Man you cant be serious? This doesn't even qualify as being a homer its just delusional. No one is proven, Reeder was horrible last year, and every single person has questionable talent. Likely the worst ILB talent in the entire NFL at this point. Its the biggest hole on our roster. My guess is we add a starter tmrw, that unit has to improve.
Again, if the Rams shared your opinion, they would have moved on from those "untalented" players at some point this offseason. The Rams could have gotten some slight cap space relief by cutting ANY of those guys and signing people who would have less questionable talent than these guys.
Yet they didn't do ANY of that. They've kept them. They let players leave and expressed confidence in the players left on the roster. We brought in a new DC who has been collaborating with McVay for weeks now on the direction of our defense. And not 1 of our ILBs or OLBs have been released and replaced with players who would be more suitable for our new DCs scheme.
You may disagree with the team's analysis of those players talent, but their actions or inactions with these guys tells us what they think about them. It's not my opinion, it's the coaching staff and the team telling us what they think of the players by keeping them on the roster and giving them opportunities.
I would also say this. If we went back over the last 2-3 years and looked at the scouting reports and draft projections for Jacahai Polite, Natrez Patrick and Micah Kiser. So that would be Kiser senior season heading into the draft, Polite's Junior year at Florida, and Natrez Patrick after his sophmore season. and maybe add Obo junior-season season. If you look at the scouting report and projections for those 4 guys and then say that you'd have an opportunity to have those 4 guys on your roster in 2020, you'd be hard pressed to say that you wouldn't have some "young talent" on your roster. I mean of course they're unproven. Nobody is questioning that. But if you accumulate young talent, development them with good coaching, you can get a contributing player in the end. That's how it's supposed to work, and honestly it's been working for us. If we developed Corey Littleton into a starter, I mean Corey was never projected and scouted at the same level as those 4 I just named were in college. We're not talking about no-name guys from weak conferences. We're talking SEC and ACC type guys where physical football is played.
Staley, McVay, and Snead have compiled a roster with some young talent at the Linebacker position. We may add some tonight, but we're not in a position where we are adding to an empty cupboard. You don't move forward if you keep starting over every year recycling young players, rolling the dice every year to keep adding to the same position. You have to develop your players, build your depth and move on to other positions of need.
