Yahoo.com: Foolio Hit Piece on Rams

[Merlin]

Rams keep surrendering leverage to Jalen Ramsey

The Rams have had some on-field success in recent years. Off the field, they've struggled to handle their business in an ideal way, doing contracts they shouldn't have done (with Todd Gurley, Jared Goff, Brandin Cooks) and failing to do contracts they should have done. Into the latter category...

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The Rams have had some on-field success in recent years. Off the field, they’ve struggled to handle their business in an ideal way, doing contracts they shouldn’t have done (with Todd Gurley, Jared Goff, Brandin Cooks) and failing to do contracts they should have done.

Into the latter category falls defensive tackle Aaron Donald, who had to wait far too long for his financial reward (and who has more than lived up to it), and cornerback Jalen Ramsey. The Rams gave the Jaguars two first-round picks and a fourth-round pick without securing a long-term commitment from Ramsey. This instantly gave Ramsey extra leverage in the inevitable negotiations on a new deal, since the Rams won’t want to see the product of their 2019 all-in impulse buy walk away in free agency.

With Ramsey already having all the leverage, coach Sean McVay gave Ramsey even more of it on Tuesday, acknowledging that Ramsey “could reset the cornerback market.” While that may indeed be true, it’s the kind of statement that Ramsey’s agent will use to not just reset the market but to push the bar as high as he possibly can.

On one hand, it doesn’t really matter, because the draft capital already gives Ramsey so much leverage that nothing McVay says will change it. On the other hand, it’s an example of McVay’s tendency to take the good-cop routine a bit too far, creating a sense that every guy is “my guy” until he’s not, abruptly discarding players like Gurley or Cooks or Clay Matthews. Throw in the fact that both Gurley and Matthews believe the team has stiffed them out of payments their contracts promised, and the Rams are dancing dangerously close to the line that separates dysfunctional franchises from the contenders.

McVay remains one of the best coaches in the league, but there’s a sense that the rest of the NFL quickly has caught up with him. As he gets older and secures more experience, McVay will need to ensure that the team does a better job of exercising restraint when needed, and of writing big checks to only the right players at precisely the right time.

Rams keep surrendering leverage to Jalen Ramsey originally appeared on Pro Football Talk

 

[ReekofRams]

Welcome to another show of “WATCH MY ASS TALK.”

 

[12intheBox]

I think we all know that nine digit contract negotiations turn all the time on an off the cuff comment by a non party.

Of course he has leverage. And so the Rams. The Rams have the tag.

He was always going to become the highest paid CB of all time.

But life has to be hard for sports writers right now - I mean, how many best BBQ sauces of all time tournament brackets can one really do?

 

[Merlin]

I think we all know that nine digit contract negotiations turn all the time on an off the cuff comment by a non party.

Of course he has leverage. And so the Rams. The Rams have the tag.

He was always going to become the highest paid CB of all time.

But life has to be hard for sports writers right now - I mean, how many best BBQ sauces of all time tournament brackets can one really do?

Agreed. This is why I think it's a hit piece. The Rams have had zero real leverage since they traded for him, they could potentially move him but would come out of the whole thing looking stupid and with a lesser roster. That elite money is assured.

It's just funny how much he hates the Rams. He probably had a step Dad who beat his ass while wearing a Rams jersey when he was a kid.

 

[bluecoconuts]

I'm not even gonna read or watch, I'm just going to write down the same thing that pops into my head anytime I hear his name.


God I want to punch him in his stupid fucking smug face so goddamn bad. Can you just imagine how good it would feel? That stupid fucking shit eating grin he always has, just a fucking fat one right in the mouth. I bet he'd cry too, he seems like the type of guy who'd cower down and in tears immediate be submissive rather than stand up to defend himself.

I think I'm going to start making super realistic masks of shitheads and put them on training dummies for people to hit. I know I'd be getting extra gym time in if I could punch him in his stupid fucking smug face.

 

[MadGoat]

Poor Foolio. The Rams still haven't traded Jared Goff away and Terry Bradshaw is still alive. One day he'll get something right.

 

[Deac]

Agreed. This is why I think it's a hit piece. The Rams have had zero real leverage since they traded for him, they could potentially move him but would come out of the whole thing looking stupid and with a lesser roster. That elite money is assured.

It's just funny how much he hates the Rams. He probably had a step Dad who beat his ass while wearing a Rams jersey when he was a kid.

If I remember correctly, wasn't Florio kinda tight with Fisher for a bit? I might be remembering wrong, but he just might be projecting that, cherry picking things to gripe about the Rams now.

 

[bubbaramfan]

Hey Foolio

 

[majrleaged]

God I hope we have a season this year. To listen to how fucked the rams are all the way till September 2021 will cause me to drink more than I already do.

 

[ArkyRamsFan]

doing contracts they shouldn’t have done (with Todd Gurley, Jared Goff, Brandin Cooks) and failing to do contracts they should have done.

I probably shouldn't bother but this line bothers me. When the Rams signed Gurley he had just been named the NFL Offensive Player of the Year. Not to mention his knee was fine and he was in his prime (that rhymes somehow). What were the Rams supposed to do, let him walk and incur the wrath and criticism of their fans and everyone else not to mention lose the biggest playmaker we had at the time?

The same could be said of the deals given to Jared Goff and Cooks. Both of them were coming off excellent productive years and were going to get their money from somebody, so why not the Rams considering the fact that both of 'em were integral parts of a very effective offense.

I don't get shmucks like Florio. If we don't sign our own stars we are cheap and stupid and whatnot. But, if we do sign 'em The Rams, of course, immediately overpaid and don't know what they are doing.

This "writer" is just another journalism school dropout posing as somebody who cares about facts, when he doesn't. I could go on that this idiot is symptomatic of the entire "journalism" profession today but I'm worked up enough. I join another poster in this thread who said he can't wait for the season to start so we can ignore morons like this.
Well said.

~ArkyRamsFan~

 

[InnovatedMind]

What.

A.

Retard.

 

[kurtfaulk]

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i don't get it.

the rams shouldn't have signed cook even though they traded a 1st for him and he was on the last year of his deal but they should have already signed ramsey because they traded two 1sts for him?

is this guy a former lawyer by chance? i've never seen a person more adept to speaking out both sides of their mouth.

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[Loyal]

Seriously, I didn't read Foolio's text or watch his video. I respect nothing about him. If I want to read Rams critique and 49er praise, I just read a few flv posts...
@flv

 

[Psycho_X]

is this guy a former lawyer by chance? i've never seen a person more adept to speaking out both sides of their mouth.

Actually, yes he is a lawyer. No idea if he’s still practicing but that’s what he was when he started the whole profootballtalk thing 15ish years ago. Funny isn’t it lol?

 

[SuperMan28]

I don't think the Rams contracts are a problem. They just need to reinvent themselves a bit. That's nothing new for any team. If you got the talent then it's all about schematic adjustments.

 

[tempests]

That's just him regurgitating his talking points from last year with Goff. McVay isn't allowed to praise his players in public because that could drive up the price. I might say the penny pinching approach isn't the right one with Ramsey.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...essment-could-drive-up-jared-goffs-price-tag/

Florio was the face of the dipsht brigade who were insisting the Rams were about to dump Jared Goff because of his performance in the Super Bowl. Even took interviews with other media stations to tell the world how smart he was for predicting that. McVay tactfully replied that was the dumbest sht he had ever heard. A red faced Florio quickly retorted that the Rams should just go ahead and extend Goff then. And they did exactly that shortly after. Abundantly clear Foolio isn't dialled in to the Rams at all and they simply don't care what he thinks they should do.

 

[LARAMSinFeb.]

So Florio got the Gurley deal wrong, just like he's saying the Rams did:

"So it was a very good deal for Gurley, one that he couldn’t have refused. And by offering it now, the Rams avoided having Bell’s new contract push the bar for Gurley even higher in 2019."

Inside Todd Gurley's new deal

At a time when everyone was watching and waiting for Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald to get a new contract, the team opted instead to extend running back Todd Gurley.

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

 

[Memento]

The people in the comments who agree with him are so much worse. Foolio is just an imbecile; the ones following the gospel of the imbecile are the ones that make me weep for the future of this world.