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The 2012 Rams with a healthy Sam Bradford had THREE WRs with 600+ yards. So...

Also, 596 yards =/= 600 yards.

and yet the starting receiver has 1 Touchdown in his last 22 games.

600 yards should not be the acceptable bench mark either - the bar should be 1,000. Not 600..

If our Running backs were getting 600 rushing yards a year vs a 1,000 over 16 games, I'd bet you the "draft a runningback" line would be a mile a long
 

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and yet the starting receiver has 1 Touchdown in his last 22 games.

600 yards should not be the acceptable bench mark either - the bar should be 1,000. Not 600..

If our Running backs were getting 600 rushing yards a year vs a 1,000 over 16 games, I'd bet you the "draft a runningback" line would be a mile a long

Not if we had 3 HBs doing it.

600 yards was just the benchmark you used. I agree, it's not good enough. But I think if Sam is healthy in 2014, we'll have at least one surpass 800+ yards(assuming our WRs don't get hurt...Amendola would have had 1000+ in 2012 were he healthy).

And that's regardless of whether we draft Watkins/Evans.
 

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Which is my point - it seems to me people have the bar set pretty low for this team's wide receivers with 6+ years of sub 800 yard seasons


Does any one really give two shits about how many yards our receivers get:wtf:

Is that what is important now? We don't care a bout wins and losses so just give me a guy with individual stats for window dressing??????:bueller:
 

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Not if we had 3 HBs doing it.

600 yards was just the benchmark you used. I agree, it's not good enough. But I think if Sam is healthy in 2014, we'll have at least one surpass 800+ yards(assuming our WRs don't get hurt...Amendola would have had 1000+ in 2012 were he healthy).

And that's regardless of whether we draft Watkins/Evans.

Yea but whens the last time the Rams had 3 or 4 RB Sets :D

Does any one really give two shits about how many yards our receivers get:wtf:

Is that what is important now? We don't care a bout wins and losses so just give me a guy with individual stats for window dressing??????:bueller:

uhh yea it's about production...and our corps is by far one of the most under producing corps in the league. Of course if we had more production, we'd probably have more wins too
 

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I post I came across, may be an eye opener to many:

OL is key, but the Passing game is King. Again I refer peeps to this article.

[thepowerrank.com]


And again, I refer peeps to this OL rank.

[www.profootballfocus.com]


Cards had the worst OL in the league, and they win 10 games.
Seahawks were ranked 26th, and they win the SB.
Colts ranked 24th, playoff team.
Chiefs went from 12th to 20th, yet won 9 more games.

IMO, a good passing game is more important than a dominant OL in getting to the playoffs. What's really missing from our team is a good passing game. Watkins makes the best impact in the most important aspect of the game.


In short... SAMMY WATKINS for 1A!

Thank You! I wish I had more that one LIKE to give to this article Your ideas and philosophy dovetail perfectly into what I believe equals WINS. It's bloody blaming obvious!
It's a no brainer that Sammy Watkins would improve Sam Bradford's 34th ranking in YDS/A more that a Left Tackle!

Mark Staffford was the only quarterback, out of the top 15 QB's in YDS/A in 2013, who had a losing record!
 

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uhh yea it's about production...and our corps is by far one of the most under producing corps in the league. Of course if we had more production, we'd probably have more wins too

It is not about production it is about wins and losses.

Check Bradfords's stats Houston vs Atlanta. Big stats don't always mean big wins
 

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Not sure why you bring up Tight ends when we're discussing the receiver position.

Cards - almost (2) 1,000 yards receivers.. Floyd 1041, Fitzie 954
Chiefs - Charles (693), Donnie Avery (596), Dwayne Bowe (673)
Seattle - Taint (898), Baldwin (778)
Colts - Reggie Wayne (in 7 games) (503), Hilton (1,083)

Rams - Givens (569), Tavon (418), Pettis (399)

You know what I see? it takes 3 receivers combined to crack 1,000 yard season, all of whom which were out produced by the Chiefs receivers in their run dominant/heavy rb focus offense... reggie wayne in less than half a season almost matched givens production - probably would have exceeded it had he played one more game. Donnie Avery, the 3rd option in Chief's passing game, still out produced all Ram receivers.

Thank about this
Jamaal Charles - 7 receiving TD's, 693 yards receiving.
Givens + quick + Pettis = 6 receiving td's

What's one common theme though?

Receivers with more than 600 yards -
Cards - 2
Chiefs - 3
Seattle - 2
Colts - 1 (would have been 2)
Rams - 0 .

TEs are brought up because they are receiving targets who have gotten the ball instead of WRs. And this can happen quite a bit in an offense that uses a lot of two TE sets. Besides, while he's listed as a TE, Jared Cook is basically a slot WR listed as a TE (671 yards, 5 TDs) which appears to be totally ignored for some reason.

No matter how you slice it. If the ball is being spread around evenly to more targets like the Rams did (didn't even include Stacy's 26 receptions) and the team is attempting fewer passes than the vast majority of the league, it's going to be difficult for a team to have many players with 600 or more yards.

I'm not understanding how that it so difficult to comprehend.o_O
 
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It is not about production it is about wins and losses.

Check Bradfords's stats Houston vs Atlanta. Big stats don't always mean big wins

So you're telling me if the Rams were winning yet they allowed the league high most sacks, that would be irrelevant?

Why do I find that hard to believe.....
 

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So you're telling me if the Rams were winning yet they allowed the league high most sacks, that would be irrelevant?

Why do I find that hard to believe.....
I would hate Sam taking a beating but as long as they are winning and he is answering the bell I don't care as much as if he is throwing for 400 a game and they are losing. And yes the sack would be irrelevant
 

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TEs are brought up because they are receiving targets who have gotten the ball instead of WRs. And this can happen quite a bit in an offense that uses a lot of two TE sets. Besides, while he's listed as a TE, Jared Cook is basically a WR playing TE (671 yards, 5 TDs) which appears to be totally ignored for some reason.

No matter how you slice it. If the ball is being spread around evenly to more targets like the Rams did (didn't even include Stacy's 26 receptions) and the team is attempting fewer passes than the vast majority of the league, it's going to be difficult for a team to have many players with 600 or more yards.

I'm not understanding how that it so difficult to comprehend.o_O

Me either - trying to figure out how people are acting like this is the first year that we haven't had a subpar receiving season - when the reality is that The Rams haven't had a 700+ yard receiver in 5 or 6 years (since Torry Holt)... Most certainly weren't attempting the fewest passes in the league the past few years.

Unless our tight end is named Jimmy Graham, Tony Gonzalez, Juluian Thomas, or Gronkowski - he shouldn't be leading the team in Receiving yards.. especially Jared Cook since they stopped asking him to block

And No Ram receiver has hit 1,000 yards since the 2006 season - 7 years, without a 1,000 yard receiver...How difficult is that to comprehend?

Interesting - there's 70 receivers who eclipsed 600 yards...



Let's look at teams Passing attempts shall we?

Rams were 28th
Jets - 29th
Panthers - 30
Seahawks - 31
Niners - 32

Only team without a 600+ receiver are the jets... The Seahawks have 2,Niners have 1 (2 if you include vernon davis), Panthers had 2 (3 if you include greg olsen)...

the team is attempting fewer passes than the vast majority of the league, it's going to be difficult for a team to have many players with 600 or more yards.

Obviously this isn't true. Other teams with less attempts managed to get more than one receiver above 600, we couldn't get a single one.

And the sad thing is - in reality the barometer is actually 1,000.
 
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I would hate Sam taking a beating but as long as they are winning and he is answering the bell I don't care as much as if he is throwing for 400 a game and they are losing. And yes the sack would be irrelevant

Well I don't believe that. People are hounding for the o-line as it is, its just sack numbers don't correlate for their arguments
 

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iced,

I said "If the ball is being spread around evenly to more targets like the Rams did (didn't even include Stacy's 26 receptions) AND the team is attempting fewer passes than the vast majority of the league."

And now 600 yards has jumped up to 700 yards. Is that because if you go back just one season, Givens, Amendola, and Gibson had 698, 666, 691 yards, respectively? And Amendola did it starting only 8 games (Givens missed one too & really didn't get going until his 3rd NFL game). You don't think he would have cracked 1,000 yards if he stayed healthy?? Brandon Lloyd got 683 yards in only 10 games with the Rams the year before? You don't think he would have cracked 1,000 with a full training camp and season? Why are you ignoring these circumstances??

And what law passed saying that Jared Cook couldn't or shouldn't lead the team in receiving yards??? With all the money he's being paid, he really should do it every year, IMO.
 

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Well I don't believe that. People are hounding for the o-line as it is, its just sack numbers don't correlate for their arguments

The question you asked me has nothing to do with the current situation it was totally hypothetical.

If I am the GM the Oline is the main focus of this off season. Protecting Bradford is the number one most important thing for this team in the real world.


Don't ask a fantasy question and then equate the answer to real world situations
 

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I said "If the ball is being spread around evenly to more targets like the Rams did (didn't even include Stacy's 26 receptions) AND the team is attempting fewer passes than the vast majority of the league."

And now 600 yards has jumped up to 700 yards. Is that because if you go back just one season, Givens, Amendola, and Gibson had 698, 666, 691 yards, respectively? And Amendola did it starting only 8 games (Givens missed one too & really didn't get going until his 3rd NFL game). You don't think he would have cracked 1,000 yards if he stayed healthy?? Brandon Lloyd got 683 yards in only 10 games with the Rams the year before? You don't think he would have cracked 1,000 with a full training camp and season? Why are you ignoring these circumstances??

And what law passed saying that Jared Cook couldn't or shouldn't lead the team in receiving yards??? With all the money he's being paid, he really should do it every year, IMO.

Again - those teams really spread the ball out as well. You made an assumption and tried to pass it off as a fact but it's not accurate. Those teams in the bottom 3 Spread the ball out too - the difference is, they have more talent at the WR corps. Period.

600, 700 yards? It really doesn't matter as much when the barometer is 1,000 yards... 600-700? That's still setting the bar low.

And Jared Cook really should not be leading in receiving. He's not a Franchise TE. Yea, he should be up there in yards, but leading the wide receiver position? no way.

Rams have had one of the worst under producing WR corps and it's constantly been mentioned about Bradford that we need to surround him with weapons - yet people are actually defending this ineptitude. Mention we don't have a receiver over 700 yards in the past 6 years, and now they're trying to split hairs... come on, really? Especially in a passing league.
 

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Again - those teams really spread the ball out as well. You made an assumption and tried to pass it off as a fact but it's not accurate. Those teams in the bottom 3 Spread the ball out too - the difference is, they have more talent at the WR corps. Period.

600, 700 yards? It really doesn't matter as much when the barometer is 1,000 yards... 600-700? That's still setting the bar low.

And Jared Cook really should not be leading in receiving. He's not a Franchise TE. Yea, he should be up there in yards, but leading the wide receiver position? no way.

Rams have had one of the worst under producing WR corps and it's constantly been mentioned about Bradford that we need to surround him with weapons - yet people are actually defending this ineptitude. Mention we don't have a receiver over 700 yards in the past 6 years, and now they're trying to split hairs... come on, really? Especially in a passing league.

C'mon iced. Sure the other teams spread the ball around. But, not like the Rams did last year. Not one of them had 5 targets with 30+ receptions last year (Stacy had 26). Not ONE. Period. Take away one or two of the targets to match the other teams and give those receptions to the remaining group and chances are your yards criteria gets met.

And yet again, a 1,000 yard barometer is going to be difficult to attain when a team's receptions are spread out like the Rams receptions were with fewer passing attempts than most teams. And that doesn't even account for having a QB that struggles with accuracy on passes down the field starting half the games (Clemons).

Jared Cook is not a franchise TE? Because you say so?? He's sure being paid like one.

And it doesn't matter if it's a passing league, if the head coach wants to run the ball in a balanced offense. Again, the two teams with the fewest passing attempts by a long shot (San Francisco & Seattle) are considered by many to have been the best two teams in the NFL last year.

There's nothing wrong with having an opinion that Bradford needs to be surrounded with more weapons. Some might agree. Some might not. But, your yards argument totally ignores how youth, injuries (Amendola), late additions (Lloyd), the offense's use of it weapons, and even Bradford being out, factored into those numbers.
 
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C'mon iced. Sure the other teams spread the ball around. But, not like the Rams did last year. Not one of them had 5 targets with 30+ receptions last year. Not ONE. Period. Take away one or two of the targets to match the other teams and give those receptions to the remaining group and chances are your yards criteria gets met.

And yet again, a 1,000 yard barometer is going to be difficult to attain when a team's receptions are spread out like the Rams receptions were with fewer passing attempts than most teams. And that doesn't even account for having a QB that struggles with accuracy on passes down the field starting half the games (Clemons).

Jared Cook is not a franchise TE? Because you say so?? He's sure being paid like one.

And it doesn't matter if it's a passing league, if the head coach wants to run the ball in a balanced offense. Again, the two teams with the fewest passing attempts by a long shot (San Francisco & Seattle) are considered by many to have been the best two teams in the NFL last year.

You lose me with Passing Attempts because they were out produced. Whether you like it or not those teams still spread the ball, especially the chiefs. The other kicker is that while you're talking about passing attempts, you're also forgetting how many drops the corps also had. Prior to bradford going out, they were near the top of the league. Despite switching to the run first attack, they still managed to squeek out a top 10 in drops. (Believe it was 7th?).. You can't tell me its because of passing attempts they didn't crack 800 when they squandered so many opportunities. I'd also argue that it's not so much the Rams "spreading the ball around" as much as trying to figure out who really deserves to start.

There's nothing wrong with having an opinion that Bradford needs to be surrounded with more weapons. Some might agree. Some might not. But, your yards argument totally ignores how youth, injuries (Amendola), late additions (Lloyd), the offense's use of it weapons, and even Bradford being out, factored into those numbers.

Yep, and both had receivers that were much more productive than the Rams receivers.


Only the Giants and Rams who's starting receiver (#1 on depth chart) that failed to record a touchdown..And Givens is the only "#1" Receiver who started 16 games that failed to eclipse 600 yards..

Worst production in the league - hard to defend "being the worst" when you're literally at/near the bottom of the league in touchdowns and yardage.
 
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Sure the targets could have made more of their opportunities, but lower passing attempts still equal fewer opportunities doesn't it?

And I said that the others spread the ball out. BUT THEIR RECEPTIONS WEREN'T SPREAD IT OUT AS MUCH AS THE RAMS LAST YEAR. Not even Kansas City.

And spreading the ball around, no matter the reason, is why the numbers don't meet your criteria.
 

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Sure the targets could have made more of their opportunities, but lower passing attempts still equal fewer opportunities doesn't it?

And I said that the others spread the ball out. BUT THEIR RECEPTIONS WEREN'T SPREAD IT OUT AS MUCH AS THE RAMS LAST YEAR. Not even Kansas City.

What??

Charles - 70 catches
Bowe - 57 catches
Mccluster - 53 catches
Avery - 40 catches
Mcgrath - 26
Fasano - 23
Sherman - 18
Hemingway - 13
Davis - 11

total - 311


Cook - 51
tavon - 40
AP - 38
givens - 34
kendricks - 32
Stacy - 26
Quick - 18
Stedman - 17
Drich - 14

total - 270


Uhh looks to me the chiefs spread the ball around much better...3 of their top 4 receptions are by receivers.. yea, they spread the ball out way more than the Rams.

Sorry man, but you're way off. KC also isn't juggling their WR corps like the Rams were, which will account for your "spread" so far out.

Either way - the Chiefs had 41 more catches, and even their #3 Receiver out produced our "#1"
 

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Interestingly enough, Cook's production was almost identical to Dwayne Bowe's.