well this could turn out not well if mccaffrey is able to stay healthy.

i think the oline was an issue even before the injuries.

but no.  no team could have done well with all the injuries the rams have suffered at oline.

niners are a tough team regardless.  i’m just hoping the rams can put together a decent season.

this oline is going to be a big problem.

nothing to be proud of but still a win.

maybe just some rust to be knocked off?

still thinking of you, ag.

got this over at the herd.

https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-pff-immortals-los-angeles-rams-aaron-donald-pff-hall-of-fame

Over the last 16 NFL seasons, PFF has graded every player on every play of every game to create the best source of NFL analysis available. There have been hundreds of great players over that time, but the biggest football database on the planet allows us to focus on the very best to ever do it.

To celebrate the modern-day legends of the game, PFF has created exclusive NFTs to award to these players, the PFF immortals, who will go down as some of the greatest players in NFL history.

A first-round draft pick from 2014, Aaron Donald is going into his ninth NFL season after winning a Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Rams in 2021. He has never earned a PFF grade below 90.0 over a full season and has been the league’s best pass-rusher — at any position — since entering the NFL.

• Donald is the only interior rusher ever to record 100 or more quarterback pressures in a single season in the PFF era. Only three players have managed this feat, and the other two were edge rushers.

• Donald has tallied 665 pressures since entering the league. The next closest defender (Cameron Jordan) is at 605, and the next interior lineman (Fletcher Cox) is at 520.

• Donald has averaged over 83 pressures a season since entering the NFL. Donald, J.J. Watt and Fletcher Cox are the only interior linemen in the PFF era to exceed that over one season.

• Donald has graded over 90.0 in 50 of his 127 regular-season games. He has 22 more 90.0-plus game grades than the next closest defender, Von Miller, who has played 23 more games.

• Donald has been worth 5.27 wins above replacement since 2014, averaging out at 0.66 wins per season. No interior defender in the PFF era has been more valuable.

• Going back to 2006, Donald owns six of the top nine single-season pressure totals among interior defensive linemen, including the top two.

• Donald owns the four best single-season PFF grades ever given to an interior defender and seven of the best eight.

• Donald has won 22.2% of his pass-rush snaps since 2014, first among interior defenders with at least 1,000 pass-rush snaps. Second place, J.J. Watt, ranks second over that span at 18.9%.

• Donald has either sacked or hit the quarterback 228 times since 2014, 22 more than second place over that period.

• No defensive lineman has more tackles for loss or no gain since 2014 than Donald, who has 115.

for cooper kupp to not only put up the kind of numbers that he put up.  but to also contribute as a blocker.  one of the greatest seasons ever for a wide receiver.

and nothing you can say about aaron donald really.  two rams players i feel privileged to have watched.  first is faulk.  second is donald.  and donald hopefully will have played his entire career as a ram.  i can only imagine this is what watching jones and olsen was like back in the day.

zn wrote:

Do the Rams have a running game?

that’s a worry of mine.  that and the oline.  and edge rushing depth.

zn wrote:

Allen is a QB who makes a lot of ‘wow’ plays, but analytics wise (EPA, DYAR, DVOA, etc), he’s barely in the top-10, let alone the top-5.

i don’t think this gets talked about enough.  i hear a lot of hype around allen.  but aside from being a physical specimen, how is he really at qb?  i haven’t watched him play, but his passer rating took a big hit last year.  92.2 which was only good for 16th in the league…  just a bad year?  maybe.  but he’s only really had one good year.  not saying that the bills can’t win with him at qb.  i’d think he’s at least good enough to win with.  but people talk about him like he’s patrick mahomes.  i’m not so sure.

i wonder how that compares to other nfl teams’ rosters.

zn wrote:

Sean McVay calls Brycen Hopkins “clearly our No.2” tight end. Deserved after the spring and summer he had.

very cool.

and i’m excited for mccutcheon as well.

and you can’t forget warner to bruce in the superbowl either as far as that 99 season goes. with kearse i think it was bearing down on him as he threw the ball.

mccutcheon looked good again. and at least some of his reps were against the texans’ first round draft pick.

jonah williams making some plays.

wv wrote:

Stafford made the no-look pass in the clutch.

i don’t know much about gabriel.  before my time.  but that throw.  and that drive.  just amazing.  still doesn’t top warner’s 1999 season.  taken as a whole.

but that drive and that throw was definitely a moment that equaled warner to proehl.  or warner to bruce.

i wanna see stafford put together some more seasons for the rams.  doesn’t necessarily have to end with a superbowl.  but he could be the best of them.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by InvaderRam.

Zooey wrote:

I don’t see Skowronek or Tutu as locks. I guess Powell is, and you can call him a WR if you want, but his job is to catch the ball and not trip over his own feet. He’s replaceable, and he’s only on the Rams because neither Tutu nor Skowronek could clear that bar. Whatever. I’m going only on what I see in games, not in practice, and not on film. But if McCutcheon can return kicks…he’s already shown more as a receiver than any of those three guys, albeit just one game, a game in which the Chargers secondary looked like the Keystone Cops.

i would tend to agree. i think tutu’s spot is safe only because rodrigue said as much due to him not playing a snap in that first game. but i’d be inclined to keep him over skowronek if he can keep performing like this.

he’s got size and he’s agile (4.25 short shuttle and 6.84 3-cone). and that game he showed incredible hands and body control. i like him.