It's Marshall Faulk day!!! Day 3 of our running back run.

30- McCutcheon and Gurley
29- Dickerson
28- Faulk

Pretty good grouping there!

Scary times.
Glad you raised her to be smart and aware and she was with boys more interested in being smart than looking tough.

bubbaramfan said:

Davis was lining up at OLB Monday and Wednesday and played there vs Ravens in the 1st half.
If he's there again vs raiders, Pencil him in when the games count.

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And erase him when he doesn't count.

Oh no, No passes, You deserve to be boiled in oil.

:cheers:

The Captain and Toenail

Collingsworth, don't get it. He annoys the crap out of me. Romo, who I thought I'd hate, along with Steve Smith, good announcers, in my estimation.

T-REX said:

Eric Dickerson one of if not the greatest running back to play the game IMO!

Loved watching him run the ball. His straight-up running style in open field was like watching a Gazelle running on the open plains, just mesmerizing. 6'3" 220 lbs. of pure talent!

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Watching him switch hands in the middle of his cut back to avoid a strip, awesome!

jrry32 said:

Cheaper. We have plenty of depth and talent on the DL. Smart may not make the team.

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And there will be many more cases like that, of the team bringing in cheaper players for depth, as more players get their second contract. It's the nature of the NFL cap.

CGI_Ram said:

Cornerback Troy Hill did a nice job to break up a pass in the middle of the field between quarterback Jared Goff and wideout Cooper Kupp. The Eastern Washington product tried to shake Hill with a move in the middle of the field, but the cornerback stayed with Kupp nicely.

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Good to see Hill build his confidence. We may need him during the season with Peterson being gone.

CGI_Ram said:

7) Later in 11-on-11, tight end Tyler Higbee made a particularly impressive catch. The play may have been a sack in real life, but Goff was able to get a red-zone pass off to Higbee. The tight end showed off his vertical, secured the catch, then got two feet in at the back line of the end zone for a score.

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I think Higbee is capable of some great plays. I also think he will drop fewer balls this year.

kurtfaulk said:

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Nice to hear Mike Thomas making plays in 11 on 11s with Goff throwing the ball to him. I like this guy.

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Me too. If we are without Reynolds for any period of time, it is nice to know Thomas will step up. We are so deep at receiver. I like Cooper, too.

den-the-coach said:

This is the year Higbee makes those catches a tad more often. He blocks well and is a big guy, coming down with the catch a few more times will improve his stock. I'm concerned with Hemingway's ability to block, still a work in progress because besides Higbee the best blocking TE on the roster is Henry Krieger-Coble.

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More catches like this:

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TexasRam said:

I get the logic behind not playing our starters.

And I am not a mannion backer Per se.

But he deserves a shot with at least the better backups. Notebloom, Demby, Blythe Elrenkamp and Williams.
Neary, Allen and Lucas were getting ran over and ran by.

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Yeah we need a couple of these OL backups to pan out--not looking good at this point. But the play Mannion threw that hideous pick was one of the few he actually had time and protection....

yrba1 said:

@OC--LeftCoast hope that chill rating means cool post

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Good God man I seriously dont know what happened or how that came about

My most sincere apologies


I dont do the negative rating thing...
ever

Going into this season, the 49ers are one of the most overhyped teams I can think of when it comes to hype... at least since the 2011 Eagles, and I would argue these '9ers are even more overhyped simply because the extreme pedestal that Jimmy G is sitting on that fans have placed the feller... is based on... five... games. Five regular season games towards the end of the season last year. I'm just not buying it. Am I in denial? Perhaps, in a way, with the combination of being a Rams fan and wielding a natural disdain for the '9ers, and I accept that they have improved as a team, but I don't buy into them being a veritable threat until at least next year.

Would I be completely off base to think that maybe resign the starters serves more than one purpose?

Extremely vanilla scheme + no starters = nothing for the scouts to look at.

That was great, thanks for sharing those pictures

How many ILB did we keep last year? 4-5? We've got Barron and Littleton as starters, most likely Wilson and Hager as backups. Room for one more on the roster? Fierce competition there. Maybe someone takes Hager's spot but they better be a great STer.

I could see Kizer, Scales and whomever else in a bitter battle for that last spot.

Today starts running back "murderers row" in Rams history. It is so exciting having a guy like Todd Gurley in the backfield for us. He can run, he can catch...he can sell burgers! ....and he can leap small men in a single bound!

A.J. Hicks said:

A thread about Goff turned into a conversation about classic muscle cars?

Maybe the illustration for Goff isn't a tractor or a trailer; he's a polished off American muscle car

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Or he's a guy who collects them and I would say a collection of Gurley, Cooks, Woods, and Kupp is quite a nice start.

Bump, just because this vid is too damn funny.

Trubisky’s reaction while Daniel yells “Coach Nagy!!” ....priceless.

This vid restored my faith in humanity (briefly)

Ellard80 said:

I remember last year people getting all upset about pre-season games.

Here we go again lol.

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Yep. I was just looking back at some of those threads.

1maGoh said:

There's no such thing as a person lighter or shorter than Tavon Austin. That's a myth.

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Well I do run a chain of myth labs.

Yeah - pretty cool. I saw that before.

den-the-coach said:

I believe they picked up Brandon Allen because of QB Coach Greg Olson, who is now in Oakland/Las Vegas. Olson coached Allen in Jacksonville and the plan was to bring back Dan Orlovsky (who was awful) but when the Jags released Allen the Rams claimed him and maybe, just maybe Allen will be the number 2.

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plus, wasn't Orlovsky kinda butthurt after getting cut last year? lol

Selassie I said:

Post here at ROD... and crap gets handled with a quickness.

The Power Of ROD

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Team Ram Rod?

Thanks for the kind words @Farr Be It . I think it’s great that you’re bringing back these threads to honor Dave. This season so far has left me with a void, just not the same right now. It’s amazing that someone I only knew of through ROD could leave me with this empty feeling. It just goes to show what type of man he was. I hope the RAMS can honor Dave’s fandom with a great season, playoff run, and even more.

GO RAMS