ya know. for whatever it’s worth. andrew whitworth ranked just behind joe thomas (who brandt ranked seventh all time on his list) last year on pff’s top 50.

whitworth ranked 36th. thomas ranked 27th. tyron smith and trent williams were the top rated tackles.

whitworth entered the league in 2006. thomas entered in 2007. whitworth is also 3 years older than thomas. whitworth was the highest ranked left tackle last year.

i don’t know how many years he has left, but that’s impressive.

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well we don’t know that they’re total shit either.

so there’s that.

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and the oline isn’t the only unit undergoing big change.

tight end – higbee and everett
wide receiver – woods, kupp, and austin

the changes at receiver are just as important i think. just from the standpoint of professionalism. woods and kupp alone take that to another level compared to last year.

steven was definitely underrated.

main problems were injuries and the fact that he played on some pretty crappy teams in his career.

i’ll say this about goff. i’ve got better feelings about goff than i did about bradford.

take it for what it’s worth, and i could very well be wrong. but i think he’ll at least be better than sam bradford.

i also am thinking kupp becomes a focal point of this offense. i just got this feeling about him. they’ll move him around the field and get him the ball.

and if he’s good enough make defenses adjust to that.

combine that with robert woods and everett and gurley running the football and thomas being the deep threat this offense could be better than what people expect.

and if gurley gets involved in the passing game like has been reported, tavon will really be on the outside looking in.

zn wrote:

I’m not sure what the writer says there is true.

Kromer runs nothing like the kind of OL scheme McVay knew from before.

Why would it be Kromer is forced to adapt than McVay. IMO it’s easier for a young coordinator to adapt to what his successful veteran OL coach has been doing for years than vice versa.

maybe he got his info mixed up when talking to coaches.

cuz i agree. it doesn’t make much sense. at least from what i know.

zn wrote:

McVay says the move was “more of a product” of Jamon Brown’s development at right tackle and “encouraging things” from Andrew Donnal.

i hope so. i believe him. i think this is more about brown playing well than anything else.

lock him up.

for donald i do it. i don’t worry about that guy. he’s special.

i know he caught some flak last year for being out of control at times, but he’s a once in a decade type player. he’ll be fine.

yeah. mike doesn’t have tremendous deep speed, but he’s got tremendous body control, very good explosion. that makes for a good catch radius and he makes some ridiculous catches.

he just needs to get some confidence and consistency. i think consistency is a big knock on him as he’d drop easy catches but make the difficult ones in college.

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Agamemnon wrote:

There isn’t much to go on, but it just feels like Goff is doing significantly better this year. He appears more comfortable.

that’s the sense i get too. nothing concrete but his body language seems to indicate he’s getting it.

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zn wrote:

The third-year running back moved around the offensive formation throughout the first day of Rams minicamp Tuesday. Occasionally, he lined up wide outside two receivers. On another snap, he motioned from out wide into the backfield before running a route in the other direction. He saw a lot of targets from quarterback Jared Goff in the passing game, often appearing to be the primary read.

the more gurley can stay on the field the better off this offense will be.

he should easily be the best of all the skill position players.

zn wrote:

Todd Gurley lining up wide, moving around formation at minicamp. Great to see’

that’s encouraging.

yeah gurley is key. and if goff exceeds expectations, that’ll just make the mcvay offense that much harder to defend as long as gurley is who they think he is.

by the way goff looks significantly bigger than he did last year.

looking at safeties i think joyner and alexander are going to be way better than what they had last year. and last year wasn’t necessarily bad. but this duo is going to be lights out i think. and look out. my guess is they’ll have capable backups in johnson and randolph.