Vegas has the Bills -2.5.

Super Bowl champions are 19-1 opening the following season over the past 20 years.

wv wrote:

It takes a series of miracles to repeat as champions, but ya know, the rams are definitely in the mix. But I cant picture them having enough general-scariness to win it ALL without OBJ. Thats the ‘kind’ of addition that tilts things just enough. Its a large piece of the puzzle, i would think. Late in the year, if they can add a healthy OBJ they would be a different team than they were in, say, the previous 12 games or whatever. He turbo charges them. So, i keep thinking about that there situation. I did not know he was as good as he turned out to be. I never followed him. But that guy just changes things. w v

Emphatic agreement.

The 9ers mishandled this from the beginning, but restructuring his contract was making the best of a bad situation, imo. They tried every tactic in the book to try to trade him, and there just wasn’t a market for him. It may be easier to trade him now that his contract is rewritten, but he has now missed all of the preseason (including the 9ers’ preseason in which he not only did not practice, he did not even get this year’s playbook from the team). One radio blabber ventured to guess that G restructured his contract because the 9ers would have cut him otherwise which would have hit his reputation and future value. They will lose him after this season, but they probably figure having him as a backup is worth more to them than whatever little draft capital they could get for him at this point. Maybe someone loses their starter, and trades for him later, but that becomes less likely by the day. He is probably headed towards a phase in his career where his is the best backup QB in the league for 2-3 years.

zn wrote:

Lance McCutcheon should change Rams’ long-term plans at WR and maybe even any thought of signing OBJ.

Uh…

of the 8 possible WRs to possibly make the 53 roster (according to Rodrigue), there are 6 of them I would not hesitate to cut to make a spot for OBJ.

I don’t know why I bother reading this board when people make claims like, Stafford is so good, he would perform well under fire from archers.

You guys know nothing about football.

The Spartans were annihilated, btw. The Persians sent pressure around the flank and collapsed the pocket from behind.

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It is a bummer about Bruss and Hardy. Those were the two most promising rookies. Hardy’s season may not be over, but he’s not going to get more than a few plays on the field this year, unless there is depletion in the LB department.

I dunno.

Rams lost to the Texans.

Looks to me like the season is over before it even starts.

Well, by the time I actually started watching games weekly, Gabriel was on the back nine, and as a kid new to football, I don’t trust my opinion of him. I estimated him highly, but I have no idea if he merited that.

I think I generally agree with your rankings. Of the Tier 3 guys, I would probably take Bulger first, and Goff last, but…yeah…same tier. I’m not sure there is a lot of space between Tier 2 and Tier 3, actually. Looking at those guys, the ones I’m least certain of are Hadl and Miller, and that’s because they were with the Rams a short time, and towards the end of their careers, but they both played better than anybody in the Tier 4 list, for sure.

I’m not finished with Stafford, but…yeah.

I don’t see Skowronek or Tutu as locks. I guess Powell is, and you can call him a WR if you want, but his job is to catch the ball and not trip over his own feet. He’s replaceable, and he’s only on the Rams because neither Tutu nor Skowronek could clear that bar.

Whatever. I’m going only on what I see in games, not in practice, and not on film. But if McCutcheon can return kicks…he’s already shown more as a receiver than any of those three guys, albeit just one game, a game in which the Chargers secondary looked like the Keystone Cops.