i think there’s good depth at oline this year. a lot of rookies got some valuable experience last year. i’m thinking they have a breakout this year as long as the rams can keep a good balance and not force the running game to do too much.

good news on goff. the one thing we don’t know is how he’d do with the first team against the first team defense but good news.

heard on the la times report that goff has played some with the first team but not with the public. wonder how that went.

i kinda feel the same way. goff in particular needs stability more than anything. changing just for the sake of change is not going to help this offense.

and i like the direction this team is going. i don’t think it’s as easy as just looking at the record and chalking it up as a failure.

on higbee his main problems are staying out of trouble and staying healthy.

and i think the staying healthy problem could be a big one. he was always getting nicked up in college.

also the defense lost laurinaitis, long, and mcleod. but i’m wondering if the defense could be better than last year. biggest question mark for me is replacing mcleod, but i don’t think they miss laurinaitis or long.

i am eager to see alexander at fs. i think he’d easily be the most gifted free safety the rams have had in a long time.

and if it’s true that they have offered tavon a new contract i hope he signs it soon.

sounds like grob is making progress. sounds like goff has improved on his first day of practice. good stuff.

i’ve noticed that they’ve started going more blue and white with a lot of their logos and stuff. i like it. never was a fan of the blue and gold. preferred blue and yellow. but i think i could dig the blue and white.

great interview with greg. definitely doesn’t feel comfortable in interviews.

i especially like how he looks up at the sky at the end.

any choice is the wrong choice.

sdram wrote:

I’m looking forward to seeing the offensive line improve –

InvaderRam wrote:

i think jamon brown and the oline is what i’ll be paying attention to the most this training camp.

i’m hopeful.

Me too. Feel like they’re the unit that has the potential to improve the most.

not only the most potential but might be the most valuable as well. it’s gonna be all about opening holes for gurley and keeping the qb clean.

they’ll be more important than how good the receivers can be.

i don’t want it to be like when jackson would be running into walls or when bulger was getting bulgerized.

damn tavon is tiny.

zn wrote:

Lots of powerful stuff in this thread.

yeah. we need more people like that young lady in the article. that officer who gave up his life.

very courageous.

yeah. drew brees/roethlisberger/rivers caliber qb.

i wanna see him starting for the rams for the next 15 years.

Very nice pocket presence, very nice feet, very good feel for moving in the pocket while looking downfield.

Enough mobility, enough arm.

Very quick release, very good accuracy. In a lot of ways he’s Bulger’s better cousin.

he reminds me of a taller drew brees when i see him play.

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but it also sounds like you’re saying i had it tough so why shouldn’t the next guy?

why? if you could have gone to your dream school based on merit and not have to think about paying off debt you wouldn’t take that opportunity? just cuz it’s been done one way doesn’t mean it HAS to be that way.

and why wouldn’t a system like this help a guy like you? if you didn’t have that debt to pay off you would have even more income and wealth are your disposal no?

bnw wrote:

Billy_T wrote:

Apparently our making good choices for the long term didn’t sit well with those people accustomed to following the carefree spending high expectations in fun keeping up with the Joneses. It is always about choices.

But all choices are made within a certain environment and environmental conditions, with certain natural boundaries, due to the luck of the draw. All choices are made on foundations that range from impoverished to obscenely wealthy. All choices are made within environments that help or hinder or just outright stop those choices from taken effect.

Some folks are born with wings, others with chains, and everything in between.

The problem is, as ZN mentions, when we think we achieve X because we make “the right choices,” while others “fail” because they made the wrong ones. It’s usually the case that they made really, really good choices too, but their environments, their birth lottery, put them so far back behind the eight ball, it didn’t matter.

Again, it’s cool to be proud of your choices. But why denigrate others for not fitting into your notions of “success”? Or for fitting into your notions of “failure”? Why assume everyone has an equal shot in this country, when that’s clearly not the case? Or that they didn’t make really good choices too?

I don’t denigrate others for their choices. I simply shouldn’t be forced to pay for their mistakes.

but the argument is that they didn’t necessarily make a mistake. but that they were born into a situation where they weren’t afforded the same opportunities that others were.

i don’t see that as paying someone for their mistakes. rather it’s rewarding someone for their hard work despite not having advantages that others did have.

i mean take a guy who gets into school but through hard work but will have to take out loans which he will be forces to pay for much of his life vs another guy who gets into that same school only because his dad went to that school. doesn’t necessarily appreciate that he got into that school and skates by graduating from college with no worries about paying off debt. he’ll get that nice house inherited from his dad. those nice assets with which he can grow his wealth even more.

why not reward that guy for his hard work.

i know. tough shit. life isn’t fair. but hey. it’s nice to think about a world where hard work is rewarded.

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