zn wrote:

wv wrote:

I assume he can help Mannion learn the game.

w
v

I sincerely doubt they have him doing any qb coaching. No one is going to have 2 qb coaches–you would think they would just get in each others’s way. Plus of course if they did have TWO qb coaches one would quite simply have to take orders from the other, and why would Garcia take that job?

My bet is that Garcia does some film stuff, quality control stuff, brainstorming input stuff, maybe “as needed” drill work stuff, that kind of thing. IMO you don’t get a qb up to snuff by giving him mixed messages, and on the other hand you don’t hire a guy like Garcia to just make himself into the qb coach’s bot.

Yeah, that makes sense.

But if Wienke gets injured
at least now they have depth
at QB coach.

w
v

Good. Everything I’ve read about Garcia
has suggested he’s dynamic and intelligent.

I assume he can help Mannion learn the game.

w
v

Hram wrote:

We still have some money available for this year. Do we sign a player or two? Perhaps a veteran grunt OG or two for not too much money? Or do we restructure a current contract and pull some money forward into this year to save it for future years?
Blalock?

I would think they will sign a vet guard.
Someone will shake loose at some point.

If they dont, i guess it would mean
they have a lot of faith in someone
already on the team.

w
v

Zooey wrote:

InvaderRam wrote:

wv wrote:

The question is Why? What is he up to?

i believe he’s trying to give me diarrhea.

That’s Wagoner’s take on all this.

Wagoner has never been a voice of reason though;
Lets wait for Bernie to weigh in
before we start speculating wildly
about Invaders evacuation crisis.

Greg Robinson at LT, The Rookie Frankenstein at RT.
Could be pretty entertaining. Kinda. In a way.

w
v

InvaderRam wrote:

wv wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

“Base minimum, $350K to sign, $1M more available in incentives.”

WOW, Joe lost some big money somewhere. He needs a different agent. imo</span></span>

That cant be right.
There is no way he is valued by NFL teams at
that low a price.

That would really surprise me.

w
v

i agree. if rams couldn’t beat that, i don’t know what to say. unless barksdale was just so pissed off that he refused to re-sign with the rams.

I’m skeptical about those numbers.

Obviously, the nefarious, dangerous and wily Ag
is trying to feed us disinformation.
The question is Why? What is he up to?

w
v

Agamemnon wrote:

“Base minimum, $350K to sign, $1M more available in incentives.”

WOW, Joe lost some big money somewhere. He needs a different agent. imo

That cant be right.
There is no way he is valued by NFL teams at
that low a price.

That would really surprise me.

w
v

• This reply was modified 10 years, 10 months ago by wv.

nittany ram wrote:

What – my critique of the o-line frightens you?

Typical. Hiding in your borrow like a terrified meadow vole
while men of vision like myself courageously speak up…

In defense of Zooey, I dont see how he could possibly
be a meadow vole, since they live in the East.

Perhaps, Mr Science, you meant to say
Zooey was acting like California Vole:

California vole
California meadow mouse / Microtus californicus
http://www.volecontrol.com/california_vole.html
w
v
————-
http://nysipm.cornell.edu/factsheets/treefruit/pests/vole/vole.asp
Meadow Vole and Pine Vole

Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord)
Microtus pinetorum (LeConte)

Introduction
Meadow voles occur throughout most of the northern and eastern United States and Canada in low wetlands, open grasslands, and orchards. Meadow voles are most active above the ground, as evidenced by surface trails (Fig. 1) often littered with droppings and grass cuttings in the ground vegetation where they live. They sometimes live underground where the soil has been cultivated or where a burrow system is already present.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 10 months ago by wv.

Zooey wrote:

Things are never easy, are they?
…
I will say this.
My compassion level for Phillips just went up.
I find that’s what information often does to early judgement.

For twenty years I’ve experience that same exact dynamic:
1 Judge appoints me to represent a defendant who’s done a terrible thing.
2 I read the police report on the terrible thing.
3 I have a visceral reaction to the terrible thing.
4 I then actually talk to the defendant who did the terrible
thing, and find out about his childhood…and by the time
the meeting is over, i end up thinking, “geez, if I’d had
that childhood, I’d have done the same terrible thing…”

Society creates Frankensteins and
then punishes them for being monsters.

Yours truly,
wv ram, system-blamer.
————
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

laram wrote:

1. Screen, smoke, suck
So here’s this first-round slot receiver the Rams invested the No. 9 overall pick on. You would think maybe he’d be shifty enough to actually garner a missed tackle or two on some screens.
Instead, Austin seemed almost utterly preoccupied with how fast he could put his foot in the ground and get upfield. It is true that Austin’s speed is world-class — that stood out even on these failed screens. But Austin was not powerful enough to take a hit while shifting his weight, nor does he have the balance to re-establish himself on glancing blows of the NFL caliber.
The result was that the Rams had an 18 percent Success Rate on screen passes to their jitterbug receiver. Did Schottenheimer have some involvement in this? Sure. His screen designs were either completely base or so agonizingly complicated that you’d think he found them in Ulysses.
But the main problem the Rams had with these plays last year was that Austin had no ability to make anyone miss in open space. After watching some college tape, I don’t think he completely lacks this ability. But I do think he never properly adjusted to the NFL’s speed and tackling, and I do wonder how coaching may have contributed to that.

I always enjoy reading your opinions, LA. I have noticed
over the years that you are usually right about
your ‘personnel evaluations’.

Good to see you on the ‘little’ board 🙂

Doesn’t look like Tavon was worth the trade-up
at this point. But…perhaps he will improve
this year. We’ll see.

w
v

• This reply was modified 10 years, 10 months ago by wv.

Well i agree with everything thats been said,
but i ‘also’ think they could use him
better. I’d use him more on deep routes
for example. I would not want him
running little stop routes in the
middle of zones.

At any rate, we know they are ‘simplifying’
some things on offense. So they
must have decided they needed
to adjust more to the players
they have.

w
v

• This reply was modified 10 years, 10 months ago by wv.

Well, I doubt they have the talent to really
‘impose their will’ on teams in the passing game
(to use an RFL-ism)

But I am assuming they will get better as Foles
and the receivers go through the timing-curve
together.

I would think we are gonna see a lot of
close games this year. Games that come
down to a kick at the end. That sort of thing.

w
v

I would have taken him in the 6th or 7th round
myself, IF there was zero evidence he did
anything wrong.

w
v