CGI_Ram said:

Hope this isn’t a big deal. Seems odd.

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My thoughts as well.

You should be proud. That’s cool!!!

Yeah, Stu... business owner, love of your life wife, success raising good kids, family. You really have “done it”, man.

Up close you may poke holes in your game, but not from this view.

I guess we did grow up.

Elmgrovegnome said:

It makes sense and goes along with my belief (and a few others here) that it's necessary to have a minimum of two very good Olinemen on the line. It's like two veterans that don't make mistakes and lead the younger guys and help them not make mistake. It's a 'well liked machine's and they are the engine. Right now this team doesn't have it. They've got one guy like that and he's getting old. They need a very good center or a very good veteran guard. Preferably on the right for continuity of communication across the line.

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What if Havenstein plays as he has before, which earned him that extension?

With 68 starts, he should be that 2nd vet.

CGI_Ram said:

Yeah, I was going say though... he aced the cinnamon challenge, so that’s like a bonus point?

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Of course he did...

He's a red head.

Duh.

He's part cinnamon too.

@Ram65 nah I'm your typical armchair asshole who crunches tape and makes crazy roster assumptions.

I think his take on JRey is off of couse. As a starter JRey would probably put up respectable numbers in this offense. But Van's fit makes his ceiling higher.

Honestly, Rapp and Kupp sitting out is going to get our rookies some valuable reps they missed out on without having a rookie camp. This is HUGE for Fuller, Burgess, and Jefferson. We know Rapp and Kupp can ball. Let em rest

What he did at that school just cant be equated.
Took over a team that won just 3 games the year before, had only won more than 16 games in a season 3 times in school history and only won 20 games 1 time in the school's history
Went from 3 wins to 12, which was his only losing season (12-14), then 13 wins, which was the last time he didnt win at least 60% of his team's games (13-13 .500)
He won 20 games or more in 19 of 27 full seasons
Just incredible

I would not remove this rookie Safety Fuller from his earned starting position in this secondary. I would play him as our two starting safeties with John Johnson III against Dallas & that running attack.

I’m not minding this no preseason.
Kind of enjoying it actually.
Sort like when I was young and only the last pre season game was on TV.....or at least that I paid attention to.
Week one (assuming it happens) will be like a present on Christmas morning.
Just gotta remember to record it and wait 15 minutes before watching to fast forward through all the “world is a sewer and we care” bullshit.
STFU and entertain me.
First game is going to be.....interesting.
OL and LB play in the spot light.
Expecting plenty of little disasters.

Mackeyser said:

AY FOOLS! This is 2020. Let's not give the gremlin cruise director in charge of all the stuff happening this year any ideas!!!

If ever there were a year when some fan's superstition or misplaced joke COULD have an effect, it'd be this doggone year...

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If that’s the case... it is still a possibility that the Seadorks lose their NFL license because they are found to be smuggling drugs into Canada.

TK42-RAM said:

There was a store at the local mall in the late eighties and early nineties that had a small single box that sat on the counter and contained NFL cards - they would have only imported maybe twenty - thirty packs and I used to go in once a week and pick up a couple of packs on the off chance I got a Ram. I was probably the only person who bought them .

I remember I also got Tom Newberry, Bern Brostek, and Willie 'Flipper' Anderson.

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That's cool as hell man. Love hearing stories like that. I used to believe that I was the only one addicted to this team... stories like this let me know that there are other lunatics just like me all over the planet.

I didn't think that you were that old... I had you pegged as much younger.

When are NFL roster cuts in 2020? Deadline date, rules, practice squad salary & more to know

One aspect of NFL roster cuts in 2020 technically will be easier for coaching staffs. Training camp rosters during the COVID-19 pandemic consist of 80 players rather than the typical maximum of 90, so that's 10 fewer players each team needs to cut in order to trim their rosters down to 53 before the Sept. 5 deadline.

Everything else about NFL roster cuts ahead of the 2020 season is an unprecedented challenge.

Per the terms of the new collective bargaining agreement, NFL teams in 2020 also will be able to expand their rosters to 55 players (48 active) on game day by temporarily promoting players from their practice squads.

All of this will be taken into account when NFL teams make their final cuts as Week 1 nears. Below are more details about the deadline for NFL roster cuts and the rules for practice squad construction.

When are NFL roster cuts in 2020?

• Roster cuts deadline: Saturday, Sept. 5
• Deadline time: 4 p.m. ET

NFL teams are free to cut players whenever they want, but when the deadline of 4 p.m. ET on Saturday, Sept. 5 arrives, all 32 rosters must consist of no more than 53 players on the active/inactive list. (Teams already had to trim their training camp rosters to a maximum of 80 players by Aug. 16.)

Prior to 2017, teams worked through multiple roster cut deadlines throughout the preseason to trim their personnel. Then the league's owners voted to create the format still used today — one deadline to trim rosters to 53 players upon the conclusion of the preseason.

In 2020, of course, there is no preseason, but the lone roster cuts deadline remains the same as originally scheduled. It lands a week before the start of the regular season.

NFL roster cuts rules

In part because there are no preseason games, many teams will have already made the majority of their pre-deadline roster moves and won't have to cut 27 players at once.

Below is the NFL's official language on the Sept. 5 roster cuts deadline:

"Prior to 4 p.m., New York time, clubs must reduce rosters to a maximum of 53 players on the Active/Inactive List. ... Simultaneously with the cut-down to 53, clubs that have players in the categories of Active/Physically Unable to Perform or Active/Non-Football Injury or Illness must select one of the following options: place player on Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform or Reserve/NonFootball Injury or Illness, whichever is applicable; request waivers; terminate contract; trade contract; or continue to count the player on the Active List."

There will be a claiming period for the players who are placed on waivers during roster cut-downs, but that period will expire at noon ET on Sunday, Sept. 6.

An hour after that claiming period ends, teams will be able to begin constructing their 16-player practice squads. Below is the full schedule for NFL roster cuts/construction.

Date Event
Aug. 16 Deadline to cut training camp rosters to 80 players
Sept. 5 4 p.m. ET deadline to cut rosters to 53 players
Sept. 6 Waiver claim period after cuts ends at noon ET
Sept. 6 Teams can begin signing practice squad players at 1 p.m. ET
Sept. 10 Top 51 rule expires

NFL practice squad rules

The CBA that the NFL and the NFL Players Association agreed upon in the spring increased the size of practice squad rosters from 10 players to 12 players for 2020. (It will increase again to 14 in 2022). That was before the COVID-19 outbreak reached the United States and started impacting sports operations.

Because positive coronavirus test results among NFL players are all but inevitable, it's reasonable to anticipate more players missing games than usual in 2020. So the league agreed to expand practice squad rosters to 16 players, including six veterans (unlimited number of accrued seasons) rather than two.

Below are the players who are eligible to be added to practice squad rosters:

Players who do not have an accrued season of NFL experience (rookies)

Players who were on the active list for fewer than nine regular-season games during their only accrued season(s)

Up to four players per team who have earned no more than two accrued seasons (no game limitations)

Up to two (six in 2020) players per team with no limitations as to their number of earned accrued seasons

A player on a practice squad is free to sign with another team at any point, but a team that signs a player from another's practice squad must add the player to its 53-man roster. There are no practice squad-to-practice squad transactions.

While that's still the rule in 2020, during the pandemic, teams are allowed to protect up to four practice squad players each week from other teams.

Another new, pre-pandemic rule for 2020 as laid out by the CBA: Teams are allowed to promote one or two players from their practice squads to increase their rosters from 53 players to 55 players on game days. Any practice squad player promoted in such a way would revert to the practice squad roster after the game.

NFL practice squad salaries

As laid out in the new CBA, there are two salary scales for practice squad players, one for players with two or fewer accrued seasons (the majority of practice squad players) and one for everybody else.

The first group of practice squad players — rookies, players with fewer than nine regular-season games during their only accrued season(s) and players who have earned no more than two accrued seasons — are paid on a fixed weekly salary that increases in each year of the current CBA.

Below are the fixed weekly salaries for most NFL practice squad players.

Year Weekly salary
2020 $8,400
2021 $9,200
2022 $11,500
2023 $12,000
2024 $12,500
2025 $13,000
2026 $13,750
2027 $14,500
2028 $15,250
2029 $16,000
2030 $16,750

The second group basically consists of veterans; the NFL defines them as players with no limitations as to their number of earned accrued seasons. Teams in 2020 are allowed to keep up to six of these players on their 16-man practice squads.

These practice squad players receive a fixed weekly salary within the following minimum and maximum amounts over the duration of the current CBA.

Year Minimum weekly salary Maximum weekly salary
2020 $12,000 $12,000
2021 $14,000 $14,000
2022 $15,400 $19,900
2023 $16,100 $20,600
2024 $16,800 $21,300
2025 $17,500 $22,000
2026 $18,350 $22,850
2027 $19,200 $23,700
2028 $20,050 $24,550
2029 $20,900 $25,400
2030 $21,750 $26,250

Practice squad player contracts do not provide for salary guarantees, bonuses, incentives or any compensation beyond the amounts above.

If a practice squad player is promoted to the active roster for a game, his weekly salary will be adjusted to 1/17 of the minimum annual salary for players with his number of accrued seasons.

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When he came in for his 1st play they did the same play...THEY must love his movement skills

Legatron4 said:

Gotta admit, for some reason I was thinking Van Brocklin wore 7. Now I remember it was Waterfield. My bad

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No need fro apologize. Your #s Threads have been a source of enjoyment.

B-T-W, I believe Van Brocklin quarterbacked the only team to ever beat Lombardi's Packers in the post-season when the Eagles defeated Green Bay in the NFL Championship.

Raptorman said:

My wife has dreams of airplane crashes. Usually, a day or two before they happen. The bigger the crash in the dream, the bigger the real-life crash.

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Do your ROD bro’s a solid and give us a heads-up next time she dreams...

OldSchool said:

Lets all be honest here. Crust is irrelevant! What a pizza truly needs is Pineapple!

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That is so NOT Old School.

RamsOfCastamere said:

Is that Corbett snapping the ball to Perkins as the 3rd Center around 5:00?

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It is.

oldnotdead said:

LG Noteboom is looking good and we know Corbett isn't elite but is above average.

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That sounds like an overreach on Corbett at this time. I would take average play. I do think Boom is going to be average or better.

oldnotdead said:

The other issue is with RT. The second scrimmage showed Havenstein is below average in pass coverage. Floyd's speed was abusing him repeatedly and would have then resulted in pressures and sacks.

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Well, it was only two possible sacks reported on the first drive. As the below quote implied it could have been communication or something with TE help. We didn't see any plays so to say Floyd was abusing him repeatedly sounds a bit over the top. We don't know how they adjusted.

We know Havenstein has had some problems with speed rushers and they are calling his neck hold which changed last year. It's still early so lets at least see some play before throwing in the towel just yet. Keep in mind there is no game planning. We don't know how much McVay is rolling/moving Goff around to avoid the pass rush and slow down the pass rush while tiring the defense out.

CGI_Ram said:

He replied it came from the right side (so... yes... you are correct... Hav’s side)... but he also implied issue with TE assignments, if I read that series of Tweets right.


View: https://twitter.com/jb_long/status/1299807715766616064?s=21

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kurtfaulk said:

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for those of you who can't get enough of china.

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More like had enough!

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Some of SoFi Stadium’s roof panels were open Saturday. The Rams said this increased air flow inside on a sunny, 74-degree afternoon. …

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there you go @CGI_Ram

that's why the sunlight came through so bright onto the field on saturday.

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kurtfaulk said:

i read somewhere that he said he wants to play out his career with the rams. i know every athlete says that about their team until they see the money offered by other teams, but i don't think he'll leave for an extra million or two. he seems too happy to play in LA to worry about an increased salary at a place he might not be so happy to play. the bills experience is probably entrenched in his psyche.

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Yea agree with this. Not every player is from Gardena so coming to LA and literally playing at home has to be a dream come true. After playing in Buffalo in a shit offense with shit QBs who wouldn't be happy with his new situation. He is underpaid at this point and I hope he gets taken care of with a team friendly deal. Love his leadership and he's been nothing but a true pro from day 1. Would love to see him Kupp, and VJ for the next 3-4 years.

You got to hand it to Jamie Martin, 9yrs in the league as a backup... 8 starts.

Almost mind boggling when you say it out loud.... 9yrs... 8 starts.

badnews said:

This could be the lowest scoring season since the 16 game schedule.

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I'll take that bet

That three of a kind was the winning hand. I jumped on the all in bet because there was 2 others already in and the pot size was right for the risk plus my odds for a Full House with Aces was pretty good. That hand had numerous outs. I coulda gone hi, lo, flush, straight- it was a monster pre flop hand and it woulda been crazy not to call the all in.

Anyway- we primarily play Texas Hold Em. And i havent seen a 5 card draw game posted. Then agsin, I havent looked around a whole lot.

That particular game was a Round of Each game....30 mins hold em, then 30 minutes Omaha and back again. Usually A sit and go cash game. Someone in your club hosts, you shoot them a Venmo, and off you go. Payouts are immediately following the game, sometimes the next morning if they go too late. . You can get in and out as you wish.

I play a nightly tourney too. $10 buy in. Helps to keep things in perspective.