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ZooeyModeratorI wouldn’t think Powell would cost more than the vet minimum. The Rams picked him up after he had bounced around, right? And it’s not like he was great; he just didn’t screw things up. I’m happy to have him, but he’s kind of the bare minimum in production, isn’t he?
February 19, 2022 at 10:47 pm in reply to: when you have 40 min of time, watch this… NFL Films Mic’d Up Super Bowl LVI #136768ZooeyModeratorThat made me all fuzzy inside.
That was great.
ZooeyModeratorInterestingly enough though they get real value out of the lower rounds.
Yeah, I know.
And with the Lombardi safely residing in Los Angeles, there is no reason to complain about their strategy. It’s working. I think quantity of late round picks is important. The conventional wisdom forever has been to build the team with 1st and 2nd rounders, and you can throw away a bunch of “useless” 4-7 rounders to move up.
Well…the Rams are stockpiling quantities in the late rounds, and turning up the guys you pointed out, and more.
Heck, Kupp was a 3rd round pick.
I think the Rams have shown that it’s better to have 8 guys in rounds 5-7 than a high pick.
Oh…and one other thing that crossed my mind and totally doesn’t belong here, or anywhere else, but I gotta say it: A’Shawn Robinson is better than Brockers. There. I said it.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, Josh Reynolds would have made the postseason run a little easier.
February 19, 2022 at 12:14 pm in reply to: annual coaches leave, coaches replaced thread…2022 #136732ZooeyModeratorI’m guessing they’re keeping Morris.
I had doubts the first half of the season, but I think he’s a keeper now. I appreciate the way he adjusted at halftime in a few games – notably the Super Bowl where he changed the defensive front and poured a record-tying onslaught onto Burrow.
These guys in the college ranks are interesting.
ZooeyModeratorI would think Noteboom would be their best option. His price tag is not going to be unreasonable. But he will draw interest from other teams, almost certainly. Alaric Jackson played well when he played, but who knows. They need another OT no matter what.
The Rams are going to need reinforcements in the secondary. They have been very successful over the years drafting, but they’ve also been losing guys to FA. They obviously ran so thin this year that they had to bring in a dude from a retirement home and torn pec to play. Long seemed to improve a bit down the stretch, though I’m not sold. Rapp has another year on his contract, I believe, but that guy is strictly depth, imo.
They should be able to re-sign the KR, whatshisname, because nobody else seemed to want him. He didn’t fumble which is my #1 criteria for a returner. Remember what a disaster the KR game was until they picked him up.
My hope is they can develop what they have. Jefferson is on probation, in my book. He doesn’t fight for the ball. He’s the anti-OBJ on that part of the game. Stafford can put the ball into tight coverage with OBJ, and the guy will come down with the ball. Jefferson becomes a spectator. We saw that multiple times this year. I hope somebody gets to him. If not, they need to find a replacement soon, and I don’t know if Ironhands Skowronek is the answer. There’s Tutu, of course. Tutu Atwell has more Super Bowl rings than Dan Marino, btw.
I think they’re okay at TE, actually. Higbee, Mundt, Blanton, Perkins, and Harris.
The Rams obviously have no shot at any blue chip draftees, and maybe no red chippers, either. I don’t know when they first pick, or how many picks they have. They will be looking to add a lot of bodies, and sift through them in camp. That strategy made them champions, so I’m on board with the McSnead train.
ZooeyModeratorthat robert rochell can grab the starting corner spot opposite ramsey.
Yeah, I think he’s gonna hafta. Williams is a FA, and that seems like one of the more likely guys to let walk.
ZooeyModeratorWell, here’s a little treasure.
Before the start of his senior season in high school, @CooperKupp was asked about his career coming to an end.
Fast forward to today and heβs a Super Bowl MVP π
(via @WaSports) pic.twitter.com/aCl1oPTrrN
— ESPN (@espn) February 17, 2022
ZooeyModeratorIt’s not a good look, and people will be bringing it up forever, so he will never live it down.
But…the guy was blitzed, and in a state of euphoria, and in no condition to respond to that like he would have if it was an ordinary day.
To say nothing of the fact that he’s not qualified to handle an injury. He’s a quarterback, not an EMT, and I’m sure she had appropriate medical help very quickly, and there is literally nothing Stafford could have done medically. But it would have been a better look if he had walked over there and peered down, I guess.
ZooeyModeratorHoly shit!
Pissed off Matthew Stafford π³π³π³ pic.twitter.com/yLHl0wPG5l
— πππππ πππΏπ΄π π±πΎππ» π²π·π°πΌπΏπ ππ (@_SC00T) February 17, 2022
ZooeyModeratorI was just coming to post that Donald/Corden bit.
It’s fun to see that guy so happy.
ZooeyModeratorYep. He is tugging on the jersey, and then spins Kupp deeper so he has a lane to cut in front and deflect the ball.
It was a good call.
ZooeyModerator#Rams will make a concerted effort in resigning Von Miller – knowing full well his market will be robust – source says. Iβm told the team is open to both a one-year and multi-year extension for the future Hall of Famer. Key bonus: Aaron Donald and Miller are great friends.
— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) February 16, 2022
ZooeyModeratorRams in solid salary cap shape to make a run at a repeat in 2022. https://t.co/jUrIpyYN7M
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) February 15, 2022
ZooeyModerator"Alright Matthew, you ready for this? This is gonna be your game-winner right here buddy"
Sean McVay knew exactly what to call to win the Super Bowl π #RamsHouse pic.twitter.com/zbsZLkPviY
— NFL Total Access (@NFLTotalAccess) February 17, 2022
ZooeyModeratorCooper Kupp in a Kobe jersey, squeezing the Lombardi in a confetti storm is all I needed today.
ZooeyModeratorWell, all those guys are lubed up to the gills, and giddy about their victory.
But even after the euphoria wears off, I think they are going to want to try to repeat.
I don’t know about you guys, but personally, I’m in favor of a repeat.
ZooeyModerator.@TomBrady offered some advice to Matthew Stafford π pic.twitter.com/FMc3elm6GQ
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) February 16, 2022
ZooeyModeratorRumor has it that there is some public intoxication in Los Angeles today.
What's the only thing better than Parade Matthew Stafford?
Parade Matthew Stafford at 0.5 speed. pic.twitter.com/s6fvhtWtvD
— Rich Hammond (@Rich_Hammond) February 16, 2022
ZooeyModeratorChampionship winning plays from @AaronDonald97… did you expect anything less? #SBLVI pic.twitter.com/G32bv2URmP
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) February 16, 2022
ZooeyModeratorOne of the greatest players in NFL history proved it on the biggest stage of them all.@AaronDonald97 | #RamsHouse pic.twitter.com/H06xe7DmrI
— NFL (@NFL) February 14, 2022
ZooeyModeratorComparing some Combine numbers from two Rams' superstars (WR Cooper Kupp, DT Aaron Donald):
Kupp/Donald
4.62/4.69 – 40 yd
1.62/1.63 – 10 yd
31/32 – Vertical
9-7/9-8 – Broad
204/285 – Weight— Dane Brugler (@dpbrugler) February 14, 2022
February 16, 2022 at 1:39 pm in reply to: highlights, break downs, etc … superbowl … updated w/ Baldinger #136492ZooeyModeratorOn the non-call:
Simply put, the officiating crew didn’t believe it impacted the outcome of the play.
“Our rule is that if there is a grab and twist and turn, there’s enough for a foul,”Β NFLΒ official Robert Torbert told PFWA pool reporter Joe Reedy, adding the officials saw no twist-and-turn of Ramsey’s helmet. “If there’s just a rake across the facemask, where there’s not a twist and turn even if there’s a grab, there is no foul. The officials did not see any contact that rose to the level of a foul for a 15-yard facemask.”
This is worse than saying they blew it, imo.
He did twist and turn, and it caused Ramsey to lose his balance. Ramsey was inside that guy’s jersey, and could have picked that pass off. Dude flung him out of the way. There’s no way that wasn’t a flagrant penalty. The ref blew it, and should just say so.
ZooeyModeratorThere were a lot of “what ifs” the entire post-season.
The Rams shouldn’t have won that game with all the injuries.
But they benefited from the way I drew up the bracket to give them the advantage in every game. They got AZ at home. SF went to GB, and beat them, and I think they were the only team built to beat GB in GB after a bye week in those conditions. Meanwhile, the Rams got the Bucs in good weather with some injuries of their own. Then SF at home, and then the weakest division winner from the AFC.
The Rams caught a LOT of breaks.
At the same time, they earned this trophy.
ZooeyModeratorI have seen nobody mention that, after that holding call, on the very next play – which would have been 4th down – Eli Apple committed flagrant pass interference anyway.
While it’s true that the next play call might have been different on 4th and 8 rather than 1st and 4, you really reaching into an alternative timeline and rigging it to give you the outcome you want if you claim that holding call robbed the Bengals.
ZooeyModeratorLet me add this: the extremely motivated, competitive guys…they are driven.
And while at the moment it may seem like climbing the peak is the ultimate goal, and having conquered it, there is nothing else…
For guys like that…there’s something else. Because Donald and McVay did not work insanely hard their entire lives to just check off a few awards like a shopping list. There is something bigger. Winning twice. Getting on Mt. Rushmore.
A Super Bowl victory is great, but once that confetti is vacuumed up, they’re going to look around at the guys who have two rings. Three rings.
I could be wrong, but my read on those two guys is that they are internally driven to be the best they can be. Not just to win. To be the best.
And a lotta people have one Super Bowl.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this is enough for them, and they really just want to settle down and drink lemonade on the porch for the next 75 years. But I don’t think so.
ZooeyModeratorZooeyModeratorAnd that’s right when Woods got hurt, so that didn’t help.
They adjusted. He adjusted. And he was clicking with OBJ at the end.
And you left out Higbee.
An offseason with Woods, OBJ, Kupp, and Higbee? Sign me up for that spectacle.
ZooeyModeratorJoe Burrowβs no look pass is insane π pic.twitter.com/lf0fUrZ9KE
— Rams HQ (@LARAMSHQ) February 16, 2022
ZooeyModeratorRight now? He may get in, but not immediately. He would be debated.
Seven more years with McVay?
He’s in.
Probably 3 more years.
After this Super Bowl stuff dies down, and people get bored and start looking at 2nd tier questions, people are going to start looking more carefully at his Detroit years. And I don’t know what that examination will reveal, exactly, because I sure didn’t watch him play in Detroit, but a man who has those stats while never winning is probably going to get a more favorable review. I would think.
If he retired today? He might get in several years after eligibility.
But his trajectory is HOF. If he is a stock, I’m buying.
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