unbelievable.

crazy.

well shit.

richard sherman hurt his left arm.

haha. can’t help but feel a little happy about all this.

green bay indianapolis would be cool.

i’m shocked wilson is playing so badly. it seems like he’s under a lot of pressure though.

wow 10% chance of trading up? that’s pretty high. although there’s a half a chance the qbs could drop a little. maybe that opens things up for a trade.

the only things i can think of so far are cut long and wells. focus on re-signing britt. maybe sign a fa olineman.

they also want st. louis, kroenke, aeg, roski, san diego, and los angeles all competing against each other to get the best available stadiums possible for the nfl.

and fans get jobbed in the end no?

wv wrote:

If the league approved a Spanos move,
and Spanos had a stadium deal in LA,
what would that do to Kroenke’s leverage
in St.Louis? He’d lose any leverage he had, yes? No?
Would he threaten to move somewhere else? 2nd team in LA ?

The league has to love all this leverage its manufactured.
What a great Racket for all 32 rich-white-guys.

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well and that’s also the balancing act that the nfl has to do cuz they don’t want the rams going back to the ed jones dome if the chargers move to la. they want that shiny new outdoor stadium.

31 rich white guys and 1 rich pakistani guy i believe.

also the tv revenue. is that one year or indefinite?

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/football/professional/goodell-jones-have-a-talk/article_a7578c2f-c649-51b3-b87e-9f5c00291b27.html

Goodell, Jones have a talk

By Jim Thomas

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell personally called Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones this week to get clarification on Jones’ comments to the New York Times suggesting Stan Kroenke can move the Rams to Los Angeles if he wants — with or without league approval.
“Put (Jones’ remarks) in context,” NFL executive Eric Grubman told the Post-Dispatch on Thursday. “This man’s trying to get to the Super Bowl. He was in Green Bay, Wis., and he just lost an incredible game. A lot of passion and emotion.

“And he gets hit with that question from an out-of-town reporter. … Jerry wasn’t even quite sure what he said beyond acknowledging historically teams have moved without (permission). So when asked — ‘Did you say that?’ — he wasn’t even sure.”

As in not even sure what he had said.

“Now, is that impossible?” Grubman said. “What if you just lost that game and somebody hit you with that question? … I’m not going to speak for him. But I’ll hazard a guess on this one, that he would not tell you this could be done without a vote.

“To suggest otherwise would be to suggest that any owner can pick which rules they want to go for a vote and which they don’t want to go for a vote.”

Grubman said Goodell didn’t talk to Jones in a critical way, but simply asked him what he meant by his comments.

“It quickly became obvious that there’s nothing really here,” Grubman said. “Because in the heat of the moment, you had an owner who wasn’t really focused on the issue at hand, and talked about history and remembers that but doesn’t remember much of the detail beyond that.”

In summary, Grubman characterized Jones’ remarks as a stray comment that needed to be put to bed.

“Everybody’s gonna follow the rules,” Grubman said.

Grubman was in St. Louis on Thursday meeting with local officials on the region’s stadium plan. He said he has been to St. Louis about a half a dozen times over the last two or three years.

Jones’ remarks cast doubt on whether Kroenke would try to follow relocation guidelines and gain owners’ approval to move. It would take approval of 24 of 32 NFL owners to move the Rams to Los Angeles.

Team and league officials have told the Post-Dispatch that Kroenke will not go rogue and try to relocate without approval. Grubman reiterated that on Thursday.

When asked if Kroenke has said he will follow league rules, Grubman replied: “Oh, yes. And he has followed the rules. Not on this (specifically), because there’s never been any suggestion that he wouldn’t.

“Here’s the better example: We’ve proscribed guidelines for how to approach the L.A. market for any club that was interested, including keeping the league staff informed and so forth and so on.

“All the clubs that have been acting in that regard have been doing that, including the St. Louis Rams. So there’s no hint of (going rogue).”

As much as Grubman underscored the fact that Kroenke would follow the rules, he pointed out that there could be subjectivity in how those guidelines are interpreted as well as subjectivity on how individual club owners might vote if it gets to that.

“I don’t know how to gauge the probability of votes,” Grubman said. “I do know how to look at history and I know in the time that I’ve been associated with the league, the league has made some tough calls to keep teams in their markets and to do things that are quite extraordinary to keep teams in their markets.”

He cited Minnesota, New England, and New Orleans as examples of franchises where the league was successful in helping to prevent a move.

If Kroenke did in fact try to move the Rams without approval, Grubman said he had no idea how the league would respond.

“But I do know there are tremendous tools available,” he said. “There’s a charter and by-laws, and there’s ample authority in the commissioner’s office to make sure that everybody follows the rules.

“That’s what we are. We’re a league of rules. So having something which is a subjective judgment, subjected to a vote, is very different than having a league without rules.”

In terms of what kind of penalties Kroenke could face for an unauthorized move, Grubman didn’t want to go there.

“That’s so far off topic and so hypothetical, let’s pick another time,” he said. “There are going to be recommendations that are analyzed and made. And then there’s gonna be votes, but everybody’s gonna follow the rules.”

If Kroenke plays by the rules and somehow gains approval from the league to relocate, what are the alternatives for St. Louis? Is there another path to get another team here, such as San Diego or Oakland — franchises that also have stadium issues and could potentially relocate to Los Angeles as well? Grubman didn’t offer much hope there for St. Louis.

“I view that as such an undesirable path to take that I haven’t even thought about the probabilities,” he said. “Because you not only have to do all the hard work that you’re already (doing), then you’re gonna have to convince somebody that this is the market that they want to go to as opposed to some other market, or some market that they can stay in.

“The objective is to give the St. Louis Rams the best opportunity to be healthy in this market.”

i wonder if the rams’ quarterback situation has offensive coordinators wary of taking the job.

zn wrote:

Now this ain’t the final word on the issue or nothin, but, what he looked like to me was a ferocious hitting LB/safety hybrid in nickel packages.

i wonder if the rams have bigger plans for him or if he is strictly a package player.

it just doesn’t seem like he and mcdonald could play together on a full-time basis.

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hmmm… interesting.

i guess it makes sense. a lot of this stuff is probably things individual teams had to do on their own in free agency.

i have actually read the opposite, but i’m hoping they’re just vicious lies!

i like mariota. if there was any chance the rams could move up, i’d be happy if they did. nothing like 3 first rounders. but i’d do it for 2 first rounders.