Rams tweets etc. …. 5/19

Sean McVay wished he handled the Jared Goff trade differently pic.twitter.com/3JgisoCpc0

— Bussin' With The Boys (@BussinWTB) May 19, 2026

from Regrading 2023 NFL Draft

Pete Prisco

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/regrading-2023-nfl-draft/

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It always takes three years to truly grade a draft, so I always go back and do a regrade of the teams and myself based on my initial draft grades.

Sometimes the teams look bad. Sometimes I do. Sometimes we both do in terms of the same evaluations and, yes, there are times when we both even get it right.

As it relates to the 2023 drafts for the Rams and Seahawks, they both look great right now. In fact, after giving them solid grades immediately after the draft, the new grade for both is A+.

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Los Angeles Rams
2023 grade: B

The skinny: They had 14 picks in the draft and five of them are starters with the best of them being fifth-round receiver Puka Nacua. He has proven to be a star and a steal. They also got starters in guard Steve Avila (second), defensive linemen Byron Young and Kobie Turner in the third and right tackle Warren McClendon in the fifth. Backup tight end Davis Allen also came in the fifth. Backup quarterback Stetson Bennett came in the fourth.

How I did: I thought Avila was their best pick and Bennett was their worst. I went on to say how much I liked their draft, mentioning Young as a player I liked. I thought it was the type of draft to help overhaul the roster, which it did. I didn’t mention Nacua, which means I missed on him like the rest of the league.

New grade: A+

from https://theramswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/rams/2026/05/20/rams-stetson-bennett-ty-simpson-backup-quarterback/90154507007/?taid=6a0db647957a910001a05183&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

…backup quarterback Stetson Bennett couldn’t be in a better position. Despite the selection of Ty Simpson by the Los Angeles Rams, Bennett’s future with the franchise remains as bright as ever. While one would think the selection of Simpson has eliminated any chance for Bennett to start during the regular season, the reality is that Bennett was never going to get that opportunity anyway.

Bennett is likely a career backup. The thing is, he still possesses some of that magic that won Georgia two National Championships, as he made evident in the last two preseasons. If this were last season, Bennett would have needed Matthew Stafford and Jimmy Garoppolo to suffer injuries in order to come into a game. However, Simpson isn’t the guaranteed No. 2 quarterback behind Stafford.

The McVay offense is a complex system to learn. Simpson is a smart player but he’s also human. Bennett has been in the system and has had real game experience in McVay’s offense – albeit in the preseason. There’s no reason to say that Simpson is the automatic backup. McVay said after the draft that Simpson will have to compete with Bennett to earn the No. 2 spot.

canadaram wrote:

I get McVay’s regret about how he handled things with Goff. However, had he been transparent with Goff and told him that the Rams were going to explore trading him and then the trade didn’t come to fruition, how would that have impacted their relationship moving forward?

I’ve said all this before, probably several times, but I think that how the trade was handled (–and Snead was part of that too–) was just one outgrowth of a management dysfunction that existed before the trade issue.

McVay became the defacto qb coach in 2019 and didn’t handle it well. He pushed Goff in ways that didn’t work, and was public about it. I think that Goff lost his confidence and started playing like it. One of the first things Ben Johnson did in Detroit was to work collaboratively with Goff and build up his confidence.

I defended the trade for Stafford when it happened because I thought Goff and McVay were a bad “marriage” and the only way out of that was for one of them to go. Once they got Stafford, I immediately thought McVay would work better with him than he did with Goff, primarily because Stafford was a very advanced veteran and essentially at a coach’s level in his understanding of the game. Stafford was an upgrade, but then at the same time, Goff demonstrated with the Lions that he is one of the good ones, he just needed to be in a situation that suited him better.

To me, handling the trade badly was just another chapter in that long book, ie. the book being the Rams from 2019 through to the trade in 2021.

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