Raheem Morris wants to see his players making game-changing plays, not just putting up big numbers. https://t.co/ECrHF7rWek

— Rams Wire (@TheRamsWire) August 7, 2021

Thomas Brown coaches with a ton of passion, which you can see in this video shared by the Rams. https://t.co/sVsDF0D4ce

— Rams Wire (@TheRamsWire) August 7, 2021

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"I think I'd rock you up dog, one-on-one." 🤫

🎥 Mic'd up with RB coach @iamthomasbrown at #RamsCamp pic.twitter.com/TGqTxWktdj

— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) August 6, 2021

Rams backup QB John Wolford woke up with pain, was determined he had appendicitis and had his appendix taken out. Expected to be out 10-14 days, per a team spokesperson.

— Lindsey Thiry (@LindseyThiry) August 6, 2021

from Touchdown Wire’s preseason power rankings

Doug Farrar

Touchdown Wire’s preseason power rankings

[teams ranked ahead, 1-9: Chiefs, Bux, Bills, Ravens, Packers, Browns, Chargers, Seahawks, Cowboys]

10. Los Angeles Rams

As Football Outsiders’ Aaron Schatz and Mike Tanier pointed out on the most recent version of the Touchdown Wire NFL Podcast, the metric differences between Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford aren’t as clear as you may think. It’s when you go to the tape that Stafford presents himself clearly as a thermonuclear improvement over Goff.

Why Matthew Stafford will be a franchise-defining bargain for his new NFL team

Everyone’s excited about that — including Aaron Donald, who, per NBC Sports’ Peter King, recently hugged Stafford mid-practice. Not something you generally see from the NFL’s best defensive player, but it says as much about Goff as it does about Stafford that we all can’t wait to see what Stafford is able to execute in Sean McVay’s offense.

On defense, there’s Donald, Jalen Ramsey, and underrated cornerback Darious Williams, working with new defensive coordinator Raheem Morris. Morris may keep some of the Cover-4 and Cover-6 concepts the Rams used so successfully under Brandon Staley last season, but he’ll certainly have his own ideas, and you can expect to see more aggressive man coverage overall. But the big deal is Stafford, and if he’s all he can be in this offense, the Rams are going to be a very, very tough out.

“The vaccines work, time to ramp up the price.”

Pfizer and Moderna have raised the prices of their COVID jabs in their latest EU supply contracts, says a Financial Times report. pic.twitter.com/rWBehyj7MX

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 6, 2021

Nurse recounts choosing which COVID patients should be treated with limited supplies based on their chance to survive pic.twitter.com/pFleP0knTn

— Marjorie Gaylor Queen (@Tim_Tweeted) August 5, 2021

BGrisakDTR💭@bgrisakDTR
Isaac Bruce is one of only 6 players in NFL history to have more than 15,000 career receiving yards. Rice, Moss, and Gonzalez were all 1st ballots. Owens wasn’t first ballot b/c reasons. Fitzgerald will be a first ballot. Somehow it took Bruce six tries to get into the HOF.

Rams Brothers@RamsBrothers
Sam Sloman, who now rocks the infamous number 16 for the Pittsburgh Steelers, just shanked an extra point.

FOOTBALL IS BACK!

Albert Breer@AlbertBreer
5 from @49ers

1) They see the DL back at the 2019 level. Dee Ford’s finally healthy, and additions like Arden Key and Mo Hurst have bolstered depth. And Bosa looks like Bosa.

2) Jason Verrett’s been outstanding. The long-injury-addled CB’s finally playing fearlessly.

3) WR needs to shake out, but Deebo Samuel’s in better shape than he has been and Brandon Aiyuk’s taken a step. Darkhorse at the spot: Trent Sherfield.

4) Fred Warner’s Fred Warner, but a big ? is who’ll be the 3rd LB, with Flanagan, Al-Shaair, Griffith among those flashing.

5) Competition’s very healthy at QB. Staff really likes where Jimmy Garoppolo’s at. But it’s hard to miss how impressive Trey Lance is—I saw a throw Wed where he rolled left, flicked it to his right.

I had no clue the ball was going. Defenders everywhere. Hit Aiyuk b/w the 1s.

bubbaramfan

Day 7 and they are in pads. first thing I notice is OL coach Carburry is back and he’s one on one with Jordan Merideth coaching him up. Also had him snapping the ball. New addition Jerimiah Kolone and Chandler Brewer also out early getting some coaching from Carburry.

3pm and stretching warmups start with the whole team. 10 min then they break up into position groups. We get LB’s doing a drill I have no idea what they are trying to accomplish. Lets call it the “football on a stick” drill. Trainer hold a 3 foot stick with a football on the end of it, another says “go” run 5 yds and jump to try and touch it landing on a mat. VFR may have gotten some pics. Touch it high, touch it low. Hand to eye co-ordination?

Something new. OL and DL and some others with pads over their helmets. Presumably to avoid a Stafford type injury. O with blue, D with grey.

Looks like AD, A’shawn Rob, floyd and De’Sean Jax all have the day off.

On the big TV they have pos breakdown of punt and KO teams. VFR should be posting pics.

Pretty much doing the same drills as they did yesterday with a lot of special teams. Kickoff and punt drills. Landon Akers, Jake Funk, Jerimiah Haydel and ray Calias. N Otis Anderson.

10 to 15 yd pass drills with a WR or RB vs a DB. Henderson, Funk, Kupp, Calais all had good catches

11 on 11’s

Some changes on 2nd team OL. Anchrum LT, Brewer LG, Allen C, Shelton RG, Noteboom RT. Shelton again got snaps a C, and again looked horrible. Evans was in a few snaps at LG with the twos. Later on they mixed it up again getting Merideth and Aleric Jackson snaps. !st team Ol remains Whit LT, Edwards LG, Corbett C, Evans RG, Havenstien RT. Allen again got more snaps in at C with the 1st team. Garrett got in several snaps with the twos.

On D with AD and Ashawn out DL had SJD, Copeland and Banks with alot of the others subing in Hoecht got a lot of snaps.

I have to give kudo’s to Brian Allen. He’s much improved and has held up really well against the 1st team DL. He made a couple great plays opening holes for runs up the middle, even getting hugs from McVay. Allen will be backup C.

Some notable plays

Stafford with a nice 40 yd to Kupp with Donte Daeyon covering
Funk up the middle for 5
Calias run right for nice gain
Mundt from Stafford for a nice grab over the middle. Mundt has been looking good as a reciever and he’s been getting a lot of targets
Funk off tackle and some good moves to get 10

getting a little chippy out there. A lot of jawing going on.

Shelton in at C, Wolford under C, S
Shelton gets overwhelmed and Wolford is sacked.
Mundt with another catch on the left side
wolford to Landon Akers for 20
Jones get hannered out of bounds by Nick Scott
Stafford to Henderson who puts on some nifty moves in a lot of traffic to almost take it to the house
Ramsey mugs Woods and get a flag
Corbett snaps one over Staffords head
Harris nice long ball

TuTu Atwell from Stafford 12 yds over the middle. TuTu must have just arrived because he wasn’t in WR drills earlier. Was surprised to see him out there. He got another couple targets. He looks like a little kid out there.

I know I’m not mentioning some guys that should. Koski and Tri Jax, Blanton, skoronik, and some other did well today too.

Defense is just to hard to keep track, they keep mixing it up.

It was a good spirited practice. Everybody got work. I kept an eye on Hopkins. He only got targeted twice with one short catch. Most of his work was blocking.

I hope this sctratches you Rams itch today!

FOX Sports Radio@FoxSportsRadio
Andrew Whitworth on Matt Stafford:

“You really just see that veteran presence. You can’t replace playing that long in the game and everything is just so natural. He feels it, he understands the game, he’s really smart. He’s played enough to have seen it all.”

Tutu Atwell makes Rams training camp debut, full pads bring energy: 10 Observations from Day 7

Stu Jackson

https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,885385,885385#msg-885385

IRVINE, Calif. – Rookie wide receiver Tutu Atwell’s training camp debut and the energy brought by full pads highlighted the seventh practice of 2021 Rams Training Camp presented by UNIFY Financial Credit Union.

1) Atwell makes training camp debut: The former Louisville standout was activated from the Reserve/COVID-19 list on Wednesday after being place on it on July 26, and received a limited workload.”It’s going to be a smart progression that we put in place,” Rams head coach Sean McVay said after Wednesday’s practice. “He hit his yardage mark, and then we kind of just had him watch for the rest of the day.”

2) New helmet attire: After quarterback Matthew Stafford hit his thumb on a defender’s helmet in Monday’s practice, McVay mentioned seeing other teams around the league who have soft shells on their players’ helmets to soften the blow when something like that happens. Two days later, members of the Rams’ offensive line and defensive front seven were sporting royal blue-colored soft shells on their helmets.

3) Kevin Carberry back: The Rams’ new offensive line coach, who is fully vaccinated, had been absent after testing for COVID-19, McVay said on July 28 after team’s first training camp practice. Wednesday was Carberry’s first chance to work with his group on the field during camp.

4) Pads popping: The defense must have been looking forward to Wednesday and Tuesday, because some of the tackles made Wednesday could be easily heard. Defensive back J.R. Reed had a hard hit at the end of a run by running back Xavier Jones during team drills. Jones stayed on his feet – what appears to be an emphasis for both offensive and defensive players even with pads on – but anyone near the play certainly heard pads collide. Cornerback Jalen Ramsey also had a hit against running back Darrell Henderson Jr. in which Henderson also stayed on his feet, but the tackle was certainly heard.

5) No getting by Bash: Showing one of his strengths, defensive lineman Sebastian Joseph-Day at one point during team drills penetrated the backfield for a run stop against running back Jake Funk.

6) Stafford to Kupp: In what has become a recurring theme, Stafford once again connected with wide receiver Cooper Kupp for a big play through the air. This time, he evaded pressure, then climbed in the pocket and launched a deep ball to Kupp, who hauled in what would’ve been good for about a 30-yard catch.

7) Darrell Henderson Jr.’s shiftiness again on display: The third-year running back had multiple moments where he displayed the same agility and explosiveness he showed early on last year, including taking a screen pass from Stafford, making a couple cuts then bursting upfield for a big play.

8) Contested catch: Tight end Jacob Harris had an impressive touchdown catch during redzone work, turning his body to haul in a John Wolford pass near the corner of the endzone

9) Strong competition in 1-on-1s: Of note from one-on-one drills, Ramsey had an impressive pass breakup against Kupp, while fellow cornerback Darious Williams broke up a pass matched up with wide receiver Robert Woods.

10) Veteran days off for defensive lineman Aaron Donald, tight end Tyler Higbee, outside linebacker Leonard Floyd and wide receiver DeSean Jackson. Similar to the approach the Rams took to the first padded practice on Tuesday in which offensive lineman Andrew Whitworth got a rest day, Donald, Higbee Floyd and Jackson all received the same on Wednesday. “They were (out there) first day in pads, and you just want to be smart with their progression,” McVay said. “We’ll have an off day tomorrow, then we’ll come back (Friday) and it will be kind of a lighter practice, and then Saturday at the Cowboys.”

Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
Per Rams: They’ve waived G Jamil Demby and signed G Jeremiah Kolone.