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  • July 6, 2023 at 8:57 pm #144535
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    July 6, 2023 at 9:02 pm #144536
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    July 9, 2023 at 4:34 pm #144550
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    lahornsgear@Horns2016@Horns2016
    One of many questions going into to training camp is how the Rams use Michael Hoecht? Last year Hoecht showed ability to rush the passer, getting 4.5 sacks in 10 starts. But at 300lbs, Hoecht is not the prototypical size for that position and the Rams prefer their OLB to be
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    in the 245 to 250 range. I would expect Hoecht to a least be a situational pass rusher, but a lot of that will depend on the development of both Rams OLB draft choices Byron Young and Nick Hamilton.
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    July 11, 2023 at 5:00 pm #144561
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    Joe Gibbs of Sharp Football Analysis ran the numbers on penalties from last season and the Rams graded out as one of the top teams. He gave Los Angeles an A- grade, pointing to a handful of notable stats.

    First and foremost, the Rams committed the second-fewest penalties per game last year (4.47). That number was so low in part because the Rams averaged only 1.35 pre-snap penalties per game, which was the third-fewest in football. That’s particularly impressive considering how many different offensive line groups the Rams started throughout the year, constantly cycling through players because of injury.

    It wasn’t just the offense that played sound football, either. The defense committed the fourth-fewest passing penalties in the NFL, helped by their lack of roughing the passer penalties; according to Gibbs, the Rams were one of just three teams that didn’t commit a single roughing the passer penalty in 2022.

    The 2022 season was a complete 180 from their Super Bowl winning season in 2021. Injuries and lack of depth decimated their team. Throughout it all, they still managed to be one of the least penalized teams in the NFL. 

    McVay teams are very detail-oriented, and even with a constant rotation of new personnel on this Rams team in 2022, that didn’t change.

     

    July 12, 2023 at 9:49 pm #144570
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    Brad Holmes shares which draft prospect he pounded the table for with the Rams

    On “The Season with Peter Schrager”, Holmes recalled how he pushed for Los Angeles to take Johnson in 2017.

    “For me, it was John Johnson. The safety out of BC,” Holmes said. “I’ll never forget, we get into the third round and you get to those points in the draft when the board just looks kind of foggy. No one’s standing out, it’s kind of just static. And everyone’s just kind of staring at it and I just said, ‘John Johnson. Let’s just pick John Johnson.’ I’ll never forget Wade Phillips, he looks over and says, ‘John Johnson?’ I said, ‘I’m telling you, this guy’s a starter. He’s a starter.’ And so Wade Phillips, I love Wade Phillips, he’s just like, ‘Oh, if he’s a starter then.’ I just kept pounding the table for John Johnson. I said, ‘I’m telling you, John Johnson.’”

    July 13, 2023 at 1:30 am #144577
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    from https://www.turfshowtimes.com/2023/7/12/23792522/rams-aaron-donald-trade-offer-draft-sammy-watkins

    According to Brad Holmes, the current general manager of the Detroit Lions and a former area scout with the St. Louis and Los Angeles Rams who specifically helped tip the team off to the ultra-talented defensive tackle out of Pitt that year, there were a number of scenarios that nearly played out that day in 2014: The Rams could have had Watkins and Donald. They could have also had Robinson and a second bust, if they had accepted an “enticing” trade offer at 13th overall.

    Unfortunately for the Rams, they picked Robinson. Fortunately for the Rams, they also picked Donald.

    Holmes notes that he was nervous to give Donald too high of a grade because he knew that coaches were going to be skeptical of a defensive tackle who only weighed 285 lbs. But he relayed to Jeff Fisher and Les Snead the story of Donald anxiously waiting for practice a half-hour early and convinced the front office that he was a special prospect mostly because of his intangibles.

    The Rams were convinced that Donald was the best pick for them too and then when Donald was available at pick 13, nothing would move Les and Jeff off of the pick. Holmes says the team got an enticing trade offer but “Jeff and Les were like absolutely not, we’re picking this guy.”

    Holmes also notes that it was a close decision between picking Robinson over Watkins with the second overall pick, but that it was one of those things that came down to the “premium positions”, which Holmes puts in quotes.

     

     

    July 14, 2023 at 4:53 pm #144591
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    from https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2023/07/14/rams-sean-mcvay-hard-knocks-jets-selected/?taid=64b1aba5add63d0001d361af&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

    Sean McVay gave his take on why teams usually don’t like being on “Hard Knocks” and it largely has to do with not giving other teams an edge.

    “I think the first thing is, when you play in a league that’s so competitive – 32 teams in the league – information is at a premium so you just want to be mindful of not having anything that gives anybody a competitive advantage,” he said at the Variety Sportico Summit. “You’re always looking for your edges and your margins and just the seamless thing of being able to pick up somebody on their cadence and some of the verbiage and vernacular that can maybe give the opposing team an advantage. So there’s some of those things.”

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