zn wrote:

LBs, inside and outside

yes. outside for me. ebukam especially. but also the others.

just love what i’m hearing about goff so far. still only practice but still…

i liked bradford a lot. but i always thought he looked kind of robotic. not fluid. almost like he was thinking too much? i don’t know. but the way he saw the field. the way he would move in a pocket. it wasn’t as fluid as it could have been.

goff just seemed more fluid than bradford did at any point. maybe some of that is mcvay. but goff just looked like a natural out there last year.

and i expect his command of the offense to improve. i expect his pocket presence to improve. i expect him to get bigger and stronger. and his throws are beautiful.

again. maybe he takes a slight step back this year, but i think he eventually gets there. but i think he’s the second best rams qb of the last 20 years already… ok ok… i know that’s not saying much. but hey. it looks impressive when you write it down.

zn wrote:

Rookie C Brian Allen holding up. Went against Suh & stood his ground.

this is good news for the future.

zn wrote:

If the cap crunch means they lose Joyner, I don’t worry about it, as good as he is and as much as I like him, because this team is just that good at finding DBs.

i wouldn’t re-sign joyner. draft a safety. focus on re-signing peters. depending on what he shows this year. but i gotta feeling peters could be special. and that’s even with the rams’ track record of finding defensive backs.

TSRF wrote:

Strange we play the Raiders in preseason and then they are our first real opponent.
The Giants play the Jets every year in preseason.
Why aren’t we playing the Chargers?

i’ve actually wondered that too.

like when the st louis and kansas city had the governer’s cup.

rams and chargers could have the los angeles cup….

or the inglewood cup….

Zooey wrote:

I won’t worry unless it drags into the season.

I think Donald and the Rams both know that Donald can play better than anybody else in the game without being in camp. Therefore…nothing very important comes from Donald being in camp, and every day he is not on the field is a day he doesn’t wreck his $100 million knees.

yeah. rams did fine when pace was holding out all those years.

zn wrote:

Downtown Rams@DowntownRams
We talk all day about Wentz vs Goff and how that was a mistake but bottom line even as someone who wanted Wentz. The only mistake that would have been made was not trading up for either one of those two QB’s.

i wanted wentz. as it turns out, either way would have been a good choice (or at least it would seem at this point). but i was completely wrong about goff. and in fact i might actually like him a little more than wentz at this point.

smooth. still has more in him too it seems like.

zn wrote:

Eisen askes, why wouldn’t the Rams say go win a superbowl like Von Miller did? (Actually I don’t think Eisen was making a case, he was posing a good question as an interviewer). Breer goes, you could turn around to Les Snead if he says that and say you gave Todd Gurley a market correction.

yeah. at this point you have to give donald an extension. gurley and cooks got theirs. how do you not give the best player in the nfl his extension?

and demoff now saying that they’re far apart?

hmmm…. good vibes are slightly fading.

canadaram wrote:

Rams need to find or develop a reliable TE.

yeah. doesn’t even need to be a superstar. a chain mover and a reliable red zone target.

zn wrote:

3. TE Gerald Everett is comfortable. Processing faster. He’ll take a step.

well that would be just so freaking huge. a big target to go with those jitterbug wide receivers?

too good to be true.

one thing i’ll never worry about with this team is their ability to draft secondary players. if i’m the rams, i let joyner go. they’ll find someone who can fill that spot. as good as joyner is. the rams just seem to know how to draft defensive backs.

i also think that this team is able to draft defensive line. maybe i’m wrong. that’s the sense i get. and so outside of donald who is a true legit transcendent hall of fame destroyer of worlds i’d rather see them fill those other spots with draft picks.

and i trust wade to find those edge rushers this defense will need. the steelers were always able to do that. don’t spend too much on the edge rushers. draft them in the lower rounds and develop them.

offensive line and wide receivers i’m not so sure about that. they seem to pick a lot of duds there. but they need to get better on that. with all the money going to donald, gurley, cooks, and soon goff, they need to find some guys to develop. maybe noteboom and allen can be at least two of those.

as exciting as it is to see donald and suh line up next to each other, i’m equally excited about this secondary. i just hope i’m not building it up too much in my head.

Agamemnon wrote:

Plus, Gurley will be 29 when the deal expires, which will give him another shot at a market-level deal, if he stays healthy and effective.

i’d be surprised if he has anything left in the tank at that point.