Rams record that few know or care about may fall on Sunday.

[Kupped]

I like Blanton a lot,so I hope he does well.Hopkins has always been a player with potential.The thing with Blanton is he is more like a veteran TE.Hopkins plays teams.which is Blanton weak point.Johnny got hurt on Teams.
So I guess coach Joe D. has a Big Say?

Blanton is a veteran in the same way Jamil Demby was... just good enough to stick around on practice squads.. not good enough to make the team.

 

[Selassie I]

Funny Kendricks story...

This happened at the Thordaddy game... Seadderall playing us in The STL.

I'm standing in line to get in the restroom and the line is all the way outside the door. The guy in front of me is wearing a Kendricks jersey. After standing in line for a while, I see that this guy actually looks like Lance. So I say something like - Damn, you look like you could be Kendricks' brother. He starts laughing and tells me that's because he IS his brother.

We talked for a long time because that line took forever. I told him I always thought that Lance looked like LeBron's twin. If I remember right, he told me their mom called him LeBron. Anyway... he was nice to talk to. It was great that Lance made that killer play after that. I saw his brother again after the game and we high fived. Pretty cool.

 

[AvengerRam]

Williams helped win The Rams a SuperBowl.Don’t take his rookie season for granite..

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xP-Wd453wq4

 

[WestCoastRam]

It was the last 5 games of 2019. Dont recall anyone hurt, just that Higs exploded and we thought he was a late blooming Kittle.
Then the genie squeezed back in to the bottle

We started playing a ton of 12 personnel due to oline having trouble blocking which unlocked Higbee as a bigger passing option, IMO.

Cook was also in and out of the lineup with concussions if I remember.

 

[dieterbrock]

We started playing a ton of 12 personnel due to oline having trouble blocking which unlocked Higbee as a bigger passing option, IMO.

Cook was also in and out of the lineup with concussions if I remember.

Point being, its amazing they got a horse in the stable that can run roughshod, and yet they limit his production.
So they add an Everett, a Hopkins and now a Harris and possibly Skow as the pass catching option while Higs does the dirty work.

 

[thirteen28]

We have had some good tight ends that just weren't good for us.

Chris Chamberlain

Jared Cooks

Roland Williams

And lets not forget Joe Klomp(don't care enough about him to find the spelling of his crazy ass name)

No love for Pete Holohan?

 

[WestCoastRam]

Point being, its amazing they got a horse in the stable that can run roughshod, and yet they limit his production.
So they add an Everett, a Hopkins and now a Harris and possibly Skow as the pass catching option while Higs does the dirty work.

Definitely, interesting that his production seems to be up a tick with Stafford too.

 

[dieterbrock]

Definitely, interesting that his production seems to be up a tick with Stafford too.

Not sure about that. He has 22 of 23 catches made by TE. 3.8 per game.
Last year, TE caught 89 passes or 5.6 per game. So Higbee might be slightly up in personal production but overall Stafford seems to avoid throwing to the TE

 

[Mister Sin]

I think Chris Chamberlain was a LB.

Also, I was having a nice morning until you reminded me of Joe Klopfenstein.

Maybe it was Byron lol

 

[Memento]

Funny Kendricks story...

This happened at the Thordaddy game... Seadderall playing us in The STL.

I'm standing in line to get in the restroom and the line is all the way outside the door. The guy in front of me is wearing a Kendricks jersey. After standing in line for a while, I see that this guy actually looks like Lance. So I say something like - Damn, you look like you could be Kendricks' brother. He starts laughing and tells me that's because he IS his brother.

We talked for a long time because that line took forever. I told him I always thought that Lance looked like LeBron's twin. If I remember right, he told me their mom called him LeBron. Anyway... he was nice to talk to. It was great that Lance made that killer play after that. I saw his brother again after the game and we high fived. Pretty cool.

So many amazing stories from that game. I think Rich was watching that game from Valhalla, wanting us to have a good time.

 

[So Ram]

Yea but Ernie was there too.

Everett & Higbee we’re a nice combo.
Johnny was also a part of the group as well. It’s nice to have that depth.

 

[So Ram]

Maybe it was Byron lol

Yeah Chris Chamberlain was a late rd. LBer I liked,but never amounted to .

 

[I like Rams]

Didn’t he drop a bit or something? There was a reason fans weren’t too excited about him.

The Rams had crap for WRs when Kendricks was on the team. It could be reasoned that he got more targets than Higbee.

People complained about him dropping a lot, but he made alot more clutch catches imo.

 

[FrantikRam]

It was the last 5 games of 2019. Dont recall anyone hurt, just that Higs exploded and we thought he was a late blooming Kittle.
Then the genie squeezed back in to the bottle

IIRC Everett was hurt during at least some of that time

 

[bubbaramfan]

Somewhere Joe Klopfenstien is watching......

 

[LouisvilleRam]

People complained about him dropping a lot, but he made alot more clutch catches imo.

He made a great catch in the second half of the Saints Championship game. It was also a great pass by Goff part of a incredible second half by him. Higbeee' s YAC is a very underrated part of his game too although we haven't seen it a ton so far this year.

 

[Riverumbbq]

Interesting that Kendricks is our #2 of all time. I was a fan of Kendricks, wore his jersey last week actually. But crazy how much hate he got when on this team compared to Higs and yet has more yds in a shorter amount of time than Higs.

OntarioRam already explained it best, ... that it's really about the number of targets as Kendricks wasn't competing as much as Higbee has had to with quality WR's. Kendricks had significantly more targets. Also, Kendricks never had a higher catch ratio with the Rams than 71%, Higbee has bested that figure 3 times in his 5+ years, and so far in 2021 his catch percentage is at 88%.

 

[CoachAllred]

The Rams have had a storied history at RB, with such greats as Eric Dickerson, Jerome Bettis, Marshall Faulk, Steven Jackson and Todd Gurley.

They have been even more impressive at the WR position, with players like Elroy Hirsch, Henry Ellard, Isaac Bruce, Flipper Anderson, Torry Holt and current players like Robert Woods and Cooper Kupp.

At TE, on the other hand, the Rams have never had a perennial All-Pro or Hall of Fame player.

In fact, this Sunday, Tyler Higbee, who is a good, but hardly historic player, may become the Rams all time leader in receiving yards by a TE.

With four more yards, he'll pass the Number 2 guy on the list... Lance Kendricks.

Then, with 49 yards, he'll hit that magic number of 2,178 yards and supplant Billy Truax as the Rams' most prolific receiving TE!

While they probably won't stop the game and have a 15 minute ceremony, I suppose that's worth noting.

Seriously... Higs is a good TE and I'm glad to have him on the team. And, by the time he's done, he may set the bar high enough that it could take a while for someone to knock him off his perch. Probably not 51 years (Truax set his mark in 1970), but... a while.

Go Higs!!!

 

[Mojo Ram]

Part of the problem at TE currently, in terms of production, is just how stacked the Rams' WRs are

Yes, and have been stacked over the years at times. Ellard/Anderson/Brown....Bruce/Holt/Hakim...Kupp/Woods/Cooks etc.

IIRC Lance Kendricks is the #2 guy...which makes sense because Fisher's team had shit at WR, same as those dark ages teams when Danny fucking Amendola was the go-to #1.

 

[CoachAllred]

Pete Holihan

I think the thing with Holihan is just lack of time with Rams
If my memory serves me correctly we got him from the chargers
where he did most of his damage.
LOVED me some Holihan though!