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joemadParticipantyour secondary is only as good as your pass rush.
Brockers not big on sack totals, but he did provide consistent pressure on QBs and QB legal hits….
Detroit is becoming Ram central…… kind of like the George Allen of the Washington over the hill gang of the 70’s when he left LA……. only Detroit likes draft picks and Allen did not.
joemadParticipantJohn Johnson posted a farewell to LA and Rams fans on Instagram
Hey, this guy kinda plagiarized Jared Goff’s goodbye letter to LA
Thank you, LA. pic.twitter.com/rkOJUpxA2T
— Jared Goff (@JaredGoff16) February 3, 2021
joemadParticipantI’m gonna miss Goff….sure he had a rough patch and even then he never really got emotionally rattled .. even when he was getting his ass kicked early in his career,
except maybe here….. he thought he had a TD…..
joemadParticipantESPN spent the most in the current deal at $1.9 billion annually — increased to $2 billion once it got a wild-card playoff game. That provided it the Monday night showcase and the playoff representation. The league is eager for some of the Monday nighters to land on free-to-air ABC, while Disney is even more eager to get back into the Super Bowl mix on ABC.
what exactly is this? “Some of the Monday Nighters”…what the hell is does that mean? Is MNF going back to ABC and away from ESPN?
joemadParticipanta good pass rush makes life better for the secondary…..
joemadParticipanthere is the article: good read:
URL = https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/03/02/business-of-football-understanding-the-salary-cap-dead-money
Business of Football: Understanding the Salary Cap, Dead Money and Impact of 2021 Decrease
With NFL teams about to open their wallets, here’s a refresher course on the salary cap and an explanation of why we’ve seen bigger dead-money cap hits lately.ANDREW BRANDT MAR 2, 2021
Of all the areas of coverage around the NFL, there is not one more frequently misinformed, misunderstood and misrepresented than that of the salary cap. It is one of these subjects that qualify for the adage: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Yes, I realize most fans and media know all they want to know about the cap, which for many fans, is simply how far their team is under it. That, however, is a momentary snapshot into a complicated and ever-changing figure. Managing the NFL salary cap, as I did for 10 years with the Packers, is like stuffing an octopus in a box; there is always something trying to hang out. Every action has a reaction; every move with one player is watched by every other player (and agent); precedent is paramount.
Cap management is one of the three parts of an NFL team’s football operation, along with coaching and player evaluation. The better-managed teams have all three areas working in concert, communicating and buying into one another’s plan. And this year, more than any other year in memory, cap management may be the most important of the triad of football operations.
With that in mind, and with my background, I thought I would answer some common cap questions, debunk some cap myths and try to give you a better understanding of that amorphous thing we call the NFL salary cap. With the NFL offseason upon us, settle in for this master class.
What is the salary cap and how is it calculated?
The cap is an artificial limit on collective player spending set by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the governing document between the NFL and the NFL Players Association. Everything about the NFL is rooted in competitive balance. The cap, in theory at least, levels the playing field on the financial side.
The CBA sets the percentages for sharing of NFL revenue, dividing it between the owners and the players according to what has been negotiated. Prior to the two most recent CBAs, the players’ share was roughly 50% of NFL revenues. Recently the pendulum has swung toward ownership, with owners getting 53% and the players receiving 47%, rising by a point to 48% once the NFL starts playing 17 games per regular season but getting no higher for the players over the next decade.
Thus, to calculate the cap in simplest terms: 47% of NFL revenues is divided by 32—the number of NFL teams—to set the team cap number for the year. For 2020 that number was $198 million. For 2021 due to economic losses suffered from a year of playing largely without fans—that number will go down considerably. As that number has not been set yet, for our purposes we will estimate the 2021 cap to be $185 million.
Myth: The reduced cap for 2021 has NFL teams scrambling
No. NFL teams are not waking up in March of 2021 and saying, “Oh my God, what are we going to do with a dramatically reduced cap?” This diminution of the 2021 cap was known by every team—as well as every player, fan and media member since July, when the NFL and NFLPA negotiated that it would be no lower than $175 million. This idea out there that teams are now scrambling is laughable; they have known about this for nine months. Teams spend eight months preparing for the draft; the good ones have been preparing eight months for the reduced cap.
Myth: The $185 million number is the cap minimum number for 2021
No. The $185 million is not the minimum, or floor; it is the maximum, or ceiling, for the 2021 team cap. A salary cap has a minimum as well as a maximum; many do not know that, as NFL teams have—and should have—a minimum that they have to spend on players.
I have been critical of the CBA minimum team spending requirements, as there is neither annual accounting nor biannual accounting, but rather it is only viewed over three- or four-year tranches. As an example, the Steelers spent $138 million in 2020, a stunning $60 million below the cap. No matter how much they spend in the year before or after, that should not happen, but that is for another discussion. Suffice it to say the minimum spending for 2021 could be well below $185 million, especially with such a long inspection period.
Myth: Every NFL team’s cap number is going to be $185 million
No. Actually, no team’s cap number is going to be $185 million (or whatever the final cap number is).
The 2011 CBA, for the first time, allowed teams to carry over unused cap room from one year to the next. In managing the cap for the Packers, we did not have that option; it was use it or lose it. I had to negotiate dummy incentives—such as a clause giving our third-string quarterback $20 million if he threw seven touchdowns in our last game—to carry over cap room. (When he didn’t earn the incentive, we would get it as a credit toward the next year.) Now teams don’t have to play those games.
As per NFLPA numbers, every team in the league has carried over 2020 cap room, from a low of roughly $500,000 for the Ravens to a high of more than $30 million for the Colts. Teams carrying over $20-plus million of cap include the Jets, Browns, Eagles, Cowboys and Jaguars. Thus, although the team cap is $185 million, the Colts’ adjusted cap will be around $215 million, and so on.
And again, these teams have been preparing, or should have been preparing, for this reduced cap for months.
Myth: Unlike the NBA, the NFL has a “hard cap”
No. The NFL does not have a hard cap; it has a soft cap (a yarmulke, if you will). To clarify, no team can go “over the cap” in terms of cap accounting. However, teams can and do go over the cap in terms of cash spending due to the feature of the NFL cap that differentiates it from all other sports leagues: proration.
Here is an example: Let’s say a player signs a four-year contract with a $20 million signing bonus. Signing bonuses, for cap purposes, are prorated. Thus, that player’s bonus is treated as $5 million in cap each year. The “cash over cap” for that one player, on one bonus of one contract, is $15 million: He received $20 million cash with only $5 million against the cap. This illustrates how teams are able to spend over the cap in terms of cash spending without being over the cap in terms of cap accounting.
But alas, the future cap charges do not go away. The problem with proration is when things go south with the player, leading to the scourge of the cap: dead money.
Dead money is cap accounting for players no longer on a team’s roster, “dead weight” that hamstrings teams from signing “live” players. We have now seen—within the last month—the two largest dead-money charges in NFL history in Jared Goff and Carson Wentz. These contracts were structured as if there was no way on God’s green earth the teams would exit them early—with tens of millions of future proratable monies (large signing bonuses, guaranteed option and roster bonuses, etc.) pushed out into future years as unamortized proration. Therein lies the rub. When a player separates—through release or trade—all unamortized proration accelerates on the team’s cap.
Goff will count $22 million on the 2021 Rams’ cap while playing for the Lions. Wentz will count $34 million on the Eagles’ cap, the fourth-highest cap charge in the NFL this year, while playing for the Colts. That is why I said for months that he would not be traded, and why I truly underestimated the breach of trust between Wentz and the Eagles.
For you fantasy football players playing in cap leagues, imagine that while the other players have $185 to play with, you start the draft with $151. You are the Eagles.
Myth: NFL teams don’t care as much as they used to about dead money
No. Believe me, they care: I have talked to members of several, including the Eagles, who desperately wanted to avoid this scenario.
Beyond Goff and Wentz, the only other two dead-money charges in history over $20 million are for receivers, Antonio Brown and Brandin Cooks. As to this being the evidence of teams’ willingness to incur dead-money charges? Please.
Brown would have been kept on the Steelers for many more years if he hadn’t forced his way out of town. As for Cooks, well, when it comes to dead money (and first-round draft picks), they do not care. They are true outliers.
Myth: Cap gurus magically create cap room by moving it into future years
No. You could do that and, sorry, no, you wouldn’t be a cap guru. You could take a big salary or a big bonus (not currently prorated), turn it into signing bonus (prorated) and, in the stroke of the player’s pen, cap room would magically appear and the problem would be deferred, although not solved.
The Rams did this with Goff. The Eagles did this with Wentz. The Saints have done this repeatedly with Drew Brees. The Steelers have done this repeatedly with Ben Roethlisberger. Pain is now being felt by the first two teams and will soon be felt by the latter two. Some NFL teams are doing this now to alleviate some existing cap problems, continuing the vicious cycle of stacking additional proration upon already existing proration and creating more problems down the road.
No one doing this is a cap guru. A true cap guru sets a team up so it never needs to do much of this, if any at all.
So Andrew, what is the best way to manage an NFL cap?
It is simple: Pay as you go. The goal for every team’s cap management, in my opinion, is to match, as much as possible, cash spending and cap accounting. It is to resist the temptation for short-term gain—which always leads to long-term pain—and pay as you go.
One of the things I am most proud of from my time in Green Bay is resisting temptation to play the “prorate/push out” cap game with Brett Favre. I learned from what I had seen at that time around the league, noting huge dead-money charges when franchise quarterbacks separated, including John Elway, Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Dan Marino, Steve McNair and more. I knew at some point we would not have Brett; I did not want to burden the future front office and the future quarterback (who turned out to be Aaron Rodgers) with a $20-plus million cap charge for someone not there. Brett was ultimately traded with a final dead-money charge to the team of $600,000. Sorry for the not-at-all-humble brag, but you get my point.
For a current example, the 49ers, in negotiating the Jimmy Garoppolo contract, took on a first-year cap number of $37 million, very close to the first-year cash number of $40 million. Now, if the 49ers decide to move on from Garoppolo, it will cost them less than $3 million in dead money, a drop in the bucket compared to the $34 million for Wentz and $22 million for Goff. How a team proves itself as cap-savvy is by putting itself in a position to have ultimate flexibility on its roster, never to have to prorate, to put the team in position for sustained success.
Many teams do this well besides the 49ers, including the Buccaneers, Jaguars, Colts, Patriots and Browns, among others. They are ahead of the curve with the competitive advantage of being able to front-load, not back-load, cap. Thus, if things go south with a player, they can move on without the albatross of dead cap.
The reduced 2021 cap represents a huge opportunity for well-managed cap teams to, as the cool kids say, flex. More than any year before, prudent and solid cap management is really going to matter, and shrewd front offices are going to truly separate themselves. The business of sports always wins.
joemadParticipantI think we are going to have the worst season to date with Mcvay.
Here’s my reasoning:
1. We are going to lose a lot of defensive talent… Many of those “diamond in the rough” types are going to get paid somewhere else.
2. QB in a new system. Even Aaron Rogers had one of his worst statistical seasons in a new offense in year 1. Year 2 he had one of his best, but not year 1. And it’s basically the same offensive system we use.
3. The shine has come off of Mcvay. It kind of reminds me of John Gruden. Electrifying enthusiasm at first, but does it wear people out? I wonder if the Goff situation will plant a seed of distrust in the players.
4. Staff turnover is insane. It’s basically a new staff that seems to have been built on the fly.
I think we are poised for a down year.
I think we are going to have the worst season to date with Mcvay.
Here’s my reasoning:
1. We are going to lose a lot of defensive talent… Many of those “diamond in the rough” types are going to get paid somewhere else.
2. QB in a new system. Even Aaron Rogers had one of his worst statistical seasons in a new offense in year 1. Year 2 he had one of his best, but not year 1. And it’s basically the same offensive system we use.
3. The shine has come off of Mcvay. It kind of reminds me of John Gruden. Electrifying enthusiasm at first, but does it wear people out? I wonder if the Goff situation will plant a seed of distrust in the players.
4. Staff turnover is insane. It’s basically a new staff that seems to have been built on the fly.
I think we are poised for a down year.
I agree…. and I’ll add point 5:
5. Every team in the NFC WEST is getting a 1st round pick except for the Rams. This will happen for 4 straight seasons.
The Rams will not be able to pick players like Donald, Brockers, etc, but every other team with a first round pick will……
joemadParticipantmy mom canned strawberry jam in mason jars from my dad’s strawberry garden…. my dad’s garden had dozens of 5 gallon buckets with holes in the sides of the buckets to grow shoots (runners) of strawberry plants…my dad grew everything depending on the season….
BTW It’s quite the coincidence that you bring this up, because traditionally i buy grape jelly, but my wife recent brought some strawberry jam home and it reminded me of my parents jam and I forgot how great it was with PB.
BTW II: I eat a lot PBJ sandwiches…. I roughly eat 3 to 4 sandwiches per week on sliced sourdough for breakfast for the past 30+ years. great source of fuel to kick off the day.
joemadParticipantHelp me understand… leave a winning team of 4 straight seasons, a playoff team of 3 of the last 4 years, leave sunny LA, leave a new stadium, leave a team that just found the missing piece??????
Joe Barry, Andy Dickerson, The DC, Kromer, Bones,
The boss must be a real dickhead or maybe the organization lacks vision? Or maybe it’s trading a winning QB+ 1st rounders for a 13 year “has been”….err or a 13 year “never was” QB??????
https://www.huemanrpo.com/blog/why-employees-quit-their-jobs
Why are employees leaving your business?
There are reasons people leave a job and there are reasons an employee stays at their job. Sure, it happens. But, how can you prevent that from happening?
Reducing the reasons why employees are leaving a job begins during recruitment. Resist the urge to hire the first qualified person who enters your office. To build a happy, successful team, you must look beyond a checklist of certifications. Choose candidates who have the right skills and who will fit into your culture.
Review these four most common reasons why employees quit their job to understand how you can prevent that from happening in your organization.
1. They’re unhappy:
Employee dissatisfaction can stem from a number of factors, including:
Working too often
Feeling disregarded by superiors
Dissatisfied with the lack of opportunities or advancements
Lack of challenging work etc.If management doesn’t listen to workers’ feedback, they become resentful for not being taken seriously. Those in top positions must provide strong leadership while engaging staff members and hearing their input.
Take time to onboard future employees, introduce them to other staff and fill them in on the work environment. These actions may make them feel more included and empowered. Also provide them with updated technology that helps them do their job and provide professional development opportunities. People appreciate having paths for growth in their work.
Something as simple as treating employees to an ice cream social can foster positivity and goodwill, which create happier workplaces. While these are great (and we condone it), occasional treats, and recognition in general, aren’t a retention plan. Opportunities for continuing education and skills development will motivate people to stay with the organization, especially if they see a path to promotion through these efforts.
2. They’re not the right cultural fit:
Candidates who clash with colleagues, d
on’t care for the management style, or don’t agree with the organization’s philosophy will be quick to seek new opportunities. Find the right cultural fit for your organization from the beginning of the recruitment process.
Finding a cultural fit doesn’t mean hiring carbon copies, but you do want to build a team that’s driven by the same values. Employees want to be part of a dynamic, supportive organization that stand for well-defined mission.
Envision the ideal candidate every time you have a position to fill.
What skills and attributes does your team lack right now? What type of person would meet those needs?
Hiring managers and recruiters should be screening candidates not only for the right skill sets, but also for whether they’ll work well with the rest of the team.
3. They feel out of the loop:
Transparency is essential to fostering strong employee relationships. People distrust managers who refuse to share information, and they’re skeptical of companies that obscure their decision-making processes.
Strive to share company updates with employees, and provide forums for asking questions and raising concerns (such as a “town hall”). When implementing changes, explain how employees will be affected and where they fit into the master plan.
When building a strong employee relationship you want to make sure you are:
Following through with promises
Thank them (seems simple but, makes a difference)
Create a productive environment where they shouldn’t be afraid to ask questions
4. They’re underpaid:
Stagnant wages is the top reason people leave their job.Great employees don’t need to stick around waiting for somebody to give them the pay, promotions or other good things they deserve. They have choices. They can find another job in a heartbeat — and if you don’t take care of them, they will.
Bottom line: Businesses that pay fair wages retain the best people — no matter the industry. Competitive compensation is essential to cultivating longevity among your workforce.
Here is a brief visual of reasons why employees left their past jobs:
You don’t want your company to be the reason for a job change. Recruiting and retaining top talent is more crucial than ever and it starts with recruitment. We have gone over just some of the reasons why good employees quit. Focus on building a happy, successful team who have the right skills and who will fit your culture for the longevity of your business.
Make sure you are aware of what is happening around your organization to ensure you keep good employees who are content in their role and at their organization. Need help with your recruitment process to recruit and retain your employees? Contact us today!
Topics: Culture, recruitment, Employee Engagement
joemadParticipanthttps://ktxs.com/news/local/colorado-city-mayor-resigns-after-controversial-facebook-post
Tim Boyd, Mayor of Colorado City TEXAS…. err….ex mayor….
No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local governments responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn hand out! If you don’t have electricity you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water you deal with out and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family. If you were sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! Only the strong will survive and the week will perish. Folks, God Has given us the tools to support ourselves in times like this. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW work and others will become dependent for handouts. Am I sorry that you have been dealing without electricity and water; yes! But I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves! We have lost sight of those in need and those that take advantage of the system and mesh them into one group!! Bottom line, quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family!
joemadParticipantI’m still not over the trade…..I really hate this trade….
I remember when the Rams signed Bartkowski in 86… he played 11 years with ATL…. Stafford dumped 13 years in the Motor City…
This IS a Hadl trade… only this time , the Rams are the Packers of that deal…. Les Snead is no Don Klosterman..
Stafford better stay healthy or the Rams are really fucked with no TD Wolford..
joemadParticipantI was channel surfing between commercial breaks and came across this movie shortly after the 2 soldiers began their journey in the trenches…. my channel surfing stopped… great filming sequences, I couldn’t stop watching it…
I rewatched it again in it’s entirety… but you’re right Billy, it develops a similar storyline to Pvt Ryan…
joemadParticipantRaskin video
joemadParticipantthat 2001 Super Bowl will loom large in Holt getting in…. that’s a shame.
Drew Pearson got in…..
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Drew Pearson:
156 Games
99 average yards per game
489 Receptions
7822 Yards
16 Yards per catch
48 TDs-
Torry Holt:
173 Games
123 avg yards per game
920 receptions
13383 yards
14.5 yards per catch
74 TDsjoemadParticipant“Rams vs. Buccaneers Week 11 Highlights | NFL 2020”
Rams could’ve beat TB yesterday…. Brady was kept pretty clean yesterday.
joemadParticipantGlad to hear that you’re OK ER……
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Indeed…. John Wooden won 10 NCAA titles, Bill Walsh won 3 SBs. Jimmy Johnson, Steve Kerr with the Warriors…..etc even Bill Bilichick, is not a big yeller.. Sure, sometimes you lose, but they don’t berate players in the heat of battle.
They’re great coaches, they coach, they foster development, they developme a culture built on trust….. Even Lombardi, although somewhat of yeller, he fostered a loving culture.
I think that’s why the Saints seem to melt… I think Payton is bit of a cry baby and it affects the mentality of his team in crunch time. That team could’ve had more success if the had some emotional intelligence.
I thought McVay was building that culture, i think he still is, his road win record is impressive….. but he handled this situation like a dickhead.
joemadParticipantthat’s a great list by DaSilva….. even in some of the games he lost he impressed me…..
Sometimes great play doesn’t translate to wins…. for example, i wasn’t completely sold on the 1999 Rams until they lost Back-to-back games in Tenn in week 6 and in Detroit in week 7. in each game, the Rams showed some much more heart than they did in their prior 5 wins in 1999
The first game I was sold on Goff was in 2017 when the Rams played Seattle… he drove downfield for a potential game winning drive, but Kupp dropped a potential game winning TD… Gurly also fumbled that game on the endzone pylon…..
other notable losses that Goff impressed me was the shoot out vs Tampa Bay
The loss in 2018 to Philly…. that was a great game until the strip sack by Chris Long, when that fucker jumped in the stands….
2019 Game in Seattle where Zuerline missed the chip shot as time expired.
Last year in San Francisco he played gutsy too… but the defense couldn’t stop Garrapolo on back to back 3rd and 16’s on their game winning FG drive….
I really hate this trade, i still think Goff is a special player who played with a lot of heart and leadership in the heat of battle.
I have feeling that the Rams are going to regret this and it will cost Les his job. Les Snead stinks.
February 3, 2021 at 2:58 pm in reply to: Exclusive: Jared Goff LATimes interview with Sam Farmer #127550joemadParticipanti just find it hard to believe that folks think that Goff is not capable of winning a Super Bowl in LA. He was 2 dropped passes by Brandon Cooks to win it 2018.
He and his 9 fingers pulled within 7 when his number 1 defense turned to Swiss Cheese in Wisconsin. Goff and the Rams beat the shit out of the current NFC Champion (TB) in their backyard. He’s more than capable to win…..
He and his 9 fingers relieved Alfred E Newman (wolford) in Seattle to keep the Rams alive this season. Does any remember Wolford’s scramble prior to the one he got hurt where he slid well before the 1st down marker on 3rd down?… If Goff did that, folks would still be hammering him. Who made the decision to start Wolford over GOff that game?
the question is, …is McVay and his gambler Les Snead GM capable? He’s a fucking choker, curled up in the Super Bowl before the coin was even tossed sucking up to Billichick like a school girl…… He didn’t prepare his team for SF last year and got eliminated.
You can’t pin the last 2 seasons on Goff, but you can pin it on his contract that impacts the roster and draft… who fault is that?
BTW, is anyone concerned of the current coaching exodus???? Why is that happening?
February 3, 2021 at 11:50 am in reply to: Exclusive: Jared Goff LATimes interview with Sam Farmer #127540joemadParticipantHe signed up Snead and McVay, and he gives them the tools they request. Look around the league, and take a look at some franchises where the owner meddles. Look at the decades of BS endured by the Al Davis Raiders and Jerry Jones Cowboys, and so on.
Sometimes it’s OK to meddle….. Fords gave Matt Millen all the freedom in the world in Detroit.
I think Les is in way over his head… he’s like a degenerate gambler trying to play catch up on a Monday Night Football game bet to make for his Sunday’s losses…
He’s gambling the future on an old horse at QB when he had a more than capable QB who was combat proven to win huge games.
BTW Jerry Jones and Al Davis have 3 SBs each and despite a recent lack of success on the field, they have the 2 best brands that the NFL has ever had…..
Rams are in a world of shit if Stafford gets hurt behind his 40 year old left tackle.
I think the Rams should’ve waited 1 more year with Goff to rebound from his 3-4 game slump from this season… after all , it was a COVID season…it was weird for everyone….like Goff said in the article, he’s resilient…. that showed in the NFC Championship game. I’m not sure a QB like Stafford could’ve won that game under the same circumstances, not many QBs have….
Let’s hope that Stafford doesn’t have the same choke gene that his childhood buddy Kershaw has… it took a ******special 44 win baseball season for Kershaw to finally win.
joemadParticipantHas Detroit been good at ‘anything’ in the last decade?
Wonder why they have sucked for so long
at so many things.w
vDetroit Tigers were a perennial playoff team in the 2010’s with Jim Leyland as manager. Justin Verlander was one of the league’s best pitchers
They made the WS 2012 and were favored to win, but the Giants beat them in 5 games….
Pablo Sandoval hit 3 HR’s in a WS game… only Ruth, Jackson and I think Pujols have done that.
2 of the 3 HR’s came off Justin Verlander
joemadParticipantMike Silver’s article reads to me like the work of a guy who has a preference for Goff over McVay on a personal level.
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Yeah, i thought so too.
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vi think anyone that leads any type of organization could see that McVay and Les lack basic leadership skills in managing personal and this issue….
Forget the basics of negotiating a deal…..Not only did they tip their cards on Goff before the season ended, they handled the whole thing in a very stupid manner…..
bottom line net = Goff cost them 9 1st round picks, plus $22M on a contract they initiated 18 month ago….. This GM and coach is fligging mud at Goff’s rep to cover up their own inability to manage a cap.
And folks wonder why there is a coaching exodus from a team that plays in a highly desirable place to play that is on the cusp of winning a conference title with their 33 year old savior from Detroit……something is not right in that coach’s locker room and front office…..
Making these crazy high risk deals and forfeiting the future is unsustainable. It’s going to come up and bite the Rams in the ass. Goff, Gurley, Donald, Brockers, all 1st rounders that helped this team reverse 20 years of losing.
a 7 year span will pass where the Rams will lose out on the top picks from college, Youngblood, Dickerson, Harrah, Pace, Kent Hill, Todd Lyght..etc…that caliber of young talent is off the table……
We can only hope that teams with 1st rounders pick the Tavon Austins and Adam Archuletta’s of the world through 2024….
joemadParticipantThat’s a ridiculous trade.
joemadParticipant2020 was a lousy year for everyone and I’m grateful that most major sports brought some type of normalcy to my life. I didn’t realize how much I missed listening to a baseball game on the radio until this past summer……….. but of all the major sports, the NFL and the Rams gave me a much needed routine to my life on Sundays…… the Rams 10 win wasn’t the best icing on the cake, but at least it was some icing and not a 6-10 season that most people predicted….
After the win in TB, I thought the Rams might go all the way or at least make it to the conference championship…
Special teams, especially punt coverage and punt returns sucked.
Although the defense was great, I don’t think it was elite.
Rams offense was OK, ALL NFL QBs have off years, I’ll take 10 wins with a QB that many believe had a bad year, sometimes that happens when your left tackle misses 5-6 games…
in addition I think Goff got too much criticism….but I think that’s the nature of the current COVID and political trash climate to post bullshit on social media boards…most of these losers are just craving attention……that is not directed to anyone here…
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joemadParticipant“If I’m RAM’S GM Les Snead and my 2 biggest deals are Todd Gurley, who is no longer with the team, and $100M guaranteed to Goff, I might be considered to be GM of the RAMS AT THIS MOMENT”
start at :34 second mark.
joemadParticipantyeah, McVay has been a dick recently, i kinda suspected that ever since their special teams coach left for Dallas last year…not sure if stemmed from the failed fake punt deep in their territory vs Seattle last year where McVay chewed out Fassel on the sidelines when it happened.
But Cowherd makes sense too ….big fat contract from player friendly contract to the unassuming QB.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the new GM connection in Detroit will take Goff for Stafford……..I’m not a big fan of Matthew Stafford…..that guy throws a lot of picks.
I hope they work it out and Goff stays…. I like Goff a lot.
joemadParticipantSpags DC for KC.
I think KC wins big.
joemadParticipantI hope all is well ER.
Get well soon.
joemadParticipantjoemadParticipantMcVay is pissed and frustrated he can’t beat his former assistant buddies… …both Shanny and LaFluer have eliminated McVay in back-to-back seasons.
I hope he doesn’t lose Goff.
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