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znModeratorLos Angeles Rams UK@LARams_UK
I think it was always likely that Fowler would walk elsewhere this year, and I don’t really have a problem with that.Why?
He may have got 11.5 sacks, but he got them in 6 games. That’s 10 games of little production when a guy on your line is being double and triple teamed.
Yes, there is also more to playing defense than sacks, but he didn’t even register a QB Hit in any of his 10 games without a sack according to Pro Football Reference.
For a guy that should be seeing his fair share of single blockers, it’s just too low.
znModeratorRich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
Andrew Whitworth will return in 2020, as Andrew Whitworth said a month ago. The question, of course, is where, and how much it will cost to sign him. Whitworth had a base salary of just over $10 million last season but his cap number was inflated to $16 million because of a restructure.znModeratorIntroducing: Game Unlocked
In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth, take an inside look at the NFL's most diverse front office + how the Rams are changing the game of football on-and-off the field.— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) February 4, 2020
znModeratorRecapping the development of Los Angeles Rams TE Tyler Higbee https://t.co/4dvmVkIAoh
— Sosa K (@QBsMVP) February 5, 2020
znModeratorRams’ Andrew Whitworth reportedly will put off retirement for another NFL season
Andrew Whitworth is not going to retire just yet. On Tuesday morning, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that the veteran offensive lineman is “putting off retirement another year” and is expected to return for the 2020 season, his 15th in the NFL. The 38-year-old lineman is reportedly “feeling great” after having offseason surgery to clean out his left ankle.
Rapoport added there is confidence Whitworth and the Rams will be able to come to terms on a new contract. Whitworth is slated to become a free agent on March 18 after he completed his three-year, $33,750,000 deal with the Rams this past season.
A second round pick out of LSU in the 2006 draft, Whitworth was an immediate starter in Cincinnati, helping create running lanes for Rudy Johnson while also helping Carson Palmer earn Pro Bowl honors during his rookie season. Whitworth’s steady play helped the Bengals advance to the postseason six times during a seven-year span that include AFC North division titles in 2009, 2013 and in 2015.
After earning one Pro Bowl selection during his first nine seasons, Whitworth earned consecutive Pro Bowl and All-Pro honors in 2015 and a third career Pro Bowl nod in 2016, his final season with the Bengals. Whitworth signed with the Rams that ensuing offseason, and was named an All Pro in 2017 while helping the Rams capture the NFC West division title. In 2018, Whitworth helped the Rams boast the league’s second ranked scoring offense while also helping Los Angeles defeat the Cowboys and Saints en route to an appearance in Super Bowl LIII.
Along with providing clear throwing lanes for Palmer, Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton and Rams quarterback Jared Goff, Whitworth has blocked for several 1,000-yard backs, including Johnson, Cedric Benson, BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Jeremy Hill, and Todd Gurley.
Whitworth has also been an iron man of sorts, playing in all 16 games in a season 10 times that includes each of the past two seasons. In all, Whitworth has appeared in 215 regular season games with 211 career starts.
znModerator5 Rams OL were injured last year.
We know about NB and Allen.
We know about Hav.
2 played with what they had, then had surgery after the season. Though since they played through it we don’t really know when they got banged up.
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Ian Rapoport@RapSheet
Whitworth…had surgery to clean out his ankle, is feeling great, and wants to play at 38.2.
Vincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
FYI: #Rams C Austin Blythe underwent successful clean-up surgery on both shoulders this week. Blythe played through a nagging ankle injury throughout seasonznModeratorLionsgate Developing Movie on Former NFL Player Kurt Warner https://t.co/6BTX8VITVv via @variety
— Stu Jackson (@StuJRams) February 5, 2020
znModeratorFYI: #Rams C Austin Blythe underwent successful clean-up surgery on both shoulders this week. Blythe played through a nagging ankle injury throughout season & made a successful transition from G to C at the midway point to help solidify a Rams o-line that finished season strong.
— Vincent Bonsignore (@VinnyBonsignore) January 8, 2020
znModeratorRich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
Some folks have asked about the trip to China the Rams had scheduled with Taylor Rapp this month. That trip is not taking place now, over concerns about the coronavirus. It could happen at some point, but nothing scheduled at this timznModerator“I think he could throw a football through a brick wall” – A rival coach once said about former Rams QB Roman Gabriel @RGabriel4HOF pic.twitter.com/jmEMKVJFjD
— RAMS ON FILM (@RamsOnFilm) February 4, 2020
znModerator2x All Pro Left Tackle Andrew Whitworth wants to PLAY in his 15th season of 2020. Even though he is a free agent, I think it’s a safe bet that we will see the big man in horns come training camp. 😉 … Don’t forget how much spunk this “old man” still has! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/N4QdRBC079
— RAMS ON FILM (@RamsOnFilm) February 4, 2020
znModeratorStu Jackson@StuJRams
LT Andrew Whitworth reportedly expected to re-sign with the Rams. Doing so would make sense for the Rams. GM Les Snead said Joe Noteboom was slated to eventually replace Whitworth, but Noteboom’s ACL injury complicated that plan. Rookie Bobby Evans also projects as a LT, so bringing Whit back would afford them time to continue evaluating both.==
When asked to define the ideal left tackle – or a left tackle in their prime – Snead described a scenario in which a team has drafted that player, and that player has gained experience and learned from “hiccups” along the way in order to become more consistent and trustworthy. They are young enough that they can hold their own against some of the league’s most skilled pass-rushers, but also have gained enough knowledge to lean on from losing some of those one-on-one battles.
The ideal left tackle, then, could already be on the Rams’ roster in the form of Noteboom or Evans. However, given his and Evans’ small sample size for evaluation, even with with some of their preseason cross-training along the offensive line, Los Angeles could need Whitworth again to allow for another year of grooming to meet the criteria outlined by Snead.
znModeratorsaw Bernie strutting and had to add the Bee Gees to the swag #IowaCaucuses pic.twitter.com/Fso5oNkv9r
— ML Kejera (@KejeraL) February 4, 2020
znModerator2020 Mock Draft ⏰!
Offensive linemen are popular picks from experts for the #LARams
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) February 3, 2020
znModeratorSam Monson@PFF_Sam
Mitchell Schwartz legitimately just had one of the greatest postseasons in NFL history.100 pass blocking snaps exactly over 3 games.
Almost the entire time in obvious pass situations as the team trailed, against legit pass rushers.
Two, hurries. Nothing else.
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This is worth your 3 minutes coming off of last nights #SuperBowlLIV and the 3rd&15 🚀🚀🚀 heard round the world. I see the play from @patrickmahomes to @cheetah for the @chiefs a little differently. @getupespn @arrowheadpride @peter_king @espngreeny pic.twitter.com/beUTBJW0YB
— Dan Orlovsky (@danorlovsky7) February 3, 2020
znModeratorAndrew Brandt@AndrewBrandt
Idea that you can’t pay a top QB and be a Super Bowl contender is folly. Smart teams do it all the time.Roughly 50% of NFL rosters are on rookie contracts, making +/- $1 million. The idea a team can’t afford elite contracts for QB, other top players is ridiculous.
February 3, 2020 at 5:36 pm in reply to: “You want the government to pay for everyone’s healthcare” #110948znModeratorDNC Mulls Asking Donald Trump To Run As Democrat In Effort To Stop Sanders
WASHINGTON—As the beginning of primary season upped the stakes in their search for an alternative candidate, Democratic National Committee officials reportedly mulled Monday asking Donald Trump to run for president as a Democrat in an effort to stop Bernie Sanders. “He’s obviously not our first choice, but Trump has a track record of winning elections, not to mention he does well with the conservative voters we’ll need to swing some red states blue—if that’s who we need to ask to ensure Bernie doesn’t win, we’ll do it,” said DNC chairman Tom Perez, who had circled Trump’s name on a white board lising dozens of potential candidates the party could try to convince to jump into the Democratic Party primaries in order to obstruct a Sanders nomination. “This late in the game, we need somebody with name recognition and a built-in following, which Trump definitely has. He has political experience working with Republicans, which will help him win over moderate voters who are turned off by the idea of a socialist president. Plus, he’ll have the backing of the Democratic donor base, who generally prefer him to Sanders. Look, sometimes politics makes strange bedfellows, but I think I speak for party leadership when I say that we’d much rather see Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders as the Democratic nominee.” At press time, Perez was in negotiations to ensure Trump was on every Democratic primary ballot for Super Tuesday and changing the requirements to allow Trump to qualify for the next Democratic debate.
znModeratorfrom PFF: Offseason needs for all 32 NFL teams in 2020
https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-offseason-needs-for-all-32-nfl-teams-2020
LOS ANGELES RAMS: OFFENSIVE LINEMEN THAT CAN GET THE RAMS’ LINE BACK TO ITS 2018 FORM
Secondary needs: edge defender, linebackerThe Rams’ offensive line was one of the better units in the league in 2018, and their offense flourished behind it as a result. That all fell apart this past season, with injuries and personnel changes taking a toll on the group. They finished the season 31st in PFF’s offensive line rankings, and now, the most consistent player from the line — Andrew Whitworth — is set to be a free agent at 38 years old. There isn’t a position on the line that the Rams can’t look to improve on in 2020.
They should also look to add some new pieces defensively. Edge defender becomes an area of need with the impending free agency of Dante Fowler Jr., but even if the Rams retain him, they can look to improve the other starting edge slot over Clay Matthews (54.2 overall grade in 2019) and Samson Ebukam (66.7). At linebacker, the Rams should make every effort to re-sign Cory Littleton. Since 2018, his coverage grade of 90.1 trails only Lavonte David and Luke Kuechly among linebackers with 1,000 or more defensive snaps.
znModeratorThere's two reasons why Aaron Donald didn't win DPOY, and both of them are wrong. pic.twitter.com/nNnLydP7ep
— PFF (@PFF) February 3, 2020
znModerator"It's more than just quarterbacks" – @RossTuckerNFL gives us his take on Super Bowl 54 https://t.co/ImwXwiVUji pic.twitter.com/b60j0DUZ2W
— Home and Home (@RDCHomeAndHome) February 3, 2020
znModeratorGil Brandt@Gil_Brandt
Seriously, we’re going to blame that loss on Kyle Shanahan? C’mon, man. If you polled the GMs of all 32 teams and asked them who they’d rather have, their current coach or KS, my guess is that no less than 75% would swap without batting an eye. It wasn’t the play-calling.Dan Orlovsky@danorlovsky7
If you take out the Deebo Samuel reverse early in the 2nd half-the @49ers avg 3ypc in the 2nd half b4 the 2nd & 5 pass attempt on play action y’all wanna kill Kyle over.
He got Kittle covered by Suggs–Jones made the play.
He got kittle open–QB missed
Got sanders open–QB missedznModeratorIn terms of the original post, I think there actually are people who identify with “the moderate position,” which is more or less just blind status quo acceptance, but it is interesting to hear a good analysis showing that for the most part the term is misused. Itz that old ideological obfuscation thing.
Good post.
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znModeratorWe can all relax about climate change as all the recent flooding was actually caused by centrist tears.pic.twitter.com/yMuJvZaOgP
— Climate Clock 🇸🇴#IStandWithIlhan🇵🇸 (@Tav_assoli) February 3, 2020
February 3, 2020 at 3:58 pm in reply to: Rams coaching search wrapping up soon? … UPDATE: yes, done #110938znModeratorRamshouse80@ramshouse80
any updates coming from the Rams on coaches announcements RB Special teams etc… 11 personnel?Rich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
Still expecting it sometime this week.znModeratorMy post disappeared when I added a link to Jason Hickel’s name. Not sure if it will come back — the post or the link
The “system” suspects you are a spammer, and sometimes doesn’t like the links you put in. All this is way over my head–I can only try and catch “pending” posts like that and approve them, but I can’t be on it 24/7, so I apologize for that and appreciate your patience.
Your post, the one that got marked pending (thanks to the evil anti-spam system), is of course a good one, and I agree with it.
In terms of the vid that starts this thread…I couldn’t listen to it. I caught Mr. Enthusiast For the System’s first few words about how great the concentration of wealth is and I was gone. I can’t listen to that kind of thing (that’s just a personal reaction, it’s a great post). That kind of thing to me is just fingernails on the blackboard, on a cosmic scale.
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znModeratorMarc Bulger@MarcBulger10
Ike B!! Long overdue!! Taught me how to be a pro. Was a privilege to get to throw so many passes to him.znModeratorDan Orlovsky@danorlovsky7
Jimmy G didn’t get it done late last night-3 plays were there-he didn’t make them. He also QB’d the team to a 13-3 record, was top 10 in mostly every passing category & is a batted ball away from winning the SB in his first year as a starter. He & SF will be back & just fine==
Yes, this action is cool … but the @Chiefs OL is PANCAKING EVERYONE. There’s no greater feeling than moving a man from Point A to Point B against his will. 💪💪💪 pic.twitter.com/9bOSZJlWmi
— Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) February 3, 2020
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Nick Bosa registered a sack, hit or hurry on 30.8% of his pass-rushes in Super Bowl LIV
No other defensive player was above 20% pic.twitter.com/om435zITrp
— PFF (@PFF) February 3, 2020
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Mitchell Schwartz this postseason
Pass blocking snaps: 90
Pressures allowed: 1 pic.twitter.com/NtU3ejRJ4n— PFF (@PFF) January 24, 2020
znModeratorNick Bosa registered a sack, hit or hurry on 30.8% of his pass-rushes in Super Bowl LIV
No other defensive player was above 20% pic.twitter.com/om435zITrp
— PFF (@PFF) February 3, 2020
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Mitchell Schwartz this postseason
Pass blocking snaps: 90
Pressures allowed: 1 pic.twitter.com/NtU3ejRJ4n— PFF (@PFF) January 24, 2020
znModeratorRich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
Last 2020 Super Bowl championship odds from @betonline_ag have the Rams at 25-to-1, tied for the 11th best odds in the NFL and just behind the Chargers(!) at 22-to-1.znModeratorKurt Warner@kurt13warner
when I think of dynasties my 1st thought is u have to have a great QB ✅ & then who else has QB to stop it? Who in the AFC is built to out duel @PatrickMahomes & Co? I’m not sure any1 is ready in terms of year after year… it’s as much about competition as team!Ross Tucker@RossTuckerNFL
Good point. Much more competition in the NFC.Right now I’d say just Baltimore depending on how Big Ben comes back from injury in PIT.
Not sure HOU, BUF, etc. get to that level.
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