Agamemnon wrote:

I did a search on Kromer. I got 3 or 4 pages of him being arrested and a bit on him getting into it with Cutler.

https://search.yahoo.com/search?n=10&ei=UTF-8&va_vt=any&vo_vt=any&ve_vt=any&vp_vt=any&vst=0&vf=all&vm=p&fl=0&fr=sfp&p=Aaron+Kromer&vs=

i don’t like kromer. besides him being a guy who smacks children around. his track record is spotty at best.

and i think that devastating buffalo rushing attack had more to do with greg roman than kromer.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by InvaderRam.

found this interesting.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/defensive-prototypes-3-technique/

The position has seen an evolution of sorts in recent years. In the past it was associated almost exclusively with pure 4-3 under teams, but more and more we are seeing 3-4 and multiple front teams find a way to get their most talented interior rusher at the 3-technique. Calais Campbell is typically thought of as being a prototypical base 3-4 end, a 5-technique, but the Cardinals lineman spent over half of his snaps in 2014 as a 3-tech.

well. ya know. i take that back. he does come off as edgy at times. when he first dealt with bruce, he was a little bit standoffish. same with faulk if i remember correctly.

but generally no. he doesn’t.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by InvaderRam.

sanbagger wrote:

Maybe Stan didn’t want to pay for all the change orders to the new stadium…enlarging the doorways so the big headed Shanahans could get through them.

he may have a big head, but he’s been successful everywhere he’s went. mcvay has done it once.

but again. it takes a different personality sometimes for a head coach. maybe shanny doesn’t have the leadership qualities that will galvanize an entire organization.

damn. those running backs in the receiving game!

really wish they would have waited on shanahan. the running game and the passing game. a perfect marriage.

i just don’t see the same resume with mcvay. of course it comes down to other things than just how you can coordinate an offense. but damn. shanny’s good. and he’s done it over and over again.

i give snead an incomplete. it’s hard to say how much input he exactly had. we know he didn’t have final say in the previous arrangement.

my hope is that he gets final say from now on and starts to really shine. gets at least one really outstanding draft in and demoff remains on the periphery.

so possibly you’d have

campbell brockers donald

rookie forrest tree quinn

by the way having forrest tree in the middle would be cool wouldn’t it? tee hee!

and of course depending on down and distance barron could be plugged in for forrest in passing situations.

sanbagger wrote:

Norv Turner is still lookin for work. Not sure his type of O would mesh with McVays, but I’m confident they could put their heads together and work a system out.

I also like that Norv is focused on balance in the O while I think McVay may be more of a pass oriented type of O guy. This team is gonna need Gurley as they transition to the new O and beyond IMO.

i agree with you about bringing in someone who is more balanced. i just don’t know that turner is that guy.

first i think that he is a coryell guy while mcvay is more of a west coast offense.

second i would think turner would want playcalling duties so unless he’s willing to give that up, it doesn’t look like a match.

i’m thinking a guy like callahan would work. don’t know that washington would be willing to give him up.

rams have talent. for as much griping as i’ve been doing, i do think this defense has talent. you don’t finish top 10 in total yards without talent. especially when you consider exactly how horrible this offense has been.

get a better offense should alleviate some problems. and by replacing boras with a more innovative offensive mind such as mcvay they should be able to do that. and hopefully gurley uses the offseason to get back on track. and hopefully goff is who he says he is. the offense should get better.

but i also am curious to see if phillips can squeeze a little more out of this defense than williams did. phillips has a reputation of getting more out of a defense than the previous regime. let’s see if he can do that here.

i don’t know if the fit is there, but i want musgrave. i don’t know what kind of offense he ran, but he did a good job with carr, and the raiders had a good running game.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by InvaderRam.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by InvaderRam.

would a tj watt be available in the second round?

if i’m the rams, i take the approach that snead always talks about. build dominant units. fortify that front seven. watt and quinn on each side with donald at the 3 technique?

ooh boy.

i’m salivating already.

i found this interesting. apparently the dolphins just blocked the rams from hiring chris foerster as offensive coordinator. mcvay worked with him at washington when the shanahan’s were in charge. foerster was the oline coach during that time. does this mean he’d want a zone blocking scheme???

i hope so. maybe i’m reading too much into it. but i hope i’m reading that right.

i liked gurley in the zone blocking scheme.

nittany ram wrote:

I think Donald is much more valuable on the D-line. I would be leary of moving perhaps the best DT of his generation to another position.

no you’re right.

just thinking out loud.

i keep donald as the weak side end/3 technique.

phillips started out as a dline coach.

he coached ware and watt. they’ve had career years under him.

i just wonder what kind of plans he’d have for a freakish athlete like donald.

Agamemnon wrote:

If you believe Donald and Quinn are athletic enough to play LB in a 34 and you don’t think that will hurt their production, then you can do a line up like this. Barron is sort of the odd man out. You have enough on the DL and you have backups there too. LBer starts to look thin.

Or, Wade coaches a 43 until we find more LBers.

i always wondered about donald as a middle linebacker. he’d be dominant.

Agamemnon wrote:

This thread is about speculation, so speculate.

there’s no doubt in my mind they need to at least add one more defensive end and one more linebacker to make this front 7 work. here’s some more speculation. in the article i posted above, here’s this little blurb about ware in a 3-4 vs a 4-3.

Ware at his best

DeMarcus Ware played eight seasons in the 3-4 defense in Dallas, including 3 1/2 with Wade Phillips as his head coach. Following two seasons in the 4-3, he has switched back to the 3-4 with Phillips as his defensive coordinator in Denver. Here’s how he’s fared in the two defenses over the years.

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Defense (Seasons) Games Tackles/G Sacks/G
3-4 (2005-12, ’15) 129 4.2 0.9
4-3 (2013-14) 29 2.8 0.5

just more evidence in my mind that this switch could benefit quinn greatly.