very encouraging stats on the oline and dline.

Zooey wrote:

I think a less mobile QB might have been in trouble yesterday.

yeah. so many times he was able to get out of pressure with his feet and either scramble or buy some extra time for a pass.

injuries suck. i don’t know much about football but seeing mcclendon get abused on the left side was painful to watch.

i was naive to think the defense would be ok without donald. and i think the defense misses ernest jones too.

what do people think of jared verse?

and fiske? and limmer?

seems verse did particularly well no?

zn wrote:

so far in his career McV has never developed a young qb.

this and winning another superbowl are the next benchmarks for mcvay as a head coach.

i’m gonna go out on a limb and predict that limmer is a starter by the end of the season with jackson being a question mark in terms of being able to stay healthy.

not sure if kupp is pulling our leg but apparently he’s handling opening kickoff against the lions. pretty sure this is a joke but with new kickoff rules who knows?

Zooey wrote:

Ricky Pearsall was released from the hospital yesterday, and didn’t need surgery for his injury. I don’t know how long it takes to recover from a bullet wound, but I guess it didn’t hit any organs, so no lasting damage. I would think he would be able to play this season at some point, although he was already behind because he missed a lot of camp due to injuries. Not a great start to his career, but at least the dude is alive and reasonably well, considering. Jeez.

that had to be scary. glad to hear no surgery was needed.

only so many balls to go around, but i am really excited about what parkinson and allen can contribute.

both young. both have untapped potential. so yeah. very promising.

excited to see the secondary. all of them. really rooting for white.

maybe this is an indication of how much they value limmer? so if jackson gets injured again much easier to plug limmer right in as opposed to switching avila back to lg and then plugging limmer in at center?

zn wrote:

ESPN NFL Insider Jeremy Fowler is reporting that former Dallas Cowboys NT Neville Gallimore, fresh off his release from the Miami Dolphins, is on a plane to Los Angeles, California to sign on with the LA Rams

yeah. didn’t expect the rams to just sit tight.

but also. basketball. requires the most athleticism. meaning football players and baseball players likely could never be successful at basketball at the highest levels but i’m willing to bet basketball players would do much better at football or baseball at the highest level.

zn wrote:

I still feel something’s going on here, more than meets the eye.

i definitely feel that way. nothing adds up. mcvay was clearly not comfortable with the line of questioning. his answers were full of holes. again. i don’t think it was a place to air his grievances. so i don’t see that as any fault of mcvay.

i would see it as a fault of mcvay that he could be so reactive to trading jones for some kind of perceived insolence. if it’s true. but we don’t know that it’s true. everything is speculation at this point. so it’s hard for me to even comment. i just find it hard to believe that jones could rub anyone the wrong way. it would just seem so out of character. but then his frustration with goff and akers also baffled me.

i’ll be curious to hear or read what jones has to say about it.

interesting.  there is another follow up question and mcvay answers that it was difficult to properly evaluate him based on missed time in the offseason and not getting enough reps to show that he had a grasp of the defense.

gary klein then follows up and asks him if his body of work prior to the offseason was not enough to give the rams confidence that he could contribute to the team this year.  mcvay replied that every year was a new year and that while his previous body of work was a factor in evaluating him, every year is a new year and you gotta earn your job.

i’m perplexed.

let’s see if this works.  5:31 in.  mcvay responds to follow up question.