i always liked him too. but i think it was the right move….

i think.

is he playing in a 4-3 defense? maybe some of it was just scheme fit.

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zn wrote:

Your highest graded #LARams in week one of the 2017 season (still w/ team):

Lamarcus Joyner – 96.2
Michael Brockers – 89.6
Jared Goff – 86.6

wait. is that the 2017 season???

zn wrote:

The official winner won’t be announced until tonight on NFL Network but at the end of his segment he said it would be the Rams and couldn’t stop praising Roger Saffold, Whit, and Havenstein who may have taken a step up this year

things would have been much different with mack on their team. but hey. still impressive.

nice job by the oline. wonder what that means for the raiders d.

zn wrote:

Lindsey Thiry@LindseyThiry
Tonight’s Monday Night Football game between Rams and Raiders will feature an in-game mic worn by Rams LT Andrew Whitworth. Should make for some insightful audio.

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i just wanna say that the in-game mic feature might be the worst thing i’ve ever seen. ok. that’s a bit extreme. but they are boring.

it’s all about timing. don’t want a team to peak too early. hopefully. hopefully. this team is just warming up.

nittany ram wrote:

I’ll mainly watch the Vikings/Niners but will also keep an eye on the Giants/Jags to see how Saquon Barkley does in his debut.

in the clips that i’ve seen, man, he looks explosive and quick and strong. might be the best back in the league already!

patrick mahomes. man reid knows how to identify and develop quarterbacks. it’s a long season, but mahomes looks good.

mmm… i don’t know. i think rams players. or at least the leaders on this team were pretty vocal in general about donald getting extended and coming back. shoot. mcvay was vocal about donald getting extended.

i mean if anyone deserves an extension on this team. you gotta think it’d be donald. a true franchise player in every sense of the word. i think the only way he could be more valuable is if he threw the ball.

anyway. you don’t get rid of a player like him.

yoga’s a good look for lawler. didya see some of the ladies at that class???

seriously though. noteboom is looking like an unbelievable find in the third round. just wondering if it’s really real.

zn wrote:

I don’t see ILB as FOR SURE mediocre, it’s more like unknown I think (ie. with Barron out).

yeah. we just don’t know.

although with ramik we kinda know. not that he’s bad. he does have 17 games starting experience in three years. not too bad. i think he should be solid. that’s about the best we can expect.

but littleton is the unknown which is both exciting and terrifying. ogletree was good but was also inconsistent. i liked him and kept wishing he’d get over a hump. but it never happened. so i wasn’t devastated when he was traded. on the other hand, littleton could end up being much worse than ogletree was. and that would suck. i can only hope that littleton makes a fletcher like emergence. that’d be best case scenario. but then he never was able to beat out ogletree when he was here, so can we really expect him to be better than ogletree? then again. ogletree had just signed an extension. so were they really going to bench a guy they just signed to a multi-million dollar extension? i guess we’ll see.

best case scenario? this barron injury opens up an avenue for micah kiser with kiser manning the middle and littleton sliding over to barron’s spot.

….

just let me dream a little anyway.

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the important thing is that the rams will need to draft well in order to sustain success. gonna need some cheap but talented players.

stating the obvious i know.

i am most curious to see samson ebukam. i think he was solid in the preseason. not spectacular. but now he gets to play behind donald, suh, and brockers.

athletically this guy is a beast. i’ve talked about this before, but as excited as everyone was to read about the rams aggressively pursuing mack, the rams have a guy with lots of potential already in samson. mack i think is probably the more fluid athlete. but ebukam has a slight edge in terms of pure explosion. and this guy is about as explosive as they come. you’d be hard pressed to find someone his size with more explosion. at least on paper. and the rams i’m sure were playing vanilla packages in the preseason. i imagine. and especially now with donald back and a true starting front seven surrounding ebukam. that sonofbum has designed a bunch of ways to let ebukam loose.

seriously guys. this guy is an uber athlete. of course that doesn’t guarantee success. but if any dcoordinator can tap into that immense talent it’s gotta be sonofbum.

beyond that. i’m excited to see this secondary – particularly marcus peters and john johnson. i think we know what we’ll get with the rest of the secondary. but these two have the most untapped potential.

and again. it’s obviously an exciting prospect seeing donald and suh play next to each other, but i don’t think we should be too surprised by what we’ll see. of course i don’t think a lot of us will have seen anything like it. maybe except for the older generation who saw deacon and merlin lining up next to each other. but me? i haven’t seen that in my lifetime. and i probably will never see anything like it again for my entire existence as a rams fan. so i gotta savor it… assuming it goes the way i think it will.

i can’t wait any longer. it’s just all i think about at the moment.

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also. i really hope everett breaks out this year. that could be a game changer on offense.

going back to the lb corps. besides health. i really do think this lb corps is the key. the rams lost ogletree and quinn. i liked both of them. but they were either flawed or had lost a physical edge.

i think one big key is to what degree littleton and ebukam can replace and perhaps even surpass those two. they’re both young. they both have potential. and a lot of times the difference is not in the obvious superstars but in finding the unknown gems. guys like fletcher. like a billy jenkins. with ogletree and quinn we knew what we were gonna get.

with littleton and ebukam. they’re unknowns. and that can be both good and bad. but at least there’s the potential that they can be as good. maybe even better? that might be stretching it. but if they can be as good. than the acquisitions of peters, talib, and suh should make them better on defense.

and as i said in other posts. the defense will be key this season. i do expect a regression on offense. not a huge one. but significant enough that if the defense isn’t improved. this team will struggle to get into the playoffs.

best case scenario. littleon does an adequate job replacing ogletree. maybe even just a more reliable version. or someone like kiser emerges out of nowhere. ebukam is better than a quinn who was only a shadow of himself. combine that with one of the best secondaries and defensive lines in the league to create a very good defense.

zn wrote:

With Aaron Donald now under contract, this one isn’t debatable. Donald, Ndamukong Suh and Michael Brockers form arguably the league’s best trio up front.

it isn’t debatable but it’s arguable? haha… anyway.

did anyone notice that he ranks the eagles first overall yet ranks the saints number one in the power rankings? i’m having a little trouble deciphering his ranking system.