving about the Aaron Donald choice, talked about the process of last years draft when it came around to their second pick in the 1st round and Donald was still there.

He raved about the scouting process as it pertained to Donald, and how “his best coaching” job was when he brought Donald in for that first unit meeting, and told him…. “don’t listen to anything I listen to anything I say, keep playing the way you play!”

With Donald up on stage with him, Wauffle made the statement recently when asked about who they should draft….. “I told Coach Fisher and Les, that “Go ahead and draft another position, I am good here”.

Fisher was not on stage very long at all, and didn’t even begin to want to get into any draft scenarios as he has done in previous years.

All in all, it was a nice event, VERY WELL attended, and the crowd was enthusiastic overall. Nick Foles was greeted with a standing ovation, as were Aaron Donald and Isaac Bruce.