tklongball said:

Would be great for my wife and I. She is a Chargers fan, I am a Rams fan, and we live in Atlanta, site of the SuperBowl this year. Sounds perfect. We have already decided that if that happens, we are going.

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Let me know when the divorce is final

LoyalRam said:

No, I'm not offering my own predictions for the entire NFL. Aside from by rock solid, unbiased, prediction of 14-2, and Super bowl win whistle..

I'm astounded by the low balling of the team by "experts" More than one had us barely winning the division at 10-6 or 11-5, and losing in the Wild Card round, once again. I look at our loaded roster and think that we are unstoppable. We have an improved version of the highest scoring offense in 2017. Our defense is insanely good on paper, and those 7 plays in 3rd preseason game without Aaron Donald, vs the Texans, looked unstoppable...Why is our team underrated, when it seems to me we should be the favorites to win everything?

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You need to not worry what the talking heads say. They are like weather men. They make predictions, they have very little to back it up, and are always 50% wrong.

Let me give you an example.. Most of the "experts" are panning my Vikings because they don't think Cousins and the WR's have their "timing" down. Just think about that for a minute. 2016. Teddy Bridgewater goes down a week before the start of the season and they bring in Bradford. 2 weeks later he's starting. What does he do? Only the highest completion percentage of the year for QB's. Timing apparently wasn't an issue. 2017. Bradford is going to start. He plays one game and goes down. Keenum comes in. What does he do? 2nd highest completion percentage for QB in 17. Timing wasn't an issue. But this year, with Cousins having the full camp to get on board, timing is suddenly an issue.

They don't have a freaking clue. Their predictions are about as useful as "Power Rankings" And if you believe in those I have a Bull with Teats for you. Very useful.

T-REX said:

What’s the over under for the 15 yard leading with the helmet penalties? We are playing the Raiders...4...5...6?

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It depends on how the rest of the weekend has gone. If the rule has already ruined a game or two, I expect them to ease it back on us a bit.

I too, have "Lifetime Ram Syndrome". I've been let down way too many times to get too optomystic. But this team is pretty deep with talent at the skill positions and the coaching is more competent than in the past fifteen years, and thats what gives me cause for optimism.:bow:

Mojo Ram said:

Our weakest spot? Probably this spot.
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As far as the roster goes i'd have to say TE. It's disappointing that Everett got hurt early in camp.

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I will sit there!!!!!!

I think a reasonable progression is get to the Championship Game.

I know there's a skipped level there, but I think that is overcome by the significant additions to the roster.

So, to me, I expect getting to the Championship Game... there is simply too much talent on this team to not make it that high.

Some more great contributions from @T-REX on today’s thread.

Only 3 to ever wear the number 6 for the Rams. Is it possible we will retire the #6 some day?

GOAT I do not believe to be an exaggeration.

Johnny Hekker

Rams43 said:

This part just jumped off the page at me from the King piece...

McVay told me in camp he realizes he has to stay progressive to remain ahead of the defenses that have spent an offseason studying his play-calling, his tempo, even his cadences. Early one morning, in his tape den on the campus of UC-Irvine, McVay told me what he’d spent the last few months working on. “The basic thing for us is: What are we doing offensively in order to try and conflict defenses? Whether it’s their matchup responsibilities, or being able to learn our cadence, learn our formations and motion and tempo. We have to use those as weapons to apply pressure to the defense. Our offense is totally different now from this time a year ago. I think it’s all about adjusting and adapting to our players.”

Why would McVay want to make his offense “totally different” from the best offense in the game last fall? “I would say that in terms of some of the core ways of we run the football—some of the personnel groupings that we operate out of might be different. But the way we’ll do it, whether it be formationally, whether it be tempo-driven, at the line, in the huddle … In the span of a year, our players’ ability to process has enabled us to have a little bit more versatility.”

I don’t know about y’all, but reading this made me feel tingly and warm and fuzzy at the same time.

Kinda reinforces some hints we’ve been reading about through camp.

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One of the things that makes me a tad nervous is McVay's ability to transcend past last year's "surprise" into a more sustainable offense that no one can figure out. Kinda like Martz's offenses.

This year will tell us if he has that ability to outsmart and out-coach the NFL.

At this stage, I don't know... but I am leaning towards "he can".

Kiser will be starting at ILBer by the middle of the season.

All this stuff has got me really hyped and ready for some football. Thanks, Florida Ram for this great insight into the Rams defense. I can't wait for Monday night to get here, I better take a nap so I can stay up late.

I just finished my draft - 14 team league - PPR. Rams players were flying off the shelves. I got Goff and the Rams D - which is unusually Rams lite for me.

I heard it can be beaten by strong and stubborn people.

This will not end well if left unlocked, therefore...

Prime Time said:

• Gruden panned his roster to me last month and did it again at his Sunday press conference, and it colors why the Raiders were unwilling to go to the place they needed to in order to extend the 2016 Defensive Player of the Year. If you think you’re two years away, allocating resources into someone who may be 30 before you’re ready to seriously contend might not be the best idea.

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That's a thought I stated in another thread. Mack will be 28 in Feb only a few months older than AD. Makes some sense.

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• For their part, the Bears were monitoring Mack’s status all summer, and Matt Nagy was spending a ton of time late into the night in GM Ryan Pace’s office this week to discuss the concept of dealing for a potentially franchise-shifting talent. That was all facilitated, in part, by the rookie-contract-quarterback flexibility enjoyed with Mitch Trubisky, the same kind of flexibility that Seattle rode to a title in 2013 and the Rams and Eagles have worked to their advantage the last couple years.

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Add the cost of Carr and it makes more sense. The Bears on the other hand could be ready to make the playoffs this year. If Gruden's roster is that bad he should trade down and get more picks with the number 1s. I guess that makes the Bears without a number 1 pick three years in a row with no pick this year from the Trubisky trade.

jrry32 said:

No, Meyer should have taken actions that reflected the man he claims to be and the friends he was supposed to be. His actions don't affect what the police are doing whatsoever. Dog, I explained to you how Meyer could have helped Courtney and why it was significant. If you want to chalk this situation up to being "unique" and argue that the DV survivor's explanation doesn't apply here, there's nothing more I can say. Her explanation is a dead-on ringer for what happened here.

You're right that Meyer didn't break the law. Him and his wife were indifferent despite the values they profess to have. Nobody can prosecute him for that, but Ohio State certainly could have sent a powerful message. They chose not to do so. I don't care to hear the excuses for why the Meyers aren't responsible for their crappy conduct. Urban hasn't changed a bit since his time at Florida.

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I'm alittle concerned that they didnt get good information, from the wife, or the assistant coach. Her story changed alot, and she dropped charges at one point. Its been bothering me from the beginning. I'm starting to think they thought she was over dramatic, exadurating, chasing down the ex with crazy claims. He even has a pretty good explanation for the cut on her hand. Meyer at the press conference was not happy to have to apologize and he acted victimized himself. Thats why his apology was so awful, he didnt want to apologize, he was forced to do so. I'm starting to think the Meyers got caught up in something they werent expecting.

LoyalRam said:

Mack, learn from the GOAT. He's not a substandard DE, He's Aaron freakin Donald! (seriously, watch this it's great)

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Actually, AD does a variant of this move on occasion.

After bull rushing a guy super hard, the next snap, AD will burst off the line and the OL will jump back and set. AD extends his hands and then just prior to contact, he continues upfield with a subtle move to one side using an overhand swim move.

It's brilliant because he's using the very technique that the OL is supposed to use against them.

What is the OL supposed to do, not anchor? If the does that, AD runs him straight into the QB. But, if he does anchor, he doesn't have the mobility to deal with the next move.

Again, it only works if the rusher has enough burst such that the OL has to anticipate anchoring because to not anchor early means he's going to lose to a bull rush and not have enough leverage. His pad level will be too high and he'll be defeated on the play.

What's amazing is that AD has the speed and skill to employ such a finesse move on the interior.

The end result to the uninitiated is that AD simply looks like he's running past people or not being blocked.

That's not true. I've seen multiple instances where the OL couldn't have had better technique only to completely whiff on AD as he blazed past for a sack. And the OL can't afford to do any different because he has the strength and pad level to pull rush two OL and STILL get the sack.

The reason guys like AD and Von Miller can get those game ending sacks is because such a move is essentially set up by his relentless quickness and brutal attacks on every play.

Such a move allows them to dial up a critical move for a critical moment and separates them from the mere mortals of the NFL.

fearsomefour said:

EA has money.

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Then they should have spent some on security for the event.

They will next time

NFLN was discussing who was in the mix this morning. First, they made no mention the Rams were one of the six teams really pursuing Mack, so I don't believe Trotter's tweet. My guess is Snead made a call, and the Raiders told him we need two No. 1 picks, so Snead said thanks, but no thanks. Second, they also mentioned the Raiders wanted Mack out of the Bay Area, so if that was true the Whiners had no chance of getting him.

As Dave said, Bob Waterfield is the only Ram to have worn #7.

What a life! Quarterback for the Rams. Two Championships. Hot babe on his shoulder. (Jared? Get you a Jane Russell, pal!...and two championships, while you’re at it!!)

He also punted and kicked. Hmm. Maybe our backup QB role is already on our roster, in the person of our Ginger Golden Boy Johnny Hekker?

Anyway, Bob Waterfield stands alone today, as we head into our final week countdown.

I image we will add a ROLB who gets cut by a team with better depth, say Chicago now that they signed Mack.

RamFanWA said:

I think it'd be more interesting to know the average age of the expected starters, than a few 19 year olds stuffed on the practice squad or 3rd in line to play. Besides, "4th in the league" when the top 6 teams are likely within 14 months of the same age - has to be a pretty meaningless statistic, eh? Now, if we get separation of teams by whole numbers, that might be more insightful.... No big deal. Just the way I see it...

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A 1 year difference in the average over 53 people who are all between the ages of 22 to 36 is a really significant difference. It's about what happens when you change 5 veterans over 32 on your roster for 5 guys under 26, that's not negligeable

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