Not sure if any of yall are watching but football is football. Trey Lance getting probably his last chance this pre season and looks pretty good. Kyle Allen is trash but man I wish we took Teslaa. He is going to be a star.

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Rams at 47 min, great info

I wanted to make sure everyone knew about the help @bubbaramfan and I received in the way of tickets to training camp this year. As you may know, these free tickets to camp "sold" out fast! We couldn't get any!

So a sincere thank you goes to the following members who donated or offered to donate their tickets:

@dpjax
@Flatlyner
@Bkfld_Rams

Give these guys a shoutout if you could! We really appreciated their help!

Veteran Ram Fan

Sorry guys but @bubbaramfan and I both decided it wasn't worth going to camp today due to a couple of factors.

One, practice is only an hour long which usually means a light walk through.

Two, it takes me an hour to drive to camp and an hour back. Bubba takes about 30 to 45 minutes depending on traffic conditions.

We just couldn't see the value in attending today. This would have been our last day at camp due to limited tickets so that is all from us regarding Rams training camp.

I hope you all can understand.

Veteran Ram Fan (aka: VRF, not VFR which @SWAdude will tell you is Visual Flight Rules).

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Have at it!

Kinda surprised Brady was that high but heard great things about what he was doing in BUF last year just didn't watch much of them, LaFleur that low is interesting, I would have ranked him higher in the past. I think Payton took a hit cause he had to pare things down for Nix. Expected Monken high but not that high and people around the league were RAVING about Coen all year (which is fascinating given that he flamed out here in one year but dude really put together an excellent offense last year with injuries to boot).

Doesn't seem like there's a lot of interest in the Liga MX vs MLS cup tournament. But I'm a red blooded American dumbass who watches quite a lot of MLS, and I find this one to be a cool tournament because it's a great chance to see the Mexican league clubs. MLS last year did very well vs the other league, so 18 vs 18 is quite a cool set up for the first round, where they only play each other for seeding.

Anyone else watching? "Bueler!?"

Made it in without any one checking for tickets. This place is still not organized but I’m not complaining.

No pictures today, just too difficult with the sun and bleacher position.

I’m taking a page from @dpjax playbook and will use voice to text.

Don’t expect any updates till tonight.

Arrive 3:45 and KDot is the lone Ram out on the field running drills by himself.

Ethan Evans next out with Alex Ward

Jordan Whittington is the next one out hitting the jugs machine.

There's Nate Landman number 53, good size

Ahkello out early doing footwork drills right in front of us.

O linemen are off to the left side of the field in the end zone. I got tight ends in front of us, including Tyler Ferguson Davis Allen and Colby Parkinson don’t see Tyler Higby.

Big turnout today place is packed ... first day of pads?

Xavier Smith, Nate Stoops,Britain Covey, #81 Brennan Presley, 83, 86 all fielding punts from the Jugs machine.

Davante Adams not dressed

Team stretches

Here comes to Verse onto the field huge ovation for him.
Jared versus walking down the stretching line shaking everyone’s hand before he finds his spot.

Jordan Rodrigue talking to Kevin Demoff in front of us good to see her on the sideline to give us more reports

The entire team offense and defense going through stretching drills and conditioning drills all except the O lineman. They’re still down on the left side end zone just kinda mulling around.

Have yet to see Puka.

Kyren Williams and Jared Verse got the biggest cheers and Devonte.

Byron and Jared doing their customary lap around the field together

There is Coach Sean McVay big applause.

We’re near the press tents there's Cameron Irwin and JB Travis and DeMarco, Kevin Demoff talking with all the media people.

Everyone’s broken off into position drills

86 Misjudged the punt almost fumble it but still held on, Xavier looks good as usual fielding punts.

Kam Curl and Quenton Lake practicing sideline catches with Aubrey throwing it to them.

Finally, here comes Puka. He’s running the opposite way around the field, so he doesn’t have to run in front of the crowd.
Puka shows up and starts dancing with Kyren as they high five each other and he drops for stretches or just for a nap he’s just laying there.

Special team drills they got number 94 and six running down the field gunner gunner protect and 58 and six going up against each other

Les is out here good to see, standing over near the linemen back in the end zone

They’re running live punt drills down on the far end of the field. Ethan Evans booming them as usual. Interesting punt looked like a shank, but it went 50 yards it fluttered over to the sideline and number 81 caught it right at the 50 on the sideline and he kicked it from the back of the end zone.

Kyron, Puka and Devonte running sprints together
Puka and Kyren seem thick as thieves, walking around with each other hanging out dancing with each other run sprints together Devante went back to the lock room. Hopefully he’s going to get his pads on.

Another sideline punt by Evans. He definitely puts some wicked spins on the ball a bit breezy out here so it’s tough tough to judge but so far number Covey, Stoops and number Xavier best at fielding the punts. there’s a line drive bounced out of bounce .
Ethan Evans punted from the back of the end zone all the way out to the opposite 30 yard line for his last punt of this series

Running backs and tight ends running footwork drills in front of us getting the ball punched at.

Defense moved to the baseball field behind us for drills.

Offense running plays against air Jimmy G quick throw out to the left flat to Puka for a screen
Second play, Puka in motion snapped the ball hand off to Puka for an end around, kinda like the Cooper cup first down play.

Now all the receivers are getting thrown to they’re moving from one drill to the next in quick succession. Sprinting between drills.

81 looks like he’s got some quicks.

Puka, Whittington, Tutu, Stoops, Covey drops the ball right off his hands, 86 false start because he’s waiting for Covey to clear Mumfield, 81 (Presly)

Offensive lineman, practicing getting off double teams and going to the next level. Tight ends in front of us blocking against each other, Ferguson showing some strength against Parkinson.

Receivers practicing getting off in a bunch formation by twos one going straight one breaking in once again number 81 he’s quick.

Receivers and quarterbacks running from drill to drill they’re really moving them around

Jimmy G throws a heater to Tutu and snag by Tutu cause it was over his shoulder little behind. Dresser with a pass to 81 dropped it hit him in the hands and he dropped it.

Jimmy G throwing out routes to the tight ends Colby Parkinson nice snag by Ferguson now they’re running to the next drill running from the 40 yard line all the way down to the ten.

Out and up from Jimmy G to Puka on targt and another one Tutu over his shoulder it was nice extension from Tutu Jimmy really put it out there for him because he knows he’s got the speed. and here comes Whittington little behind, but he still caught it. Mumfield out and up got it makes a nice adjustment for the ball.

Now they’re doing doing quick outs to the tight ends. Ferguson with nice catch on sideline.
Moving back to midfield with more drills

Defense is coming back out from the baseball field so likely they’re gonna start some scrimmage.

Starting D anf Offense. Whitington, Kyren in the backfield on the other end Tutus in motion handoff Kyren up the middle gained about 7 yards, he doesn’t wanna go down defense you get the starters out there Kobe Durant Kam kinchens, Jared verse, Braden Fisk Byron Young still the ones Puka Tutu and Whittington
another handoff off the right side Havenstein gets good push on Kobe Turner. Pass to Puka over the metal nice 25 yards.

Still ones against ones another hand off off tackle left short gain.

bringing the twos in
Stetson Bennett running the twos number six is in motion handoff to Corum up the middle short gain defense. motion again another hand off up the middle to Hunter.

Bennett Under Center, number #6 motion again another handoff for Hunter ran up the middle. There was nothing there and tried to break it around the side Landman was in there to stuff them.

Switching back to the ones on both offense and defense
Colby Parkinson in motion cuts in for a run block didn’t get very far.

guys from the pivot podcast are here, Channing Crowder, Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor

Defense Landman coming up to the line number six in motion, handoff to Kyren would’ve gotten tackled in the backfield by Braden Fisk

Braden Fisk given pressure to Jimmy G but Havenstein held him off Jimmy G got the ball down the sideline for Tutu but it was broken up by Kam Curl.

Switching back to the twos Poona Ford is a presence out there huge.

Nice pass from Stetson to number Mumfield on an out route 10 yards

Hunter getting a lot of run, hardnose runner.

Nice run by Blake Corum off the left side broke through the line for about 20 yards

That’s the ones on ones we’re at the 30 yard line their own 30 Jimmy G changed in the call at the line tap in his helmet handoff and it’s all bunched up Jared versus in the backfield redirected him

Tutu in motion with end around about 7 yards

Let’s play Jimmy G surveying the field. Things are breaking down, Jimmy hit Puka right in the middle of the field.

Quessonberry is playing left tackle with the twos McClendan is right tackle

Stetson Bennett launched it down the right side line for Terrence Ferguson about a 40 yard pass got broken up by Quentin Lake and Cam curl they took a tumble to the ground

Jimmy G delay to Kyron up the Middle stuff by Kobe and verse

Quik cutting by Pukah Jimmy G hit him for 5 yards

Two are back out there I keep forgetting to look to see who’s playing left tackle. It’s hard to tell cause they’re on the other side of the field. The offense is moving left or right Hunter got a bit of a hole there blasted through for about 7, 8 yards.

Kobie and verse pump each other up on the sideline Waterboy tosses a bottle to verse 10 yards he catches it squirts his head throws it back

Rotating players, but it still looks like the twos Cobie Duran, Darrien Kendrick coming in Terrence Ferguson‘s in there, Stewart bairing down on Bennett, but he got the pass off completed it to Xavier.

Run off right Kyren goes nowhere tackled by number Poona Ford.

Looks like Humphries at left tackle with the ones .

Jared Verse push Havenstein back who fell over somebody else, would’ve gotten got the sack on Jimmy G

Jim G throws a ball look like TO nowhere cause I just hit the turf but the ref threw a flag and called holding on McCollugh, course He’s arguing it.

Doing red zone drills Jimmy G throws a ball the corn on the end zone for Davis Alan but throws it too far out Davis. Alan lays out. I can’t get it.

Stetson hits Xavier in the back of the end zone and he hits the ground and drops the ball

Moving back to our end of the field line up right in front of us at the 40 yard line

That was a new left tackle with the ones number Quessenberry

Kinchens jumps off sides from a Jimmy G hard count

Mumfield getting some run at receiver with the first team shotgun snap off of Tutu‘s hands a little too high for him. Darrien Kendrick was all over.

Stetson Bennett play breaks down scrambles up the middle, got maybe 5, 6 yards would’ve been tackled by Forbes.

Kyren run off tackle had some juice in that run doesn’t wanna go down when every time he runs with the ball doesn’t care if he would’ve been tackled or not

handoff left tackle Kyron with a nice jump cut gained about 5 yards

Jimmy G with the dart 20 yard out to Puca covered by Lampkin got good separation

And all of a sudden Aleric Jackson’s coming out onto the field he’s fully dressed in pads, see if he gets into the game

Twos Stetson Bennett, Terrence Ferguson in motion runs out, cuts back, balls heigh throw a screen out to number 19 all the wile Lake sniffed it out

Quick out to Puca on the right side, a weave his way for about 15 yards nice moves so nicely set up Play

68. Still out there at left tackle nothing run up the middle Oline got a little push there about 4 yards for Corum

two's Stetson rolls out to the right throws a quick throw a little pass swing pass out to Terrence Ferguson nicely caught turned up feel 5, 6 yards

Once against one another hand off at the middle lotta room to run for Kyron gained about 6 yards.

Jimmy G with the play action dance around in the back a little bit had a lot of time and threw a duck that wobbled in the wind for pookah broken up by number Lampkin.

Jimmy G looks like he went the wrong way turned around and then pitched it out to Kyra and ran around the left side looked like a busted plate

I see a Aleric Jackson talking with Rob Havenstein like showing him like some moves like what he would’ve done here something like that Talking shop

Stetson Bennett and play action hits number 19 down the sideline for about 30 yards but the rest are a flag calling it off. I think it was holding off.

There’s the horn for the end of practice McKay bringing everyone in alert Jackson never got out there. Good luck.

McVay brings everyone in for a big huddle and they break off into position groups, all huddling up with their coaches rob Havenstein called Jared versus over for little talk. They’re talking about footwork and stuff looks like they're talking about that play where havensteen fell over bodies talking show like what he would do and Jared versus saying what he was doing, fist bump at the end.

Everyone’s trying to call the players over for autographs. It’s a big Jared chat going on, but he was being asked to go over to the media booth now he’s hanging out with Kobe hijacking Kobe’s interview.

Colby Jared vers and Steve Avila, talking to some little guy in a in like a fedora. There’s some girl with long brown hair with him. They’re both really small. They’re posing for pictures back-to-back Jared versus the small girl arms crossed versus giving him a hug now he’s getting a picture with him. He’s an older guy got a gray beard. Who the hell is he the cameraman running over there to film this so what’s his name? Someone just said it’s Macaulay Culkin?

Finally, after the crowd was chanting for Kobe Turner, he came running over for autographs, number 32 sign in for a number 20 signing for a bit. Everyone was chatting for verse, but he didn’t come over.

Finally, after lots of chanting crowd going crazy Jared versus Quentin Lake come sprinting over the sideline see who can get there first for autographs
Here comes Jimmy G looks like he might come over for some autographs

I see number 15 running drills against number one and also 21 and 27. Are there running drills with them number 15 practicing against the corners trying to go against coverage Ahkello is there too. 15 got some run with the ones today.

Puca ran over and gave his glove one of his gloves to a kid and ran down the line and gave his other glove to another kid and then he ran over to the get an interview. Looks like with Cameron Irwin and JB Long Sean McVay’s getting interviewed by ESPN DeMarco and everyone

Blake Corum signing autographs now another defensive player who is that, Quentin Lake sign autographs

Chicago Cub legend, Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg has passed away. His accolades included 1982 National League Rookie of the year, multi-year gold glove winner and 1984 National League MVP.

Sadly Sandberg lost his battle with prostate cancer.

I was just watching Kobie speak today and am just blown away by how well he speaks and presents himself.

I decided to look at his contract status and realized he is still on his rookie deal; he's making a little more than 1 million this year.

Kyren contract status has been talk all off season.

We've been drafting well and that means money is going to need be doled out soon.

Names like Kobie, Kyren, Byron, Avila, (eventually Stafford will retire)

How do we foresee the makeup of the roster getting mixed up due to contracts.

Enjoy Gentlemen....I really like the offensive backfield/Special Teams Coach, but that's just me.

"The most significant adjustment will be to Brown's coaching record. In the 2024 NFL record and fact book, Brown is credited with 21 seasons, 166 regular season wins, four postseason wins (for a career total of 170 wins) and three championships. But Brown coached the Cleveland Browns to the championship in every one of the AAFC's four seasons. He won 47 regular season games in the AAFC, and five additional postseason games. His career total, then, should be 222 victories and seven overall championships. The 222 victories will vault him up the all-time wins list. In the 2024 NFL record and fact book, Brown was in 21st place. With the AAFC adjustment, he will be in seventh place, just behind Curly Lambeau, who had 229 overall victories, and just ahead of Chuck Noll, with 209. Given Brown's outsized influence on coaching -- he is credited with, among other things, beginning the practice of using film analysis to grade players and calling plays from the sideline -- it is hard to imagine anyone quibbling with Brown's new rank."

These changes were announced back in early April and I don't know if they were posted but.........Those 7 championships will rank him above Bill Belichick, which is nice. From everything I've read over the years, Paul Brown was only slightly more likeable than Belichick, if at all, but that's no matter. The matter is, the cheater has been knocked down a rung because of the records change. Some would call that karma.

He's out for now with a back issue. Thought this would have a mile long discussion by now.

LOS ANGELES — Day 2 of an unanticipated Matthew Stafford watch brought a slight perception regression for the Los Angeles Rams. The sun was shining at Loyola Marymount University and practice was running at a brisk pace. But in a twist, Stafford was neither working to the side Wednesday, nor surveying drills and aiding the other quarterbacks who were taking all of the snaps.

In fact, he wasn’t on-hand at all.

To the alarmists, who continue to be haunted by the elbow soreness that scuttled Stafford’s season in 2022 and rolled over the Rams with it, it’s hard not to wonder if his unforeseen back soreness is being underplayed by the franchise. Or if it might be something that’s getting worse, with Stafford’s absence being a flag that speaks more authoritatively than the franchise’s brain trust’s assurance that this is all OK … all part of the plan … all just a measurement in the larger vantage.

“He was working with the training staff,” Rams head coach Sean McVay said Wednesday. “To be out here on his feet — could he be out here? Yeah, but what's more beneficial for him? I probably should have been a little bit more specific as to [what] working on the side [meant] — maybe working in the tents, things like that. So that was according to plan. I kind of misspoke [Tuesday] as far as ‘working out onto the side.’”

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Speaking to Yahoo Sports, McVay reiterated that there has always been a plan in place to work Stafford in slowly in 2025, keeping an eye on later in the season rather than overburdening him with early work that isn’t necessary at this point in his career.

“This isn’t anything new,” McVay told Yahoo Sports. “It’s just one of those things that at the early parts of camp we were going to monitor and restrict his workload anyway — really for the mental and physical aspects of it. That made it easy to say, ‘F*** that, the first five-day acclimation period we’re not even in pads, it’s not even real football right now.’ It’s the right thing to do for him, No. 1, and for our team.”

Contrary to any anxieties, it doesn’t resonate as damage control by McVay. Instead, it screams an element of management by the Rams' brass, trying to deal with back soreness from Stafford that wasn’t anticipated. A development that, as one team source told Yahoo Sports, happened when Stafford was traveling on vacation in recent weeks with his family prior to the opening of camp. The kind of thing that can develop when you have a 37-year-old quarterback who has a history of health issues, including concerns with his back.

Realistically, everyone believes — including inside the Rams — that Stafford is deeply into the sunset portion of his NFL career. So much so, there’s a feeling inside the franchise that if the Rams win the Super Bowl this season, Stafford is going to use that opportunity to retire, a la John Elway with the Denver Broncos in 1999, after he’d secured the second Super Bowl title that would ensure he was a first-ballot Hall of Famer. According to a team source, even Stafford himself has joked with staff that the Rams' acquisition of a second first-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft from the Atlanta Falcons is a sign that L.A.'s brass expects him to hang it up after the 2025 season.

But does that mean the Rams are also exploring Stafford replacements?


The Rams have already targeted Arch Manning as the No. 1 QB in next year's draft class ... if Manning chooses to leave Texas. (Getty Images)
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It’s a complicated question. First and foremost, Stafford is still operating inside a Super Bowl window open for the Rams. The leadership both in the coaching staff and front office is steadfast in his ability — if fully healthy — to lead Los Angeles to one more title in the next two seasons. That said, it’s clear there is a fixed vantage on the horizon, with Rams decision-makers knowing the next offseason is where they have to start moving toward a succession plan. Most likely toward a very young player who can grow with McVay and spend an elongated period attached at the hip.

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One prominent name that surfaces inside this ideology is Texas quarterback Arch Manning, who some believe will end up being the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft following his 2025 season — if he leaves college before his senior year in 2026. Manning is tied to the Rams for a very obvious reason: Les Snead’s stepson Tate is known to be a close friend of Arch Manning, and Snead himself chatted up Arch Manning at the Texas pro day prior to the 2025 NFL Draft.


But it goes deeper than that. Speaking to a handful of Rams personnel sources, Manning is — at this moment — considered by the staff to be the lone Tier 1 quarterback in the 2026 NFL Draft, regardless of who else could enter into the selection process. Why? The Rams covet Manning’s prototypical size (6-foot-4, 219 pounds) and throwing acumen … but also believe his high level of athleticism sets him apart from from every other college quarterback. So much so, the comparison for Manning inside the franchise is that his ceiling after the 2025 college season could be a Josh Allen-type of prospect who is actually stronger physically and a faster athlete than Allen was when he entered the draft in 2018.

That’s some significant praise from a team that’s going to need a quarterback sooner than later. Could it change with Manning’s performance in the 2025 college football season? Certainly. But his No. 1 perch atop the collegiate ranks of quarterbacks is absolutely where the Rams evaluate him right now. And they may have the ammunition to make a run at Manning in the 2026 class if he declares, thanks to a boatload of draft picks that include two first-rounders next spring.


Rams head coach Sean McVay has begun training camp without Matthew Stafford on the field. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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Interestingly, a high-ranking Rams source told Yahoo Sports that even if Stafford returns to the team in 2026, the Rams would — at this point — still lean into drafting Manning (if he were gettable) and then put him on ice for his rookie season, similar to the Kansas City Chiefs keeping Patrick Mahomes on the bench behind Alex Smith in 2017. The source added that the franchise believes Stafford would be open to such a scenario, knowing that 2026 will almost certainly be his last season in the NFL, regardless of what transpires during the course of the regular season and playoffs.

For now, there are more moving parts than a Swiss watch when it comes to the Rams’ succession plan. But the reality remains that they’re thinking about it in a very real and tangible way. Maybe moreso than ever, with Stafford once again sidelined with health issues.

Rams just teased a midnight mode jersey, with the full reveal coming on August 28th. Looks to be a black jersey and possibly a black helmet to go along with it.
New Rams Jersey

Here's the link to my Google Photos of todays activities.

Enjoy

Camp Photos July 24, 2025

Between The Horns

They're back! JB, D'Marco and MJD preview 2025 training camp and what to watch for.

I was 11, and was sick as a dog. Watched the game on my parents bed on a black and white TV while the family was out celebrating post new years.
Williams couldnt hit the broad side of a barn and his back up was no better. Still I was petrified that Bell would break one...
Good times, even in the bad times....

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We made it!!!

Thanks @dpjax !

We took a picture but the file is too large!

New QB Justin Fields went down with a dislocated toe in practice today, which spurred me to go over and watch the Rich Eisen Show for the meltdown. Dude is a longtime, longsuffering Jets homer and it seems to always be something with the Jets. Either losing out on the number one QB in the draft because they won one game (vs the Rams) or signing ARod only for him to get injured in the first game of that season, or now the injury to Fields in training camp is evidence of the Jets Curse.
But..
Can a team be cursed if they have won a Super Bowl? Which team is the most cursed team in the NFL?
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I haven’t seen this posted yet anywhere but figured I would update the list on here every week for the sake of discussion. So far there’s one Ram and Kyren Williams is sitting at 85. For some reason today released 71-63. Not sure why but it’s all the info we have so far.

RIP Hulk! What a larger than life figure you were.