Is the guard position less of an injury risk? Would it prolong Whitworths career.

I think he’s the best tackle on the team, but the youngun proved a reasonable starter. I don’t think it happens, but it is interesting.

Zooey, well played. 🙂

Jefferson does not strike me as soft. Even if he is as “soft” as Bruce, that wouldn’t be bad.

I think he’s better than the guy he is replacing in that way. Josh reynolds seemed to never fight for a ball. It irked me.

I don’t think he will be the best Receiver on the team next year. As a sophomore, he still has a lot to learn.

Billy_T wrote:

I’m pounding the draft-table for Johnny Steamroll, Bulldog Pancaker, or Wolfgang Von Trapblock. Just hoping they don’t run sub-5.0 forties at their Pro Days, or the Rams may be out of luck.

Great post Billy!

If we only use him for about 15 plays a game to stretch the field, he might be able to stay healthy.

It could work.

At least we didn’t have to give them a pick to clear the cap space.

Core locker room guy. He’s been with the team a good long while.

Good player, but not exceptional. I think his snaps are replaceable without losing much.

Even after we lose a couple folks, defense has enough players to be top 10 IMO. Could be better with Donald and Ramsey, but, barring injury, should be top 10.

It all depends on the Oline IMO. If Oline is average or better, Stafford will adapt pretty darn quick and we should be legit challengers. If Oline is worse than average, might be another fight for a wild card.

I’m not ready to commit until I see what they can retain and/or add.

I’m guessing we’ll see a top 7-10 QB with top 5 stats due to the offense he is in.

If the defense is still top 5 and they don’t suffer a rash of injuries, 12-4.

It’s a dilemma.

The younguns should get incrementally better with another year. Sounds like whit is coming back for another year which helps. Akers should be better in his second year which also helps.

It’s strange to me that in several of these videos reference the QBs, folks talk about how the Rams Oline is better and I get the impression the consensus is, at worst, middle of the pack in the NFL. I thought we gave up way too much pressure up the middle and they did not play THAT well, but maybe I’m wrong. Maybe all they need is a little incremental improvement to be…good.

We’ll just agree to disagree!

I think it probable Goff stopped progressing. I also think it most likely Goff had a better team around him than Stafford.

It will be an interesting experiment to see how they do in each other’s shoes next year.

Fascinating

(Raises eyebrow)

This is unexpected to me. Is it possible they are actually considering moving on from Goff this off-season?

I guess they either swap QBs with someone, can’t think who, or trade him to a QB needy team at the top of the draft and start over. Regardless, I thought the accelerated cap hit made that impossible.

That’s my take. If we are strong on the Oline, particularly up the middle, and particularly in pass blocking, everything will work better.

I don’t think Goff really was healthy enough to play against the Seahawks except in an emergency. He threw a lot of wobbly wounded ducks.

Against the packers he was zinging the ball with a spiral. He looked a ton better.

Goff was not the problem yesterday at all. He threw into tight windows under pressure a couple of times. Just a fully health Donald probably makes that game even. GB made a ton of third downs.

Donald being hurt and seemingly on a pitch count didn’t help the defense. A couple well time “Donald” plays on third down would have made a difference.

Akers is a good one. Receivers played pretty well. Goff played very well.

Oline struggled in pass blocking on too many occasions.