The Rams have 11 picks in the 2024 NFL Draft 🧩 pic.twitter.com/zzeMgEof4J

— PFF LA Rams (@PFF_Rams) February 28, 2024

InvaderRam wrote:

by far my favorite rams reporter of all time.

She is the best ever. I’m happy for her to get this shout out. She deserves it.

InvaderRam wrote:

but it’s not just the rams. whenever i go to the dodgers cardinals games in la there is a large contingent of cardinals fans. always. i’ve been there when the giants come to town and there’s a swath of giants fans attending. not quite to the degree of rams games but the dodgers are the dodgers. it would take a long time for the rams to reach that kind if status in this town.

The Dodgers own LA. That is just straight up the fact. Even when they were terrible, they drew 3 million fans a year. I think it’s a combination of things. The Dodgers were the first “real” pro team in LA. And although Dodger Stadium is now one of the oldest ballparks in MLB, it’s still among the best places to watch a ballgame. Summer evenings in LA with a baseball game also just dovetails into the LA vibe. It’s a baseball kind of town. Baseball has so many games that there will always be tickets available for fans that travel well (SF and STL). So, sure. But you will NEVER see disproportionate representation at a playoff game like we saw against the 9ers. That would never happen to the Dodgers.

The Rams will never compete with the Dodgers for first place in the hearts of LA. They will never suffer, and never leave LA again, but they will be ignored when they are uncompetitive.

zn wrote:

We go back to the PD board, right? I started in 98. So that’s what, 60 years?

The PD board. That’s right. I had completely forgotten about that board. For whatever reason, I recall the “blue” board as the first board, but it wasn’t. That was after the 1st Great Schism (~c. 1998). Then we hit the Island of Blue, and left there for something, and the from there to Rivals(?) which got shut down. Then The Herd(?) and the 2nd Great Schism (~2004-2005?).

Something like that.

Well, here we are. It’s quieter.

But occasionally I think a little “Rate the Flamer” is missing from the stew.

So wv comes in here with a traumatic film of the Rams’ loss to the Vikings in the playoffs, and sharpens it by omitting all of the good Rams plays. Then reminds us that the Rams used to have the greatest sports uniforms of all time. I dunno, though.

3.5 stars from me.

zn wrote:

Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue The Rams officially announced coaching staff additins:

Additins, huh?

Well, that will certainly have other teams’ management scrambling for their dictionaries. Score another creative diversion by our Los Angeles Rams.

In the mean time, the Rams will just be scouting out another epic rookie draft class.

wv wrote:

Participant skip to the 16 minute 30 second mark, or so, and you can watch the hi-lites, of….Rams vs Vikings playoff fiasco.

That wasn’t even the highlights. It was the lowlights. And I didn’t like that game the first time.

That’s the first game I remember in my life.

Yeah. That’s how my life as a Rams fan began. With that.

Thanks, bro.

wv wrote:

Steve Young thinks the next ten super bowls will be won by quarterbacks who can run.

Interesting that Young must consider Stafford to be a running QB. I wouldn’t put him in that category myself.

wv wrote:

SF fires their DC. w v

Brandon Staley is still available for hire.

Billy_T wrote:

It’s weird that it worked out this way for me, but I’m a diehard SF Giants fan, since the days of Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, and Juan Marichal. In baseball, the Dodgers are the bad guys for me, and this year I can’t stand that they’re buying a championship. Not fair!!

I get the “buying a championship” accusation, but it’s not really true. The Dodgers currently stand at 4th in MLB for homegrown talent (i.e. from their own farm system) on their roster. And the Dodgers did not outbid other teams for Ohtani and Yamamoto. For both players, there were larger offers on the table that they declined in order to sign with LA. Just sayin’.

JoeMad is also a Giants fan, btw. And maybe OzoneRanger.

The 9ers may have a down year next year. We can always hope so. It takes a lot out of a team to work their butts off for one goal from July through February, only to have it crumble in seconds. For some guys, hitting the weight room and film study with the same amount of energy might be hard to do. It would be different if you weren’t expected to be there in the first place, but the 9ers had this thing in their reach all season long, and they all believed it was their year. That has to be harder to bounce back from.

zn wrote:

Nick Wagoner@nwagoner If you want to quibble with Kyle Shanahan’s decision to take the ball first in OT, no problem. Can see both sides of that.

On that… Shanahan evidently said he wanted the ball third. That he expected to score, then KC to score, then it turns to sudden death. The offense got only 3, and the defense didn’t hold KC to 3, so it didn’t work, but that was the thinking.

Also, as someone else pointed out, the 9ers defense was gassed. They had been on the field a lot in the 4th quarter, and starting with them on the field may have been a bad idea anyway. Additionally, two guys in the secondary were banged up on the final drive of the 4th, and the 9ers had two scrubs in at that point. Taking the ball first enabled those two secondary guys a little time to shake it off and get ready to go back in.

Bottom line to me is that the SF defense didn’t keep KC out of the end zone.

zn wrote:

6 of the teams on that list beat them in 2023.

Welp, they play five of them next year.

zn wrote:

I would stress this key point: always block Chris Jones

You would think.

InvaderRam wrote:

i can sleep a little easier this offseason.

Me, too.

My next door neighbor throws a big SB party every year. He has 3 big screens, a bar, a pool table (with the Broncos logo in the center of the felt).

I’ve been invited, but never gone until yesterday. Two years ago, the Rams were in it, so there was no way I was going to watch the game with a mass of people who didn’t really care, and last year I was unable to watch the game at all.

I went this year, and there were around 50 people, 45 of whom were wearing 9ers jerseys.

I appreciated the end of that game, I must say.

I  am pretty sure that this is the first time I’ve been happy about losing hundreds of dollars.