dang said:

Stupidest day of the year!!

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One can only hope that ROD members will be intelligent enough to refrain from childish posts on this forum come Saturday.

Mackeyser said:

In the past, they'd have to make cuts and some guys would get very few chances to show what they could do in just the one preseason game prior to first cuts, esp on teams with a new QB where he'd play with the first unit for the first half or on a D installing a new scheme where the starters needed significant snaps.

This way, everyone will get snaps, and gives the coaches more game chances with the entire roster to really pick the best guys. Also means if a guy has a soft tissue injury in TC, he's not an automatic cut as he’ll have two more games to show out.

It removes an artificial barrier and increases eval time. It also saves time for coaches/FOs because they will only have one cutdown day.

Lastly, it means only one day of anxiety for players instead of the reality show format it was.

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I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. The only benefit is that it gives some players a chance to be seen in games a little longer.

I think the coaches know who is going to make it and who won’t with all but a couple of players, before any preseason game happens

Loyal said:

But why should the onus be on the paying customer who is sacrificing in the first place to see a game? I'm not giving them a pass because they want to chase the almighty buck.

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My point is that smart travelers ALREADY are fully inoculated from this and it’s really inexpensive compared to the total cost of the trip. This isn’t gonna affect fans who can’t afford to go to local games which is most of us most of the time.

So just incorporating smart, inexpensive travel practices reduce the inconvenience level substantially. Not totally, but quite a lot

I mean, his name is Ramses II. Of course he's a Rams fan.

ottoman89 said:

I agree. It means nothing to me but I'll let everyone laugh. Haha.

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Truth is, I always welcome an opportunity to use a Ricky Bobby meme!

dang said:

I’ll assume you watched the Rams last year. How did Wagner play in your opinion?

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Make no mistake, Wagner played well last season but he never truly felt like a Ram. It felt more like he was on the team to prove to other teams that he still had something left in the tank.

Memento said:

"What is this, Scrabble?"

Remember, folks: commas save lives.

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I think he meant to write "What is this scrabble?" He was asking what the hell is scrabble?

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Watch out for those horse head bookends

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I really believe Fantasy Sports changed owners thinking. With the fantasy sports making so much money, the owners felt, well, we might as well allow the whole damn thing and cash out for our grandchildren's children.

Old Money, the true gift that keeps on giving.

FMIA: Thursday Night Football flex, Roger Goodell’s contract and the latest from the NFL owners meetings​

PHOENIX, Az. – This morning at the annual NFL Meetings at the Arizona Biltmore hotel, NFL owners and top club officials will hear from the future. The future is a man named David Ellison, the CEO of a film and media company called Skydance Media, which will partner with the league and media arm, NFL Films to create the kind of content the NFL believes is the future.

Imagine a motion picture in theaters, or streaming in your home, with John David Washington and Michael B. Jordan starring as NFL players Kenny Washington and Woody Strode, two of the four men who integrated pro football a year before Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color barrier. It’s the kind of story the NFL believes was never told with the Hollywood flair that the Robinson tale got.

NFL Films has been a vivid storyteller for decades. But the NFL has never been associated with the kind of scripted motion pictures, documentaries and star-driven projects that Skydance—one of the producers of “Top Gun: Maverick”—can do. This is the message Ellison will bring to the league today in a conversation with Ross Ketover of NFL Films. By the way, NFL Films is on board with the new venture, and will be part of the movie- and doc-making.

“We believed,” the NFL’s chief media and business officer Brian Rolapp said Sunday at the Biltmore, “that with how fans are watching the content they love, increasingly on all these streaming platforms, that football and sports was underrepresented relative to the demand that people want. So we said, ‘Let’s find somebody who sees the world the way we do and wants to create the world’s best sports content studio for scripted and unscripted content. Mainly focused on football, but also focused on any sports.”

Skydance debuts “Air,” the Michael Jordan/Nike story, this week. The example I gave of the movie about the Rams and Browns breaking the color barrier in football is just a figment of my imagination, but stories like that one are what the NFL and Skydance want. One other aspect of the partnership will be to spread NFL stories to a global audience, to viewers who haven’t been turned onto the NFL yet. One NFL executive told me the most important part of the partnership will be spreading NFL appeal to the globe.

This isn’t only a long-range plan, Rolapp said. “I think you’ll see some things this year, announcements of things we’re doing. Now we have an infrastructure to actually go make these great projects we’ve been thinking of.”

The annual meetings aren’t overflowing with news this spring. Bringing NFL projects to the big screen, and the small streaming screens, will be a venture worth watching.

On the agenda here and elsewhere, 32 days before the next tentpole event, the draft:

I’m a Thursday flex skeptic. I think it’ll take a lot of Goodell arm-twisting to pass.

I’m a bigger skeptic on football turning into rugby. But I don’t have a vote, and so it goes.

Roger Goodell’s contract will get extended. That should not be a surprise.

I’ve got a not-so-dark-horse for his successor. Likely to be later rather than soon.

Great Dan Snyder line by one team exec here Sunday: “It’s been a pox on our house now for a couple years, and it looks like it’ll continue.” No action on the potential Snyder sale is expected, but I did find out one interesting thing Sunday: As of now, the sale price is shy of the $7 billion Snyder reportedly was hoping for. What a surprise. He’s been such a great steward of this fine franchise.

Hearing good things about Bryce Young after his pro day last week. One team believes he plays bigger than his diminutive size.

Nothing going on with Lamar Jackson. I mean, the trail of news about Jackson has gone drier than an Arizona gulch.

Punters are invisible people too. Man, the league’s trying to make punts and punters and punt returners go away.

RIP, Jerry Green. Dick Vitale got all emotional remembering his friend.

I might argue that Cam Newton talks a much better game than he plays.

Mel Kiper, national treasure.

Eli Saslow, national journalism treasure.

On with the show.

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Rams43 said:

Yep, 12 years and counting, Merlin. On two boards now.

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Didn’t get into all the other stuff.
I think everyone doesn’t like Raheem Morris & Kendrick. I gave a different view & think everyone else is WRONG!
I know it’s easy to doubt my opinion,but I’ve seen enough football & sports to come away with a solid reasoning.

1. Last season was shut down early. I know the Tampa game really could have cost The Rams.
- still think Rapp & Evans were more of the reason for that loss.
2.Kendrick is young & other draft picks as well,but for the Secondary I wanted Colby Bryant instead of Durant.
3.Kendrick is battle tested Clemson,Georgia,Rams. He will be improved with NEW coaching & a Full Offseason.
4. Both will be motivated & ready to roll.They have a lot to prove & I don’t doubt that challenge will be upheld with success.

Les Snead needs to add support & depth. Special Teams is very important & something The Rams got away from imo.

blackbart said:

I see no reason to be satisfied with that.

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Who are you? Bart Lombardi? Clearly you never learned to share.

Psycho_X said:

Yikes, good thing they have the multiverse to explain him away if they need to if this is true.
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Yea , considering Jonathan Majors Kang is going to be the Major story arc for the next 3 years

lucky for Marvel , he's the right villian to explain it away multiverse variants

Allen2McVay said:

Agree completely.

Just wish the Rams had managed the cap a little better, to have been able to keep a handful (3-5) of their good players.

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That's an excellent answer and one I agree with and wish.

I will be cheering on Miami today. Uconn matches up with them better than Texas

ottoman89 said:

He's kind of a head case but I wouldn't mind Peters. He's about better than all we have.

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blackbart said:

It was not a dumb play by Allen it is what happens regularly especially with C helping out. You can go back and watch it on the game highlights for that game.

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Okay, I'll agree. Whitworth was blocking Bosa (and got beat on a bullrush), Noteboom was blocking a DT and Brown had picked up the inside blitzer. Allen was double teaming Buckner with Blythe and came off to blast the blitzer Brown had stood up, knocking him into Noteboom's leg as he was stoning the DT. Not dumb, just hitting somebody in the heat of the moment...... FWIW, Havenstein got beat on the other side too. As a result of Noteboom going down, the DT knocked Goff off balance (while he was climbing the pocket), and got credit for another sack unfairly attributed to Noteboom!!!

Welcome!

Love Hendon Hooker but not sure we go with him as our first pick with Stafford coming back.

I just don't like Carter at all, seems a workout warrior to me and lacks it on the field but I get the pick.

Diaby is very intriguing of a pick he's got a ton of upside and I'm on record as being a huge Daniel Scott fan think he starts as a rookie back there eventually.

Excellent effort thanks for the contribution!

Flatlyner said:

Interesting that a LOT of these FA's are only signing 1 year deals. Next years free agency is looking better and better for us. You don't suppose they are all taking 1 year deals because they see the $$ we will have and want to join a SuperBowl contender?

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Every drafted NFL player worth a 2nd contract is going to try to maximize their 2nd contract. It’s where the $$ is. So the one year deals are just the maximum contracts being offered. I will say it would be nice to have an option to bring back Gaines if the Rams don’t find a better option.

Riverumbbq said:

Probably, but the Rams should have also acquired a 'pure' OG type somewhere along the line and seen what Edwards might have done as an OT. jmo.

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I guess the Rams play their 5 best guys. Never been a huge fan of cross training but I guess it works for the Rams. Didn't really need him at RT with big rob there but might have saved some money there too so there's that. JMO

Neil039 said:

It’s a copycat league. The reality is there wI’ll be a run on DE through the first round into the early second. You can not expect to beat Mahomes, Allen, Hurts, Burrow and the like without pressure. The experts write their opinions just like some of us on here do… hey @Loyal what are you up to today?

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Right now, I am hooked up to a dialysis machine. I still have about 30 minutes to go

Memphis Ram said:

Gee. The more I hear about this Julius Brents, I wonder if he gets out of the 2nd round.
Strong Senior Bowl & Combine to go along with great measurables.

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He's very talented and one of those I just hope falls to us. Would be huge for the defense.