Love his heart and leadership but he just can't compete physically. He isn't fast or quick enough for the slot and isn't big enough for the outside. In college, he'd be invisible for long stretches but then come up with a big play which is why I think so many people liked him.
The way to change that is to change the perception. The Rams will have to play perfect, clean football for a long stretch to force the refs to look at them differently. The Rams still commit their fair share of those penalties so the refs still err on the side of calling it against them if it's even close.
I am in Redding. It didn't come on any of the DTV channels for my area. Had to wait for the 10 pm NFLNet showing. Only saw the first Qrt ... all I needed to see lol
This cracked me up a little. Not because of what you said, but because you had to immediately clarify what you meant. It doesn't happen here a lot (you know where it does), but it's so funny how we have to make it known we're not comparing talents when we point out specific traits. You know, before we encounter the inevitable "Oh so now Keenum is Kurt Warner???? You're an idiot!" replies.
Pretty Jeff Fisher esque speech right there. I do think practicing against Dallas will help a lot.
alm:. David Wang has seen some OLG but should not be in with the first team.
I agree with Reynolds and Washington. Although, I don't understand playing Washington at G. The times he has looked good have been at tackle. At G last night he was pretty brutal. I don't know if I even seen an NFL lineman turn and chase rushers as much as he does.Very excellent points Alan. Reynolds played 1st team OLG in OTA's. While Brandon Washington played 1st team OLT. I believe strongly that Garrett Reynolds, Saffold & Brown are our top trio of OG's. Reynolds would have seemed to have sealed his position on this master roster where BW was provided big time to show he is worth consideration.
No excuses should be tolerated & used to prop up BW at this stage of his NFL life:huh:. He has been here since 2012 & Boudreau played him in the best position that matches his (limited) skills set. It sure appears that BW can not help this Ram OL move forward in effective play. Other Ram OG's (outside the starters) ....Travis Bond only plays one OL post, Right OG. The best pure back up @ both OG's should of been Cody Wichmann but he has been laid up forever
Here something positive to add here on this...once the starting center position is won...lets say its Tim Barnes who from all accounts held up well even with Washington throwing out stink bombs. The now back up centers can rush into the back up OL areas like the OLG post. Both Barrett Jones & Rhaney have shown excellent versatility in their past history's.
Morning fearsomefour
I sure have no issue with this suggested line up but Saffold has still chucks of rust to get knocked off if you recall he was injured in the first series of the first quarter when he was our starting ORT in 2013....that year did not work out well for him.
I'm sure Foles needs to get it out faster but they even said on the broadcast last night that the WRs weren't getting open for him so it made it worse. I know most people here really like our WRs but I just don't see any of them consistently getting open or running good routes. They even pointed out how poor Tavon's route was.
