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August 22, 2026 at 5:34 pm in reply to: game thread–Saints, 8/22 (broadcast: Long, Rodrigue, Hav) #165504
wvParticipantHe beat Alex Wollschlaeger, undrafted rookie out of Kentucky.
Bailey, undrafted out of Louisville. 6’5″ 265 lbs.
AI Overview Wesley Bailey recorded a 4.69-second 40-yard dash and a 1.53-second 10-yard split during his athletic testing.At 6-foot-5 and 265 pounds, the Los Angeles Rams edge rusher displays very good overall speed for his size, earning a Relative Athletic Score (RAS) of 9.83 out of 10.00. His acceleration and burst metrics are highlighted by analysts as a strong part of his initial quickness off the line of scrimmage.
August 22, 2026 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Just a thread for different kindsa interesting things #165500wvParticipantFast robots
wvParticipantRams look good dawg
wvParticipant.. If Davante Adams is getting double-teamed in the red zone, Ferguson has the tools and build to mimic the things Adams did last season.
I am skeptical. Adams might be a Hall of Famer. Thats all I’m gonna say.
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vwvParticipantTook a break from my dystopia/post-apocalyptic reading. (My favorite post-apoc book so far has been Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi)
Started a book called Kill Billionaire, by Anders Lustgarten. I’m only on page 50 or so, and its already my favorite little book of the last few years. Its perfect. Thats all I’m saying. And it will never be reviewed by any MSM site.
A bit on Anders, fwiw:
Anders Lustgarten is Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, where his first two plays, The Insurgents (2007) and Enduring Freedom (2008), were produced. Other work includes The Punishment Stories, (shortlisted for the 2007 Verity Bargate Award), an adaptation of Slawomir Mrozek’s The Police (BAC 2007), The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (2010) for the National Theatre Studio and If You Don’t Let Us Dream Then We Won’t Let You Sleep (Royal Court, 2013). Anders is a political activist, has taught on Death Row, been arrested by the Turkish secret police, and holds a PhD in Chinese politics from the University of California. He also won the inaugural Harold Pinter Playwrights Award with a commission from the Royal Court in 2011.
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vwvParticipantmy hope is that he can be the second option over adams or at least show the potential to eventually be that. doesn’t have to be a kelce caliber player.
Well they definitely dont have a Kelce but maybe they can all add up to a Kelce. Parkinson is the tallest at 6’7″ (4.77 in the 40) Maybe he will be the best in the redzone.
Max Klare is the smallest of the group at 6’4″. (4.70 forty) But hes sposed-to-be good after the catch.
Higby is 6’6″ and has been there, and done that.
I dunno. How do the Rams weapons really stack up compared to the other contenders:
Puka, Adams, Higby, Ferguson, Klare, Parkinson, Kyren, Corum, Whittington, Mumpfield, CJ, X-Smith.
Is it enough?
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vwvParticipantSigh.
wvParticipant“Coming in (last year), I never expected to play the positions I’m playing,” Ferguson said. “Being able to play F, Z, Y and X, all of them together, it’s definitely been a big jump. … They ask me to do a lot of things down the field but then also be reliable on the line of scrimmage. It’s about finding that happy medium.”
———–Can certainly see how it would take more than one year to become comfortable at this position.
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vwvParticipantThere’s just no argument they’ve drafted well.
Thats interesting.
I would say though, that not ever position is equal. If you draft a good QB, it goes a long way in the new-NFL. I mean, how many linebackers and safetys and tight ends does it take to equal a QB ?
Think about the Browns. I suspect they have drafted pretty well the last few years. But they have so totally botched the QB position that it doesnt matter.
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vwvParticipantSome of these made me laugh out loud.
wvParticipantSome more thoughts on Ferguson. I don’t think anyone is saying he’s a Kelce, Gronkowsi, or Winslow etc. It’s that the 13 personnel packages give someone like Ferguson an opportunity. He becomes the deep threat in a 13 personnel package the defense must defend as a whole. He has enough raw talent to do that much, if he is developing into a solid pro.
Time will tell, but If they liked Ferguson so much…why did they pick another move-tight-end in the second round the very next year?
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantCooper.
wvParticipantwhat Ferguson gives them is a tall, big deep threat with good hands.
Well if he turns out to be a ‘deep threat’ that would be great. But he’s a 4.63 guy. (He seems a little clunky to me)
Kenyon Sadiq by comparison is 4.39. Evan Engram 4.42. So, i dunno.
Granted Kellen Winslow ran a 4.62 at the combine. But, as you know he was a bum.
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vAugust 18, 2026 at 6:26 pm in reply to: Note: no chat for the KC pre-season game, this is our game thread #165428wvParticipantwvParticipantthe only thing is i think that’s michael hoecht in the 97 jersey which tells me that it’s an old video. poona ford wears the 97 jersey now and that is definitely not poona.
Well damn. Good catch.
I swear I am always wary of EVERY vid i post these days. This post-modern-AI-internet is exasperating.
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vwvParticipanti guess it means one of two things. either higbee has fallen far off his peak form or ferguson has a true breakout year. i’m hoping for the latter. i actually hope that he surpasses even davante. it’d mean that the rams have two young viable targets beyond this season with adams heading toward free agency and higbee toward retirement. and then maybe one or two of daniels and klare breakout the season after that.
Well, did you see Ferguson flash any traits last year? I just didnt see anything that really popped. Just seemed like ‘a guy’ to me. What did you see?
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantAtkins: … But I believe Terrance Ferguson will emerge from that group as the player worthy of an every-week, game-planned role. The best version of this offense will have Ferguson leading the tight ends in catches and yards, and finishing third on the team in both categories behind Adams and Nacua.
Maybe. But I think Higbee is still the best receiving TE they have and if he’s healthy I think he’s better than Ferguson.
This is a guy that had 72 receptions in 2022. He only played 3 games in 2024 and 10 games in 2025. So, is he still the 70-reception guy, or, is he the 33 year-old injured guy ?
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vwvParticipant‘too much love for veterans’
August 18, 2026 at 12:04 pm in reply to: Note: no chat for the KC pre-season game, this is our game thread #165416wvParticipantMina on Ty
wvParticipantA star player point of view.
But how do you keep rich teams from dominating without a salary cap? Or, does that not matter anymore. Is it all ‘just entertainment’ now?
August 18, 2026 at 8:45 am in reply to: Note: no chat for the KC pre-season game, this is our game thread #165414wvParticipantHasselbeck on Ty
wvParticipantNo reason anyone should have been following this story, but I have (i dunno why). In a nutshell, the Owner of the LA Clippers NBA team did some weasely things to get around the NBA’s salary-cap. More than once. And the NBA is ‘investigating’ it.
What does a pro-league do when someone too-big-to-fail has done something wrong? And how does a sports-media-corp (ESPN) that is in bed with the NBA cover such a topic?
August 18, 2026 at 7:15 am in reply to: different stuff the Rams do that makes them the Rams #165412wvParticipant‘Culture’ is an interesting, messy subject. For starters, does it even matter? Nobody seems to think the Eagles have the best culture but they have outperformed the Rams over the last 12 years. If anything a lot of folks see the Eagles as kinda dysfunctional in the culture dept, dont they? I dunno. But they have that great personnel guy as GM.
Maybe a great personnel dept is the foundation of ‘culture.’ Picking great and good players to begin with.
Whatever McSnead are doing I am not sure how well it has transferred to McVay’s coaching tree.
PS – by FAR, the most interesting thing in that article (to me) was the change from “We Not Me” to “We, then Me.” I wonder what Lombardi or George Allen would think of that. Someone studying capitalism or post-modernism or a dozen other isms could have a field day with that little change.
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The 7 Current and Former Head Coaches from McVay’s StaffMatt LaFleur: Green Bay Packers (2019–present)
Zac Taylor: Cincinnati Bengals (2019–present)
Brandon Staley: Former Los Angeles Chargers (2021–2023)
Kevin O’Connell: Minnesota Vikings (2022–present)
Raheem Morris: Former Atlanta Falcons (2024–2025)
Liam Coen: Jacksonville Jaguars (2025–present)
Mike LaFleur: Arizona Cardinals (Hired in 2026)wvParticipantJaxson Dart puzzled again.
August 16, 2026 at 8:07 pm in reply to: Note: no chat for the KC pre-season game, this is our game thread #165391wvParticipantJust some internet yapping about Ty.
August 16, 2026 at 7:30 pm in reply to: Note: no chat for the KC pre-season game, this is our game thread #165390wvParticipantAh, so, you are the board Lemonite.
Every board has one.
All I can tell you is, if you don’t have a Lemon, you don’t need no Lemon aid.
If our 38-year-old QB-with-a-bad-back goes down, I am going to throw a lemon-fit.
August 16, 2026 at 4:46 pm in reply to: Note: no chat for the KC pre-season game, this is our game thread #165385wvParticipantOline/Dline play. Klare getting beat.
August 16, 2026 at 4:36 pm in reply to: Note: no chat for the KC pre-season game, this is our game thread #165384wvParticipantI don’t have a single negative thing to say about Ty Simpson’s on-field-play, in that game. He did well in his first game. Seemed more prepared for a road, vanilla-NFL-pre-season game than i expected.
It ‘is’ jarring to watch any QB who isnt Matt Stafford, though. Its hard for me to watch it. I’ve gotten used to elite QB play.
My only complaint about Ty at this point is that, overall, he is not as good a WR as Makai Lemon.
If Stetson (or gawd-forbid, Ty Simpson) really ends up being the back-up on this all-in super-team, I am going to question McSnead’s sanity. In my opinion it will be one of the worst bonehead decisions in ram history.
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