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WinnbradParticipantA guy on reddit redid them in photoshop. He did a better job. http://imgur.com/a/Jx2U6
Here’s the Rams “new” one.
February 23, 2015 at 7:13 pm in reply to: Grayson, Hundley, Petty, Carden etc. … the qbs this year #18950WinnbradParticipantIMO, it doesn’t matter who we draft, or where.
It comes down to this. Bradford stays healthy for 16 games, and we make the playoffs, or Bradford gets hurt, and we flounder below .500, again.
I do think we should draft a QB, and I mean the best available, whatever round that may be. Bradford is either going to stay healthy or he isn’t. My bet is that he isn’t, so it’s time to draft his replacement, and let the chips fall where they may. If Bradford stays healthy, great! If he doesn’t, then we’re moving forward without him.
This team has had 3 years of above average to good drafts. The QB is the last and most important piece. We still need one.
February 22, 2015 at 11:56 am in reply to: Grayson, Hundley, Petty, Carden etc. … the qbs this year #18863WinnbradParticipantHundley sounds like a 10 year vet.
February 18, 2015 at 9:39 pm in reply to: Balzer, Wagoner, and others on Bradford & rumors & contract talks #18675WinnbradParticipantHis agent is seeing what he can get for Bradford. That’s the agent’s job.
If a team is willing to give up a LOT for Bradford, the Rams will trade him. All it takes is the right price.
But the Rams ain’t trading Bradford.
Let the hardball begin.
WinnbradParticipantImagine, the Seahawks or Patriots or Ravens
or Packers losing the equivalent starters
at those positions. What would their
records have been then?
w
vIMO, those teams would have only needed to lose their QBs to be below .500. We can throw the Broncos in that group, too.
WinnbradParticipantI think a good QB, staying healthy all year, solves nearly all of the Rams problems, including Tavon.
February 10, 2015 at 2:59 pm in reply to: Insider Buzz: NFL Teams Want Sam Bradford, If Released, over Mariota & Winston #18282WinnbradParticipantWell, they are not letting him go. They may not trust him
but they are not letting him walk.Seems to me, Bradford has all the cards. I keep
hearing he has to take a pay cut to stay,
but i dont see what leverage the Rams have.w
vYeah, that’s what I think.
Maybe I’m missing something obvious, it happens a lot, but why would Bradford take any pay cut at all?
If the Rams *won’t* cut Bradford, then it seems he has nothing to gain by taking a pay cut.
So for me, the big question is, would the Rams cut him?
What are Bradford’s “most likely” options?
1. He plays the season under his current contract, stays healthy, plays 16 games, and probably has a decent to good season. He’s capable of that. At the end of the season, either the Rams pay him, or someone else will.
2. He plays the season under his current contract, gets hurt, and still gets paid everything that’s owed him. After that, he may not play again in the NFL, but I’m fairly certain some team would take a chance on him at a dirt cheap price. Won’t be the Rams, though.
So If I’m Bradford, I don’t see any reason to take a pay cut. Maybe he’d “take one for the team”, as they say, but I don’t know.
WinnbradParticipantAre the Rams willing to invest more time and money in Sam at this point?
Like Ag says, this is do-able. Extension, incentives based on playing time, roster bonuses etc. The kind of deal where he gets paid if he play, but if he can’t, the team is not out big bucks.
Maybe a “pay as you go” system. For every game Sam starts and finishes, $1 million. Ya got a 16 game season, ya gotta chance to make $16 mil. Double it for playoff games.
There. There’s an incentive.
🙂
WinnbradParticipantJuly 24.
WinnbradParticipantWisniewski, who made $938,000 in base salary last year, likely is looking for $3 million or more annually, the report said.
Seems like he might be the Rams number
one target. Yes? No?w
vI sure hope so. $3 million for a center than can start is chump change. Cut Wells, sign this Wisnieski guy, and move on.
WinnbradParticipantThe Hawks still have a good QB and a great D. They’re not gonna fall apart.
February 5, 2015 at 5:51 pm in reply to: Rams to promote QB coach Frank Cignetti to offensive coordinator #17983WinnbradParticipantSo the Rams will run the same “system”, whatever that means, as last year?
WinnbradParticipantI have no problem with the call by Carroll. If it works, he’s hailed as a genius. If it doesn’t, then Carroll is probably expecting, at worst, an incompletion, which stops the clock.
Very low chance of a sack on that type of play, and if there is one, Seattle still has one time out left.
And he still has two chances left to score.
It was just one of those crazy football plays. We’ve all seen hundreds of them. Heck, there was one two plays before that, with the wacky catch.
Tough break for Seattle. Great play by the NE corner.
WinnbradParticipantThat one was brutal.
Why did you make me relive that?
Sadist.
🙂 j/k
WinnbradParticipantLook. I dunno from this guy.
But I REALLY like the general concept here. This is what I have been saying.
Bradford and a career backup–even a pretty good one like Hill–are not enough.
Which leaves FA or the draft. The draft does not look to be a likely source of a good answer, this year at least.
What one can hope for from the draft is a developmental QB. But, even there, you need more than taking a flier on some 4th round schlub. You need a genuine prospect. I’m not demanding a guarantee–there aren’t any of those. But you need a guy who really does show something with a decent chance of panning out by, say, the 2nd half of the year.
Even better is a young guy with some success in the league and the promise of more. That’s the best of both worlds: the developmental upside of a draft pick and enough league experience to be viable as a starter over 14 games or so when Bradford goes down again.
Mack says …
If we have Foles, Bradford and Hill… I’d be damned happy.
Well, I’m not sure about Hill–or, of course, about this Foles guy–but this is indeed the right kind of formula.
Agreed. And the main reason I agree is that I simply don’t see a better formula.
WinnbradParticipantNo. I wish they would ban all players from talking to the media. We’d all be better served, but the almighty dollar wouldn’t. So…
WinnbradParticipantSo many variables. There’s just no way to know what’s going to happen with Foles. It’s too early.
But if he’s available, and the Rams can stomach the price, absolutely go after him.
WinnbradParticipantSo how come Bradford never did that? Hmmm?
See, no competitive edge.
We all know Bradford doesn’t have good ball awareness.
WinnbradParticipantManziel ended up being exactly the person the New England scouting report said he was.
January 22, 2015 at 8:27 am in reply to: Some clarification on Chudzinski & other coordinator search news #17128WinnbradParticipantThe word is the Colts really want to keep Chud. Doubtful he gets away. Possible, yeah, but not likely.
WinnbradParticipantOr, the primary processing center and the practical execution implementer.
Just sounds better, in this one case, than “heart” and “soul”….
Now that you mention it, your description is more accurate.
January 20, 2015 at 11:47 am in reply to: FRR- PFT: Browns interviewed Mike Martz for OC position #16926WinnbradParticipantThe Browns have no QB, and one good receiver. And they’re probably gonna dump him.
Even Martz in his prime couldn’t help them.
WinnbradParticipantI have no idea if the Pats did this or not, but from what I have read, so far, the Pats use different balls than the colts. So if they did deflate their own, it could have been a large advantage in the passing game.
No idea if any of that is true. Just saying.
I find it hard to believe the Pats would deflate balls if it helped Brady AND Luck. But if it just helped Brady…
WinnbradParticipantI think the Pats do the best job in the league at finding “pieces” that fit their team needs.
They seem to know when to let a guy go, and when to sign. I’m sure there are exceptions, but most of the time the Pats get it right.
Brady and Belli are as good as it gets at their jobs. Everyone else on that team can stay or go, but those two are the heart and soul.
January 17, 2015 at 5:52 pm in reply to: relocation: Former Raiders CEO Amy Trask Talks Kroenke, Rams' Future & Stadium #16756WinnbradParticipantThe more I read, the less I see of Stan’s leverage against St Louis, or the league.
If the draconian financial penalties can really be enacted against Stan, then he’s gonna have to do one hell of a sales job to convince 23 other owners to go along with his move to LA.
The land he bought in LA isn’t important, if St Louis comes through with a stadium deal that works. If that happens, Stan just sells the land.
The land did force St Louis to get off its butt and get some wheels turning, though.
I really don’t care where the Rams play, I’d just like for this whole situation to go away, and have the Rams concentrate entirely on football. They have a hard enough time winning games as it is. This moving nonsense won’t help, imo.
January 17, 2015 at 11:00 am in reply to: relocation: Former Raiders CEO Amy Trask Talks Kroenke, Rams' Future & Stadium #16740WinnbradParticipantSo it seems what Stan needs to do is convince 31 rich white guys, and the Green Bay Packers, that he isn’t a “rogue agent”.
That term seems kind of heavy-handed for a man that just wants to move a team, but I guess it makes the point. Sounds like he’s holding a white cat and launching a missile, though.
January 17, 2015 at 10:57 am in reply to: relocation: Former Raiders CEO Amy Trask Talks Kroenke, Rams' Future & Stadium #16739WinnbradParticipantThanks guys!
That helped.
January 17, 2015 at 10:14 am in reply to: relocation: Former Raiders CEO Amy Trask Talks Kroenke, Rams' Future & Stadium #16733WinnbradParticipantSo I read through all of these posts. I still don’t get it. But it’s early on a Saturday, and I’ve only had one cup of coffee. Help me, please.
Suppose Stan says, “I’m moving to LA”. What can anyone really do about it?
Can the other owners fine him? Stan could just not pay it.
The NFL isn’t gonna kick the Rams out of the league, no matter what their owner does.
So what penalty, that can be enforced, could the league impose on Stan? It would have to be something involving money, because I can’t see any other way of punishing an NFL owner. But what do I know?
January 12, 2015 at 6:11 pm in reply to: relocation thread #3, starting with Chargers stirring up a fight #16372WinnbradParticipantA fight with the Chargers? Eh, they’ll start strong, then fade.
WinnbradParticipantGood call. Ball hit the ground, wr lost control of it.
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