Well, I dunno.   I think they are in that great mass of teams that are in the 7, 8 or 9 win territory.

I dont think they can be better than that with only one scary weapon on offense, and only one scary weapon on defense.

Who knows, though.  All things are Possible.

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“They didn’t have to reload in 2023 but IMO deciding to do so was very smart. Though…it had better work…”

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Not sure what you mean by ‘reload,’ zn.    Does reload mean ‘make a run’ next season, or take a down-season and ‘reload’ in 2024?

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Great to hear from you, Jim.

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Zooey wrote:

How much cap room would the Rams have if they got rid of everybody? Probably a lot.

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Yeah, probly a lot.   Almost as much as when they got rid of Chris Massey in 2011,

after he “made clean snaps on 702 out of 703 attempts including a run of 528 consecutive clean snaps.”

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I love the connection tween stafford and kupp.   Its a rare thing.

As long as stafford is playing, i would never trade kupp.   They are more like one thing to me: stafford-kupp.

Not time for a complete overhaul, imho.   Try and draft well, and see what the Oline really is, and reassess after this season.

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No ring without Odell.   Good team-mate, it seemed.   Turned his career around, and made the Rams offense good enough to win the Ring.

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

I’m not sure the Rams have ‘ever’ had a reporter as good as Rodrigue. I cant think of one that was better. w v

I feel exactly the same way. She’s a treasure. She brings her own wit and charm to her writing. In fact as a writer-per-se, strictly speaking, she has real gifts and an ear and a feel–she has chops. But at the same time she’s an actual real football geek. She has a flaw, though IMO it’s minor. She’s a bit of an access journalist, so tends to mirror inside perceptions sometimes instead of exposing them. On the entire Goff situation in 2020, for example, she tended to just portray it as Goff “not taking the next step.” Thirry, of all people (who no longer covers the Rams) decided to phone around to all the former offensive coaches who had been with the McVay Rams, and ask them about it. As a result she painted a much different picture of that situation than Rodrigue did, one I think that was much more illuminating. But no writer is perfect and sometimes exactly what we want is a picture of what the insiders are thinking (like now). Plus Rodrigue is an invested, enthusiastic communicator who actually uses twitter to very good effect. As a writer, she often has a way of saying “this is how it looks to me” and you just know as a dedicated Rams fan that how it looks to her has real meat to it, it’s not just impressions, it’s insights. And again no writer on the Rams has ever had the kind of absolutely geeked-out football knowledge she does. She’s a real student of the game, and a very advanced one. That she seems grounded, decent, and amiable as a person just adds to it all.

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Well….now, its a ‘rebuild’

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I would think Stafford had to ok this kind of thing.

Didnt seem like the two ever formed any kind of on-field-bond.

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Interesting.    Do they ‘have’ to trade him for cap-relief?    I would think not, but I dunno.

They’d have to get a lot in return for him, for it to make any sense to me, unless they just have to for cap reasons.

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Some interesting discussion of the Chiefs OC, going to Washington.

First thing i would do is Not have any key injuries.

2nd, I’d sign one of the 49ers coaches so McVay can figure out exactly why the 49ers own the Rams.

3rd, I’d accept the fact they probly cant be an ‘elite’ team next year, but they can be a ‘good’ team and make the playoffs.  Not enough cap space to make this a team that could compete with the Chiefs, etc.

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Yeah, the ‘why didnt socialism grow in the US?’ question has a three-part answer, it would seem:

1.  The massive violent suppression by the powers-that-still-be.
2.  Massive, never-ending, 24/7, birth-to-death, pro-capitalist propaganda.
3.  Capitalism itself causes citizens to have little time/energy for study.

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Looks like the two best teams got in.   Usually i root for the team that hasnt won a Ring in a while, but both these teams have won in the last decade.   I dunno.   Just cant find a reason to root even mildly for either team.

Strange two years for the Rams.   Last year and this year.

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Yall may want to watch Skip Bayless suffer.