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wvParticipantGreg Cosell asking football-geek questions to a QB.
Bo Nix sounds like a smart QB.
wvParticipantThe thing about AD is this — You can hear someone say, “Matt Stafford is one of the greatest QBs ever…” and you dont tilt yer head. Its not slighting Stafford. Same deal with Kurt or Ike or Marshall, etc etc.
But you hear someone say, “Aaron Donald was ‘one’ of the greatest DT’s ever…” — and its like an insult.
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wvParticipantwvParticipantI guess it will look somethin like this?
wvParticipantThe kickoff rule confuses me. I’ll have to wait and see what it looks like, i guess.
I suppose the new rule may favor the smartest craftiest special teams coaches for the first year or so, until everyone gets up to speed.
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wvParticipantMina Kimes, 2nd mock. == Rams get Johnny Newton of Illinois. Whoever that is.
wvParticipantthis guy is purty funny
wvParticipantAt 4:07 mark. “Its gonna have to be McVay and Stafford that knock them off” (Chiefs)
wvParticipantMina Kimes mock draft. She picks two possible guys for the Rams:
Johnny Newton or Brock Bowers. (she says Bowers would score a million TD’s in McVay’s system)
At about the 33 minute mark.
wvParticipantIt’s just a matter of adding to the front 7. That’s not as simple as I just made it sound, but it’s not completely impossible either. The real unknown IMO is Shula as a DC.
Well, barring injury, i expect Shula to do well on the sideline. And he has no injury-history.
You see. I have run circles around you, logically.
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wvParticipantthis is a real bummer. i think the rams are still in contention for making the playoffs but that’s it. superbowl i think is out the door. you’re not just trying to replace a hall of famer. you’re trying to replace a guy against whom all others at his position and likely even other positions will be compared. i do think it’s useless to try and debate best defensive player ever. there’s just too many variables and it’s too subjective an argument. but the fact that he’s even in that realm to have such a discussion. how in the hell do you replace him? yeah with multiple players sure. but the odds of that in one year are nigh impossible. i’m happy for him. i certainly don’t want him walking away from the game physically and mentally a shell of himself. for that i am actually truly proud of him. it doesn’t surprise me either. i partially expected him to do something like this. he just strikes me as that type of guy. but it is a bummer from a selfish point of view.
Yeah, you dont replace him. And the defense ‘could’ be really lame. Dunno, yet.
But maybe they come up with a top-five offense, and a decent-enough defense.
They still have the best QB in the NFC. Thats a great start.
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wvParticipantDaniel Jeremiah’s mock.
Rams take someone named: Lalatu Latu
https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jeremiah-2024-nfl-mock-draft-3-0
wvParticipantIts interesting to compare Faulks makeup/characteristics to AD.
There’s some similarities — the football IQs etc.
But I dont remember people raving about Marshall’s ‘work ethic’. Was he known for the work ethic the way AD is/was?
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wvParticipant“..Garoppolo spent six seasons with the division-rival San Francisco 49ers and has an 8-0 record against the Rams in his career.”
sigh
Think McVay might pick JG’s brain a little.
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wvParticipantCards have Two number-one picks, a 2nd, and THREE 3rd round picks.
If they do well they could turn the corner.
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Arizona Cardinals Draft Picks by Round in 2024- Round 1, Pick 4.
- Round 1, Pick 27 (from HOU)
- Round 2, Pick 35.
- Round 3, Pick 66.
- Round 3, Pick 71 (from TEN)
- Round 3, Pick 90 (from HOU)
- Round 4, Pick 104.
- Round 5, Pick 138.
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wvParticipantDidnt realize this thread was extant.
I think its a perfect signing. Shows the Rams think they can contend next season.
Can you imagine if Stafford got hurt the week before a 49er game, and JG started for the Rams against Shanahan?
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wvParticipantI get why so many say AD is the greatest defender to ever play the game, but I personally can’t rank it that way. I put him on the same unranked elite tier with the greatest defenders plural of all time–Olsen, Jones, Lilly, Page, Greene, Taylor, Reggie White. It’s very select company. Rams always had a chance when AD played. Needless to say, they won’t be able to replace him with one guy. They will need 2-3 great ones for their defense to have the same luster again.
Yeah, i do it the same way. Reducing it down to one player always seems purty silly to me. It can be fun, but it aint real.
And how the heck do you compare/rank players who play different positions who played under different NFL rules ? LT vs AD, eg. Its silly.
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wvParticipantJimmy Garoppolo a ram ?
wvParticipantMina gets to J.Jackson at about the 3:30 mark or so.
wvParticipantwvParticipantOkay. Just don’t draft Bill Hawkins, Adam Carriker, or Sean Gilbert.
3/4s of Some sort of Mt. Rushmore, there.
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wvParticipantHas he said anything about ‘why’ he retired now? Just curious.
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wvParticipantGlad for AD that he’s getting out healthy and at the top of his game. How many players have walked away in that condition? Jim Brown. Barry Sanders. A few others maybe.
Merlin and AD. Both spent their whole careers as Rams.
I’m nonplussed, though. Still in shock. Thought sure he’d stick around two more years.
Certainly a big challenge for the Rams, now. Changes expectations, for me, anyway.
Big challenge. How do they manufacture pressure, now? Sigh.
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wvParticipantNick Wright has been high on the Rams for a while now. Has the Rams and the Lions in the tier just below the Chiefs.
(i like nick wright, btw. his tv-personna is truly-annoying, but if you can filter that out, i have noticed he tends to be right about a lot of things, and his analysis is often better than the other celebrity-pundits.)
wvParticipantwvParticipantI was a-thinkin maybe the Rams would get Flacco.
Who’s gonna be the backup?
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wvParticipantChris Long. Always so articulate. I wish the Rams experience had been more fun. Ah well.
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wvParticipantThe national media guys are all aflutter over the Russell Wilsons and Saquon Barkleys and D. Henrys, etc etc. The splashy stuff.
I havent heard a single word on the Rams and what they are doing.
But, man, i like what they have done so far. With a few hits on draft day, i think they can challenge the 49ers, Lions, and Packers for the NFC.
Give Stafford an inside running game, and inside protection, and he will be deadly as per usual, one would think.
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wvParticipantSignings.
- Released: CB Isaiah Oliver
- Re-signed: T Colton McKivitz (one year, $7M)
- Re-signed: QB Brandon Allen (TBD)
- Signed: EDGE Leonard Floyd (two years, $20M)
- Signed: EDGE Yetur Gross-Matos (two years, $18M)
- Re-signed: S George Odum (two years, $10M)
- Signed: DI Jordan Elliott (two years, $10M)
- Released: TE Will Dissly
- Released: S Quandre Diggs
- Released: S Jamal Adams
- Released: DI Bryan Mone
- Released: FB Nick Bellore
- Re-signed: TE Noah Fant (two years, $21M)
- Re-signed: DI Leonard Williams (three years, $64.5M)
- Re-signed: EDGE L.J. Collier (one year, TBD)
- Signed: CB Sean Murphy-Bunting (three years, $25.5M)
- Signed: DI Bilal Nichols (three years, $21M)
- Signed: DI Justin Jones (three years, $30.1M)
- Signed: LB Mack Wilson (three years, $12.75M)
- Signed: RB DeeJay Dallas (three years, $8.25M with upside to $10.5M)
- Extended: C Keith Ismael
wvParticipantI saw a bit of this vid and it startled me, because the guy talking to Jason Kelce is a body-builder knowns as ‘mountain dog’ on the internet, and — he is huge. His arms are like telephone poles. But compared to Kelce he looks like peewee herman.
Anyway, I cant see how the Eagles can replace Kelce. I suspect its the biggest single-player loss in the NFL this year.
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