tweets … 6/12

Vincent Bonsignore@DailyNewsVinny
Get the hard hats ready: The #Rams have canceled their last day of minicamp Thursday and will take a team trip to tour their new stadium site in Inglewood instead.

Joe Curley@vcsjoecurley
Jared Goff opens his minicamp availability with “New podium. Exciting.” – at California Lutheran University

Asked about the Atlanta playoff loss, Goff says “There’s multiple plays in the game that I’d like to have back… all things to learn from.”

Asked about the turnover in his position coaches, Goff responds “Zac and Shane have been tremendous for us.” Zac Taylor and Shane Waldron are in first year as QB coach and pass game coordinator, respectively.

Given the chance to praise someone under the radar, McVay responds, “The guys that you’ve expected to play well have certainly done that.” Then he mentions Littleton, Ebukam… and Gerald Everett.

McVay goes through his tight end position. Gives equal time in praising Higbee, Everett and Hemingway. Coming off last year’s injury, 84 working himself into a role this year.

Asked about Marcus Peters’ “Pay the man” comment from earlier in the offseason, McVay says he understands his players supporting each other. “We’d love to have our guy 99 here.”

Asked whether the strong DL can help these new OLs, Kromer: “Any human needs confidence first. Can they do it correctly… on a bag, on a backup player who isn’t really ready to play, but ultimately the test is can you block the guys that you’re going to have to block in games?”

“When it’s all said and done, that’s Donald, that’s Suh, it’s those type of players that we have to block. I think that’s the measuring stick. I think we’ll get a lot of opportunity during training camp of getting 1s on 2s and 1s on 1s.”

Asked about the OL draft class, Kromer: “We had a clear vision on what we were trying to get and it didn’t matter if was 1st round or 7th round or free agent. We wanted… smart football players who could react and respond to defensive players. What we got were those three guys.”

“They’re doing a great job of learning, understanding why things are happening, really trying to master those techniques. But as far as an evaluation period, you can’t evaluate the offensive line until… training camp, during preseason… when it really starts happening fast.”

Wondering what the offensive line can get out of non-contact offseason practices like OTAs? Kromer: “Right now, everything we do is schematics, technique and you don’t have the physical nature of the plays and the games and the physical padded practices.”

Asked about returning all five starting offensive linemen, Kromer mentions how they were healthy through last season and credits the training staff. “That was a huge part of our success last year.”

Aaron Kromer on the adjustment to the new Rams offensive braintrust: “(Sean McVay) does a great job of involving everyone in the game plan, although he is the master of the game plan. He gets everybody involved, so it’s been a smooth transition.”

Kromer on if his role has shifted along with his title: “Obviously, as the offensive line coach, the schematics of the running schemes, the blocking techniques, what the running backs would be looking for, is usually on that person…

“… So I’ve always been heavily involved in the running game and pass protection… so its kind of a natural role.”

Rich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
Aqib Talib, on how this Rams defense compares to Denver’s Super Bowl team: “That’s what you (media) do. I don’t want to do everybody’s job. I’m going to let you do your comparison by week 7 or week 8. … You’ve got to let us do some work first, so you have something to compare.”

Sean McVay on Aaron Donald: “He’s in a good place. Do we want him to be here? Yeah, we’d love to have Aaron here. But it’s kind of the same where it’s been. … We’re in constant dialogue with Aaron and his group.”

Sean McVay said Aaron Donald told him last week that he wouldn’t attend minicamp. So that’s an $84,000 fine, although the Rams never collected last year’s $1.4-million camp fine.

Marcus Peters, on what makes Sean McVay special: “He’s a player. He’s smooth. He’s chill.”

Ryan Kartje@Ryan_Kartje
Jared Goff said he feels bad for other quarterbacks who have to face Marcus Peters and Aqib Talib

Shane Waldron, the Rams new passing game coordinator said Jared Goff has really taken “ownership of the offense” this offseason.

Shane Waldron on Everett: “Gerald has done a great job growing in Year 2. He has some dynamic ball skill

JB Long@JB_Long
Interesting quotation from 49ers VP Paraag Marathe, via @JohnMiddlekauff and @TheAthletic: “Whether you are talking about $20, or $22, or $27 or $30 million — it’s all just a rounding error. You either have (a QB) or you don’t.”

Myles Simmons@MylesASimmons
Goff on practicing against Talib/Peters: “It raises the level of competition and the level of trying to be exact.” Margin of error is “so much smaller” when you’re practicing against them. #LARams

McVay mentions Cory Littleton and Samson Ebukam as a pair of young players who have impressed during the offseason program. #LARams

Rich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
Rams ordered to pay Reggie Bush almost $12.5 million after in-game accident in 2015 in St. Louis. The Rams declined comment today in Thousand Oaks

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It’s what you’ve all been waiting for: a picture of the new practice scoreboard that Aaron Donald will see sometime in August. pic.twitter.com/W31PlZnxX6

— Rich Hammond (@Rich_Hammond) June 12, 2018

cameron DaSilva@camdasilva
If you have an issue with players skipping minicamp in June, don’t. Get mad about something more serious, like putting ketchup on tacos.

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Aqib Talib's favorite Ram of all time is @EricDickerson pic.twitter.com/2FlphGeAPW

— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) June 11, 2018

How will the @RamsNFL build off of last season's success?

Head coach Sean McVay joined @AndrewSiciliano and @wyche89!

📺: Inside Minicamp LIVE pic.twitter.com/MZcDHCVTKo

— NFL Network (@nflnetwork) June 12, 2018