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wvParticipantI was not excited about the CJ pick, but…damn. After that crying-vid i gotta root for the kid now.
He reminds me a little bit of Stedman Bailey, btw.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantSometimes ya gotta slow down to feel the speed up.
wvParticipantwvParticipantOk, Ty is our guy now, so we are all gonna root for him, etc etc.
But just curious about what you guyz would do, if you could make the pick at 13, and
you had these choices (all players that went after pick 13) :1 Ty simpson
2 Reuben Bain, Edge, Miami
3 M.Lemon, WR, USC
4 Blake Miller, OT, Clemson
5 KC Concecion, WR, Texas AM
6 Kenyon Sadiq, TE, Oregon
7 Omar Cooper, wR, IndianaI get all the rational/reasonable reasons for taking Ty. But, man, picture adding Bain to the rotation on the DLine this year. Or Lemon to offense. I would have taken either of those two If I had been picking.
There’s a lot to like about the Ty pick, though. I get that. Intriguing, bold, gamble by McSnead.
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vwvParticipantOld school football: dont be too nice
wvParticipantWhats the plan if Stafford goes down for a month or so?
What if its in the first part of the season — is Ty-15-college-starts going to be the Rams back-up QB? Or are they keeping Stetson and carrying three QBs?
Whats the back-up QB plan?
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vwvParticipant“..This and last year’s draft classes both hint at a team identifying players who should contribute two or three years into their career,
not immediately — therefore stockpiling additional cheap contracts.”I dont really understand this. I certainly dont understand how drafting ‘players who should contribute two or three years’ later equals ‘stockpiling additional cheap contracts.’
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vwvParticipantBrowns took an excellent OT prospect and 2 of the best WR prospects that we were all familiar with.
It would not surprise me if the Browns and Bengals finished ahead of the Steelers and Ravens.
1 (9) Fano OT
1 (24) KC Concepcion WR
2 (39) D.Boston WR
2 (58) McNeil-Warren S
3 (86) Barber OT
5 (146) Brailsford C
5 (149) Jefferson LB
5 (170) Royer TE
6 (182) T.Green QB
7 (248) Ryan TEwvParticipantInteresting pick by the Eagles.
wvParticipantAmong the NFL free agents still available:
WR Tyreek Hill
CB L’Jarius Sneed
I think they should sign Tyreek and L’Jarius.
Maybe Travis Kelce as well.
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vwvParticipantTy keeps his receipts.
wvParticipantGreg Olsen on Ty
wvParticipantTy Simpson, apparently has a lot of experience behind bad Olines.
April 26, 2026 at 9:54 pm in reply to: general draft grades & assessments from everyone (including us) #163661wvParticipantwvParticipantSeems like that will create a tsunami of great players will hit next year. They can’t stay in college forever.
I read that Ty made 800,000 at Alabama.
According to A.I.
“Miami offered Simpson approximately $6.5 million, with other schools like Tennessee and Ole Miss offering between $4–6.5 million to enter the transfer portal.
NFL Comparison: By entering the 2026 NFL draft, Simpson’s rookie contract with the Los Angeles Rams is projected to be around $25.4 million, with $4.6 million in the first year”
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vwvParticipantI guess its clear now that the Name-Image-Likeness (NIL) money has allowed kids to stay in college and so the later rounds of the draft just arent going to be as good anymore. Maybe no more Pukas in the 6th round, etc.
“last year rounds 6-7 wiped out because of NIL. This year rounds 4-7 wiped out because of NIL”
April 26, 2026 at 4:30 pm in reply to: general draft grades & assessments from everyone (including us) #163648wvParticipantMike Greenberg: “Its a terrible pick”
wvParticipantIn fact he may have the best legs of any decent starting qb they’ve had since I first started watching them. Not a Vick, but good enough.
Yeah, i stand corrected on the mobility thing. He’s in the Purdy category as far as running. He’s actually a bit faster than Purdy according to 40 times.
Though, fwiw, the analyst in one of the vids i posted up there said Ty was not very accurate when passing on the run.
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vwvParticipantWhen I first started reading your post, I immediately thought of Brees. But then you mentioned him.
Fwiw Joe Montana was 6’2, 200.
It’s a different era of course but great 6’0 and 6’1 qbs include Bart Starr, Unitas, Fran Tarkenton, Sonny Jurgensen, Len Dawson, Joe Theismann, and Billy Kilmer.
So oh ye, be it known-eth, it has-eth been done-eth.
Yeah, i thought of those golden-agers. Fran had a good career, of course, too. I just dont think we can compare the 70’s guys to todays players. I tend to think of todays era as starting in the 90s, maybe? I dunno.
Back in the old days Roman Gabriel was one of the few tall QBs. He was 6’4 and 220 or so, as i recall. I remember having a magazine back in 1970 or so, with an article about Roman. (i kept it for, like 30 years). The article was about how Roman Gabriel represented the coming age of ‘giant’ quarterbacks. The new prototype.
I also separate out the ‘mobile’ QBs from the pocket guys. I think of Ty as a Pocket QB. A smallish pocket QB in the modern era. So ya got Brees, and….not much else that i can remember from the 90’s on.
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vApril 26, 2026 at 10:57 am in reply to: general draft grades & assessments from everyone (including us) #163624wvParticipantGeneral assessment? Hmmmm.
Ty Simpson, Klare, Trost, CJ Daniels, Keenan.
Sigh. Well, there’s not a single player there I’m really excited about.
Like everybody else, I’ll just wait and see, and hope for the best, of course. But I cant remember a McSnead draft that i was less excited about.
Bring on the Undrafted kids. I’d love to see them add a couple special-teams demons.
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vwvParticipantSo Lemon went to the Eagles in that unusual trade with the Cowboys.
In wv-brain, Lemon and Ty are now forever linked.
Like Suh and Bradford, or Goff and Wentz.
I shall keep my eye on Lemon and the Eagles.
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vwvParticipantOr his wife got mad because she found out that day that the Rams intended to draft a quarterback at 13. I can just hear the squabble. “The man I married would have taken a receiver.”
All i know is we now need an ‘angry shark’ emoji around here.
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vwvParticipantBrock Purdy is also 6’1″.
Brock Purdy isn’t Matthew Stafford, but he’s good enough. And if the Rams got Brock Purdy for close to Free, then that’s a W.
The question is: can McVay develop a QB? I would think he will be more patient because he doesn’t want to make the same mistake he already made with Goff, so maybe.
Yeah, and R.Wilson was smallish. There’s been some good ones. But i think the height thing has also limited Wilson and Purdy. I always thought the Rams took advantage of Wilson’s smallishness.
Wilson and Purdy could both RUN pretty effectively too. I dont think that is a big part of Ty’s game, really.
Probably the only modern smallish QB that really was an outlier was Drew Brees. He was a pocket guy and he had the Hall of Fame career. But, man, its just not what ya want. A smallish QB.
As Dominique Foxworthy (who i have a ton of respect for) said: the pick was a big risk. He didnt argue against the pick. Didnt say it was a ‘bad’ pick. Just that it was a big risk. They coulda had a sure thing, like Lemon, and they rolled the dice that next year’s team would be good enough…
Course you can argue ‘anything’ — you can argue it would be a big risk NOT to take a future-QB when you have the chance, blah blah.
If they lose the Super Bowl because Davante has a bad hamstring, I will, of course, be a gigantic pain in the ass.
…I’m still hoping an OBJ type deal is coming down the road.
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vwvParticipantThat’s about as good as it gets.
Okay. She buried my concern.
I do think McVay was upset about something, though. And that’s the first thing he offered as an explanation, that there was something unrelated to the pick that agitated him. The concern about Stafford came out later, and doesn’t add up to me. But there’s a plethora of possibilities. Maybe they were *THIS* close to trading back a couple of slots and getting some bonus as well as getting their guy, and it fell through. Or maybe his wife is mad because he left the milk out on the counter again, and it spoiled, and now the kids have no milk. In fact, that’s what I think I’m going with.
Yeah, when Jordan is in topform she is as good as it gets. She’s always emphasizing her interest in ‘processes.’
Btw, is it…’normal procedure’ to tell your Hall of Fame QB that you are drafting another QB on the DAY of the Draft? I woulda thot they would talk to Stafford about it a month ago.
I dunno what was bothering McVay after the first round pick was made. I just assumed ‘something’ went wrong in the draft. In the past the draft has always seem to fall just right for McSnead. Not this time.
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vApril 25, 2026 at 9:57 pm in reply to: general draft grades & assessments from everyone (including us) #163576wvParticipantwvParticipantKlatt on Ty
wvParticipantSchefter says they didnt receive a single call to trade down, so they were stuck at 13.
wvParticipantThe Los Angeles Rams made the decision to trade up in the NFL draft on Saturday, after doing so twice last year. They moved up to the 197th selection, adding Miami Hurricanes wide receiver CJ Daniels.
See, this just PROVES they botched this draft. They could have gotten their future Hall Of Fame franchise QB with that last 7th round pick. But they frittered it away for the WR.
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vwvParticipantTrue. But the point is, with a good defense they wouldn’t need the offense to be #1 every game. We already saw how having the #1 offense didn’t matter against Seattle since the Rams also had what turned out to be the #17 defense.
The defense should be better. Indeed.
They coulda made the offense better with a stud WR. Instead they picked Simpson.
Seattle is right there with the Rams. (Not to mention the Bears, Lions, Packers, 49ers, Eagles…) I think they coulda used another great WR.
Ok, I’ve said my piece on this issue.
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