0 comments by Tim Shields on 4/19/2011
Series: A look at the other three teams in the most wide open division in football. After yet another regime change, is it finally time for the 49ers to admit that the Alex Smith Era is over? Drafting Blaine Gabbert would say yes. What a difference a year makes. A year ago at this time, […]
0 comments by Will Horton
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 Tim Shields on 4/18/2011
Series: A look at the other three teams in the most wide open division in football. UNC Defensive End Robert Quinn could have Sam Bradford in the crosshairs next season. What a difference a year makes. A year ago at this time, the Rams were the team no one wanted to be. A team in […]
0 comments by Derek Pease on 4/16/2011
Character is at the forefront of the debate for many of this years potential draft picks. This obviously brings to mind the “Four Pillars” and the Rams’ approach to whom they pick to join their family. Some teams take this seriously; Rams, other teams do not; Bengals. As evidenced by many of their choices in […]
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 […]
0 comments by Will Horton
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 Brennan Smith on 4/13/2011
Could Liuget be the next in a long line of failed defensive tackle first round picks for the Rams? Albert Einstein was once quoted as saying “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” Einstein’s words have echoed loud and clear over the last decade of Rams drafts, especially in […]
0 comments by Will Horton
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 […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/11/2011
How much influence does Spagnuolo and his pillars have on Billy Devaney’s draft board? In Marvin Austin, you might see a defensive lineman with immense physical gifts, ferocity, and untapped skills who, in the right scheme and with the right coach, could explode as one of the best players of the draft. Or, you might […]
0 comments by Derek Pease on 4/8/2011
Scene: Rams Park, Purpose: off season strategy meeting. Devaney clamoring for a DT, Demoff screaming out shouts for the need to upgrade at Guard while McDaniels pleads for a better weapon at WR for his guy behind center. Then Spags breaks out his draft board….top of the board, you guessed it, equipment manager. Well good, […]
0 comments by Will Horton
WR Randall Cobb, Kentucky’s lone representative on ESPN’s all-SEC team. The two elites in this year’s draft class — AJ Green and Julio Jones — are well known. And the second tier of receivers usually consists of — in any particular order depending on the scout and the team — Jonathan Baldwin, Torrey Smith, Leonard […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 4/7/2011
The University of Missouri called Aldon Smith their “future Deacon Jones.” Where better to earn that legacy than with the Rams. (Photo: Parker Eshelman, Columbia Daily Tribune) Aldon Smith, DE, Missouri The Rams will find themselves in a very tough value spot if the draft shakes out the way it has in the 2011 Bloguin […]
0 comments by Will Horton
Corey Liuget has emerged as a favorite for the Rams in recent mock drafts. But is he good value at #14? The Bloguin Mock Draft steamrolls on, with the Minnesota Vikings stopping the free-fall of DE Da’Quan Bowers, and the Detroit Lions finally deciding to keep their franchise QB upright by selecting OT Anthony Costanzo. […]
0 comments by Brennan Smith on 4/6/2011
A recent retrospective on the last five NFL draft classes written by CSNBayArea.com’s Matt Maiocco ranked the Rams 27th out of 32 teams, hardly a surprise for a St. Louis team that went 14-50 from 2006 until last season’s 7-9 finish. The article ranked Jason Smith as the Rams’ worst pick in this time period, […]
