Rams tweets … 2/24 – 2/28

After starring at @UCLAFootball with Jackie Robinson, Kenny Washington was blocked from playing in the @NFL for 6 years.

In 1946, he became the 1st Black player to sign an NFL contract in the post-World War II era with @RamsNFL.https://t.co/Koe9PnQtfH | #BlackHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/Kn8hXguLgX

— Troy Vincent, Sr. (@TroyVincentSr) February 24, 2022

McVay says no to TV. He and Amazon were going to meet next week, and Amazon may have gone as high as five years and $100M, according to sources. Rams, obviously, have stepped up with a raise from his reported $8.5M. … On to the next one …. https://t.co/lcRtFjtWcr

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) February 26, 2022

from https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2022/02/27/rams-nfl-draft-depth-daniel-jeremiah-quote/?taid=621bace2ed681a0001a1525c&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

Everyone talks about the star-studded roster that the Los Angeles Rams assembled en route to their Super Bowl title, but that team was much more than a collection of big names. In the Super Bowl alone, they got contributions out of Brycen Hopkins, Nick Scott, Darious Williams, A’Shawn Robinson, Greg Gaines and Ernest Jones.

Of course, Matthew Stafford, Jalen Ramsey, Aaron Donald, Von Miller, Cooper Kupp and Odell Beckham Jr. helped the Rams get to the big game, but throughout the season, their excellent depth was on full display.

Gaines, Scott, Hopkins, Kupp, David Edwards, Rob Havenstein, Tyler Higbee and Jordan Fuller were all drafted outside the first round, showing how much value there is in the mid-to-late rounds of the draft. Daniel Jeremiah of NFL Network mentioned exactly that during his pre-draft conference call, pointing out how the Rams are an example of the importance of depth in a draft class.

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“So I think a lot of people have kind of looked at the top of this draft and have their thoughts about whether or not it stacks up with previous years, but I would just say kind of as I’m going through this process and watching all these guys and then paying attention through the postseason and seeing the Rams win the Super Bowl, I think the discussion about the Rams being a superstar team is obviously very valid, but I think if you look at that team and who some of their key players are and the home run picks they’ve had outside the first round to help really build the nucleus of that team, it shows you the importance of depth in a draft,” Jeremiah said. “I think this is a really good depth draft, especially when you get into the second, third, fourth round. There’s a lot of quality there, a lot of starters.”

You know you’re getting old when not a single member of the Legion of Boom is on an NFL team pic.twitter.com/iNuzqRwKru

— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) February 27, 2022

Zooey wrote:

wv wrote:

Yeah, I was wondering about the Littleton and Fowler thing. I had a feeling there was a ‘Donald Effect’ on all the other rams defensive starters. I would think Donald improves the play of every single player on defense (offense?) including Ramsay. w v

I was thinking the same thing. I was thinking about how good Robinson was this year. And Miller. And Floyd. And Joseph-Day. And I was thinking about how having Miller and Floyd probably makes Robinson better. And how having Robinson makes Miller and Floyd better. There is probably a Sum And Its Parts thing going on here. But I’ll bet only Donald would have the same stats on some other team.

There is evidence that Robinson upped his game on his own. We have a vid somewhere or the Rams DL coach (Henderson) talking about how he had challenged Robinson to lose weight in the off-season. He did, and was stronger and quicker as a result. I am not dismissing the idea that Miller helped, but it may be that more than one thing came through this year at the same time–adding Miller, Robinson upping his game.