If Peyton could play for one coach now, who would it be?   Kyle Shanahan.

Raheem would probly take half of McVay’s staff with him.   Sigh.

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Noteboom will be an interesting decision.   How much is he really worth to the Rams?

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Vrabel’s record at Tenn:

9-7

9-7

11-5

12-5

7-10

6-11

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That is not a bad record.

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Radio broadcast would be just fine with me, then. w v

And what if the only way to listen to it is to subscribe to Sirius?

Well, i would join the Weather Underground, and proudly use my rams mug, among them.

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Looking at this stat–excluding quarterbacks, where does KW rank on “rushing yards before contact per attempt” ? He’s tied for 1st (with McAffrey) at 3.2. And no other Ram is even close. The next on the list is Rivers and Freeman at 2.5, which is tied for 18th. So with KW it’s both the OL blocking well and KW reading/using his blocks really well. KW actually isn’t that impressive after contact. He doesn’t rank very high there (he ranks just about the middle of the league on that stat, 20th of 47). His major damage is done before contact–reading and using the blocking while reading the defenders who are attacking the LOS. 726 of his total 1144 yards rushing come before contact.

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Yeah, this matches up with the eyeball conclusion.    He’s a genius at quickly deciding on/creating the best hole.   What Cooper Kupp has been to Stafford,  K. Williams has been with his Offensive Linemen.   There’s a ‘synergy’ or a sharing-of-one-brain, or ‘somethin.’   And it ‘has’ to involve coaching, as well.   Some OLine coach is ‘in on this’.

I cant remember ‘enjoying’ watching ‘the way’ a RB runs this much since Faulk.   And since Faulk had more talent, its almost ‘more’ fun to watch KW because he’s doing it with less raw-measurable-talent.

Its often a subtle nuanced talent.  And it took me a while to ‘see it.’   But once you see it, you just have to smile on almost every run.  Whether its a one yard gain or a fifteen yard gain he’s ‘do’in shit’ out there.

AND, despite him not being Earl Campbell after-contact, he does have a fun ‘pop’ when he’s pass blocking.  And he blocks cleanly, efficiently.  Some backs just look like they are gonna hurt themselves pass-blocking.  He knows how to hurt the other guy with one shot.

Fun team.  Really fun team.  Stafford’s out-of-this-world accuracy and boldness.   Kupp’s brilliant-shifty-ness.    Pakua’s competitive professionalism and enthusiasm.   KW.  Aaron Donald.  The Conductor.  Swiss-army knife Higby.   The big bad Guards.

Just a few players and a kicker shy of being Ring worthy.

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Goff’s numbers.  Fwiw.  Good QB.   Good enough?

https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/jared-goff-career-stats-outdoors

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Reading around on SF.   Did you know they have FOUR guys over 1000 yards?    The GSOT never had that, right?

Kittle, McCaffrey, Aiyuk, Deebo.     And Purdy has over 4000 yards passing.

“…The Lions also have an outside shot at it but would need rookie Sam LaPorta to get 136 yards to join Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery with at least 1,000 yards from scrimmage. Jared Goff already has hit the 4,000-yard mark in passing..”

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Wiki “..Bruss was drafted by the Rams in the third round, 104th overall, of the 2022 NFL Draft. He suffered a torn ACL and MCL in the team’s second preseason game and was ruled out for his rookie season.  On August 29, 2023, Bruss was waived by the Rams and re-signed to the practice squad.”

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Well, I had forgotten about Bruss.   No-one has taken him off the Practice Squad, so i guess no other NFL team likes him, either.

Yeah, i guess with all this talk about how good Snead is, 2022 was not a great draft class as far as number of hits.    Though, Kyren is so good, I dunno — i might just give the class a B+ just based on that one hit.

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Enh. I’ve seen all this too many times now. Somebody doing really well on a line with Aaron Donald. I dunno how good Turner really is. He’s certainly played well, and he’s ‘solid’ and he was a great draft pick. But more than that, I dunno. w v

that’s a valid point but he should still be in the conversation. at the very least. i don’t know that mainstream media is actually talking about him as a candidate.

Sure, he should be ‘in the conversation’ as to Defensive Rookie of the Year.

And he will be.  Cause LA has a good hype-machine, etc.   It aint like trying to get a Cincy or Cleveland player some national ink.

I’d be curious how the various DC’s talk about him in the film room, though.   IF AD wasnt there, would Turner get double-teamed?   Is he that kind of wrecking-ball?   Or just a solid DT benefiting from AD?

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“..Despite all of the success he and the Rams have had with the Shanahan scheme, McVay sought out new ideas from outside his coaching tree.”

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One wonders if this had something to do with Shanahan beating McVay so often.   Always seems like Shanahan is one step ahead of McVay, I dunno.

But if I had been in the situation McVay was in, I would have thought to myself, ‘maybe i need to go outside the Shanahan box, just so Shanahan cant predict every move i’m gonna make anymore’.

Possible?   Yes?  No?

Or did McVay simply hire the coaches he happened to think were the ‘best available’.

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