They may not be happy with Brockers, but the interest in Fairley does not mean that. It means they need more DTs since they lost Langford. They have only 7 DL now, I think: Long, Quinn, Sims, Hayes, Brockers, Donald, and Westbrook. ‘Tisn’t enough.

NERam wrote:

I had it all worked out from my little GM seat on the couch – the Rams would pick up a couple of water buffaloes for the OL, and Bradford would come back to top form, throwing successfully to a not bad group of receivers.

Now that that little bubble has burst, the OL is still a concern. Foles is coming off an injury, and it has been said that he is not good under pressure. Hope they keep him safe and happy.

Think he’ll be “horns-worthy”?

Yeah. I was looking forward to seeing Bradford in a decent environment, too.

I think Foles will be one of those quarterbacks I will have to think hard to remember in ten years when we try to list all of the QBs who started between Warner and Whoever.

But I’m going to do a little Ganesh puja tomorrow, and hope for the best.

NERam wrote:

Per Jim Thomas: Rams have reached out to Detroit DT Nick Fairly. No visit scheduled as of yet.

DT? That’s the wrong side of the ball,ain’t it? S’post ta be OL, OL and then OL.

They lost Langford.

I bet there aren’t many starting NFL QBs whose parents have greater net worth than they do.

sdram wrote:

No NFL ticket!! – that’s crazy talk there. I’d have to watch the vikings every week or talk to my wife more. Not many solid options there.

Well. I’ve never had NFL Ticket, and wouldn’t have got it no matter what anyway.

Well, I think what Foles has that the other available QBs don’t have is an indefinite ceiling.

All the other guys out there have pretty much exhausted their “potential upside growth.” They are what they are. They are past the point of “hopefully he’ll be better next year.”

Foles may have peaked, too. We just don’t know for sure yet.

I don’t know how that is structured, but that looks like bad news for everybody. That is better than most QBs make.

nittany ram wrote:

Here’s a discussion that touches on that…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ASaddam_Hussein/naming

Well, that’s all cleared up.

I hope he has a forgettable time playing for the 49ers, and has a long, losing season.

I’ll only go this far on that: I think Raiders are a more likely candidate than the Raiders.
by jthomas 4:47 PM

Don’t know about that.

I’d rate that as a toss-up, myself.

InvaderRam wrote:

the raiders are worth 797 million. the rams are worth 750 million. i could see that happening. the rams staying in st. louis and kroenke moving the raiders to los angeles. he might actually prefer that as i think the raiders have a bigger following in los angeles. although that would majorly bum out los angeles rams fans.

Nobody cares about Los Angeles Rams fans except Los Angeles Rams fans. That sounds harsh, but it’s true.

Your scenario is possible, but I can make it worse.

Kroenke and Davis trade franchise NAMES. The Rams (newly christened the Raiders) move to Los Angeles as the Raiders, and the Raiders switch uniforms and move to St. Louis to be the Rams.

Cuz maybe they don’t want to trade their entire organizations that they have been building. Kroenke may very well want to hang onto his front office, Fisher and his crew, and his players. All of them become Los Angeles Raiders, but the “Rams” are still in St. Louis.

How’s that sound?

I’m not sure I could survive that.

I was surprised to discover I felt sadness when I heard the news. You know, celebrity humans come and go. It’s the way of the world.

Usually, I think, “Damn. I liked that guy.”

But there was a bit of sorrow with this one. Perhaps fondness developed in childhood is the most potent. I don’t know.

znhater wrote:

Just someone else’s opinion. And when was the last time they hosted a super bowl in a rams stadium? Oh yeah, never. Kroenke is building the stadium. It remains to be seen if the st. Louis proposal even gets off the ground. I just can’t see him letting another team play there whem he settles for a stadium he won’t own. Plus San Diego and Oakland don’t have any money. It’s all just a ploy to get a better deal where they are now.

Just my opinion like everyone else’s but none of the other makes sense to me. Build on toxic land lol. I just don’t see it happening.

Don’t be so sure. The St. Louis proposal looks good on paper, and apparently the NFL likes it because Grubman has flown to St. Louis twice to talk to Peacock since Kroenke’s plan was unveiled, and have said encouraging things publicly. I’d say it’s pretty clear that the NFL likes Peacock’s proposal enough to encourage its development as a future NFL home. And since that stadium is going to be built in St. Louis, that means a team in St. Louis, and the Rams are the logical tenant.

It is true that the money has not been worked out for the Carson site, but even though Spanos and Davis are not as wealthy as Kroenke, they are both billionaires, and there are two of them. The NFL can kick in money, public money could be used, and they could sell pieces of their teams to raise more capital. There are ways it can work. It is true, though, that the Carson proposal is much weaker at this point than Kroenke’s. But Kroenke’s project has everybody working intently to create viable alternatives.

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Do you want to delete this, or did you just post it wrong? I can add-edit anything you want into the post. Up to you.

So, see…here’s the thing.

I wrote an absolutely scathing attack on Nittany. It was brilliant. Sure to reduce him to cinders. And tears. Only the whole thing hinged upon my assumption that the Rams actually CAN’T sign this guy right now because there is no signing of players for another 10 days.

Except that applies to free agents.

And I’m not sure about guys who got cut. They aren’t Free Agents in the same sense. I don’t know about the rules for signing these guys. And thinking that the pain of being exposed as ignorant myself right when I am arrogantly denouncing Nittany’s ignorance…well, I thought better of it.

Not because I was worried about MY reputation. I was just worried that everyone might lose sight of the fact that Nittany is an ignorant slut.

So I deleted it. Only I can’t delete the whole post. Something has to live in the box.