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  • April 19, 2021 at 8:57 am #129098
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    Doug Farrar@NFL_DougFarrar
    Here’s one thing you learn very quickly when going deep on college safeties — they’re never just safeties anymore. Like, NEVER. They’re all box/slot/free hybrid guys to a greater or lesser degree. Fits and forwards the NFL paradigm.

    April 19, 2021 at 9:56 am #129101
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    April 20, 2021 at 12:03 pm #129118
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    April 21, 2021 at 12:02 am #129123
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    Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
    The Rams signed former Bills punter Corey Bojorquez. They now have three rostered punters – Johnny Hekker, Brandon Wright and Bojorquez.

    Obvious implications aside, also lots of camp legs to get these return specialist reps rotating through as the Rams figure out their guy there.

    Cameron DaSilva@camdasilva
    Rams fans: wtf go sign some players, Les

    Les: ok here’s a punter. happy?

    April 21, 2021 at 12:23 am #129126
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    I think I may understand now. The Rams strategy is obviously Spockian Eleveny dimensional chess. Vulcan Post-Doc required. It’s on another level from any other team, and no one but a true Queen’s Gambit quant will “get it.”

    So . . . no real problem at QB or so we thought. They had Goff, a guy they traded a thousand draft picks so they could move up and grab, and then another thousand draft picks to dump, with no real “issue” other than lack of confidence, which the Rams decided could be fixed by bashing him before they traded him away, thus radically devaluing their own asset . . . and now they sign a punter, when they have a Top Three punter already, one who may be HOF level, and they don’t sign anyone to play Center or ILB, which they desperately need, or anyone who can scare defenses into playing waaaay deep, or a Left tackle to replace the Father Time dude they have there now . . .

    As the Guinness commercial used to say, “Brilliant!”

    April 21, 2021 at 12:38 am #129127
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    Billy_T wrote:

    with no real “issue” other than lack of confidence, which the Rams decided could be fixed by bashing him before they traded him away

    I’m not sure I agree with everything in that post, BT, but…I agree with the bit I quote. And it goes back further. McV was sour to Goff all season, especially in front of the team. I think McV shares blame for Goff losing confidence in the first place.

    Having said all that–I like Stafford. I even think McV will benefit from having a 13 year vet to work with at qb. I think it will be good for him because he will have to approach Stafford in more of a collaborative spirit.

    April 21, 2021 at 9:19 am #129130
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    April 21, 2021 at 11:06 am #129134
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    Yeah, I’m a fan overall of McVay. But from the position of an outsider looking in, he didn’t handle the Goff issue well at all. You just don’t solve a confidence issue by dragging down the player in front of the team, and it gets ten times worse if it goes public, obviously. It didn’t even work for (arguably) the master of that strategy, Bill Parcells. I doublt McVay is a Parcells-type.

    And I like Stafford too. I think he’s very good, and does have a better arm than Goff. My problem isn’t with the acquisition of Stafford. It’s the way it was done and how much was given up in the process.

    As mentioned before, Goff is six years younger, and not that far from Stafford overall, IMO. His relative youth cancels out that difference in my view . . . so the trade should have been a wash, basically. Maybe the Rams throw in a 6th rounder, or something, but no way it should have been a 2021 third-round pick, 2022 first-round pick, 2023 first-round pick, plus Goff.

    Yes, I understand the contract was a huge factor, but still.

    IMO, Detroit just pwned the Rams, as the kids used to say.

    All of that said, I’ve been a Rams fan since the 1966/67 season. That won’t change cuz of this. But I am, well, very disappointed, to put it mildly.

    April 21, 2021 at 11:12 am #129135
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    Billy_T wrote:

    My problem isn’t with the acquisition of Stafford. It’s the way it was done and how much was given up in the process.

    You say a lot of things in that post I agree with, but this is what I agree with most. With one caveat. I am not as concerned about what they gave up. I understand the point, but I just don’t have the same level of concern.

    In terms of just how you handle players, though, they screwed up that whole thing.

    April 21, 2021 at 2:42 pm #129137
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    Tom Pelissero@TomPelissero
    Proposal on changes to jersey numbers passed, per source. Break out the single-digits!

    Also passed: No more preseason overtime.

    Cameron DaSilva@camdasilva
    And the fight for No. 2 between Woods and Ramsey begins…NOW

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    April 21, 2021 at 6:02 pm #129140
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    April 21, 2021 at 6:04 pm #129142
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    April 21, 2021 at 7:49 pm #129144
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    Jalen should wear the number 1 on his jersey.

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    April 21, 2021 at 9:55 pm #129149
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    Billy, you only get the reasons why if you know the move after, queen to queen’s level three”. 🙂

    April 22, 2021 at 8:24 am #129154
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    April 22, 2021 at 9:33 am #129155
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    April 22, 2021 at 9:55 pm #129178
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