Billy_T wrote:

If they’re bad enough in 2023, they could even find themselves in contention for the top two quarterbacks, Caleb Williams or Drake Maye, as Manzano mentioned.

Uh…no.

I never saw Jim Brown play, so he might as well be Jim Thorpe. I just don’t know.

I did see him lay down the law in an interview once. Larry King, maybe. He had a lot of game between the ears. That’s all I know.

Billy_T wrote:

Zooey wrote:

I find reading the options exhausting. What is Sunday Ticket? Does it require a sat/cable subscription in order to pay even more to add it to the monthly package? I looked at the YouTube thing, but didn’t read through it all. A page or two with multiple questions

Zooey, Apologies if you already knew most or all of this already: I really don’t know much about the new Youtube version. But the old Sunday Ticket was started by DirecTV roughly 25 years ago. It was basically the only way to watch out of market games “live” at home. They used to offer it for free to new customers for their satellite package . . . but they almost always gave it to existing customers, too, who threatened to cancel. I was successful at doing that for years, primarily cuz I really meant it. Cancellation for me wasn’t an empty ploy, etc. I could take the service or leave it, and I think their reps could tell. So they’d virtually always give it to me for free, or with a very deep discount, to keep me as a subscriber. There was a running joke-thread on the old board for awhile, where posters would talk about how much they’d get from DirecTV in addition to the Sunday Ticket. Mortgage payments made, trips to Disney, etc. etc. Pretty funny. I think it started because one poster just couldn’t ever get anything from them, so we’d respond with ever more absurd freebies . . . :>) Anyway, all of that stopped not too long after ATT bought DirecTV. I could get Sunday Ticket for free early on, but then they cracked down, and just said “cancel, if you want to.” So I did. Was hoping Apple might win the bidding war, cuz I had a feeling they’d offer it for a much lower cost, and probably for free with a purchase of some Mac product. I doubt Google will do anything like that. It’s just too expensive for me to ever pay in full.

Thanks. I knew it was originally part of a satellite package, but I lost the plot on that. I knew there were changes, but I was streaming the Rams, so I just didn’t track what was happening.

There was never any way I was going to subscribe to a monthly cable/satellite package because I don’t watch much except the Rams. I have an antenna that gets a surprising amount of channels, but I use it only when there is some local news I really want to watch, or a weather disaster, or something. Like…twice a year. I’m not paying $500 a year for some damn service I will use so little that I will never remember what channel is what.

Now it looks like they are trying to get everyone to subscribe to Amazon and Peacock and Satellite and Apple and Paramount+ and Fuckknows in order to watch the goddam games.

I don’t like streaming from Europe on some laggy bullshit link I have to find every week, and I would gladly pay for the privilege of watching a reliable, honest stream, but they’ve just made it a labyrinthine boondoggle. I can’t sort it out.

I find reading the options exhausting.

What is Sunday Ticket? Does it require a sat/cable subscription in order to pay even more to add it to the monthly package?

I looked at the YouTube thing, but didn’t read through it all. A page or two with multiple questions

The way I see it, the Rams won the Super Bowl with a unusual amount of elite players, a few good ones, and the rest were mostly young guys they got in late rounds, and then coached into coherency.

On offense, they had Stafford, Kupp, Beckham, and Whitworth as elite guys, and Havs and Higbee are good.

On defense they had Donald, Miller, Ramsey as elite, and Floyd is good. I don’t know what to call Eric Weddle.

Anyway, they have Donald left on defense, and Stafford and Kupp left on offense. Meaning that they are down to 3/7 elite players for this year. They have a ton of cap space for 2024 to rent more elite players, and they must know who is coming available next year, either through FA or for a trade. I think picking up 3 or 4 elite players with that cap space is doable.

Meanwhile, it’s interesting to me that the past two years, they have made their first picks Guards. I mean…Guards. Highly rated guards, two years in a row. I’m going to guess that that isn’t an accident. I don’t know what it means, but it means something. One or two of the film guys/posters commented that Avila doesn’t strike them as a “fit” for the Rams, but I don’t know what they mean by that. Maybe the Rams are planning to change what they are doing up front. Maybe the film guy is wrong. Maybe Snead is wrong.

I don’t know what it all means, but I do know it looks like the Rams are building for an assault in 2024 and see 2023 as a year to season a of guys along with the 2nd-year guys who are left manning the secondary. Apart from the 3 remaining elite players, the Rams just got a lot younger. On purpose. And they are going to add some very good vets to that mix next year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU1DsipURcM&ab_channel=NASAGoddard

I dunno.

I never know.

Looks to me like they did not reload at CB or WR or TE, places I thought might need reinforcement.

But. They know more about the guys already on the roster that we haven’t really seen, and the McSnead era has been good to me, including 2 SB appearances, and one SB championship, so I say, bring it on.

jimiramsboy wrote:

Hi guys so I was supposed to die in 2018 and I am still kicking somewhat. As long as they get over that F them picks I think think this is a good start

Rams fans never die. They just run a fade, and toast Eli Apple.

Billy_T wrote:

All in all, if we’re talking about feeling really good about a team’s long term future via the QB?

I suspect that is the criterion he’s using. It’s the only one that makes ANY sense whatsoever of that list.

But even so.

Matthew Stafford is 35. Kirk Cousins is 34. Geno Smith is 32.

Matthew Stafford is the fastest players to reach 25K, 30K, 35K, 40K, 45K, and 50K passing yards. His career QB rating is leagues superior to Cousins and Smith. He is possibly going into the HofF. Cousins and Smith won’t ever have their names mentioned as a prospective HofF player.

The only thing I can say positive about this list is that ALL lists are pretty much bogus. But this one is stupid in addition to being bogus.

Daniel Jones? Are you kidding me?

This list is an example of Recency Bias. So he may as well just have posted last year’s QB stats, and called it a day.

I used to wish for the death of Henry Kissinger.

But the guy is so old now, I figure he will suffer more the longer he stays alive.

How much cap room would the Rams have if they got rid of everybody?

Probably a lot.