LARAMSinFeb.
Legend
I personally think folks are being a bit harsh on Landman around here lately. Hopefully he lights up SD.
Rams PFF grades vs. Raiders
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OntarioRam
Hall of Fame
I do not beleive Laurinaitis ever made a Pro Bowl for us, nor should he have. He was a good player, but nothing more than that IMO.
Edit - he was a Ram in 2015 which is longer than I remember. I could have sworn he was gone by 2013 already!
Ekern was a favorite. He was great at reading the Walsh offense and studied film as much as anyone ever has.
brucebruce
Starter
landman almost won another game with his billybob punch. Dude gives you an extra win every season.
I like the idea of getting Speights done, provided they pay him appropriate to what he is. Which is an early down inside-the-tackles type who can stop a runner. Also I appreciate how Speights stays healthy. That's a really important trait for a RB or ILB, who take so much pounding in their roles. Some guys simply don't have the ability to hold up in those usages.
By the way Landman's contract hit after this season looks like it's about $5M if they were to cut him. So if they were to focus on upgrading that position group this upcoming offseason they could move on from him without too much problem. I'd like to see them move on from him and reward Speights with a similar level of contract to keep him around.
Rams have ignored ILB for a long time. They have key needs at WR and NT for this offseason, not to mention so many OL pending FA (4 of 5), but it would not upset me to see them pull the trigger on a strong ILB prospect in round 2. Imagine what a backer like Rodriguez, who went to Miami early round 2 last year, could do for our defense. Then circle back round 4 and take a snot bubblin bastid.
PS... Didn't mention Dolac because I'm not sure he can hold up. He has a lot of the traits you look for, but if you are not resilient enough for this role you cannot be the dude who holds it down at this level.
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BonifayRam
Legend
Not just how sure Shula sticks to his game day Raiders patchwork scheme as he battled the Chargers this weekend.
Shula in dealing with the absence of 4 starters...Ford/ Turner/ Landman & McDuffie, he game-planned super heavy medication to above open wound, primarily utilizing four safeties to try to limit the bleeding & damage, surprisingly worked very well. You & I know that all his safeties perform far better going forward to the LOS than reverse in the deeper zones.
Thus, playing mainly his 3 lightweight known pass-rushing specialists in his DL - (Donald / Fiske / Murchison) would cause his opponents' OC to dig deep to run the ball over & through these smaller lightweights all day long.
Secret special ingredient just waiting to feed on those runners.... Omar Speights! & the "Safety Gang". well done Shula!
pvtdragon39
Pro Bowler
At least Reeder could do well on Special Teams!
I'll take steady, rock solid coverage and tackling over the gambling peanut punch every Sunday. Ray Lewis never needed a peanut punch.
The one year we had Bobby Wagner. Before that probably London Fletcher.
Hey now, he only helped cover things up and then rolled over on his buddies and then found Jesus lol.
Yeah I think Shula has improved a bit from the early season stretch. To some extent he was set up to fail too I think, as he doesn't have the DL he needs to field a top defense against either run or pass. But if he can shut down this crappy Chargers offense and get us to 4-4 and we're around .500 ball when Garrett and McDuffie return we may be ok.
Again I don't have a ton of faith in this year's team. But there is certainly room for them to live up to things still.
brucebruce
Starter
So Ray Lewis was an all-time great and Landman is a JAG. Not sure what's confusing about significant contribution every Sunday directly leading to wins being far superior to occasionally hitting a one in a thousand jackpot.
Conciliator
UDFA
What?
Come on.
Is it Atwell's fault that that Stafford's not throwing him the ball?
Stafford is locking in on Puka and not going through his progressions.
Watch the film. Atwell's always open. It's a genuine mystery, even announcers comment on it.
He's criminally underused.
What’s his target rate ? A curious question that I’m to lazy to research.In the Arizona game Buda Baker was creeping up on just about every play.Dude is a stud & maybe a HOF type player from a lossing team.
The hope with Tutu is in The End he comes up huge at times to help The Rams WIN a Superbowl.
-another funny thing to look up about Tutu Atwell would be to ask why his photo was on BART train(San Francisco)systems trains ?
A few times I would think who is that & then it was WTF is Tutu Atwell sponsoring in the Bay Area.
—Maybe the Rams trade him to the Niners.They need a QB badly.What Mike Evans has meant to them shows how important it is to have a dominant WR.
It still IRKS me Kupp & E. Jones are leading that Hawks team in Washington State.Now they traded for HUTCH a hof type NFL OG . Reminds me in a way when they had LT Jones & HOF Guard next to each other.I believe it was a Vikings player as well.Not sure what team was his first ? Either way it seems like his name was Hutch as well ? A LG ,not a RG if that even matters.
Still to Lazy to look up.Might try later if it bothers me ??
Still to Lazy to look up.Might try later if it bothers me ??
Wonder how good Raheem Morris is as a coach ? What would piss me off really badly in a way ???
Is if the 9ers win it all & Raheem Morris gets another HC job with them getting 2 3rd rd picks.
Talking about 9er COMP picks.This OC of the Squatters this week gave the 2 3rd Comp Picks when he became the HC of the Dolphins.IMO - what a JOKE !!
In all seriousness though is he has had a week off on the bye week to prepare for The RAMS
Don’t even want to think about the MEANING of this SUNDAYS game.
Super FUNNY thing is how CONTROLLING is SEAN MCVAY & caught up with RAMS PLAYERS sleep study ?? SUNDAY MORNING is DAY LIGHT SAVINGS. I guess the AMERICAN PEOPLE can ALL agree to pass a VOTE & still have it not COUNT!! Don’t get me started,but the Question is CLOCKS are changing after an HOUR of EXTRA sleep. Have The RAMS adjusted for that EXTRA SLEEP by moving there practices back an hour already??
Is if the 9ers win it all & Raheem Morris gets another HC job with them getting 2 3rd rd picks.
Talking about 9er COMP picks.This OC of the Squatters this week gave the 2 3rd Comp Picks when he became the HC of the Dolphins.IMO - what a JOKE !!
In all seriousness though is he has had a week off on the bye week to prepare for The RAMS
Don’t even want to think about the MEANING of this SUNDAYS game.
Super FUNNY thing is how CONTROLLING is SEAN MCVAY & caught up with RAMS PLAYERS sleep study ?? SUNDAY MORNING is DAY LIGHT SAVINGS. I guess the AMERICAN PEOPLE can ALL agree to pass a VOTE & still have it not COUNT!! Don’t get me started,but the Question is CLOCKS are changing after an HOUR of EXTRA sleep. Have The RAMS adjusted for that EXTRA SLEEP by moving there practices back an hour already??