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znModerator30 touchdowns over the last 3 seasons.
Only Ja’Marr Chase has more.New Rams WR Davante Adams is tied for 2nd.#RamsHouse #DavanteAdams #NFLStats #TouchdownLeader #WRRanking #LAFBNetwork #NFL2025 pic.twitter.com/T3XgZ5bBRj
— LAFB Network (@LAFBNetwork) July 12, 2025
znModeratorSince 2015, the Rams are the ONLY NFC West team that hasn’t finished last in the division.#RamsHouse #NFCWest #NFLStats #MatthewStafford #LAFBNetwork #49ers #Seahawks #Cardinals #NFL2025 pic.twitter.com/8BknpdPIHO
— LAFB Network (@LAFBNetwork) July 12, 2025
July 12, 2025 at 10:06 am in reply to: Just a thread for different kindsa interesting things #157041znModeratorI see you avoided mention of Sui Juris Ram
I lost track of who that is.
znModeratorLAFB Network@LAFBNetwork
Iron man mentality 💪Quentin Lake was one of just three defenders in the entire NFL to play every single defensive snap through Week 17 last season. The Rams gave him a rest in Week 18 with the playoffs locked up.
znModerator— Jim Youngblood 53 (@53_jim70721) July 12, 2025
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Adams has been with the Rams for a few months now and needless to say, he’s loved his time so far. He was on the “Dan Patrick Show” this week and was effusive with praise for McVay when asked what the Rams coach is like.
“Just like everybody says,” Adams said. “I haven’t heard anybody say anything different about McVay. I think of any coach ever spoken about to me, it’s been the most uniform feedback ever. And then I got around him and he completely validated all of it.”
In his career, Adams played for Mike McCarthy, Matt LaFleur, Josh McDaniels, Antonio Pierce and Jeff Ulbrich, so it’s been a mix of good and bad. But with McVay, Adams loves the energy he brings every day and the way he coaches.
Adams says McVay isn’t someone who ridicules his players for making mistakes, which he appreciates.
“He’s got energy, but it’s all legit. It’s real,” he added. “You can feel him. You just love being around his energy. Even when you don’t do things right, you may have messed something up, you don’t feel that, like, ‘Oh, my coach is going to come down on me.’ He’s going to correct you and he’s going to hold you accountable, but it’s just a different feeling in that building right now, for sure.”
znModeratorI did not see that coming.
I wonder what Sui Juris Ram would make of this.
Actually as it happens I’ve heard this concept before. Mastering fire and so cooking food gave us more and more easily consumed nutrients, thereby providing the energy we need to power larger brains.
from Why Fire Makes Us Human—Cooking may be more than just a part of your daily routine, it may be what made your brain as powerful as it is: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-fire-makes-us-human-72989884/
Human beings evolved to eat cooked food. It is literally possible to starve to death even while filling one’s stomach with raw food. In the wild, people typically survive only a few months without cooking, even if they can obtain meat….Cooked food…is mostly digested by the time it enters the colon; for the same amount of calories ingested, the body gets roughly 30 percent more energy from cooked oat, wheat or potato starch as compared to raw, and as much as 78 percent from the protein in an egg.
In essence, cooking—including not only heat but also mechanical processes such as chopping and grinding—outsources some of the body’s work of digestion so that more energy is extracted from food and less expended in processing it. Cooking breaks down collagen, the connective tissue in meat, and softens the cell walls of plants to release their stores of starch and fat. The calories to fuel the bigger brains of successive species of hominids came at the expense of the energy-intensive tissue in the gut, which was shrinking at the same time—you can actually see how the barrel-shaped trunk of the apes morphed into the comparatively narrow-waisted Homo sapiens.
July 10, 2025 at 11:57 pm in reply to: before camp assessments: roster, rankings, predictions #157032znModeratora podcast by Brett Kollmann and EJ Snyder
That vid is about as good as it gets. You know the Rams better from watching it.
July 10, 2025 at 11:32 pm in reply to: before camp assessments: roster, rankings, predictions #157031znModeratora podcast by Brett Kollmann and EJ Snyder
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“Nobody wants to play the Rams”
Bootleg Football recaps Rams’ offseason moves and previews upcoming seasonBootleg Football—a podcast by Brett Kollmann and EJ Snyder—published an in-depth breakdown on the Los Angeles Rams’ prospects for 2025.
Recaps how the Rams made the playoffs last season, analyzes every offseason move, and contemplates their chances for the upcoming season. It’s a must-listen this time of the offseason for fans of the team:
These are the discussed topics that I found the most interesting myself:
* It’s tough to measure what the Rams were last offseason because most statistics are clouded by a slow start and injuries
* On paper, the Rams were the 20th best team in football last year
* Running concepts: how Sean McVay puts his spin on man principles, why the offensive line is well-suited for this scheme, and blast vs duo
* LA’s prioritization of defensive front over linebackers and secondary
* What we can expect from the partnership of Puka Nacua and Davante Adams
Why Alaric Jackson was a free agent bargain, prior to health concerns
* In-depth opinions on Rams 2025 NFL Draft class
* Is UDFA Shaun Dolac a future starter?znModeratorwhere does the NFC West rank among all eight divisions? NFL.com’s Eric Edholm ranked it as the fifth-best division in the league — wedged right between fourth-ranked NFC East and the sixth-ranked AFC East.
5) NFC WEST
The West was tightly packed a year ago, with all four teams in playoff contention in mid-December. It’s also telling that the division’s worst team, six-win San Francisco, was viewed as something of a fluke, considering the 49ers had averaged nearly double that number of victories in the previous three seasons.
It’s a very solid division. You can make a case for all four teams having a playoff path in 2025. But how many have legitimate Super Bowl aspirations? That was one reason I stacked the NFC East ahead of the West.
I expect the Niners to bounce back this season, even with a slew of offseason personnel losses. They were ravaged by injury in 2024 and went 2-6 in one-score games, and they face a much kinder schedule in 2025. This might not profile as one of Kyle Shanahan’s most dangerous clubs right now, but a return to double-digit wins shouldn’t surprise anyone.
The Rams, Cardinals and Seahawks all could be competitive once again, although Seattle might be the least-known quantity of the group right now. If Sam Darnold and a reconfigured offensive line come together, the run game and defense could push the ‘Hawks into the playoffs.
Arizona has been on a slow burn since Jonathan Gannon took over in 2023. Now this team must show it can make the necessary improvements defensively and iron out the offensive inconsistencies in order to earn more wins. The Cardinals were 6-4 a year ago before collapsing after the bye.
The Rams have rallied from 3-6 and 1-4 starts the last two seasons to make the playoffs, nearly knocking off the Eagles in this past January’s Divisional Round, so everyone knows they’re dangerous. Keeping Matthew Stafford healthy and making wholesale improvements to the run defense could earn them a second straight division title.
znModeratorRunning back Kyren Williams is the first Los Angeles Rams player to crack NFL.com’s top-100 players list ahead of the 2025 season.
A year after he capitulated from outside the list to No. 77, Williams dropped to No. 85 in this year’s rankings despite putting together a better overall season. Williams finished the 2024 season with 1,299 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns.
People keep on doubting Williams, and he just keeps on chugging. Thought to be headed toward a possible committee role after Los Angeles spent a third-round pick on Blake Corum, Williams promptly logged 88 more carries than he did the season prior, accounting for 70.2% of the Rams’ rushing attempts. A hard-nosed runner who plays bigger than his size and possesses the shiftiness to leave defenders empty-handed, Williams is already “Old Reliable” for Sean McVay heading into Year 4.
Williams played 843 offensive snaps in 2024, the most by any running back in the NFL. Since 2023, Williams has played on more than 80% of offensive snaps in 20 games, five more than the next closest RB (Saquon Barkley, 15).
znModeratorI’ve said this before plenty of times, but I like repeating it. 😎 Kyren’s superpowers are all evident in the backfield before he hits the LOS. Past the LOS he has great contact balance, is a fierce and determined runner, but is not particularly quick or fast or powerful or elusive. He’s not bad past the LOS, just a bit above average. On the other hand, behind the LOS he is a great RB–he knows how to set up LBs, has a nice quick initial burst, has great vision, reads his blocks and is very good at using his blockers, has great anticipation, and is pretty much always hitting the exact right spot at exactly the right millisecond.
He keeps you in play. He moves the chains. It’s not just that he does that, he’s superior at it.
To drive this point home. He may just be above average past the LOS, but he is superior behind the LOS ie. running toward the LOS. Just find any series where they run him a lot, watch him, and this becomes very visible. Beyond the LOS he’s good, but while he is obviously not Faulk, or Gurley, or Dickerson, or Bettis past the LOS, behind the LOS, from the point of the hand off to hitting his lane at the LOS, he is their equal if not in some subtle ways even better.
Which is why he was 3rd in the league in 2024 in rushing yards before contact.
Also, in 2024 he was 7th in the league in yards after contact per attempt. 3rd in broken tackles. 2nd in 10+ yard runs.
https://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/advanced-stats-rb.phpTo quote PFF (which repeats 1 stat I just gave), KW ranks
in the top five on a per-game basis in rushing yards (87.3), yards after contact (57.9), rushing touchdowns (0.93), rushing avoided tackles (3.8) and PPR fantasy points (18.8).
The issue with KW is fumbles. If he can fix that (and he indicated he’s working on it) then he is a very valuable back.
znModeratorTop 20 NFL Running Backs: NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
They do Wms at about 15:47 in.
znModeratorznModeratorWhile the #Rams are interested in keeping RB Kyren Williams around, the team is balking at giving him a top-of-market deal:https://t.co/3G5BdDs7h7
— Pro Football Rumors (@pfrumors) July 10, 2025
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from link above
As Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic writes (subscription required), the Rams will not reset the market on a running back contract. Saquon Barkley, Christian McCaffrey and Derrick Henry are attached to deals averaging $15MM or more entering 2025. Reaching that price point should not be necessary to keep Williams in place beyond the coming season – something the 24-year-old anticipates – but a notable raise will nevertheless be in store.
Both sides have expressed optimism that an agreement will be reached at some point this offseason. McVay said in May that progress had been made since extension talks began, and Wyatt Miller of the team’s website notes Williams was a full participant during spring practices. That is an encouraging sign team and player will manage to avoid a 2026 free agent departure. It would come as little surprise if a deal were to be struck during or just before training camp, which begins later this month.
znModeratorfrom Maurice Jones-Drew, Ranking all 32 RB1s heading into 2025 NFL season: https://www.nfl.com/news/ranking-all-32-rb1s-heading-into-2025-nfl-season-omarion-hampton-above-fellow-rookie-ashton-jeanty
Rank 6
Kyren Williams“With Matthew Stafford headlining Sean McVay’s offensive attack, Williams often flies under the radar despite putting up back-to-back seasons with more than 1,100 rushing yards and at least a dozen rushing TDs,” Jones-Drew wrote. “He’s heading into a contract season, which should motivate him to be as good — if not better — in 2025 than he was in 2024. The Rams’ continued investment in their offensive line helps his cause.”
znModeratorfrom PFF, 2025 fantasy football running back rankings: https://www.pff.com/news/fantasy-football-running-back-rankings-2025?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null
11. Kyren Williams, Los Angeles Rams
Williams was among the league leaders in carries each of the last two seasons, finishing with 19-20 carries per game that made him one of the most dependable fantasy running backs. His efficiency declined in 2024, producing 4.3 fewer fantasy points per game. Sean McVay has a unique history of sticking with a clear lead runner, regardless of who that lead runner is. That worked to William’s advantage last season because it meant Blake Corum barely played on offense. However, there is no guarantee Williams remains the starter for all of 2025, with both Corum and Jarquez Hunter waiting in the wings.
znModeratorfrom Which backs are the most reliable TD scorers? — https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45648073/2025-fantasy-football-rb-rankings-nfl-touchdowns-reliable-scorers
2. Kyren Williams, Los Angeles Rams: Williams lacks the sudden movement traits of an elite zone scheme runner, but with his vision and contact balance, he can find the end zone at a high rate. Williams has enough lower body wiggle to sift through traffic, and his ability to bounce off defenders leads to touchdown production. Williams is a consistent and reliable fantasy starter. — Bowen
Only three running backs had more than Williams’ 21 touchdowns in goal-to-go situations the past three seasons, and he converted 40% of those tries into scores, a testament to his dominant nature when in scoring position. — Cockcroft
znModeratorDavante + Stafford = Domination 🫣😮💨 pic.twitter.com/rh8L4j0I99
— RamsNation (@LARamsey46) July 9, 2025
znModeratorHumphries and Shelton?
I guess so.
Maybe that was written before the bloodclots.gate? (?)
Though maybe he likes Humphries?
It is a bit of “not too discerning” “good speak,” because in fact Shelton was let go for Jackson, who never learned to play center, and then Limmer had communication issues in the Eagles playoff game, so it’s back to Shelton. I agree that that doesn’t honestly represent what we usually mean by “continued investment.”
znModeratorfrom https://www.lafbnetwork.com/nfl/la-rams/la-rams-news/los-angeles-rams-kobie-turner-execs-poll/
Now entering his third season, [Kobie] Turner is no longer flying under the radar. He’s one of the NFL’s most disruptive interior defenders, and though he didn’t crack ESPN’s top 10 defensive tackles for 2025, he was one of just five players listed as honorable mentions in Jeremy Fowler’s executive poll.
“He has an ability to get off the ball and establish leverage,” one high-ranking NFC personnel executive told Fowler. “He has a natural feel to be in the right place at the right time and plays with urgency. He can also close the deal when there’s a chance for a TFL, pressure or sack.”
July 8, 2025 at 11:00 am in reply to: before camp assessments: roster, rankings, predictions #157007znModeratorThe next generation of NFL superstars is HERE! 🏆@SamMonsonNFL drops his Top 25 Under 25 list 👇 pic.twitter.com/EDleRIbYvk
— Check the Mic with Steve Palazzolo & Sam Monson (@CTM_Show) July 8, 2025
znModeratorGoff had 68 pass attempts? Man, i dont remember that one. WTF?
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vI don’t remember it either. Had to look it up.
September 29th, 2019. Tampa at Rams. Goff: 45 of 68 for 517, w/ 2 TDs, 3 INTs, 1 FL. The FL led to a TD. Rams had only 28 yds rushing on 11 carries.
from Rams pay the price for 13 penalties in 55-40 loss to Buccaneers: https://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/story/2019-09-29/rams-pay-the-price-for-13-penalties-in-55-40-loss-to-buccaneers
A slow-starting offense and suddenly porous defense were not the only problems for the Rams in their 55-40 loss to Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday at the Coliseum.
The Rams were penalized 13 times for 106 yards.
from Where has the Rams’ running game gone? Gurley has five carries, team finishes with 28 rushing yards and Goff throws the ball 68 times in 55-40 loss to Tampa Bay: https://www.dailynews.com/2019/09/29/alexander-where-has-the-rams-running-game-gone/
An almost invisible running game amassed 28 yards on 11 carries out of the Rams’ 81 offensive plays. Todd Gurley had 16 in five carries, 13 of those on one carry for one of his two touchdowns.
Goff, meanwhile, threw the ball 68 times, completed 45 for 517 yards and two touchdowns, but was hurried and pressured all day. He threw three interceptions, lost yet another fumble – returned for a score by former teammate Ndamukong Suh during the Rams’ last, desperate drive to tie the game – was sacked once and was hit nine times. Really, it seemed like a couple dozen.
That was a game where the 2019 failing OL was on display. They had Brian Allen at center, and Noteboom and Blythe at guard (against Suh).
from PFF, What went wrong for the Los Angeles Rams in 2019? https://www.pff.com/news/pro-rams-what-went-wrong-2019
It’s hard to talk about what is at the root of the Rams’ offensive struggles this season and not begin with the offensive line. That unit went from fifth in PFF pass-blocking grade in 2018 to 31st in 2019, ahead of only the makeshift group that protects Ryan Fitzpatrick in Miami.
znModeratorRams single-game passing records: Most yards, TDs, INTs and more historic stats
Cameron DaSilva
The Los Angeles Rams have had some great quarterbacks suit up for them over the years, with Matthew Stafford being the current signal caller for the iconic franchise. Before him, though, there was Jared Goff, Kurt Warner, Norm Van Brocklin and Jim Everett.
Stafford has been a major bright spot for the Rams since being traded to L.A. in 2021 but he hasn’t yet cracked the list for any single-game passing records – not that it takes away from the impressive numbers he’s put up in Los Angeles.
Looking back, here are some of the most notable single-game passing records in Rams history, many of which are held by Goff. These are regular-season records, so they don’t include playoff games.
Most passing yards: 554, Norm Van Brocklin (1951 vs. Yanks)
Most TD passes: 5, 10 times
Bob Waterfield (1949 vs. Bulldogs, 1951 vs. Packers)
Norm Van Brocklin (1950 vs. Lions, 1951 vs. Yanks)
Roman Gabriel (1965 vs. Browns)
Vince Ferragamo (1980 vs. 49ers, 1983 vs. Saints)
Jim Everett (1988 vs. Giants)
Kurt Warner (1999 vs. 49ers)
Jared Goff (2018 vs. Vikings)Most interceptions: 7, two times
Parker Hall (1942 vs. Packers)
Bob Waterfield (1948, vs. Packers)Highest completion percentage (min. 20 attempts): 87%, Kurt Warner (1999 vs. 49ers)
Highest passer rating: 158.3, three times
Kurt Warner (1999 vs. Bengals)
Kurt Warner (2000 vs. Chargers)
Jared Goff (2018 vs. Vikings)Most completions: 45, Jared Goff (2019 vs. Buccaneers)
Most attempts: 68, Jared Goff (2019 vs. Buccaneers)
Most sacks taken: 10, two times
Bill Munson (1964 vs. 49ers)
James Harris (1976 vs. 49ers)znModeratorTerron Armstead didn’t hold back 😳
"For Armstead to come out of that game and say, ‘I never want to play this kid [Jared Verse] again,’ is INSANE."@StevePalazzolo_ and @SamMonsonNFL react to Armstead's comments on Jared Verse 👇 pic.twitter.com/dPeojeivZP
— Check the Mic with Steve Palazzolo & Sam Monson (@CTM_Show) July 7, 2025
July 7, 2025 at 3:05 am in reply to: science! physics, astrophysics, abiogenesis, n other stuff #156988znModeratorznModeratorznModeratorShe’s going to write best-sellers and take a place next to Michael Silver, Peter King, and so on. She’s the best football writer of her generation….
Better than Fast Eddy?
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vFast Eddie was in Jim Murray’s generation, and he was promising up until his abduction by aliens.
I still blame Janet Jackson for that.
Fast Eddy promised his girlfriend he would spend less time obsessing football. So he dropped out of sight.
True story.
Meanwhile, Jourdan apparently promised someone she would spend more time obsessing even more football.
So! Once again, we see that life goes in cycles….
znModeratorfrom https://www.profootballrumors.com/2025/07/the-nfls-longest-tenured-gms-3
Here is how long every GM has been in place across the NFL:
Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys): April 18, 1989[1]
Mike Brown (Cincinnati Bengals): August 5, 1991[2]
Mickey Loomis (New Orleans Saints): May 14, 2002
John Schneider (Seattle Seahawks): January 19, 2010; signed extension in 2021
Howie Roseman (Philadelphia Eagles): January 29, 2010[3]; signed extension in 2022
Les Snead (Los Angeles Rams): February 10, 2012; signed extension in 2022znModeratorPFF named Josiah Stewart as the Rams’ rookie to watch this season 👀
Can the Michigan edge rusher crack the rotation and make an early impact in LA?#RamsHouse #JosiahStewart #NFLRookies #Rams #LAFB #ProFootballFocus #RamsNation pic.twitter.com/0Wskc03pkN— LAFB Network (@LAFBNetwork) July 6, 2025
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