zn wrote:

People forget how good Marshall Faulk was…

More career games with 250+ scrimmage yards than Jim Brown & Julio Jones

one of the most gifted running backs i’ve seen. i’d put him on par with barry sanders. really. especially when you factor in his receiving ability. his intelligence. his attention to all aspects of the offense including blocking. he’s at the level of aaron donald when i think of the greatest rams of all time. only negative i can think of is he didn’t spend his entire career with the rams. but his career as a whole would definitely put him as one of the best players of all time.

wv wrote:

How do you even approach this if you are the Rams?

i would slowly onboard him. start him with just pass rushing situations and ramp it up depending on how he responds to those reps. hopefully by the end of the season the rams are in playoff contention and his body is acclimated to a heavier load.

jordan took one full season and most of a second season off before coming back and he wasn’t quite able to get all the way back that second season until the playoffs. so i imagine donald could do something similar? but he was also only 31 at the time. on the other hand that was a little over thirty years ago and sports science is more advanced now. i think that getting donald back into game shape would be more informed now.

it won’t be easy. i think strength wise he should be fine. but speed, explosion, and flexibility are something else. colliding with other massive humans is something else. they should ease him into it. but again. going to the jordan comparison. he played 17 regular season games and struggled. but then the playoffs came and he took off.

i think the rams and the training staff could come up with a plan to get the best donald possible by the end of the season.

Aaron Donald spent this afternoon on the Rams practice field.
Told he went through several drills over about an hour and looked gassed walking off the field.
This comes amid talk the retired NFL superstar could make a comeback.
One workout at his old stomping grounds doesn't… pic.twitter.com/8Dnl3wVaiX

— michael j. babcock (@michaelbabcock) July 11, 2026

Aaron Donald has never teased like this since retirement.. he commented the “👀” emoji on this post on IG posted by (clutchpointsnfl) I don’t wanna say it’s official.. but I would call it official for all this teasing from Mr. “The cup is full” seems like the cup is not full.. 👀 pic.twitter.com/IZVQuT0EKd

— Rams Tapes 🇵🇷 (@RamsTapes) July 4, 2026

Zooey wrote:

Where is SJ39?

he came in at 49.

49. Steven Jackson, St. Louis Rams, 22 points

zn wrote:

I like in the vid where Long says that lining up with 3 TEs increases the number of run gaps the defense has to account for, while also of course threatening defenses with the pass. He spoke as a defensive player there. He said that the 3 TE line up “makes you have to think, and we don’t like to think”– the “we” of course being defensive players, who basically just want to react without hesitation.

so it’s not just running the same plays. it’s how the defense had to defend those same plays. i guess defenses will be figuring out a way to adjust this offseason. and it’ll be up to the rams to adjust to the adjustment.

and also ferguson and klare from a personnel standpoint could add a level of athleticism and versatility they didn’t have last season. no disrespect to allen but he doesn’t compare to either of them from a purely physical standpoint.

zn wrote:

Which Rams players are poised for a breakout season in 2026?

I came up with three:

🏈 Terrance Ferguson
🏈 Blake Corum
🏈 Kam Kinchens

i really hope ferguson has a breakout season. i think adams drops off a little. he could be that secondary receiving target to nacua. and really take the 13 personnel package to another level.

wv wrote:

I was thinking about this after the switch to 13. McVay didnt switch out of some genius-Eureka moment — it was simply out of necessity.

well. they say necessity is the mother of invention. if the offense was fine there’d be nothing to fix.

i wish you well.

wv wrote:

I know Davante is a professional, and i dont doubt he ‘took it well’ — but how do you take McVay’s words seriously after that? Would you go to war for a coach that did that?

more than anything i figure they want a ring. and they recognize mcvay’s and snead’s team building acumen. and they recognize mcvay’s abilities to almost always come up with good game plans to put them in a position to put up numbers. the rest is probably just noise to them and selling the league.

wv wrote:

It will be very interesting to see how the genius-Shanahan handles Myles Garrett.

Oct 2 — 49ers 26 – Rams 23
Nove 9 – 49ers 26 – Rams 42

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i’d run the ball.

i’m also wondering how good the rams offense will be in 2026. i think stafford regresses. i don’t see him maintaining that level of production. so the running game has to remain strong. defense has to step up. also. how does adams perform? he’s a year older. i think one of ferguson or klare has to step up. in order to remain a top tier offense.

i want to see donald come back. that’s not controversial. most rams fans i imagine if not all rams fans would like to see this happen.

rams fan since 95. too young to have seen deacon jones and merlin olsen play football. my only memories of them playing are tv clips.

when robert quinn and donald were on the team together, i imagined that’s what it was like seeing jones and olsen together. but quinn’s career was derailed by injuries. but a healthy quinn was supposed to be what garrett is now.

even if it’s just for one year, i’d like to see these two players line up together. that’d be special.

someone said that snead was asked the question of if donald could be brought in during the middle of the season. snead said that wouldn’t be donald’s style. that if he was going to return, he wasn’t going to cheat the system. he’d go from start to finish. can’t verify that. i don’t have the time to go back and watch the press conference.

zn wrote:

First, Garrett had a no-trade clause. He had a lot of control over where he went. If he wouldn’t waive the clause, there would be no trade.

that’s the key. there were probably several teams in the running. but yeah the list was short. also snead apparently has a friendship with the browns gm.

“I see a position to solidify myself here, as well, among the very greats,” Garrett said at his introductory news conference. “I still have plenty of great years in front of me and being able to cement that legacy, not only as a football city here in L.A., but as an individual and winning DPOY and a Super Bowl or more. Those things are definitely pressing on my mind, and I have a definite bit of urgency to do it and do it right away.”

he’ll be ready. unlike verse, garrett has little time left in the league. i can sense the urgency. and then you surround him with guys like mcduffie and watson who have been where he wants to go. i’m excited to see how this all unfolds.