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So when do we call him up from the practice squad?
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Not until next year. Maybe not even then.
Gilbert has looked uncompressed and indecisive in his preseason games against 3rd stringers, I hate to imagine what would happen if he played an actual defense with our o-line issues
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Welcome to ROD!
Btw, remember that Austin Davis looked like shyte too when he played with our 3rd string offensive line. Garret came in with the 2's and lead a commendable 2 minute offense in his first NFL game, I won't forget that.
True, I just don't see him as anything more than a rookie who would get his confidence shattered if he went in. I would prefer rams look somewhere else if it comes down to that.
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I would rather go after Ryan Griffin on the Saints practice squad, Gilbert who was not ready as a Freshman at Texas is also not ready yet for the NFL.
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+1 I am surprised the Rams haven't already signed Griffin.
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Yes! Thought I was the only one who noticed how good this kid is. I'm actually shocked they placed him on practice squad, he looks like a future NFL star to me. Sign him, he's already been coached for a yr by the Saints and Brees. This would be ideal since our coaches are surely incapable of coaching a QB.
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Signing Griffin does nothing as it would take awhile to get him up to speed with the O. It is not plug and play. See Keenum.
Hill is the guy this year until Keenum is up to speed enough to play and then I think he gets some time.
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Plus one.
Griffin would be great at the developmental #3 QB spot (there's no way he makes it to the PS), but he's not going to help us in 2014. Keenum miiiiiiiiiiiight... but if Case Keenum - or, really, anyone but Shaun Hill - is starting games for the Rams in 2014, things have gone so far off the tracks that the coal is spilled all over a bunch of run-over children while women wail and scream "Oh the humanity!"
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I respect that. But, I still think he couldn't do any worse than Austin Davis did.
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If Hill can't go this week, I start Davis with Keenum as #2 and Hekker as the emergency #3. I can't imagine, if EVERYTHING goes wrong in the game, that we're going to be in a position where the difference between Gilbert and Hekker could win it for us, and the potential damage to Gilbert's long-term career with the Rams is, in my eyes, rather significant.
Remember when Tony Banks took his first regular-season in-game snap? Home against the Vikings (I think), first and ten at the Rams' own... 3, maybe? It was inside the 10. I firmly believe that knocked back his development and contributed to his overall lack of success.