Boy, a lot of discrediting the author in this thread.
He may be a hack, but I have agree with one thing he said (which I also felt strongly about last year):
"Just prior to last year's event, I begged the Rams to select a quarterback. On my SiriusXM Radio show, "Schein on Sports," I peppered general manager Les Snead with questions about potentially
snagging a signal-caller in the early stretches of the draft. His response? "We have Sam Bradford.""
IMO, they missed the boat last year on picking up a developmental QB in the draft. It would have been easy for them to look at who was coming out last year (at least a decent crop) and who was going to be available this year (weak crop) and understand that it might have made sense to get their potential QB of the future (and future insurance if Bradford went down again) last year.
But, as the author points out, Snead (and Fisher) dug in with their guy. Of course, we all know how that turned out.
So, they take Gilbert in the 6th and he's on the Patriots now. Just a bad move, IMO.
So, I'm with the author on that note.
Dumping Bradford? Not sure that makes a lot of sense. There are still a lot of options on the table for both Bradford and the Rams. I wouldn't come out with that his take at this point.
Seems to me Bradford has, almost by default (because of the decisions made last year at QB) become the Rams best option.
Would he be the best option if they had picked up a
Blake Bortles or
Teddy Bridgewater or
Derek Carr or
Jimmy Garoppolo or
Tom Savage or
Zach Mettenberger?
Well, we'll never know now. But, to me, if they had taken one of those guys, I might feel better about QB going into this season than how I feel today (very uncertain).
Hopefully, we get a very pleasant surprise.... someone no one had not thought about before.