0 comments by Will Horton on 4/29/2011
Commissioner Roger Goodell and new Carolina quarterback Cam Newton. Photo from Zimbio.com. Not pictured: boos. The first 32 picks are always unpredictable — not an empty phrase, these picks are literally impossible to predict from top to bottom. (ESPN reportedly offered a cool $30 mil to anyone who could do it … but you’d have […]
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The Rams had to be jumping for joy every time a quarterback’s name was called — four times in the first 12 picks — in the opening hour of the 2011 draft. Because every time we heard names like Locker and Ponder and Gabbert, it meant that a top-tier defensive talent was going to fall. […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/28/2011
Derek Pease (SportsByWeeze) Just making sure I’ve got this rt… according to reports #Rams might go DT, DE, RB, TE, G or WR in the 1st. Glad we cleared that up #luvrumors The first ever RamsHerd liveblog (powered by CoverItLive) opens up at 6:30 CST, half an hour before the clock starts on the Carolina […]
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At the stroke of seven tonight, the Carolina Panthers will be on the clock and all the insanity of the last few months, all the speculation, all the debate will fall silent for a brief anticipatory moment. Until they make their pick, that is. Then, all hell will break loose. The glorious chaos of the […]
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Remember when Judge Nelson ended the lockout on Monday? Yeah, well that was just another step in the game of legal football, so we thought. Her decision tonight though, on the eve of the draft, changes the game. The league insisted that they would not reopen for business until they had taken their shot at […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/27/2011
George C. Scott has agreed to play the role of @PFF_Tyson in the film adaptation of #MockThree. With the selection of Graig Cooper as Mr. Irrelevant, MockThree is officially in the books and the Rams war room breaks into exhausted cheers. With a 16-hour draft clock and the vagaries of interacting with 31 other war […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/26/2011
Damione Lewis game-worn jersey for sale. Anyone? Anyone? When a draft pick busts spectacularly, like Jamarcus Russell, Troy Williamson, or Courtney Brown, it makes headlines and that player’s name is immortalized in excrement for that team’s fan base. But when an entire draft class evaporates into valuelessness, it can set back a team for years. […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/25/2011
Football lovers don’t celebrate yet — Judge Nelson’s ruling is but a speedbump for NFL lead counsel David Boies and their mission to “take back the league.” While they trade arguments and appeals, our Lockout purgatory continues… There was really no win here for NFL fans, even though Judge Susan Nelson has ruled against the […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/22/2011
The Rams add punishment with the additions of Wisconsin G John Moffitt (above) and Boise State S Jeron Johnson (below). MockThree is steamrolling forward like a … well, like a steamroller. Sorry, it’s late on a Friday and my metaphor bank is about empty. And as we enter the meat of the draft, the Rams […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/19/2011
Well, Mr. Bradford, I hope you enjoyed your honeymoon period in the NFL. You started all 16 games, revitalized a franchise, set some records and even had your face on the Madden 2012 cover for half a second. But becoming one of the fresh new faces of the NFL comes with a cost. The 2011 […]
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We assembled a crack team for the Rams war room in Mock Three, spanning three Rams blogs and four reasonably sound minds, and spent a good chunk of Friday building our draft board. Now that our pick is in, I don’t mind sharing our board with you: Option 1: Julio Jones … taken by the […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/15/2011
Corey Liuget on the NFL Network set. More photos here. The MockThree draft is kicking off next week, and each team will be represented not just by a single twitterer or blogger, but by a WAR ROOM of pseudo-cognoscenti. Our Rams draft room is headed by Tyson Langland of Pro Football Focus, and includes Van […]
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Matt Waldman, an NFL scout and columnist for FootballGuys.com, was riffing earlier this week on what separates the great quarterbacks from the good in the NFL, the physically gifted failures from those who go on to become hall of famers. I favorited his thoughts and filed them away for a rainy day, and this rainy […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/13/2011
Two prominent 7-round mock drafts were conducted recently — one a marathon produced by New Era Scouting, the other a wide-open sprint with 32 participants on Twitter each acting as an assigned GM for their team. working under the hashtag #MockOne. The Rams were represented by Tyson Langland of Pro Football Focus. The two drafts […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/12/2011
Rams GM Billy Devaney had a lively interview with Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk on their PFT Live program. (We will add an updated link when and if the show gets archived.) Early in the interview, Devaney pulled the curtain back on his draft board: “I’m going to go out on a limb and […]
