i also want to add that this group is young.

the core starters donald quinn and brockers.

aaron will be 25 in may.

quinn will be 26 in may.

brockers won’t turn 26 until december.

they gotta start fulfilling their potential now.

well. ya gotta do the background research. interview him. almost like drafting him again. figure out what he’s looking for salary wise.

they’ll probably talk to the position coach. interestingly. weinke worked a little with rgiii. to what extent i have no idea, but he did work him out at img academy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/post/taking-the-measure-of-robert-griffin-iii/2012/04/19/gIQAfD2yTT_blog.html

More to his liking was the afternoon activity – a full football-specific workout on a back field a five-minute golf-cart ride away, overseen by Chris Weinke, the director of the IMG Madden Football Academy and, like Griffin, a former Heisman Trophy winner (2000, Florida State).

There, Griffin – sporting gold shoes and gaudy teal, pink, white and black socks, and fitted with sensors on each forearm to measure his sweat — navigated an obstacle course of cones and blocking dummies as he unleashed a torrent of screaming, tight spirals that had Weinke’s jaw dropping.

“Off the charts,” Weinke said. “You can just see the athleticism coming out. Now, he’s the first to admit he still has work to do. That’s good. He knows that…. But he’s as good as I’ve been around.”

An approaching lightning storm cut the proceedings short, but Griffin had to catch a flight home to Texas anyway. First, though, at Weinke’s request, Griffin stopped to shake hands and take photos with a half-dozen teenaged football students who had gathered on the sidelines to watch.

let me also add. and maybe this doesn’t mean that much, but in 2014, just for comparison’s sake.

kirk cousins’ passer rating was 86.4.

rgiii? 86.9.

kirk cousins. the quarterback coming out of a pro system in college?

126-204 1710 yards 61.8% 8.4 avg 10 tds 9 ints 8 scks

rgiii?

147-214 1694 yards 68.7% 7.9 avg 4 tds 6 ints 33 scks

by all accounts this guy is a competitor. he works hard. maybe he needed to be taken down a notch. maybe he’s been humbled a little bit. too hard headed in the past. but maybe he’s matured a bit this past season.

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i’m not concerned with the problems in the locker room or if he’s arrogant.

the only thing i worry about is his ability to play. if he can’t then you move on.

but yeah. i have no reason to believe that rgiii is anything remotely close to a manziel. or a greg hardy so i’d have no problems if the rams took a gamble on him.

i don’t know that he’s poison. they used to say that about john elway. i think it’s worth a shot. if it doesn’t work no harm done.

and they will essentially have gotten those three first rounders for nothing. ha!

zn wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

There appears to be twice as many draftable QBs this year than last year. That makes a lot of choices possible. I think it is most likely that the Rams will draft Cook at 15.

I don’t know about Cook at this point, but, the fact that this is a deep though not top-heavy qb draft is interesting.

not exactly sure about cook either. i’m wary of drafting any qb in the first round. i like wentz but it’s looking like he’ll be gone before the rams pick.

zn wrote:

Isiah58 wrote:

I’ll be fine if they keep either, and they both have minor character “flags,” but I covet Johnson’s size (ha!) and think he is more scheme independent. How about you?

I favor Johnson for pretty much the same reasons.

Not that JJ will be easy to replace, but, these guys seem to find corners.

yeah. the one thing i don’t worry about is their ability to develop defensive backs.

quite possibly the freakiest athlete in the history of the nfl.

Agamemnon wrote:

Clayton speculates on QBs. SF stays with Kaep. Philly Bradford @ 16M-. Dallas gets Johnny Helicopter as a backup. Rams may be looking……? rg3 gets no love, maybe Dallas, maybe(PUKE) Rams

i’d take a chance on rgiii. probably doesn’t matter as it sounds like he wants to go back to texas, but maybe he just needs a change of scenery. maybe a coach like fisher will be better for him.

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pan haus. that sounds delicious.

i love beef liver pate. are they pretty similar?

bnw wrote:

InvaderRam wrote:

where i disagree with him is saying that it was in preparation for a move. even if they were staying in st. louis i think fisher would have had the same approach.

Why disagree when the front office efforts towards marketing the team to the season tix holders and local fans was so abysmal? The fix was in for the move to LA simply because StanK tried to drive business away in ’15 and money is mothers-milk to StanK.

well like i said had the rams been staying in st louis i think the approach would have been the same. and there was no intention to lose. shoot. had quinn simply stayed healthy and foles merely been mediocre my guess is the rams would have made the playoffs and the rams still would have moved to los angeles.

to be fair to gordon i don’t think he’s trying to say that the rams were intentionally tanking a season or that they had a lousy draft.

i think he’s just saying that they were building for 2016 not 2015.

where i disagree with him is saying that it was in preparation for a move. even if they were staying in st. louis i think fisher would have had the same approach.

ok. maybe they weren’t lied to. i think they were misled at the very least. spanos was shocked by the lack of support he received when it came time to vote.

i also think this rams chargers agreement is a farce too. i don’t believe the nfl wants two teams in la. not at this point and not when they can use it as leverage in the future. the chargers will be back in san diego. the nfl wants the chargers in san diego. ok. now i’m just going off on a tangent.

but i do believe there was a conspiracy.

zn wrote:

InvaderRam wrote:

so three of the past four super bowl winners will have been based primarily around defense and the run game.

Agreed, but with a variation. Seattle and Carolina of course have running qbs.

so you’re saying they should draft dak prescott…

haha!

seriously though before that was flacco. so it can be done.

interestingly paxton lynch and carson wentz are supposed to have some running ability. so between those two and prescott there are some options there in the draft for running qbs.