the receiver situation

I agree with that.

Two of the Rams top three receivers were struck down just as they were showing signs of becoming real threats. So the Rams have Britt, and a bunch of “We’ll see.”

I think they two young TEs may also be helpful. In fact, I am kind of expecting Higbee to be an important pass catcher this year.

InvaderRam wrote:

i like spruce. the force is strong in that one.

We need him to succeed bigly.

This team can’t afford a Tavon Austin. The NFL is about specialists and he isn’t one. We have a top notch RB. We need a top notch WR. We at least need a decent QB.

Winnbrad wrote:

The Rams have to hope that Cooper and Spruce become above average WRs. If Spruce can become a healthy version of Amendola we’d at least have a “chain mover” that could keep the O on the field more.

Keep an eye on Mike Thomas. I’ve done a lot of research on that dude, and have spoken to some pretty good talent scouts, and he has the potential to be an Isaac Bruce 2.0. His only (ONLY) knock is that he has a tendency to come up with the dropsies once in a while, but he makes up for that with some pretty spectacular catches and has really, really good range and athleticism. Really good at high pointing the ball in traffic too.

I forgot about Thomas. He has some promise from what I can see.

I think Quick is a goner when Spruce and Cooper are healthy, and I feel sorry for him – he was looking good when he went down – but he is out of time now.

And I am excited by Spruce, too, but only have the one preseason game of information on him. He looked like a stronger Amendola – which I would take in a heartbeat. But this year I pretty much skipped on reading camp reports, so I don’t know what the summertime word on him was. And Hard Knocks focused on the future unemployed players.

We need Spruce healthy. That’s my main question with him. From what I saw in preseason he can catch the ball in traffic. We need that Welker/Amendola (in their prime) kind of receiver. Hell, I’d take any good WR at this point.

I’m pretty pleased with Britt right now–and what he does. Yes–it is limited but at least he is a deep threat. I don’t know what Tavon was doing, exactly–highstepping, a bit indecisive–dropping the ball. Tavon has to do better than this. Call him a receiver–a weapon–whatever–he has to be a big part of this offense. I don’t know that Quick was on his way to becoming any sort of star, but he had a decent year last year before becoming injured. Still—he seems like Jared Cook–a tease sort of player who will ultimately let you down. His problem is that he hasn’t staked a solid claim to a receiver position on this team.. Quick, Marquez–just a couple guys–nothing particularly special.

I am very excited for Spruce and he could be a total flop–or he could be an Edleman type. I want to see how he plays in the real games.

Also–I have some high hopes for Cooper.

Thomas doesn’t do anything for me yet. I want to see consistency.

Britt and Givens are two very different wrs. Givens was a straight up burner and Britt’s game is power/redzone contested catches. Givens was a 4th round record setting rookie . Britt’s is a underwhelming 1st round pick. Givens went down hill quick and Britt has teased of a rebirth since coming to the Rams. Britt is 6’3″ Givens was 5’11” in boots. Britt 223lbs Givens 195lbs. With all due respect Zn what in the hell are you talking about ?

Winnbrad wrote:

bnw wrote:

Winnbrad wrote:

We need Spruce healthy. That’s my main question with him. From what I saw in preseason he can catch the ball in traffic. We need that Welker/Amendola (in their prime) kind of receiver. Hell, I’d take any good WR at this point.

Is Welker no longer on the team?

No. They let him go. And even if he were, at this point in his career, he’s useless. We need the younger version of Welker, but with better hands. I’m hoping that’s Spruce. If he can stay healthy.

He was catching the ball across the middle which has been problematic for Rams WRs.

Britt fits the Fisher mold better, his blocking ability . Givens needed a strong arm imo. I remember seeing out run Bradford’s arm a few times and once Bradford went down the Rams didn’t have anyone with enough arm to really use him properly. If you look at when Britt goes deep he usually has to adjust to an under thrown ball.Bradford as I write this is looking like the Vikes prayers answered.He’s carving up Green Bay pretty good for only being there 2 weeks.

Bradford played his last game for the Rams in game 7 2013. Givens was leading the wrs. at that point with about 300 yds including a 100yd game He finished with 569 leading all wrs. Remember they started with the idea to spread it out that season and did the reboot pounding the rock with Stacy. 2014 Fisher brought in Britt, drafted Tre Mason , Britt mentored Quick who is also great at blocking in the run game. TA and Bailey were starting to roll and Givens was the odd man out.I disagree he fell apart long before Bradford left. Bradford left before the draft Givens was traded after the 3rd game that same year 2015. in regards to being under thrown I was talking about Clemmons , Davis and Hill he didn’t play enough with Foles or Keenum, although that preseason bomb from Keenum was quite a bit better than Quick has showed so far this year or last for that matter.

Yes I agree KB will be fine this year as the deep threat. Hopefully Cooper and especially Spruce can fulfill the promise shown in the preseason. That would help KB out a lot.