Memento said:

I'm just hoping for Tyler Badie. If they don't get him, I'll be quite sad.

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I think The Rams have a lot of confidence in T. Lewis. As well as
Garrett & Hollins.

As Mcvay stated about his long length.IMO being a twinner is not easy to find comfort without playing time.Injuries have played a bigger part,but Lewis is freak & has that Swagg that Mcvay likes.He has learned from some top players.
—Hollins is interesting player. He has excellent knowledge of The Rams D” & was going to be the main RDE/Edge.When Von took over he moved to different positions which shows diversity.
Garrett is another player that is intriguing from a pure pass rusher. He has that SKILL set. In Training Camp he wasn’t flashing,but at the End of the Preseason he looked Lights Out coming of the Edge. Didn’t get (only Player)Vaxed & came down with Covid. He got it pretty good & was best to keep him on the IR.

We’ll see what happens,but we know The Rams will bring in another OLB at some point next week.

So wish Vince won that Super bowl. Cromwell very well could have sealed that deal. How great of a win it would have been. That win and beating Brady once or twice would have put us in a whole different light when it comes to greatest super bowl winning franchises.

I lol at AJ Jackson starting at RG.

Where is this idea coming from ?

If we were to pick players based on the likelihood that they will not only make the team but could emerge (fairly quickly) as plus starters or impact players in key situations (and on special teams) then where does value meet a need?

I know many here would like to see us draft an Edge but I just do not see value where we pick. Is there really a prospect who will challenge to play ahead of what we have on the roster?

These below positions are where need and value should meet but please argue otherwise or for better prospects that you prefer:

1. Cornerbacks - This draft is stacked with enough quality prospects that a potential future starter should be available when we pick first

I am impressed by the following SRs who have played a ton of snaps and all looked great during the senior bowl (which we know the Rams value highly)

Zyon McCollum (Sam Houston) 6-2 199; Joshua Williams (Fayetteville State) 6-3 195; & Coby Bryant (Cincinnati) 6-1 199

One of the above should be available around where we pick (we might need to trade up depending on whether there is a run)

2. Guards - The draft is stacked with Sr OL, who play with power, have plenty of experience (and solid technique), including plenty who might usefully transition inside

Here are three potential guards, all of who may be available when we pick in round 4 and one of whom might be available in round 5. They each fit our scheme and could become instant starters depending on how they transition

Logan Bruss (Wisconsin); Justin Shaffer (Georgia) and Zachary Thomas (San Diego State)

3. TE/H-backs - The draft is loaded with prospects who should be available in rounds 5 through 7

This draft is deep, seriously deep, and I know that many of you have TEs in your mocks. I believe a few will come off the board before we pick but that the true value lies through rounds 5, 6 and 7. It would not surprise me in the least if the best TE in this class eventually emerges from later in the draft...

Who do you like?

There are even two FB prospects that look like they might garner late-round picks in Zander Horvath (Purdue) and Connor Heyward (Michigan State)

Horvath is being compared to another alumnus, Mike Alstott, and could emerge as a pro-bowl talent

4. Punter

I know, give me a break right! That said Jordan Stout (Penn State) and Matt Araiza (San Diego State) look awesome and can both flip the field

Don't want to draft one? Jake Camarda (Georgia) and Ryan Wright (Tulane) are plenty talented and should be UDFAs

I do not see us drafting: DT (they take a long time to develop and we would be better resigning our own); or LB unless we now place a high value on ILB (if so, there are some intriguing prospects but I am not sure they will be available later and so decided the position doesn't meet need and value); or WR for obvious reasons (we have too many already) but we probably will anyway or DE (though this might be something we look at addressing after the draft through FA - Morgan Fox?)

I am looking forward to the draft and excited to see who we come away with

. . . and how each player fared.

Try not to get too lost.

nighttrain said:

he did pretty good for McVay..
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Of course,but this last years draft & player moves without him was impressive Imo.

Merlin said:

Final drive

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I'm still nervous watching that drive...

RamUK said:

It should be dumb in this day and age, but it isn't, it's spot on.

Human biases are devastatingly powerful and because they're usually unconscious, we're completely unaware of them.

Anybody who knows anything about psychology realises that you simply cannot remove embedded beliefs that have been established over hundreds of years, even if we (hopefully) all wish we could.

There are literally zero reasons to leave Kupp off that list other than an unconscious bias.

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Agreed and even some of the players talk about it openly. Some analysts do it on purpose to get attention others like former sea hag mrob are just racist.

Well, I love our first round pick this year, Stafford will be a beast for us in 2022. The 2nd rounder though? Will be some Brycen Hopkins type production there

More Fisher

Did he hire Jeff Boras as OC

Wow, since that first drive of game 1, Tampa offense has looked like a turd
Kyle Sloter making a name for himself, maybe he's the "Garrett Gilbert" of the current USFL? lol

Riverumbbq said:

1) Find an offensive lineman who is just as good of a run blocker (or better) as he is in pass pro for RG.
2) If we aren't looking to use Higbee as potential trade bait next year, then get us a quality later round blocking TE.
3) We are losing Sony Michel to free agency and Darrell Henderson is entering his 'contract' year with the Rams now, so draft a replacement and perhaps look to a UDFA RB to compete with Funk.
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No lack of talent in this years draft for RB. Even in the later rounds IMO.

Went to these 2 games yesterday with the wife. We live in the suburbs of Atlanta, so about a 2.5hour drive. We had an absolute Blast. Love to see these borderline guys get this opportunity. First game was a really good game. The crowd was sparse, I would guess under 1000, prob around 400-500 We were on the 40 yard line in the very first row. The late game had well over 5000 in attendance. Really a fun game with a bunch of big plays, and the Birmingham home crowd was really into the game. We sat about 15 rows up right on the 50 yard line for the second game. And I mean right on the 50 yard line, which went right between our seats.

The fact that he even came back after such a devastating injury speaks volumes to the kind of player and person he is. He's driven, talented, and wants to be great. I hope that next year, he wins Comeback Player of the Year because that'll likely mean another Super Bowl run for us.

fanotodd said:

I like to dream big, too, but let’s start out on the right foot, first.
According the schedule makers, the bills are gonna be a big deal in their prime games this season. They’re gonna be one of the featured games opening week.

Looks more and more like it could be bills vs Rams opening night. If that ends up being the case, it would be a good idea to thrash those upstarts and make a statement—“you’re not ready for us.”

In general, the seasons getting longer only makes a repeat that much more difficult.
Fine with me. Bring it on.

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Love that the Rams are firmly in the mix. The cool thing is no matter what happens this year McSnead will have a Plan B/PlanC ready to execute. These guys love overcoming challenges and opportunities in building the perfect beast.

thirteen28 said:

Well, from my mom's perspective, I was first generation, although from my dad's perspective, I was at least 4th generation. I think in the end, because she married my dad, an American, she got assimilated pretty fast, more so because she came over before she was fully an adult. By the time she had kids, she was just going with the flow of the society she lived in.

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Well you would've already been in an household w/ American roots already established in that case. The immigrants families I'm talking about have no prior connection the US at all, and their offspring that grew up. And it's a bit more difficult to explain w/ modern immigration vs the early 1900s.

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Hey @Angry Ram

One of the things my son told me about his Indian girlfriends kinda goes along with what you dealt with.

He said that their Dads were always so demanding and strict with their schoolwork and time... whenever they did get a chance for a tiny bit of free time they would go apeshit wild. One of them had my son pick her up for school 1 hour earlier than he needed to leave so that they could spend some time together before school. I couldn't believe my son would get up earlier like that until he told me later what he was doing. That girl was so locked up at home that she wanted to rebel against it. My son had to find them a different place to park when it was brought to his attention that the big church parking lot they were "parking" in before school had cameras on almost every light pole. I still remind him about that shit. LOLOLOLOL

Her parents believed that she was a completely innocent angel. Please... she corrupted my innocent son.

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Absolutely. I couldn't do many things on my own either.

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I'm not going to go into detail about my early family days here as that would be repeating myself on an @Juggs thread from a year or two ago, although I will say this much ; I'm basically bred a pure WASP with American roots dating back to the 13 Colonies, mostly Scottish & German ancestry, ... over the generations my ancestral relatives have lived in fairly good times economically and also thru extreme hardship other times, I imagine for the most part how they treated their children was based on what they could afford as well as the prevailing values of the time, although 'spoiling' children with vacations, toys & trinkets was likely not as high on the agenda as was clothing, feeding and educating them. My own childhood wasn't much different, other than a bicycle which was mostly used to get to school, I also rarely received any of those 'things' you describe as what some other young kids today are granted by their parents. I was told if I wanted something, I'd need to work for it, and as a 15 year old in High School we had something called the 5-3 program which allowed kids to go to school for 5 hours and work part time for 3 hours, ... so I went out and got a job.

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Holy moly. OK, I'll do my best to respond to each of these.

I had to google what "WASP" meant lol. Again tho, I'm not talking about immigrant kids growing up in the 1920s or during WWII or even Vietnam. And I'm also not talking about work ethic.

Here's what I'm trying to get, in the growth of the 80s and especially the 90s, both American rooted and immigrant families hit it big, but the latter still were not giving their kids all these things I'm seeing today. I think partly b/c of the immense pressure is b/c the parents gave up their entire homeland so their future generation, so anything less than perfection would be a failure. That's a huge part I and many of my community dealt with.

Again we weren't deprived. Or had it rough. It was uber strict.

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If you're seeing children doing & receiving things that you didn't have the opportunities for, some of that may have to do with parental guilt, as today those with the advantages of money may be partially making up for what they missed as children themselves. In many sectors, but certainly not all, we see better, more loving parenting, although that doesn't have to include 'things', it could just be how time spent and closeness with a child helps in their development.

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I saw it as a kid too. It was as simple as seeing in elemantry some kid getting a new deck of Pokemon card. It was like, what, 5 bucks a pack back then? And remember we all grew up in the same area, ~ = income, etc.

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The one thing I keep missing from your posts though is that while we live in a very diverse society where economic impact ranges between extreme wealth & deep poverty, that you only focus on what you didn't receive when comparing yourself to others, that many families live paycheck to paycheck, or someone is unemployed or perhaps in a single parent environment where money for 'extras' is truly hard to come by. Perhaps, like myself, you grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and were able to witness how much more your fellow schoolmates had in comparison ?

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Nope. See above. I can pick out the most poor in any state, but that's not what I'm trying to do. All in similar settings, families with emended US roots vs my experience in having to balance both insane expectations and trying to grapple what everything the US had to offer.

Riverumbbq said:

Are the values of immigrant families really all that different or do most parents want better for their children ? Does the extra emphasis on education in an Asian household create happier children & adults, or is it partially a cultural thing where the kids are expected to get well paying jobs in order to support their aging parents ? I don't know these answers.
jmo.

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Its hard to understand if you aren't brought up in that environment. It's not just Asian. It's African and Latin countries too.

The general vibe my community got was "you have to be in the medical, legal, or engineering field. anything else is a failure" and everything as a kid through college was tunnel vision to one of those 3 options. The idea being that these things = future money and that immigrating was worth it. That's why as a kid, we didn't get to benefit as much as others, everything else being equal.

I'm so thankful I didn't have to do Kumon, but saw literally (not exaggerating) everyone be forced to do Kumon over the summer. Others got to go to baseball games. I helped my mom with chores waiting until we went to the next wedding. That's all I'm getting at. It's not as serious an "issue" (if you can even call it that). Was jw if anyone had something similar.

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I don't see anything wrong with the discussion. It will end up being taken into taboo overreactions and virtue signaling because people can't help themselves. But growing up I had three friends who were immigrants and all of them went to college and one of them is a doctor at USC. All of them had strict parents. All of them had curfews where they couldn't do the really fun shit the rest of us partook liberally in.

Way I see it, and it's just my opinion, is that the more conservative parents tend to do a better job steering their kids through the rough teen years where some of us are wired to go apeshit. I didn't have that type of parent, my mom was overrun by her boys and frankly didn't give a shit. Still love her and all that, but it is what it is. In fact I have some real horror stories compared to the common kids of my era, shit like losing our house, drugs, etc.

So I was more conservative than my parents with my own kids. What's funny though is that of the three one is a leftist in terms of her political leaning, one is a moderate like myself, and the other is a fucking quaker just about. Life is weird man. But I wish I had been stricter with my kids, and I am of the mind that had I done that they would have been better prepared. I tell them all the time "unfortunately you didn't arrive with a manual." So not a guy who gets all eaten up with regret or anything like that either, just a fact of how I look at it.

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Exactly. And I bet that doctor was if not forced, heavily influenced somewhere in their life to choose that field.

On occasion. Mostly when my brother and I get together but my wife and I go up to a cigar bar with her cousin up in Carson City from time to time. I pretty much have to have a peaty scotch to go with a cigar. I don't know names of the cigars but I do like a maduro or other full bodied cigar. I just walk through the humidor until I see something or two I think I'll like. I love a good walk through a humidor.

As always @OldSchool stupendous evaluations & selections. Derrick Deese is the TE I've been looking at and I hope Chris Paul is there too combined with Buford (great OL name) would be a nice haul for Carberry & Nick Jones.

Julian Diaz been reading up on him and I believe he's a diamond in the rough. Big leg and that's a hell of a program that Jay Norvell built at Nevada because of their offense Diaz didn't punt enough to qualify, but if he did, he would have been in the top 10.

The key is adding another CB so not to have to draft CB early and take Cook as you suggest. Fuller would be a great addition as would Bryce Callahan, who is a Darious Williams clone.

Lol, my 1040 has a lot of empty entries. A couple different 1099's is all there is. When its all said and done I either owe less than a hundred or get back less than a hundred. Don't have anywhere near enough stuff to write off.

Champion LA Rams show up fashionably late to another draft​

BY GREG BEACHAM AP SPORTS WRITER
APRIL 23, 2022 11:23 AM


The Rams have been back home in Los Angeles for just over six years now, and they're thriving as Hollywood trendsetters.

For instance, they were sitting out the first round of the NFL draft before it was cool.

Barring a spectacular trade, the defending Super Bowl champions won't make a first-round pick for the sixth consecutive year when the NFL's top prospects get together in Las Vegas. Thanks to two major deals to acquire the veteran talent that led them to their title, the Rams aren't scheduled to make a pick at all until nearly the end of the third round.

“It really makes Thursday nights not stressful at all,” general manager Les Snead said with a laugh.

Snead and his front office have been the league's most aggressive group in recent years in using their draft capital to secure concrete, proven assets. Their current first-round pick went to Detroit in the trade to acquire Matthew Stafford, while their second- and third-round picks went to Denver for the half-season rental of Von Miller.

Those transactions played a major role in the Rams' championship run last season, and the rest of the NFL has picked up on the importance of that equation. A record eight teams don't have a first-round pick this month, with most following the Rams' lead of using their draft capital to acquire someone more surefire than a prospect.

Los Angeles broke through last season with a talent base built on this foundational strategy. The Rams' star-powered success was bolstered by Snead's success in later rounds, where he has found a large handful of coach Sean McVay's starters in recent years.

The Rams' once-unorthodox strategy is working, and Snead has shown no indication he's changing it — which is fortunate, because they don't have a first-round pick next season, either.

SLIM PICKINGS

Once the Rams show up fashionably late to the draft on Friday night, they'll have eight picks — just three before the sixth round. Los Angeles’ first pick is scheduled to be 104th overall. Every other team has at least one pick before then, and several teams have a few. Five of Los Angeles' eight picks are compensatory selections for losses across the roster, and just three are among the top 210 overall selections.

HIDDEN GEMS

Given their current draft status, Snead will have to make a stellar pick to get an immediate contributor to the 2022 team. Yet rookie contributors aren't typical for the Rams: Last season's squad didn't get significant help in the regular season from any of the 2021 draft picks except linebacker Ernest Jones and cornerback Robert Rochell, who both subsequently got injured. But Snead has found seven players in the fifth, sixth or seventh rounds who eventually became significant contributors over the past four drafts, including defensive starters Sebastian Joseph-Day and Jordan Fuller.

NEEDS

The Rams can't firmly target specific needs with such low picks, but they clearly could use depth in the secondary after getting through last season with a less-than-exciting group of defensive backs around Jalen Ramsey before losing starting cornerback Darious Williams in free agency last month. A talented offensive lineman could be a contender for the starting spot at right guard vacated by Austin Corbett. The Rams have long shown they can never get enough offensive talent after using their three highest picks in the past two years on skill-position players. They've also chosen a running back in four consecutive drafts.

SPECIAL DELIVERY

The Rams can't target surefire starters in the draft, but they can definitely bolster their special teams. Mid-round draft picks typically get important roles on kick coverage units, and the Rams have been good at acquiring versatile athletes to fill multiple roles in those units. Los Angeles also could use a late-round pick on a punter to compete with veteran signee Riley Dixon for the chance to replace Johnny Hekker, who was released in a cost-cutting move after a decade with the Rams.

LIVING LARGE

For the second straight season, the Rams are doing their team-building work this month out of the office. They're moving into a “ Draft House, ” a luxury property showcasing the best reasons to live in Southern California. Last season's house was in Malibu with a view of the ocean, and this season's estate is perched atop the Hollywood Hills with lavish views of the Rams' beautiful hometown — air quality permitting, of course.

OldSchool said:

The initial post says the league will announce the first game along with the rest of the schedule on the same day May 12th.

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It looks like it's actually the first Amazon Thursday night game that they'll be announcing at the draft.

You was Robbed

Memento said:

I will say it again (and I did it with my new mock draft): we should move A'Shawn Robinson. He will get us a mid third by himself, especially after the Super Bowl performance. He's a free agent after this year, along with Gaines, and we're not going to sign them both.

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I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility by any means. It would probably be selling high too which is always what you want. But hopefully we keep him and he kills it again this year.

ArkyRamsFan said:

Brian Allen was drafted in the Fourth round.
Just sayin'

~ArkyRamsFan~

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& he just resigned for 3 & already has been a Ram 4. Makes 7. Just saying he is still carrying the JS & AB torch.2018 SuperBowl & 2021 SuperBowl that is 2 out of his 4 season he has been.

RIP