wv wrote:

Well, maybe not the ‘team’ but more like the ‘season.’

yeah. it’ll tell us a lot about the season, but i will remain hopeful for the team as long as the young players continue to show progress and as long as stafford comes out healthy.

having said that the rams should be able to win this game.

nittany ram wrote:

I’m not saying I have the answer or that “out of sync” isn’t a real issue, but it doesn’t really tell us much.  It can simply be a wastebasket term where we toss problems that are hard to identify.

well i would guess injuries would be the main culprit for being out of sync. but yeah i’m really only guessing.

of the ones you listed i only saw faulk, jackson, gurley, and bettis.

i think gurley had the intangibles that you say he lacked. i really just think it comes down to longevity for him. that knee just wouldn’t hold up. if it did hold up, i think he had a slight chance to challenge faulk for number one – although admittedly an extremely long shot. for one reason. he would most likely have played all his core years with the rams. i downgrade faulk slightly only because he started his career with the colts. even with that slight downgrade it would have taken a herculean effort from gurley to catch him. he would have had to have at least three more hof worthy seasons. meaning 1800+ yards from scrimmage, 15+ tds and two more offensive player of the year awards or an mvp. and also a superbowl.

of course i didn’t see dickerson play so i don’t include him on my list.

well i too am in favor of installing a grass system in sofi. the tottenham retractable pitch only cost 30 million dollars. mainly because it slides out much like the cardinals’ do theirs. but it’s underground. to the north and to the east of sofi it’s all just parking lots. i’m not an engineer but i wonder if you could just dig up the parking lot and build an underground greenhouse and move the field there. you’d have grow lights underground to give the field adequate light. and then slide it back during game time.

i don’t know. i just don’t want to see players unnecessarily injured or have their careers shortened due to wear and tear of playing on the turf. one billion is excessive, but thirty million doesn’t seem like too much given how much money this stadium generates. not just from two football teams but all the concerts that are held there.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by InvaderRam.

So the grass would have to be interchangeable with other “flooring,” and where are you going to put a football field when it’s not in the stadium?

real madrid actually have a solution for that. a retractable grass field at the santiago bernabeu. ridiculous and insane. but cool to watch.

i wanna see the young players continue to develop and shine. that will give me good feelings.

nacua, young, turner, avila, the second and third year players.

doesn’t have to necessarily translate into wins. but if they can produce and keep this team competitive, i’ll be happy.

he’s gotta be better than rypien. but now worried about how long stafford will be out.

yeah. i have doubts about whether the niners can afford young beyond this season.

i think the rams are in good shape. now is not the time to be making a trade like that.

it started out well enough. the defense was putting heavy pressure on prescott. and then the ticky tack illegal contact foul which extended the drive. and then it all fell apart from there. mistakes and another questionable non-call.

just very depressing. but probably most depressing was the stafford injury.

i don’t know what else to say at this point. don’t want to make any sweeping statements about the future of this team. there’s plenty left of the season to play out. i’m gonna try to reserve any such statements until the season is over.

zn wrote:

This topic is just going to have lots of different takes from different posters. In my view

for sure.  it’s just interesting to think about.  there are pros and cons to each – keeping goff or trading for stafford.  no wrong answer i don’t think.

wv wrote:

I guess we iz gonna see Zach Evans, then? 5’11’, 202 Lbs.  4.51 forty yard dash. (is that fast?  seems kinda average aint it?)

nothing stands out too much there.  but his agility numbers are very good.

shorts shuttle – 4.25.  3-cone – 6.89.

and then it’ll come down to instincts.  it should be pretty apparent pretty quickly if he can cut it at this level.

zn wrote:

So look for the Rams to throw it a lot.

seriously.  i’ll be so annoyed if that happens.  not just because it would play into the steelers’ strength.  but if they do give evans a significant amount of playing time his biggest question mark is supposed to be his pass blocking.  let evans run the ball.

Zooey wrote:

Steve Avila likes to play football. This is a guy who likes nothing better in life than to pancake some guy’s ass.

seriously haven’t been this excited about a rams offensive lineman since greg robinson…  hopefully he turns out better than robinson did.

well that blows.

wv wrote:

Either the Cardinals have a major run-defense problem, or the Rams are developing a physical running-game. Interesting ‘way’ to win a Ram/Cardinal game. What if teams in the future have to worry about a Rams…running game? Important division win. w v

i still would plan on strengthening the oline and finding another running back if i were the rams.  they don’t need to spend major capital on that second rb.  whether that is evans or some lower round draft pick i don’t know.  i don’t know that williams can hold up over the course of an entire season by himself.  but williams in tandem with another reliable solid running back would be super fun to watch.  especially with kupp, nacua, atwell, and higbee catching passes.

at oline i would spend major draft capital on finding a left tackle.  if they can find a left tackle and a second running back to pair with williams, i think the rams could have that dominant running game.