Last season my team won our 10 team fantasy title. My first three picks were Saquon Barkley, Lamaar Jackson then Puka Nacua.

I draft last this season but I get the first pick in the 2nd round so I get picks 10 and 11. Any suggestions? These three players might be off the board by the time I draft my first player.

Ground Chuck said:

The "Niner Aura" that might have existed for 20 years or so, is decidedly gone. It only exists in the minds of delusional whiner fans.

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Date of death of the Niner Aura - October 10, 1999.

Place: TransWorld Dome, St. Louis, MO.

Classic SoRam. Actually one of his more coherent posts.

I don’t dislike the dude because he’s just a bit of a comedy act/fantasy football guy. No way shape or form is he a serious analyst.

LouisvilleRam said:

I remember when we drafted him they said he had the best win rate % on passing downs in all of college football last year

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In this “age of information”, (Bill Bruford), the Rams seem to be keying in on certain numbers that must not have carried as much weight once upon a time. They are flat out nailing it in the draft lately.

Outside of Stafford Verse is the hardest Ram to replace. Very glad he is fine. He is ready to have a monster year.

dieterbrock said:

What is fairly certain is that Manning either will or wont come out for the '26 draft and the Rams will either draft him, or another QB or not draft one at all.

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DzRams said:

I'd put Goff ahead of Jimmy G., too. I would add though that Goff also has to have the right situation.

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Goff is heads and tails a better QB than he was when he left us AND his elite oline plays a role in that too.

Guy is now a more pure drop back passer and consistently seems to get to answers later in the down then he ever did with the Rams and from what other people have said the Lions offense offers him more answers than McVay's did (don't come for me with pitchforks! - McVay's offense is great and has answers to what the defense throws at you but the menu isn't as varied from what I hear).

muggmeister said:

Hell, I had 25 ESPN free league teams last year and again this year. Had 100 teams one year, used different email accounts, that was too much. 25 is too much, won 10 titles last year and played for championship in a total of 18, not too bad.

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I can't imagine,too many conflicts of interest when you get in a lot of leagues. You'll have a guy in one league and then you are playing against him in another or you'll have a player going against the Rams and you want him to do good but not to good lol

Ground Chuck said:

That’s why I never check getting onto the freeway. F-them other cars if they can’t see me coming.

As for Stafford, I agree it could be any of those things or a combination of years of football hits. Our boy will be primed and ready come September!

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Merlin said:

Because of Arch burning his career the way he did, the Mannings are the example of a football family that understands the importance of who you play for as a QB. So yes, if the Brownstains are squatting at 1 overall there's no chance in hell he's coming out

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Very good, sir. Who says potty humor can’t be poetic?

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Dumbass from Tempe AZ. Born and raised Los Angeles Rams to St Louis back to Los Angeles. I'm 44 years old my prior user name was Battering Rambo. Apologizes to all prior.

This thread will get 5 views. My bad ROD I see the other topic and I'll be contributing tomorrow.

PhillyRam said:

With Kyren's pass blocking I could see him emerge more as the go yo guy in terms of RB1 when in a 3rd down or any passing situation. Let the young guys take the hits between the tackles on 1st & 2nd down more often. Obviously, Williams will as well, but start to shift him more to those critical passing down situations.

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I don't know...Kyren's pretty young himself and they just paid him. I think he'll take the lions share of the workload with Corum and Hunter occasionally sprinkled in.

The latter two will get significant snaps if injury strikes KW.

Selassie I said:

Just from THAT NIGHT alone!

But I can't tell those.

I'm also full of useless information and facts. Useless being the key word there.

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SWAdude said:

People tell me I have many stories also. Yours are much better.

I find myself holding back. I just grew up in the right places at the right time.

Things just happen.

Don't stop.

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I like hearing all of your stories. I am reluctant to share some of mine as well because if comes off as a "humble-brag" which can be pretty nauseating. But I don't see it that way. Like you said, @SWAdude (just got off one of your lovely flights Monday AM from Boise. wonder if you've ever flown my ass around.) But these cool stories should be shared- we are just in the right place/right time.

It doesn't make me cool that I was once Joe DiMaggio's hero. Just a fun story I've shared over the years (too many times according to my wife)

My counter to that is PUKA had at least 4(5) TD’s against the Cowboys
from what I saw.

Troy Reeder was all over the field.Early on Omar Speights wasn’t getting out to flat in time?
He did get into the above video.I won’t take anything away from him & if the starter like he is now.That would be a good thing.
Tony Fields will look good in the preseason as well.He held his own.
IMO better than at least either Dolac or Pooh Jones.

Stoops held his own with Covey & Mumpfield.

Looked like Ethan Evans got out punted by about 5 yards IMO by Dallas punter.

could go negative?

At the End Dallas started trying to get into it.
Le Collin’s Dallas Old Tackle 77 was getting frustrated & others.

Rookies - they showed promise,but no standouts.

Terrence Ferguson was in shorts(street close)

Didn’t notice #41 Joshiah Stewart as well.

J.Hunter work hard,but he is going to need to work himself into playing time.He’ll play specials teams.

Konta - I guess had a good day ? He didn’t look good to me in his patterns.It could have been the QB. I saw him make a tough catch in traffic & came down with it.The pattern again didn’t look all that well. On Punt return team he looks good. I’d have to say FG Defense might be a specialty???
-He said coming out he wants to be a core special teams player & was for the Pitt Panthers.

Pooh Jones - he has a little ways to go.Showed some strong & weak points.Don’t see him playing much early in the season.

Shaun Dolac was the Green Dot calling plays.I’d say a young Reeder type with different skill sets.Has a chance to be an all around ILBer,but on the smaller side.
-Saw him blocking on punting team. He looked good & will only get better.Strong hands & body control.

Ty Hamilton got 1st team reps for Kobie Turner.He will work his way into the rotation,but very limited early.

That’s IMO after the 1st scrimmage with another NFL team.

Alaskan Ram said:

Saquon had 345 carries for 2,005 yards and 15 touchdowns in 16 games last year. I'll root for that.

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That would be over 5.8 YPC. KW isn't fast enough for that. Nor will he be able to play against the Rams 2024 run defense multiple times to pad his stats like that.
I'll root for him since he's on our team, but I'm also being realistic in my expectations for him.
If he's going to survive for the entire 3 year extension, we aren't going to be able to run him 350 times per year, and if we do, that's bad management by McVay and the coaching staff.

VeteranRamFan said:

Made it in without any one checking for tickets. This place is still not organized but I’m not complaining.

No pictures today, just too difficult with the sun and bleacher position.

I’m taking a page from @dpjax playbook and will use voice to text.

Don’t expect any updates till tonight.

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Missed out - heading out to BubbaRams favorite place. Oxnard.

Not sure how that will workout.It some needs a ride - Lol
Could load up a cooler

10am sail

CGI_Ram said:

He looks like he’s somewhere between 20 and 40 years old.

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One of those guys who look old when they are young but young when they are old.

They possibly wanted Bowers but boy did they hit a home run with Verse. I won't lie, got extremely spoiled with Donald on that D-Line. Verse looks and plays the part. I would not doubt a DPY award in his near future.

Oops EDIT: Thank you God!

AZRams said:

Played the worst game of his career against the Cowboys in the Championship game?

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Sounds like you're describing Dak Prescott.

Selassie I said:

LOL

Years ago (early 90's), Universal Studios in Orlando hadn't been open long and I was doing some business with them. I was roaming around in their offices lost and happened to go into the wrong office. Guess who was in there?

Yep... Sheena. I was embarrassed obviously, but she saved me. She told me she had been lost too and not to feel bad. She introduced herself to me and we teamed up on the staff there for letting people wander around their executive offices and just open doors. She was doing a concert or something there and offered me VIP entrance. When I told my ex-wife about it when I got home that evening, she said no way to attending. Arrrrrrrgggggg.

Her hair wasn't really short then... and I don't want to see her with it and ruin one of my fun thoughts. You're trying to kill my memory of her lol... she was FINE AF.

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Yeah she had longer hair in the 90s.

The 80s was when she had short hair.

Edit - you should have gone to the concert anyway