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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.
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just let me dream a little anyway.
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.
