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ZooeyModeratorAnd Kyren Williams, possibly.
Good. Cut the dead wood. It’s not like they’re Billy Bajema and Zac Stacy.
It will be interesting to what they do. If Hunter is good, then Williams is probably gone. If Hunter is slow to get up to speed, then the Rams will have to talk about an extension, and I don’t know what that looks like nowadays. RBs have slipped in prominence, and the Rams got burned on Gurley. Williams is young, though, and pretty good.
ZooeyModeratorHigbee could be on his way out in a contract year after the Rams selected Oregon’s Terrance Ferguson in the second round of the 2025 NFL Draft.
And Kyren Williams, possibly.
ZooeyModeratorI also think the 49ers are going to be better than people think. But I think as long as McCaffrey is their guy, they will go as far as his health can carry them. He is one player they cannot win without.
ZooeyModeratorLos Angeles also has the benefit of playing four games against the subpar AFC South.
To say nothing of the six games against their bitch slaves in the NFC West.
ZooeyModeratorKyren is one of those guys to me who was not paid what he was worth while he was here, but isn’t worth what it would cost to keep him.
I feel sorry for guys like that, but… I don’t make the rules.
ZooeyModeratorZooeyModeratorME: on Purdy’s contract. That’s just the “starting qb 2nd contract” game. The market determines that, it’s not based on “worth.” The market goes up every year. If you have a starting qb up for a 2nd contract, you either pay him what the market is paying for starting qbs up for 2nd contracts that year, or you let him walk.
Tua Tagovailoa and Trevor Lawrence signed 2nd contracts in 2024, and their deals were in the 55 M a year range, so if anything Purdy’s deal is a bit at the low end of that market.
Stafford, in contrast, turned down deals for more money to stay with the Rams. Plus he’s not in the “2nd contract for a starting qb” market. Deals past contract 2 are not as uniformly defined.
Yeah, I agree with all that. It’s kinda great, though, because using the QB salary as a starting point, the Rams have a better QB and more cap space available outside the QB for other players.
ZooeyModeratorBrock Purdy is making about $10 million a year more than Matthew Stafford. Over 20% more than Stafford.
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ZooeyModeratorBRENDA. KNOWS. BALL.
🚨 Schedule Update '25 with Brenda Song pic.twitter.com/1M4uUDf0dp
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025 at 11:28 pm in reply to: before the summer assessments: roster, draft, FAs, etc #156455ZooeyModeratorfrom https: 2025 NFL Schedule: NFC Team Record Predictions, //www.si.com/nfl/2025-nfl-schedule-nfc-team-record-predictions#_27cz1szdu
NFC West
Los Angeles Rams: 12–5
For the Rams to become legitimate Super Bowl contenders, they will need faster starts than the past two seasons. They started 3–6 in 2023 and 1–4 last season. With the arrival of Davante Adams, perhaps the Rams can get by the AFC South teams, the Texans and Titans, to jump to a 2–0 start this season.I don’t think what happens in September is the difference here, actually. But thanks.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t defend it. But it looks like the NFL is in “recession’s comin” style thinking. It’ as if they’re openly saying “Schedule the established money makers that draw national audiences, this is not the time to re-think this”
Yeah, I get it. I guess what’s interesting is that America in general has not caught onto the fact that the Cowboys and the Falcons are roughly the same team over the last 30 years.
In fact…the Falcons have been better.
ZooeyModeratorYeah. In looking at the graphic that shows national games, I had to wonder why the Cowboys come in second with 6 national games. They aren’t any good.
There are several teams that have matchups more interesting than any Cowboys/x matchup. It feels a little like high school.
To watch a meaningful Cowboys game, you need a VCR.
ZooeyModeratorI think the opener is a very big game this year. I know, all 17 are important, blah blah, but the Texan game is huge, to me.
I’m expecting a fast start this year. Three out of the first four in the win column.
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v5-0 going into Baltimore.
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ZooeyModeratorActually, for me, the Madden Raiders are my 2nd favorite team. Not the Raiders, the Madden Raiders. With the Rams it’s just the Rams even through the dark years. With the Madden Raiders it was a flirtatious interest.
Yeah?
Well, I always hated your stupid BFF girlfriend Madden Raiders. I still hate the Raiders to this day because of what is the only interesting chapter in their sordid history, sleeping around with one city after another, and trying to come off as Mavericky as Sarah Palin.
I grew up in NoCal, so I was surrounded by those insufferable idiots who gave birth to the Mad Max Halloween beat-up-fans-of-visiting-team sociopaths who thought they were on the team roster, listed right after The Assassin Jack Tatum who was fucking proud of paralyzing a guy for life.
I didn’t hate every player, I will admit that, and I didn’t hate Madden. They even had several players I admired, but I hated the “assassin” ethos, and the fans that embraced that. And Al Davis was the scumbag among scumbags.
Anyway. Carry on.
Just play the game.
ZooeyModeratorI have no interest in that story, but Christian Bale and Nicholas Cage might just make that worth watching. I would never have imagined Cage in that role, and that alone makes me curious because he’s going to have to break into some new territory here. And Bale makes things… interesting.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t like TNF. I get they’re after money, etc. That said, why not Friday night?
ZooeyModeratorAccording to that grid, the Rams don’t play on Thanksgiving or Xmas.
ZooeyModeratorBuccaneers at Rams – Week 13 Thanksgiving Night
That works for me.
My wife is already resigned to Thanksgiving football (my family’s fault, and we are usually with them), but there is no way I’m going to be able to watch the Rams on Christmas if she’s still alive and breathing. And if the Rams are playing on Thanksgiving, I think I’m safe for this year from a Christmas game.
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ZooeyModeratorRams post-draft depth chart: Continuity at OL, new-look WRs room stand out
Jourdan Rodrigue
She means Terrance Ferguson, not Hunter (Long) Ferguson.
There are no safeties on the team, apparently. Nor a kicker, punter, or LS.
And Xavier Smith is probably a casualty since the Rams got that PR dude from Philly.
And there are only 45 guys on that 53-man roster.
Typical shoddy work from Rodrigue.
ZooeyModeratorNFL SCHEDULE LEAK
Rams vs Jaguars – Week 7 (London) pic.twitter.com/3nLbaBfVWl
— NFL Nerd (@NerdingonNFL) May 8, 2025
ZooeyModeratorIn this current moment in history, I find it’s important and useful to blame you for the fact that I neglected Ferguson.
I’m telling mom.
ZooeyModeratoramari cooper and keenan allen are both available. are they fits? are they even affordable? and isn’t cornerback supposed to be thin too?
I think receiver is deeper than it was last year. Last year they had Nacua, a diminished Kupp, Robinson, and Atwell. Whittington did a little bit as a rookie. This year they have Nacua, Adams replacing a diminished Kupp, Atwell, and a more experienced Whittingon. Adams also, at the same time, makes up for losing Robinson.
You’re counting Adams twice there, so that’s two minutes in the penalty box. You also left out the increased receiving threat posed by Ferguson which isn’t so much a penalty as it is negligence, and for that I’m sending you back to the minors for a bit.
ZooeyModeratorHome and Away.
That’s what my sources tell me.
ZooeyModeratorInteresting. I haven’t read any articles about this. IIRC, the Rams organization didn’t score well on their player report cards the last couple of years. I’m too lazy to confirm that though. I wonder if this is a move to start fixing things in that regard.
I guess it is possible that I’m thinking about this like a tourist and not an NFL player. Perhaps this is just another minicamp to them and the extra travel will just be any annoyance.
I had the same thought. It seems like a perk.
As regards to the player report cards, though, I think SOME of that is due to the inferior facilities they’ve had where they’ve trained (community colleges) and so on.
ZooeyModeratorThat game against the 9ers in the rain where Stafford kinda sucked is the game where his shoulder(?) got banged up, and all the subsequent games were sketchy because of that injury.
But. I think he has a point. And so does Cowherd, even though I didn’t agree with him the first time I saw that bit from him.
You get it while you can. And I even sort of left that door open in my own celebration of the opportunity to draft a QB next year when I acknowledged that they might trade one of those picks this coming season to get a Von Miller/OBJ kind of “put ’em over the top” player.
Ideally, of course, they would win now, and set themselves up for prolonged competitiveness down the road. But like the Rams said, they aren’t going to be able to sign Young, Turner, Fiske, and Verse to second contracts. The NFL is Now. Among all the top sports, the NFL is the one where you have to play like there is no tomorrow. You have 17 games, and a one-and-done playoff format. Every single game matters. All the other sports have the luxury of a longer view.
Cowherd may be right. Get an OT and a CB. That just may be where the Rams find themselves.
ZooeyModeratorI’m now suing the NFL for $100 million because the Rams lost to the Eagles in that game.
ZooeyModeratorpretty soon. if the rams just keep hitting on these lower round picks. the rams are gonna lose some really good people in their personnel department.
That’s still better than keeping them because they aren’t really good.
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