wv wrote:

I could be wrong, but Keenum
dont seem like a safe ‘game manager’ type.
Seems like a bit of a gunslinger.

Is that a good match for this team?

w
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He has very good downfield accuracy…54% on passes of 31 yards or over. That’s better than everyone else, I think. But he makes up for it by having below average accuracy in the 1-10 yard range.

BTW I can’t believe no one remembers this.

YOu know who he had his first career game against, right? He replaced Schaub during a game…and then was the starter.

Who was that against.

Hint: their team name is “the Rams.”

Btw, how does Keenum know Brian Shottenheimer’s system?

He doesn’t. You misread. Probably deliberately. Just to cause trouble.

TSRF wrote:

OK, who did they let go to get him?

Jim Thomas @jthom1
Rams place Justice Cunningham (ankle) on IR; that frees up spot for Keenum.

TSRF wrote:

OK, who did they let go to get him?

No word yet.

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http://www.rotoworld.com

Rams claimed QB Case Keenum off waivers from the Texans.
Waived by Houston, which decided to go with Ryan Mallett and rookie Tom Savage behind Ryan Fitzpatrick, 26-year-old Keenum is a natural fit behind Shaun Hill in St. Louis with a similar skill set. Keenum is sneaky athletic and willing to throw into tight windows, though he was slow to learn the Texans’ offense last year. If 34-year-old Hill’s performance goes south, we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Keenum make starts in the Gateway City. Keenum finished 2013 with a 9:6 TD-to-INT ratio across eight starts, though he completed only 54.2 percent of his throws and fumbled six times, losing two. We’d still expect Keenum to pass Austin Davis on the depth chart within a month or so.

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From QBs in Focus: Schaub & Keenum

Steve Palazzolo | Pro Football Focus, July 31, 2014

https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2014/07/31/qbs-in-focus-schaub-keenum/

Positives

• Graded at +3.1 when lined up under center.
• Eighth-highest grade on passes thrown at least 20 yards in the air (+6.3).
• Ranked fourth with a +4.8 grade on passes thrown at least 30 yards in the air.
• Showed well on drop-backs in the 4-to-6-yard range (+2.0).
• Graded at +5.7 when throwing to slot wide receivers.
• Sixth-highest grade on go routes (+8.2).

Negatives

• Struggled on second down (-4.8).
• Graded at -7.7 on drop-backs from the shotgun or pistol.
• Third-lowest grade on passes thrown in the 1-10-yard range (-7.8).
• Graded at -7.2 when pressured.
• Graded at -5.8 on drop-backs of nine yards or more.
• Struggled on passes lasting 3.1 to 3.5 seconds (-4.0).
• Fourth-lowest grade on out routes (-4.4).

Tendencies

• Threw 32.0% of passes in the 5-10-yard range; fourth-highest in the league.
• Faced pressure on 45.5% of drop-backs; second-highest in the league.
• Threw 50.9% of passes outside the numbers; above the league average of 46.7%.
• 68.8% of drop-backs lasted at least 2.5 seconds; well above the league average of 49.0%.
• Threw 24.6% of passes to tight ends, including a league-high 20.2% of attempts to inline tight ends.
• 15.8% of attempts were crossing routes; second-highest in the league.

Fisher in second tier of coach rankings

Aug 26

By Nick Wagoner | ESPN.com

http://espn.go.com/blog/st-louis-rams/post/_/id/10965/fisher-lands-in-second-tier-of-coach-rankings

EARTH CITY, Mo. — For a coach who has yet to take the St. Louis Rams to the playoffs and hasn’t won a postseason game since 2003, Jeff Fisher commands plenty of respect in the latest in-depth project from ESPN Insider Mike Sando.

Sando spoke to 30 NFL people — eight current general managers, four former GMs, four personnel directors, four executives, six coordinators and four position coaches — in an effort to put the league’s current head coaches into tiers. Each panelist was asked to grade each coach on a scale of one to five with one being the best and five the worst.

When all was said and done, Fisher came in at an average of 2.10. That put him squarely in the second tier of coaches and ranked at No. 11 overall. For what it’s worth, Fisher received six first-tier votes, 15 second-tier votes and nine third-tier votes. By way of comparison, New England’s Bill Belichick finished first with 28 first-tier votes and two second-tier votes.

As you might expect based on his votes, the positive support for Fisher came from those who see him as a master motivator and strong delegator capable of getting his teams to play hard enough to be competitive regardless of talent.

An excerpt from Sando’s piece:

A former GM lauded Fisher as an outstanding in-game manager. “You know what you’re getting with Fisher and the message stays the same,” a personnel evaluator said. “He’s got an identity for his teams. Whether it is Gregg Williams’ or his, you know they are going to be coached up and play their a–es off.”

On the other side of the coin, Fisher was downgraded by some voters for a somewhat middling record for a coach who has been around as long as Fisher. One criticism of Fisher was that he was better off strictly coaching with a general manager making all the roster decisions like he once had with Floyd Reese in Tennessee.

Another excerpt offering some criticism of Fisher.

A coordinator put it this way: “Fisher has been a head coach a long time and won games, and there has been more positive than negative, but they treat him like he has 10 Super Bowls.”

Still, for whatever reasons voters had to downgrade Fisher, they weren’t too harsh about it considering he still comfortable checked in on the second tier and at No. 11 amongst the 32 coaches. In my view, he deserves credit for elevating the Rams from awful to mediocre but the next step for him will be to take the Rams beyond that mediocrity and into prominence. If he can do that in the league’s best division without his starting quarterback, he’ll probably rise in these rankings should Sando revisit them next year.