It will be fun to watch our starters vs. the Texans starters, especially all the new talent on defense. How will Talib and Peters defend Hopkins and Fuller? Will Suh chase Watson out of the pocket? Will Littleton be OK calling the defensive signals? Waiting to find out!

The Rams have the seventh-most cap room in 2019, about $44 million, if I remember correctly. That includes Peters, Talib, Sullivan, Whitworth, Brockers, Cooks, Gurley and even Barron. Goff, Kupp, JJohnson and others still on their rookie contracts. All that cap room and we don’t have to part ways with an established veteran!

I’m not sure that Cooper had two fumbles. The muffed punt actually hit Blake Countess in the foot, making it appear that Cooper muffed it. That was definitely on Countess.

Interesting. Maybe Donald’s contract hangup is about guaranteed money and not an opt-out clause?

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I think so, yeah. If the offensive line can stay pretty much intact through the whole season, yes I think so. The Rams can’t affect the Falcons, Saints, Steelers, etc… offense, but they are still strong at RB and have improved at WR, while Goff has gotten another year of experience. And I think the defense will force a lot of punts and turnovers, putting the offense back on a short field.

Jim Souhan, write for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, calls the NFL decision “cowardly”.

Souhan on the anthem

an excerpt:

This week, Philadelphia defensive lineman Chris Long said: “This is fear of a diminished bottom line. It’s also fear of a president turning his base against a corporation. This is not patriotism. … These owners don’t love America more than the players demonstrating and taking action to improve it.”

The NFL’s attempt to dictate the behavior of its black players is typical of our country’s treatment of minorities. We treat them badly, then order them not to inconvenience us.

EDIT:
It just hit me that mandatory attendance at church and tithing and all the other church rules generate fake devotion. It’s about obedience, not faith or patriotism.

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Cool stuff, thanks for posting it zn.

In the FWIW department, the Vikings defensive coordinator, George Edwards, rented the house next to ours. My wife went outside and chatted with him and his wife while they were looking over the dandelions in the back yard. Irony: he rented the house from a guy who is a big Packers fan!

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American companies can find a Russian contact with Iran and there you have your easy work-around.

Good discussion, this is why I like this board more than others. We can agree on the concept of hit/miss grades but disagree on the process and the result without getting our undies in a bunch.

For me, it’s hard not to take draft position into consideration. There are certain expectations that come with being drafted in the top ten, or later in the first round, vs. pick #200 in the sixth round. And they are subjective.

I don’t know if I consider Tavon a miss. Can I have a third category called “push”? He did not become an every-down WR like I hoped, but he started 50 of 75 games, was targeted as a receiver almost 200 times in 2015-16 combined, was valuable as a third RB and gadget player and he returned kicks. Tavon played a lot, just not in the capacity one would expect or desire of the #8 overall pick. I end up looking at stats. If Tavon had five years like the first two years of Tyreek Hill’s career, I would call him a big hit.

They cold line both teams up at the 50 yard line, and the kicking team snaps the ball to a holder, and the kicker kicks it away like a field goal. Not many people get hurt on field goals.

I think the odds of success in the middle rounds are improved by picking linemen.

Nice list Jack, that’s a lot of work! Good players for the Rams, I expect them to draft 2-3 linebackers/edge guys and one or two offensive linemen. The Rams had private visits with Dorance Armstrong, Micah Kiser and Og Okoronkwo, Tyrell Crosby , Dejon Allen and Tony Adams. Rams draft starts late Friday.

walter football Rams visits

In case a list of draft prospect visits with the Rams has not published here, I pulled it from Walter Football and pasted it below. This was the only site that had an orderly list of draft prospects who visited NFL teams.

I don’t know if this list is complete or accurate, but it more or less matches what I saw on Turf Show Times, though this was much more user-friendly to cut and paste. I assume too that the Rams will draft about half of their new players from this list.
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This is a compilation of draft prospect visits sorted by prospect. The data was acquired via Charlie Campbell (@draftcampbell) and other media sources.

SR – Senior Bowl meeting.
EW – East-West Shrine meeting.
COM – Combine meeting.
INT – Interested.
VINT – Very Interested.
PRO – Pro Day or campus meeting/workout.
LOC – Local visit. Prospect making a local visit.
PRI – Private visit. Prospect making an official 30 visit.
WOR – Private Workout. Members of an organization working out a player in private.
STM – Some Type of Meeting.
% – indicates more than one meeting at an event.
^ – has met with team at more than one event.
# – indicates meeting set up outside of the 2018 Senior Bowl or the 2018 East-West Shrine Game

Los Angeles Rams
• Tony Adams^, C, N.C. State (PRO, WOR)
• Dejon Allen, G, Hawaii (PRI)
• Dorance Armstrong Jr., DE/3-4OLB/OLB, Kansas (PRI)
• Jerome Baker, OLB, Ohio State (PRI)
• Matt Boesen, ILB, TCU (LOC)
• Alex Cappa, OT, Humboldt State (PRI)
• Tyrell Crosby^, OT, Oregon (PRI, COM)
• Dane Cruikshank, CB, Arizona (PRI)
• James Daniels, C, Iowa (PRI)
• Jamil Demby, OT, Maine (PRI)
• Kylie Fitts, DE/3-4OLB, Utah (PRI)
• Mike Ford, CB, Southeast Missouri State (PRO)
• Daurice Fountain, WR, Northern Iowa (PRI)
• Nick Gates, OT, Nebraska (PRO)
• Trayvon Henderson, S, Hawaii (PRO)
• Josey Jewell, OLB/ILB, Iowa (PRI)
• Micah Kiser, ILB, Virginia (PRI)
• Justin Lawler, DE/3-4OLB, SMU (PRI)
• Cole Madison, OT, Washington State (PRI)
• Jacob Martin, DE, Temple (PRI)
• Quenton Meeks, CB, Stanford (PRO)
• D.J. Myers, WR, Midwestern State (WOR)
• Ryan Nall, FB, Oregon State (COM)
• Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, 3-4OLB/OLB, Oklahoma (PRI)
• Joe Ostman, DE, Central Michigan (PRI)
• Rashaad Penny, RB, San Diego State (PRI)
• Dante Pettis, WR, Washington (PRO)
• Justin Reid, S, Stanford (PRO)
• Tremon Smith, CB, Central Arkansas (PRI)
• Chandon Sullivan, CB, Georgia State (PRO)
• Vita Vea, DT/3-4DE/NT, Washington (PRO)
• Akrum Wadley, RB, Iowa (PRI)
• Kenny Young, ILB, UCLA (PRI)

Green Bay Packers picks since 2012

2012: none

2013: none

2014: DT Khryi Thornton: Never played for GB, was waived in Sep 2015, signed by Detroit and played 23 games with 6 starts. Currently without a team and under 10 game suspension for PEDs.

2014: TE Richard Rodgers. 63 games played with 24 starts. Signed with Philadelphia a few weeks ago.

2015: WR Ty Montgomery. 29 games played, 14 starts, most or all of them at running back.

2016: LB Kyle Fackrell. 29 games played with 2 starts.

2017: DT Montravious Adams. 7 games played, zero starts.

Green Bay Packers: One out of five, Rodgers, although the Pack was always looking for someone more consistent and talented. I did not count Montgomery because he was thrust into a starting role due to emergency at a different position than he was drafted.