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So we were trying to get Seattle to trade their pick to us?Inside Seahawks’ rookie minicamp: How Seattle trumped Rams for Byron Murphy II and Mike Macdonald’s plans for Madubuike-lite
With the draft over, there’s a lull in the NFL calendar as fans eagerly await the release of the schedule for the upcoming season.www.sportskeeda.com
Tried to move up to Seattle's pick to get him. The player Seattle ended up taking.
Good points. Rams are looking for grinders, per AD, players who care about football. Murphy may fit the body type, and allow the Rams to keep their overall D scheme, but... is there really another AD out there?? if not, I like this new DL with Turner, Fiske, Young, Verse, BBIII in the middle, there's a ton of potential there to be a great line & not have to have an "AD clone" to make it work.I suspect Murphy has a good chance to bust. So if they did like him maybe they dodged a bullet.
Hard to blame them of course. Huge need and he is talented.
Yep. That was a big red flag on this story for me too.So we were trying to get Seattle to trade their pick to us?
umm Nope.
Please add AD to the Rams talent acquisition team asap. Have him become part of DL prospect workouts. I believe he can spy difference makers from difference fakers a mile away.Good points. Rams are looking for grinders, per AD, players who care about football. Murphy may fit the body type, and allow the Rams to keep their overall D scheme, but... is there really another AD out there?? if not, I like this new DL with Turner, Fiske, Young, Verse, BBIII in the middle, there's a ton of potential there to be a great line & not have to have an "AD clone" to make it work.
I'm just not sure now though who plugs in at 1T.... BBIII? Hoecht? Fiske & Turner are 3T's. Thoughts?
I think those three and Brennan Jackson will all play roles this year alongside Byron Young, Kobie Turner and even Bobby Brown and Desjuan Johnson.Verse was the right pick. Especially getting Fiske and Tyler Davis later. Like those three additions a lot.
Hard to say ? You’re probably right though. The Rams actually might have had Fiske rated higher than Murphy ?I seriously doubt they had Murphy over Verse. The run on offensive players meant a player they likely had ranked higher than Murphy was going to fall in their lap.
Great point. Rams likely scripted 8 scenarios for Round 1. Then depending on the progression ended up with their best remaining scenario going Verse R1 and targeting any remaining blue chips in R2. Fiske likely being given a blue chip value of early R2. Then the search for a trade partner began shortly after their R1 pick.The pressure on Murphy would have been to replace AD despite it being impossible - because he has a similar game and physique and because he was a 1st round pick - that would be unfair but almost inevitable
It seems much more likely that they had Verse ahead of Murphy but one scenario was Verse had gone - draft Murphy - then pick an Edge in round 2 or 3
According to the athletic article the Rams were zeroed in on three players in round one. Verse was one of them. It seems the other two were Bowers and Murphy.
All players that I would expect them to like from the 10-19 range.
I very seriously doubt this story.
IMO these 4-6 Rumors of moving up or interested in a certain player were originated with our FO and a particular story was leaked to a specific media personality which in turn released it.
It’s like the CIA releasing so much BS you don’t know what’s true and it clouds the truth and intended intentions so no one can get an exact gauge which is smart.
This has been obvious for many years with the FO.
I’d guess that Verse, Murphy, Bowers were pod 1. Fiske was pod 2. Maybe Corum was a player in pod 3. Kinchens was in pod 4.Snead talked PODS of players that they liked. So Bowers-Murphy-Verse looks like their first-round POD. He probably had a couple more players.
The Rams are getting so sophisticated in their draft process that they had PODs for the PODs on multiple rounds. I hope that makes sense.
Verse/Fiske/Corrum/Kichens.
I bet those first four picks where were a combined POD before the draft. I think they nailed it with the players and needs!