Alshon Jeffery
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Tron
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I don't either, but would super awesome
RaminExile
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Things that sound too good to be true - usually are too good to be true. The Rams getting a playmaker like Alshon Jeffery sounds too good to be true.
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also, what would lead anyone to believe that he would want to play for a franchise that 1, not a real threat to make the playoffs, 2. not sure where the team will be located in the near future, 3. is a RUN first team. 
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He probably doesn't have much of a say in where he's traded.also, what would lead anyone to believe that he would want to play for a franchise that 1, not a real threat to make the playoffs, 2. not sure where the team will be located in the near future, 3. is a RUN first team.
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Have to be able to get to the redzone first. Something our offense has been unable to accomplish much for quite a long time now. I would be all for getting Jeffrey but not sure it fixes what's wrong with this offense.
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Moneyalso, what would lead anyone to believe that he would want to play for a franchise that 1, not a real threat to make the playoffs, 2. not sure where the team will be located in the near future, 3. is a RUN first team.
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Yes please. Jeffery is the sort of WR you want in a run style offense. Big bodies. Blocker. RZ threat. Can stretch on play action and move the chains.
Yes I'd give up a 2nd. Doubtful this class has a good set of sure WR talent.
It's time we got a legit WR.
Yes I'd give up a 2nd. Doubtful this class has a good set of sure WR talent.
It's time we got a legit WR.
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Would you give up a second and then pay him top 5 WR money?
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Yes. It is abundantly clear we have no real receiving threat teams fear. Not one bit. None of these jokers can get open on their own which is one reason Foles probably holds the ball so long.
Gurley needs help. This isn't the fucking 90s and earlier anymore.
Get a real WR. Doubt that happens in the draft this year.
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Can always do that.....
We could have Rogers and Mangold instead of Barron and Hill in 2005 and 2006. That sort of stuff never ends. Every team can do it every year.
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I haven't looked at this upcoming draft, but if it's anything like the previous two there will be loads of WRs into the mid rounds that could help the Rams.
Problem is the Rams have not showed an ability to develop WRs with this regime. So for me it's more about timing. This OL as Jerry pointed out has been serviceable in pass pro. They're very young and as a group have a lot of physical strength so at some point here soon they should start to really gel together. Foles is locked up for a few seasons. Gurley is just getting started. So timing-wise it's a great moment to add a guy like him to settle down the young WR corps and give Foles a guy he can trust game to game.
I don't necessarily think it's gonna happen, mind you. I'd put it in the too good to be true category. But man... I would immediately order his jersey, right after I'm done doing backflips if it happened.
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I think its more qb and line. Receivers were open all the time vs seattle
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Paying Alshon Jeffery like he is Julio Jones, Dez Bryant, Demarius Thomas, Antonio Brown or AJ Green seems risky.
We have never really seen him as a #1 WR in the league - his best play has been as part of a 2 headed monster.
Not saying I'm totally against it, but he also has some availability question marks.
We have never really seen him as a #1 WR in the league - his best play has been as part of a 2 headed monster.
Not saying I'm totally against it, but he also has some availability question marks.
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Yeah but the good teams keep their best players, unless it's some crazy contract demand.
It would be like Jeff Fisher getting rid of Robert Quinn.
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Marshall didn't play well this last year in Chicago. Jeffery was definitely the #1 WR then and he produced greatly. I have no worries there.
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But he was out there - which means defenses accounted for him - and by the way - generally with their #1 corner. What can Alshon do against bracket coverage? We don't know - he hasn't faced it.
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A WR of his caliber is not coming to St. Louis unless we overpay. And since this regime seems totally incapable of developing the receivers they draft.... we might well have to go the free agency route.
At least Jeffery is young. Maybe if he is the #1 here he would blossom and be in the same tier as those guys going forward. I wouldn't count on it. But you never know.
I guess my point is that sometimes you have to overpay to get the kind of elite player your team needs. The key is to do so judiciously and smartly so that you are left with great players even if their cap hits are a tad too high in the abstract, instead of useless bums demanding tons of cap space (Cook).
In the end it's probably all talk for nothing. I doubt Chicago moves him.