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ZooeyModeratorRelocation might be an issue
for some free agents, i suppose.
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LaramWe were doing some promos for the combine and I had an opportunity to speak with this player.
It’s an issue, at least for him.
Makes complete sense.
Less likely to matter to someone without kids.
ZooeyModeratornittany ram wrote:
Sounds like JT is letting some of his personal feelings about Kroenke mingle with his professional lifeNot sure what you mean here?
I believe Nittany is suggesting that JT’s increasing disenchantment with Kroenke is coloring his analysis/opinions of Kroenke’s motives.
In my reading between the lines of JT’s comments over the past year, I am seeing a guy whose Happiness Level is sliding downhill, and Kroenke is at the heart of it. There has been a note of resentment and even personal injury in JT’s tone about Kroenke’s refusal to interview over the past year, and the Happy Face he has put on about the possibility of transferring to a High School football beat should the Rams move is not a very convincing one. It looks here like JT has taken a cheap shot at Kroenke to paint him as being cheap when, as Nittany points out, all evidence is to the contrary.
ZooeyModeratorThe team with the toughest schedule in the league is whoever is playing the Rams on any given week.
ZooeyModeratorNFC West.
4 of the top 7 hardest schedules last year.
ZooeyModeratorThere goes the last credible news anchor in America.
I guess I will have to rely on Jon Oliver for worthwhile coverage of the news, now.
February 10, 2015 at 7:26 pm in reply to: Ed Sabol NFL Films founder RIP …..NFL Films meant so much to me as a kid….. #18302ZooeyModeratorI grew up in Chico, and I think we got about 7 channels.
In the good old days, I could pick up 3 different stations that televised football, and they could televise whatever they wanted. The conferences weren’t split up by network. On a really good Sunday, all 3 stations would televise a double-header, and I would have up to 6 games to choose from, or switch between them. I almost always got the Rams.
Hey, Joemad. Don’t litter.
It makes the Indian chief cry.
(I looked for this on youtube, and can’t find it)
ZooeyModeratorZooey wrote:
I have always been at odds with the home town fans, and I guess I like it that way. Being the contrarian. You know.Yeah, that’s how I feel.
But Zooey, you grew up in So Cal, didn’t you?
No. I was born in Los Angeles, but moved to NoCal when I was 6-months old.
I became a Dodgers fan because one of my idiot brothers told me that they had a player who hit a lot of triples, and had “3-dog” written on his shoes (Willie Davis). That was enough for a 6-year old to become a Dodgers fan.
I became a Rams fan because I became sensitive to my mom saying that I liked or disliked certain things just because my idiot brothers did, and two of my idiot brothers are Cowboys fans. So I chose the Rams because they had the coolest helmets, and they were from the same place as the Dodgers, and I was born there, and it all seemed to add up in a nice, tidy package.
Later, I learned the benefits of contrariness.
February 10, 2015 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Ed Sabol NFL Films founder RIP …..NFL Films meant so much to me as a kid….. #18284ZooeyModeratorI don’t think one can exaggerate the significance of Sabol (and Facenda) in the popularity of the NFL.
February 10, 2015 at 3:00 pm in reply to: Dirt is turning in Inglewood; Stadium up next? … and other relocation stuff #18283ZooeyModeratorYeah. I can’t get too upset with the local effort right now. There’s movement on the stadium construction front. It looks doable in STL.
I wonder, if at the end of this, we don’t have the St. Louis Chargers or Raiders. I really think it could be either team that could decide they want a sure-thing new stadium for a few hundred million dollars, rather than continue to dick around in those cities.
I guess the Rams could stay here, and the Chargers or Raiders could move to Kroenke’s stadium. I just don’t see that happening, though. I am inclined to believe that SK wants to move HIS team to HIS stadium, and help build that entire Inglewood development. And, I just don’t see an owner swap, where SK owns the L.A. Chargers or Raiders. I guess it’s possible, since SK would control the lease on the stadium. It’s conceivable that it would be cheaper to build a new stadium than lease SK’s new stadium. And, the NFL likely would not want an owner of one NFL team leasing to another NFL team. Although, at the same time I write that, I remember that they’re sure ignoring the cross-ownership rule in place right now in order for SK to continue to own the Rams, so maybe those little details aren’t that important to NFL ownership.
It’s an interesting situation, for sure. And, it seems to evolve weekly.
I don’t see it (the Rams staying), either. If Kroenke is going to present the league with a crowning jewel, he’s going to want to wear the crown himself. I’m not 100% sure of the Rams moving to LA, but I am 100% sure of Kroenke moving to LA. Well, 99.9%, with a 0.1% chance of trading franchises with the Bowlen family.
I don’t think it would be a big issue for a team to lease a stadium from another owner. Most teams have a lease. So what does it matter? Any relocation and stadium lease gets passed by the Committee for Overseeing Opportunities to Make Fortunes in Los Angeles, or whatever it is. I can’t think of anything that would be an inherent conflict of interest in that kind of arrangement.
My intuition tells me that the Rams, and eventually the Raiders, end up back in LA, with St. Louis getting either the Chargers or the Jaguars.
It’s a strange world. I mean, if you look at the St. Louis stadium…that’s a nice looking stadium. Right on the River. It’s nice. It’s certainly better than what the Rams have right now, better than what the Chargers or Raiders have. That stadium is an upgrade for any of those teams.
It’s just that the LA project trumps it. It just does.
ZooeyModeratorI have always been at odds with the home town fans, and I guess I like it that way. Being the contrarian. You know.
February 10, 2015 at 2:19 pm in reply to: Insider Buzz: NFL Teams Want Sam Bradford, If Released, over Mariota & Winston #18280ZooeyModeratorWell, they are not letting him go. They may not trust him
but they are not letting him walk.Seems to me, Bradford has all the cards. I keep
hearing he has to take a pay cut to stay,
but i dont see what leverage the Rams have.w
vHe could take a pay cut as part of an extension. I mean…he’s not giving up the money, but he might defer it into the future. His incentive to do that is that an unproductive year this year leads to a greatly reduced offer for his second contract. He could be better off signing an extension now. Both sides may want to see how it goes during the season, though, and it may depend upon how badly the Rams feel they need to free up cap space.
February 10, 2015 at 1:23 am in reply to: Dirt is turning in Inglewood; Stadium up next? … and other relocation stuff #18260ZooeyModerator<strong class=”d4pbbc-bold”>NFL reminds teams that only the league can make relocation decisions
By Sam Farmer
That’s the right way to do it, for lots of reasons.
Passing through those hoops will increase the likelihood of getting 24 votes.
You know, the interesting thing here is the fact that St. Louis appears to be presenting a much stronger stadium proposal than Oakland or San Diego.
Still. Kroenke’s stadium is privately financed and owned, and has lots of attractive qualities. Moreover, if LA is going to be a two team city, one of those teams will be in the NFC, and one in the AFC. The Rams are the only NFC team in the running, and they have the deepest historical ties to the city, and it’s their owner who owns the land.
ZooeyModeratorRemember, it was just an example. I said, just one example. And personally I don’t think they caught Seattle napping…I think coverage units respect him that much. Plus of course he was 3rd in punt return yards in spite of playing just 8 games.
There are other examples from the season of him being used as a decoy on offense to set up a big play by someone else.
There’s the fact that when they had Bradford, he actually was a deep threat. And, with a qb who can throw those, will be again.
There are the runs that nearly broke so many times that you have to figure one will … and in the meanwhile he was averaging 6.2 a rush.
To me, all they need is to add in some other routes as a receiver when he becomes more proficient at that.
In fact his combined yards rushing, receiving, and returning in 2014 amounted to 857 in 8 games. Across 16 of course that’s 1714.
The 6.2 per rush is nice. I felt like he was becoming more proficient at that this season. I think a lot of people want a Big Play every time TA touches the ball, but I was satisfied with his carries this last season. I didn’t realize it was as high as 6.2, but I thought those play calls were getting an undeserved bad rap. I will take 5 or 6 per carry. I also did not know he was averaging over 100 per game combined yardage. I would have guessed a figure a lot lower than that.
I’d still like to see more out of him to justify the draft position. I’d like him to develop as a receiver, mostly. I would like him to be part of a mix on offense that makes the defense pick their poison. It will take growth from Bailey, Quick, and Austin to make that happen. And a QB would be nice.
ZooeyModeratorActually I have seen a lot of people wondering if Tavon was worth it. Here’s my 2 cents. I think he was.
Here’s an example of my view. It’s just an example. One reason the qb-lite Rams beat Seattle this year is because Tavon is the only Rams player in history that could get an entire special teams punt coverage unit to focus on him so heavily they didn’t even notice where the ball was really going. Name another player in Rams history they could have done that with.
When he is up to speed and knows the offense well enough to do more things, he will have even more value….IMO.
The answer for me is “Not so far.”
I think they could have done that punt return with Ellard, Irvin, Hakim, Bruce, heck…anybody. They caught Seattle napping. But…even if Austin is the only human on the planet who could have done that…so what? They will never be able to do that again. So you don’t trade up to get a guy because he is capable of running a fake punt return once. He’s got to do more than that. So far what he has done doesn’t amount to a lot.
He has had a few big plays – Yay! – and he’s been a change of pace guy. But so far I see him as less of a weapon than Amp Lee was, or Az was, neither of whom were drafted in the first round, let alone in the top ten.
I don’t write him off, though. He could come on in Year Three. But I don’t see him as a first round pick at this point, and if he were to retire from football tomorrow in order to join an ashram, I don’t think it would change the prognosis for the upcoming season.
ZooeyModeratorIf the Rams evaporate, I would be done. I would probably still watch the Super Bowl. But I wouldn’t have a team to follow. I wouldn’t start over with another team.
There is something about my team loyalty – an essence of my innocent childhood years – that remains an important part of sports for me. I think that is why the blue and whites are important to me.
Baseball kind of “jumped the shark” for me. I was a baseball fanatic growing up. It’s just that tradition in baseball is so rich, and the tradition eroded severely in a lot of ways, and I no longer felt like my favorite team had the same…je ne sais quois. I still root for the Dodgers, but I’m a fair weather fan now.
There are a few scenarios here that could push me beyond my…loyalty, for lack of a better word. If I get sickened by what happens in the next 2-3 years, I could lose it.
ZooeyModeratorI just wanna know if you would still follow the ________Rams
if they changed their colors to pink and black,
and wore Big Lebowski bathrobes.w
vWhat do you mean, “still?”
My passion for them would explode off the charts.
ZooeyModeratorI once got into a discussion about similar stuff with a St. Louis fan who wanted to change the team name and logo so they would be more St. Louis. I disagreed, and said their longterm identity meant more to me than any St. Louis identification. He said that was superficial, since it meant I was just loyal to laundry. I said that the name, logo, and uniform are more than just merely external things–they’re the signs and symbols of a history and tradition, and that history and tradition is part of what the team means to people. I knew he was a baseball Cards fan, so I said, what if the Cards changed their colors and their name and became (say) The Aces. Would that be an absolutely meaningless change in merely superficial, external things? I think he saw the point when it struck home–no, the Aces wearing black and red would not be the same as the Cards wearing red.
Well, we are headed into something that matters a great deal to a lot of us, and to our posting friends that we have bonded with over the past two decades. Some of us are fans of the _________ Rams. Some of us are fans of the St. Louis _________. I think some of us may be fans of the Los Angeles ________, a currently vacant spot that people have filled with the Rams. I think, though, that if the Chargers had moved to LA five years ago, we would have seen some Los Angeles fans vanish.
We are headed for changes, and we are all going to lose some friends one way or another. It’s too bad.
But at least we have the consolation that Kroenke will be worth more on paper no matter what.
ZooeyModeratorI think it is more likely that both the Rams and the Raiders end up in Los Angeles than that they trade teams, though there is a scenario in which trading teams makes sense. I agree with the speculation that Kroenke doesn’t care about the brand, and I think he would trade the Rams for the Raiders, take the Raiders to LA, and let Davis have the Rams in St. Louis.
The problem is that I really don’t think the St. Louis stadium is going to be put together inside of 12 months, and I wouldn’t think Davis is going to like the Ed any better than anyone else. I don’t know, though. Maybe the Ed is an upgrade over Oakland, and maybe St. Louis will be far enough along with the stadium project to promise him that he can have it.
I do not think trading teams is Kroenke’s plan. I personally believe – on the basis of nothing but circumstantial evidence – that Fisher’s experience with relocation was part of his appeal to Kroenke. I would be surprised to learn otherwise. I don’t think Kroenke even entertains the idea unless the NFL forces him to choose between that solution and “going rogue.” And I don’t think the NFL is going to do that because the Rams have tradition there, and it just makes sense. The Raiders make more sense than the Chargers.
Although there a many possibilities here, if I was laying the odds, I’d think the Rams in LA under Kroenke’s ownership is the most likely outcome. The Raiders may follow shortly. Kroenke gets to tell the NFL that – far from undermining other teams in worse stadium situations – he is actually helping to solve one of those problems.
Still. The Horror Lives. Like you, I will remain a Rams fan regardless of the city they call home, but if something terrible happens, I’m just not sure I can face it.
February 8, 2015 at 12:21 am in reply to: Kroenke meets with Peacock & other relocation stuff #18147ZooeyModeratorInteresting assessment of the 6 football stadium proposals in Los Angeles.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/01/the_six_possible_plans_for_a_los_angeles_nfl_stadium.php#more
ZooeyModeratorOh, dear. I know nuthin about that dog, but it weirdly LOOKS like King Charles.
ZooeyModeratorwv wrote:
So I assume their thinking will be — Build a Brick WALL of an OLine.
Throw every resource at that one Unit. Do whatever you have to do
but make SURE that one Unit is topnotch.Your conviction that they MUST be prioritizing the OL is interesting. It sounds plausible, but I am not convinced.
Anyway, I’d just question your metaphor. I don’t think the key is an OL WALL. I think what they really want is a pile driving OL to get the running game going.
The frequent assumption about Fisher’s Rams is that they are a power running team. The truth is that their running game was extremely erratic last year. Their offense was driven by passing, not running.
That’s not what Fisher wants. He wants to supercharge the running game and build passing on it.
Just a quibble …
I think what they want is battering rams.
And I think I should trademark that and market it as the nickname of the line.
ZooeyModeratorI never heard of Hudson before this list, but I like the idea of a 26 year old. So if he is any good, I’d like that signing.
I also think they should sign Suh. They need depth behind Donald.
ZooeyModeratorThis is what a team of quitters looks like:
ZooeyModeratorOh, they already have fallen apart. It’s over for that team.
From what I’m hearing, they aren’t even really talking to each other anymore, or even holding practices.
February 6, 2015 at 12:50 am in reply to: Rams to promote QB coach Frank Cignetti to offensive coordinator #18005ZooeyModeratorZooey wrote:
I sincerely hope the man never goes far without a tiny little cigar.What happened to his hand.
He extinguished his previous cigar on it. Duh.
Cignetti – Tougher Than You.
February 6, 2015 at 12:37 am in reply to: Rams to promote QB coach Frank Cignetti to offensive coordinator #18003ZooeyModeratorI think Frank Cignetti is a great name for a coach. Much, much better than Nathaniel Hackett, which sounds like a Minute Man name, as our elderly Nittany pointed out.
I am sure he will join me in celebrating the robust strength of “Frank” coupled with the intimidating power and madness of “Cignetti.”
I sincerely hope the man never goes far without a tiny little cigar.
ZooeyModeratorZooey wrote:
But…if the Davis family ends up owning the Rams, it will take me a long time to climb out of my depression.Hole-Lee-Shit. Dont even say that.
Dont think it, and dont type it.Geezus-h-christ.
Let a thousand flowers bloom,
except for that one.w
vYeah. It would be the ultimate kick-to-the-groin for a Rams fan. Like we haven’t been kicked around enough.
ZooeyModeratorI think that the possibility of Kroenke trading/selling the Rams for another franchise bound to LA should be not be dismissed. I think that’s a possibility.
But…if the Davis family ends up owning the Rams, it will take me a long time to climb out of my depression.
ZooeyModeratorI will always believe it was a dumb call at that moment.
They were down in the first half–momentum was an issue. I would have criticized him for kicking the field goal.
This play was THE game. They had to have the T.D.
For some reason they decided to call a play with a lot of moving parts. There was an off snap in the first half that Wilson gathered in–could have happened. Could have been called for a penalty on a pick play. Could have and was intercepted. Wilson may have pulled the ball down for a split second of hesitation and been sacked.
If they run it in Lynch either gets it and it’s game over or he doesn’t and a time out is taken. You live to play again.
I love the chances with Lynch–stacked box or not.
Was execution perfect? Nope.
But the coaches should not have put the team in that position. They did not have to do it.
I’ve read all the excuses, all the explanations and all the rationalizing.
In the end–that call is going to haunt that team and its fans forever.
I agree with that.
I also think everybody around here would be pretty happy with that if it had been ANY other team than the Patriots. It would have been something to gloat over a division rival about, and ridicule them. Instead, it appears a lot of Rams fans are unhappy.
Weird, huh?
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