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The 2017 Ram’s draft had the team’s fans clamoring for offensive help. While the debate raged over the need for pass catchers vs O-Linemen, a head scratcher of a pick came in the form of a lightly regarded safety that looked to many as a depth pick as the team appeared to already have good starters available. As the year progressed, it became apparent that John Johnson III was one of the better values in the draft. While his measurables weren’t elite, his production fit Wade Phillips’ scheme to a T and he graded out as one of the better safeties in the game. He was valued for his versatility, adequate enough athleticism, and teachability. Since the offense was of critical focus last year, the offseason this year is already marked for a defensive rebuild quickly underway. Drafting Johnson last year is the key that unlocks the mystery of what the next few months have in store.

What does JJ III have to do with Quinn, Peters, Barron, Joyner, Barwin, NRC, Webster, Hill, Longacre, and Donald? The answer is that this defensive staff has an eye for exactly what qualities are necessary for their scheme and few of us know what those qualities are. It’s why Joyner was moved and NRC was acquired. It’s why Quinn’s skill set didn’t fit. Wade needs someone more versatile. John Johnson is inexpensive so it leaves more money for Donald and a couple run stuffers (whether or not that comes as a stouter upgrade to Barron or a 5 tech Nose is a subject for debate). Peters is cheaper at corner for a couple years so the Rams are in a position to front load and guarantee Donald. With that said, look for the Rams to develop Quinn’s replacement the way they did JJ. Doing so will put them in a better position to extend players like Gurley and Goff when their turns come and further develop depth on the OLine.

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Let's "try" to leave out the money/contract stuff....and focus on talent, scheme fit and the locker room for this decision.

Would you rather retain Trumaine Johnson or bring in Aquib Talib as our CB2?

Just curious on which players other Rams Fans have on their wish list for their top pick!

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2018 NFL free agents to avoid
BY MICHAEL RENNER

As free agency rolls around and we prepare to see the dollar bills flow, we want to do our best here at PFF to try and curb reckless spending. Buyer’s remorse is a phenomenon we all experience, but our discomfort over buying the wrong brand of toilet paper pales in comparison to owners and general managers eating millions of dollars to cut a guy one or two years down the road (although maybe not depending on how cheap you went). With that in mind, let’s take a look at the guys whose price tag we likely wouldn’t want to match in free agency.


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TRUMAINE JOHNSON
Johnson has all the traits of an elite corner, and the fact that he was franchised twice already might suggest he is one, but nothing in our grading agrees with that evaluation. In fact, it can be argued that Johnson was the weak link in the Rams’ secondary at times last year. He gave up at least 79 yards in four separate games and his 759 yards allowed were fifth-most among all corners. He’s a solid starter, but is not worth near what he got paid the past two seasons.



AJ MCCARRON
Brock Osweiler, Mike Glennon, A.J. McCarron. Rinse. Repeat. There is nothing in McCarron’s 201 career dropbacks that suggests he’s ready to be a franchise quarterback. At the same time though, he wasn’t dreadful and hasn’t seen the field for a meaningful stretch of time in three years so he has to be better now, right? Right? The allure of potential at quarterback gets GMs all hot and bothered, but he was a fifth-rounder for a reason and has done nothing to change our minds on that.

CARLOS HYDE
Kyle Shanahan’s system is built to make running backs look good. Running behind PFF’s sixth-ranked run-blocking, Hyde only managed a measly 3.9 yards per carry this past season. Sure, he’s flashed impressive games or stretches over the course of his career, but you better be a consistently dominant runner to make up for how bad Hyde is in the passing game. Last season he allowed more pressures (13) and dropped more balls (nine) than any other running back.

DONTARI POE
A thin defensive tackle market sees Poe as likely the second-best option available after Sheldon Richardson. He’s a fine player, but far from a difference-maker. After taking a one-year, $8 million ‘prove-it’ deal with Atlanta last year, he did just that. What he proved by earning the 35th-highest grade among defensive interior players is that he’s worth around $8 million a year and not the eight-figure per year deal he’s likely to get.

KENNY VACCARO
Vaccaro is another player who has never been right since suffering a serious knee injury. The former first-rounder was a serious rookie of the year candidate before breaking his ankle in Week 15. His struggles came to a head this past season, where he allowed a career high 492 receiving yards after being moved more into the slot. Vaccaro once again ended his season on injured reserve, this time with a torn groin.

NAVORRO BOWMAN
Multiple serious injuries have all but zapped the soon to be 30-year-old linebackers change of direction ability. He went from one of the league’s best all-around linebackers to now someone you’d rather have watching from the sidelines on third downs. He has five total pass breakups and interceptions over the past three seasons after averaging seven per year in the three seasons prior to injury.



NATE SOLDER
This one is a matter of price tag. We’d be fine with Nate Solder starting at left tackle for us next season, but the fact of the matter is that every team with a poor left tackle feels the exact same way and there’s no other option in free agency. Solder is going to get top-dollar despite ever being close to a top tackle. The highest he’s ever graded out among all tackles as a pass blocker was 21st back in 2013 and he was 45th this past season.

DOUG MARTIN
As mentioned before, consistency is extremely important at the running back position and Martin is the antithesis of that. His ability to go absolutely in the tank for long stretches at a time is second to none. Martin has two seasons (2012 and 2015) with 50-plus broken tackles as a runner. In all other seasons combined (543 carries) he has just 46. This past year, he broke all of six tackles on 138 attempts.

DEE FORD
Don’t let Ford’s first-round pedigree and 11 sacks in 2016 fool you, this isn’t the edge-rushing option you want in free agency. Even in his best season, Ford was extremely inconsistent and an all-or-nothing type of pass-rusher. His 7.4 pass-rushing productivity this past season was 85th out of 113 qualifying edge defenders.

Hey guys, I'm just creating my own LLC and wanting to pick your brains of any of you which seem to be older(not a bad thing), wiser, and have experiences compared to myself. I'm not that ignorant to know that their is people out there that have been through some things before that I can use their advice to help me get through that obstacle without going balls deep in it before it's to late.



I've seen a lot of your posts and I see several of you own(ed) a business or managed one at some point. So technically the combined experience on this board is a potential wealth of knowledge and wisdom.

Anyways, for 4+ years I been sitting on the sideline watching the crypto markets learning trends, discovering the technology differences etc, mining networks, and trading as a novice etc. Made a handful of money but I've been able to predict a lot of the trends and alt cryptos that can be used to make money with. Needless to say I would have done very well if I just followed my heart and head and got into it years ago. I have many years of managerial experience in multiple industries and decided to go full force in IT( Info. Tech), Cyber Security, and C.S. in school once again.

Anybody else in similar fields? Experience? Interests? Advice starting a business/LLC? etc?

Do you have any advice on no no's or pitfalls you wish you knew 10, 20,30,40 years ago that you know now?

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Hmmm.. maybe reading into too much?

This is where I wonder what they do if Key is sitting there at 23. Oh boy. Careful what you wish for eh?

Landry probably is a short list topper right now for them, with this move as good as made. If they move down, then my guy Lorenzo Carter comes into play I think.

We lost a 2018 4'th and gained a 2018 6'th for Peters.
We gained back a 2018 4'th and swapped 6'th round picks in the Quinn trade.

1-23
2-N/A
3-87
4-111
5-160
6a-183
6b-195
6c-196
6d-197

Just heard on the radio down here in south Florida, also confirmed through Adam Schefter

Last year we saw a season which one can argue we potentially have 3 1,000 WRs who are capable of this feat. If Watkins is retained (and if you believe he is better than his gained yardage last season) than its suffice to say that there could be a three man race for this feet.

Robert Woods was on pace for 1100 yards before sustaining his shoulder injury. In 12 games, 11 starts, he posted 781 yards. Ending the season against Atlanta with a remarkable 142 yard game. Woods showed me and the rest of the league that he is not just a short to intermediate threat, he showed his solid speed, very good route running, and spectacular hands can make him utilized all over the field. Much like he was at USC. I was pleasantly surprised by Robert Woods and I loooove to eat crow on this.

Cooper Kupp put himself together a very good rookie year! I was clammering about drafting this kid and he even exceeded my expectations for year 1. Despite some hickups along the way with a few crucial drops, Kupp always came back to prove that he is going to be a key target for Mr. Goff for a long time. Kupp finished with a team high 869 receiving yards in 15 games. Games where he had to fill in for Robert Woods, Kupp showed he can rise to the occasion, excelling from the slot and having the ability to make plays on the outside on occasion. Kupp brings a high IQ to the game, knows how to create space with his routes for any range of the field, and is a strong WR who can beat the press. Like Woods, if not for the missed game against SF, Kupp may have been able to breach the 1000 yard mark as a rookie.

Sammy Watkins was pre-thought to be the one most likely to his this mark last season if he managed to stay healthy. Well he did stay healthy but he came up well short of 1,000 yards in 15 games. Finishing with just under 600 yards receiving, Watkins may have been a disappointment for many statistically. He did however lead the team in receiving TDs with 8, and proved to be a redzone threat with a slant route. An athlete who undoubtable helped this team more than his stats showed, Watkins opened lanes for other plays to happened because of his deep speed. If brought back, with a full offseason to work with, is it possible that Watkins can reach the 1,000 yard mark yet again as he did in Buffalo? I think its not out of the question at all.

Ultimately in the games we won last year, most of them were by a large margin, thus I have no complaints about who did what and how many yards it took. If we can continue to beat teams by 15+ points then I will not care if we do not post the gaudy personal stats. But for the fun of it, and because I think they all have the potential to make it, given the amount of targets they get, who breaks 1,000 next season?

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INDIANAPOLIS — Though there’s been widespread speculation that the Rams will use the franchise or transition tag on one of their pending free agents, general manager Les Snead intimated on Thursday that Los Angeles has not made a final decision on that front.


“We definitely know we’ve got it, and we know we’ve got to use it strategically,” Snead said of the tag at the 2018 NFL Combine. “How we do that will depend on the next few weeks. But we’re well aware it’s in the back pocket. And we’re also trying to get things done without using it.”


Teams have until March 6 to designate one player for either the franchise or transition tag, so the Rams still have a bit of time to work out if they would like to use that option.


Two players who have consistently come up as tag candidates are safety Lamarcus Joyner and wide receiver Sammy Watkins. Both performed well for Los Angeles in 2017, and figure to be in the club’s plans moving forward. Snead was asked about Joyner on Thursday, but in his answer addressed all of the club’s free agents.

“It’s very important. All the guys we’re going to talk about who are up are important,” Snead said. “t’s a process. Wish it could get all done tomorrow. But definitely, I can tell you that that’s an important task to work through, Lamarcus and a lot of other guys.”

When it comes to Watkins, Snead admitted that there is a bit more urgency to his situation given that L.A. traded its 2018 second-round pick as part of the package to acquire the wideout last summer.

“I think when we did it, and you give up a second-round pick, we talked through the future, and it would be nice to make this more than just a one-year situation. So that’s definitely talked about,” Snead said.

But as also Snead noted, if it so happens that the Rams are not able to retain Watkins, there is the possibili
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club could recoup a compensatory draft pick. However, that selection would not be in the second round, because all compensatory picks begin in the third.


“You just talk through all those variables,” Snead said. “But the goal was, it would be nice [to reach a new deal] because, it’s hard to find talent at receiver. And it’d be nice to have a little long-term relationship, not just short term.”

As for the player the Rams have placed the franchise tag on for the last two seasons, cornerback Trumaine Johnson is also slated to become an unrestricted free agent on March 14. And like head coach Sean McVay on Wednesday, Snead said Thursday that bringing back Johnson remains a possibility for Los Angeles.

“I think the goal is to have really good players — as many as possible,” Snead said, “especially in the defensive backfield."

Don’t know if this was covered anywhere. But it looks like we have a 3 headed problem.

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VIDEO: Orlando Brown's 40-Time Will Make You Feel More Like an Athlete

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The NFL Draft Combine is underway, and the top college football players in the country are showing off all of the hard work they put in for this weekend.

The one event that catches everyone's eye each year is the 40 yard dash. Wide receivers, running backs, and cornerbacks are the three groups everyone looks forward to, but it's always a treat to see the big linemen trudge down the line, too.

Orlando Brown, one of the best linemen entering the draft this season, ran his 40 today...and it looks like it took him all weekend to finish.

"That's a historically bad time," said NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock of Orlando Brown's 5.86 40 yard dash time.

Orlando Brown is still arguably the best tackle in the draft, and he is more than likely going to get selected in the first round, but that is SLOW.

Let this be the motivation that you need to go be your best self today. If a 5.86 40-yard dash can be a first round NFL talent, you can too.

I received this question from an honor society club to which I belong, and so I gave this long winded answer. I have almost nothing in common with the member there except maybe grade point averages. Football is not discussed and I feel like everyone is so careful in how they interact and network with each other, and I'm just the booger head who snuck in through the back door...lol.

I was a tour bus driver for many years before returning to college decades after high school. I used to specialize in cross country tours starting in New York City and ending on the Santa Monica Pier in California.

What did I learn?

I learned that driving in eastern big cities like New York, you have to be aggressive if you need to get in the correct lane headed for the Lincoln tunnel. You have to ignore years of defensive driving learned in the West, and just start moving over without a turn signal. Turn signals are treated as a weakness on freeways like those near New York City, and the other drivers will speed up to prevent you from getting in front of them, which is especially true if you are driving a large vehicle. Contrasting Seattle with NYC, I have been in a fast lane (I-5) in tight traffic with my turn signal on and I was effortlessly allowed over 5 lanes to make an exit within a mile from when I first realized the need. There is a lesson here which I will leave my gentle readers to consider.

I've learned that interacting with my foreign passengers was more meaningful than maybe even visiting their home cities. I have been a tourist in Canada, Mexico, Germany, and the Republic of Georgia and have found that it's hard to break through in big cities to common people unless in unique circumstances, like staying in a friends home instead of a hotel. I used to drive summertime cross country tours, composed of passengers from the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia and we shared the experience over the length of the tour (23 days). I remember dropping off my passengers at the World War II Memorial in Washington DC and having an elderly passenger from Scotland who wouldn't get off to see the memorial. She thought they were the foolishness of a young country and would rather stay in her cushioned seat. She said "if we had a memorial in our country for every war, there would be no room for anything else!" It was an amusing perspective of which I had never considered.

I remember receiving a hard time from my New Zealand passengers when I made the faux pau of saying that their country was located "just off the African coast." I received a map of the world at the end of the tour, with New Zealand highlighted (lol).

When I drove LDS history tours in Vermont, New York and Pennsylvania, I saw the humor and humanity of a mysterious religious group (to me) in those first tours, which was gratifying. One particular guy espied my drinking a fully caffienated diet Dr Pepper, who negotiated one of them from me on the sly. It was like we were doing a drug deal, because LDS doctrine proscribes the consumption of caffienated beverages. Considering that it was a LDS tour of seminary teachers, it was especially humorous to me. Knowing these people away from the image of bicycle riding missionaries in black dress slacks, white shirts and ties was interesting, as I found most of them to be the salt of the earth.

I was involved with the evacuation of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. Hundreds of tour bus drivers slept in their idling tour buses, waiting for the chance to evacuate the Super Dome. Ten of us got the call and we lined up behind the escort national guard vehicles. We were told to keep tightly bunched behind the lead vehicle, and so we drove through deserted suburban streets, past storm damaged buildings and dead traffic signals at speeds of up to 60 mph. We slowed while approaching the bridge crossing the Mississippi river from the south, and saw soldiers dressed in battle fatigues, guarding the approach with M-16's. We crossed the bridge and saw the hurricane battered Super Dome as the dominate feature of the city, with a blacked roof without its gleaming tiles. We drove toward it and exited just before the overpass where civilians wandered and died for lack of food and water. It was eerie entering the city, driving in streets with a foot of water and people wandering aimlessly with the possessions they carried while holding the leashes of beloved pets. We pulled around, and positioned our buses in a line and then waited for our turn. In this line of buses, a mother and her child were wandering within twenty yards of the line and then she helped her daughter urinate within sight of us all. There is little modesty in such situations and I felt so bad for them both. When it was my turn, I pulled the bus up to the spot and opened my doors. National Guard troops brought boxes of MRE and packs of bottled water and placed them on the front seats, throwing cardboard boxes and plastic packaging in the water....floating down the street. The people came from the darkness of the Dome and had to walk through a foot of nasty water in order to board my bus, as I welcomed them aboard with a smile, an MRE and a bottle of water (first food and water in 24 hours, because they had to stay in line to get out). In my mind, I would treat them as well as any passenger I had every transported.

They had the first air conditioning since the storm and I provided movies for them to watch as we drove toward Texas. We left the city in groups of five buses without knowing where we were going, until a transfer point in the care of the Louisiana State Highway Patrol. Many on the bus assumed we were headed for Houston because that is where weakened family members had gone the day before. I was told to not stop my bus at any time and to keep in formation...as we headed for Dallas (oh my). We made it across the Texas border and were guided into the first Texas Rest Area more than five hours later. I was never so proud of my country as I was then, as the Rest Area was set up with food stands from various restaurants and a triage tent for those who were sick or injured. As I helped at the bus door, giving a hand to the weakened passengers, I received the best compliment in a 17 year driving career: "You know how to treat people." It was from a poor elderly African American man with whom I held almost nothing in common. I am as proud with that moment as any award I ever received, including graduating Summa Cum Laude from Emporia State University last December.

I'm sorry to be so long winded.

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I hope we can resign him. The dude is a playmaker.

Just curious, IF, OT Orlando Brown is available when the Rams pick (Doubtful, but I have seen some Mock Drafts that have him falling to the Rams and even further down!) would you take him? I don't know much about him other than he played for Oklahoma and he is HUGE and he has great bloodlines! Personally, I think I would take him but I really don't know much about him or any of the other Draft prospects for that matter!

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OL prospect Billy Price suffers apparent injury during combine bench press
Posted by Josh Alper on March 1, 2018, 2:43 PM EST

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One of the top-ranked offensive linemen in this year’s draft class appears to have suffered an injury at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Thursday.

According to multiple reports, Ohio State interior lineman Billy Price stopped his bench press after a few reps. Price then walked off while grabbing at his left shoulder/pectoral.

Price was a four-year starter for the Buckeyes and saw time at left guard, right guard and center during his time in Columbus. He spent the 2017 season at center and was named both a first-team All-American and the Rimington Trophy winner as the best center in college football.

Price has been projected to come off the board during the first two days of the draft. An injury could alter that perception, although any speculation on that front will have to wait for further word about what happened on Thursday.

One of the ways to measure a successful draft in it’s first year, anyway.

Well, by that definition, this “draft” is off to a great start, huh?

We’ve already secured a Pro Bowl CB for a 4th rounder!

Wouldn’t Kiper call that a steal? Mayock say, “Are you KIDDING me”?

If Snead can do anything with our 1st and 3rds, we will have had another very good draft, even though short our 2nd. I, for one, really like our chances. Lol.