C'mon y'all. Plenty of crow to feed us all!
Rams: (#13) 1st Round QB Ty Simpson
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I was right so it’s already time for you to eat crow my friend. We drafted him!
Where you once swam with the tied you appear to be struggling against it
OK, I admit im only teasing but you get it. Let’s get behind the kid and not worry about such nonsense
Oh and I hope that I completely wrong and have to eat crow because that will only benefit the Rams.
See my post aboveI was right so it’s already time for you to eat crow my friend. We drafted him!
Where you once swam with the tied you appear to be struggling against it
OK, I admit im only teasing but you get it. Let’s get behind the kid and not worry about such nonsense
But I will say I am still upset they signed Tutu for $10M when we should have signed a decent CB instead. That kept us from a superbowl imho.
I won't be over that for awhile.
Having to hear from Seahawks fans saying over and over - we beat you and won the superbowl because of it just irks me.
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While silly, it seems to me that a crow eating contest would make more sense if an alternative option is also compared.
That being the player those opposed to the Simpson selection believed the Rams should have selected instead.
Then again success or failure elsewhere doesn't necessarily mean the same results with the Rams.
Oh well.
But if would be nice to see and compare anyway.
That being the player those opposed to the Simpson selection believed the Rams should have selected instead.
Then again success or failure elsewhere doesn't necessarily mean the same results with the Rams.
Oh well.
But if would be nice to see and compare anyway.
How!? How did signing Tutu keep us from a SB? Even without his contribution, we had the #1 offense. I don't understand this one.
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CB - we could have signed a decent CB for $10M - $12M instead.
I believe the Rams knew it after the season was over that our secondary situation caused us to miss the Superbowl so they went out and got both McDuffie and Watson.
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I don't know off the top of my head but IIRC - I believe there were a couple decent CBs (I emphasize decent not great) that were available that would have put us over the top.
Mine would have been Bain or a trade down for Cooper and get another 2nd or Third Round pick so we could pick up a coverage linebacker for 3rd down and 5 or longer. There were a few that looked fairly decent.
I have really high hopes for Bain (I am calling him a mini-Donald - possibly 7-10 sacks in his rookie year). And if he sucks - well I will eat crow for that player.
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Hard to figure a trade down and/or the compensation.
Depending upon the source you read or listen to it's really possible no one wanted to trade up.
While I still question the fit, Bain would probably have to be Myles Garrett like to offset even an average QB.
I guess a Brandon Graham type (whom he is compared to) would probably be on par with or beat a below average QB though. Then again he got 7 - 10 sacks only 4 times his entire career.
I disagree - if Bain was deemed to be a possible Myles Garrett type then I would want a top 5 QB to offset that pick. But that's just me.
Luck Burrow and Lawrence would be the only QBs that looked great coming out of college in the last 10 to 15 years that I would take over Garrett.
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Not me. I think his teams have had 2 winning seasons in 9 years and have averaged maybe 6 or so wins a season.
As great as he is, his impact doesn't match the impact of that QB.
Eating crow when we don't know how the kid's gonna perform at this level is a senseless exercise.
I saw him as a round 3 value, so I see him as coming in around that risk factor for being a starter. The Rams took him at 13 so they disagreed with me. What matters from here is whether they are correct about him. Can he carry the QB1 role for McVay into the future.
If not, the Rams were wrong in taking him at 13.
If he does, however, then I will happily eat crow. Again I never sweat whether I am right or wrong in these matters because we do this every year, and nobody bats a thousand. Been right and been wrong. So let's wait and see how the kid plays in horns and try to enjoy his development curve in the here and now. Preseason should be very enjoyable, cannot wait.
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That's very well possible if that player panned out and didn't get injured.
But not necessarily a given.
BTW, that free agency class wasn't very strong (I think the highest paid free agent DB Adebo struggled). And then said player would have to agree to play for LA and pay those California taxes.
So many unknowns. But the assumption is always the Rams can always get whatever they desire.
It's definite speculation that we could have signed any CB.
$10M CB is the cost for an average CB, not a special one.
It's speculative that an average CB would have helped much.
They traded for McCreary at the deadline. That didn't move the needle.
I agree that they went out and got McDuffie and Watson to improve the secondary. Both of those players are above average. They spent approx. $45mil. per year to do that. That's much more than $10mil to fix the problem.