Oday Aboushi shared what it was like to play for Sean McVay last season, showing appreciation for how he handled adversity https://t.co/gpstjbnnhS

— Rams Wire (@TheRamsWire) March 24, 2023

wv wrote:

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.

yup

Laconic.

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— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 20, 2023

Billy_T wrote:

Most of us here are nomads, I’m guessing. I started as an East Coast fan back in 1966, and without the Internet in existence, didn’t see LA Times journalism — or St Louis — until the 1990s. Basically missed roughly 30 years of it. Relied primarily on Sports Illustrated, Sports Magazine, Washington Post, and a few other outlets here and there. Always bought those NFL magazines that previewed the new season, like Athlons, too. Really looked forward to those.

Ah yes the old days. I used to regularly browse PFW and SI in bookstores and news stands. I would read the LA Times in libraries.  Now I can tweet direct responses to writers like Hammond or Rodrigue.

“I’m not going anywhere but there,” Jalen Ramsey told his agent. “So make sure that’s where I end up.”@AlbertBreer on the trade that sent him to the Dolphins: https://t.co/8De3teopkl

— The MMQB (@theMMQB) March 20, 2023

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.

How the Rams have handled structuring the contracts of Stafford, Donald, Kupp and how they expect (key word) to set themselves up for a legitimate opportunity to compete for the big one again in 2024-2025: explained very thoroughly by @JourdanRodrigue! pic.twitter.com/walb8hgm7I

— Rams Brothers (@RamsBrothers) March 18, 2023

Penn State coach James Franklin is a big fan of Aaron Donald, but he says Donald “has hurt college football and defensive tackles” https://t.co/f4ZupGHUbc

— Rams Wire (@TheRamsWire) March 18, 2023