And replace him with who? We have one other TE who has been useful in one game in three years and a practice squad fullback convert. I'm scare to death of losing Higbee.
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Lol - the Rams won a SuperBowl without Higbee & that backup made some nice catches. How scared can you be ? - blue font
I agree with you. The poster is out of his mind if you asked me,but then again who am I to judge.
Truth is Higbee just restructured his contract for The Rams ? Havenstien just resigned to Oldbutnotdeads delight.
I think we all should eat some Campbell Soup to let our bellies soothe a little after that Horrible defeat. Von Miller looks better in a Rams Uniform,if your a Rams fan. Going against Noteboom & company,maybe Higbee should have been put on the left side more.
The Rams are pretty insistent on running with 11 Personnel, and yes it's a risk of sorts, but promoting Hopkins and Carter gives us a TE receiver & a blocker. It's not like we would be just giving Higbee away, it really comes down to what improvements our team receives by way of trade and if it's another player who can start and make us better right away. Higbee's CAP coming off the books may also allow us to pay for additional talent. jmo.
That's a scary proposition for me. I appreciate what he did for us in the SB but I need to see a LOT more from Hopkins before I consider him an option we can rely on full time. I do want to see more from Carter and hope we can keep him to develop long term. Would like to see him used as a FB/TE option in the run game.
That would leave the Rams with Brycen Hopkins and two Practice Squad TEs; plus, Higbee just restructured for cap space. According to Spotrac, Higbee's current cap-hit is down to $4.25M, but he carries $7.6M of Dead-$ if moved. If correct, trading Higbee would cost the Rams $3.2M of cap space.
Again, any trade would require someone who can come in and help our team immediately, just at another position other than TE. Teams can also pick up salary concerns where players are traded, so that's not a current worry, freeing up CAP for 2023 is just as important as for this season.
I was jumping in on a hypothetical theory where the Jags offered RB James Robinson & OLB Josh Allen, a Rams poster offered Atwell, Rapp & future high draft picks to make it happen. The Jags will likely lose their TE1 to free agency after this season, so I added Higbee to increase our chances.
Allen carries an $11.5M CAP hit in 2023, that can be partially off-set by Higbee next year. I''m not sure what if any value Atwell adds as he hasn't done anything yet, although Trevor Lawrence could use additional receiving targets, I'm also not sure how much Rapp adds to a trade, but Higbee does give the Jags some security for 2023.
Anyway, an Allen/Robinson trade to the Rams appears a nice idea, although if we expect the Jags to be interested, I'd sacrifice a bit more with Higbee, a draft pick and Atwell if they wanted him. jmo.
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It's time to turn Rookie ER Keir Thomas loose on the Falcons if Floyd is not healthy.
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Sean McVay has contingency plans in place if Leonard Floyd cannot play vs. Falcons
John Dillon/September 17, 2022
Sean McVay has contingency plans in place if Leonard Floyd cannot play vs. Falcons
A knee injury threatens to keep linebacker Leonard Floyd out of the Los Angeles Rams' Week 2 tilt against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, and the team has devised a rotation of replacements to fill the void in his absence. Head coach Sean McVay revealed his plan to deal…
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I hope so.
They need to prioritize run stuffing with their front this week. Mariota is a shitty QB unless you allow him to read option your ass down the field. In which case he becomes dangerous. Patterson is the main threat, the guy is a nightmare for DBs to bring down. So putting them into some third and longs is going to be important, otherwise we'll need to endure him dragging dudes for first downs all day long.
The good thing is the Falcons defense is shit. So I think for this to be a loss we would need a poor outing by the offense as well as the defense to get run all over. Which seems unlikely.
But I am worried about stuffing the run in this one.
ReekofRams
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I can play, the QB and RB need to run right at me, and I need whatever padding they can give, along with lots of stuckum for my hands, and smelling salts after every play.
Yeah ... but you're going to want a fully guaranteed contract ... aren't you?
I would do all-of-the-above just for access to the post-game- buffet. Provided I could bring tupper-ware.
If it's a curse, I'd gladly take that curse every couple of years.
Sure but as you can see our heads still spin after a loss but that's just fandom it's the media that makes me throw up. Wouldn't be cool to just have a job where you take whatever topic you wants and just babble on an on to make it fit your narrative for reactions without breaking a sweat and getting paid well and if all goes well extreme notarity leading to an even bigger paycheck.
I'd love that. The Jaguars wouldn't. We'd probably have to do something like Jefferson, Akers and Lewis/Hollins, along with two firsts and a third, if we're dealing for Robinson and Allen. Personally, I'd still do it, but not without hesitance.
I concur, let's see what he has.
We either have an in house player as a solution we can develop or we need to look outside. neither Hollins nor T Lew are 3rd down get to the QB specialists for say
