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Rams visited multiple people they drafted, just not all after the draft.
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Scouts and front office people visit with prospects during the season. Talk with coaches and do local scouting. No way that every interview at the Combine and bowl games are tracked.
The visits the Rams don't do are top 30 visits because they're tracked. They send s outs to pro days and sometimes position coaches because those aren't always tracked and reported. The last private workout I remember were the QBs when we drafted Goff, they did a lot of work on those QBs.
Also I phrased that poorly was on the work phone tuning somebody out. Meant to say after the season.
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Ah, gotcha.
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The Rams treat it like some ultra high tech super spy stuff.
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I think they have to now more than ever. Teams are poaching the FO as much as the coaching staff.
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What’s that have to do with following the lists of reported visits?
We all know that the Rams and every NFL team sends scouts to colleges and may go on visits that are not reported.
The point being made was that the reported list of visits doesn’t include drafted players and it rarely if ever does. So that list is largely useless when trying to get insight into whom the Rams may draft, before the draft.
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I guess you'd have to read the conversation in whole to know what I was saying.
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She was completely wrong which should come as no surprise as they are hardly going to be straight up, honest and open with a beat reporter
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Isn't it possible that she was right but that no QB they wanted was available to them at the price they wanted to pay?
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That seems to be one of the possible scenarios that played out.
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If they were after a QB, then why were they talking about taking Ferguson throughout the footage? The only QB taken in the vicinity was Monroe. Their actions later, trading away draft picks for "hot" prospects, signal that they were not targeting him. After all, you don't sit and wait if you have decided a QB is the guy. So, no, as often, I do not agree
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i'm stumpedIf they were after a QB, then why were they talking about taking Ferguson throughout the footage? The only QB taken in the vicinity was Monroe. Their actions later, trading away draft picks for "hot" prospects, signal that they were not targeting him. After all, you don't sit and wait if you have decided a QB is the guy. So, no, as often, I do not agree
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You hindsight hammer wieldin sumbishes.
I suspect the Rams were considering Dart and the Giants didn't trust them, which is why they moved in front of the Rams to take him. Now some will point out the Giants had a "deal" in principle with the Rams, but that doesn't mean the Rams can't say they've had a change of heart when the pick is up and the player they want is there. Also it was rumored I think IIRC that the deal they found was cheaper, but if they're calling around for an earlier pick it might indicate the Giants didn't trust the Rams for a player they were hell bent on getting.
Either way I must concede that QB wasn't a big enough priority for the Rams for this season to where they felt it necessary to jump for any of them. That does make sense as well, since QB doesn't help us make a title run this year. And of course the trade offer from Atlanta was the type you cannot refuse. We'll never know for sure, since McVay and Snead are not going to let their real thoughts on these matters out. But I suspect the plan was they had two or three QBs slotted at two or three spots and none of them made it to those spots.
So I don't think Jourdan was wrong. Rams probably told her the truth. They just weren't willing to position for the QBs they liked.
I suspect the Rams were considering Dart and the Giants didn't trust them, which is why they moved in front of the Rams to take him. Now some will point out the Giants had a "deal" in principle with the Rams, but that doesn't mean the Rams can't say they've had a change of heart when the pick is up and the player they want is there. Also it was rumored I think IIRC that the deal they found was cheaper, but if they're calling around for an earlier pick it might indicate the Giants didn't trust the Rams for a player they were hell bent on getting.
Either way I must concede that QB wasn't a big enough priority for the Rams for this season to where they felt it necessary to jump for any of them. That does make sense as well, since QB doesn't help us make a title run this year. And of course the trade offer from Atlanta was the type you cannot refuse. We'll never know for sure, since McVay and Snead are not going to let their real thoughts on these matters out. But I suspect the plan was they had two or three QBs slotted at two or three spots and none of them made it to those spots.
So I don't think Jourdan was wrong. Rams probably told her the truth. They just weren't willing to position for the QBs they liked.