0 comments by Will Horton on 3/22/2010
Free Agency has begun, teams that have decided to be aggressive — the Eagles, Cardinals, and Bears to name a few — have already filled needs, and teams that were only flirting retired back to the shadows. The dynamic of needs and wants has changed accordingly, and the rest of my FanBall NFL brethren are […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 3/18/2010
Editor’s Note: This is our first guest post on RamsHerd, by intrepid reader
0 comments by Will Horton on 3/17/2010
If you’ve been following mock drafts, you know that the conventional wisdom now has the Rams taking Sam Bradford #1 overall, throwing caution (and the lessons of Alex Smith, JaMarcus Russell, Tim Couch, David Carr and Vinny Testaverde) to the wind. But thanks to the fine work by @MockDraftMaster to aggregate and score this year’s […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 3/12/2010
Sad news today as the Rams mourn the passing of Merlin Olsen, a few short months after his number was retired. VanRam at TST has a nice tribute, as does Matt at RamsGab. The official Rams site has a very classy graphic tribute to his career. The full writeup is here.
0 comments by Will Horton on 3/8/2010
The few worthy names in the free agent pile have quickly disappeared off the boards, snapped up like fat tourists in a shark tank. Nate Burleson, top FA wide receiver? Signed to Drew Bennett money. Julius Peppers? The Bears offered a Scrooge McDuck-esque swimming pool full of cash. Personal favorite Aaron Kampman? After a whirlwind […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 3/5/2010
The Rams’ first splash in free agency was more of a ripple than a big splash — signing AJ Feeley away from somebody or another, to replace Mr. Carrie Prejean as the Rams’ backup quarterback. But wait, there could be reason to get excited about this pickup! As intrepid reader @RossMiles points out, Feeley is […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 3/4/2010
We might have seen the last days of Oshiomogho Atogwe on the Rams, and we won’t get even a draft pick in compensation if he leaves. That’s the risk the Rams face based on their decision today, to tender Atogwe at the lowest level. If the Rams had tendered Atogwe at a higher level — […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 3/1/2010
It was a new year, and Rams fans were more than ready for a new start. When news broke that Marc Bulger was considering retirement, a collective “hallelujah!” rang out; since then, however, the story yet to be confirmed in any meaningful way. And as Coach Spagnuolo is fond of reminding us, “Marc is still […]
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What did we learn from the NFL Combine? Lots of things, some more useful than others. Devaney and the Rams have narrowed (or widened?) the field of potential top picks to four players: DEs Ndamukong Suh, Gerald McCoy, and QBs Sam Bradford and Jimmy Clausen. While it’s in keeping with his tendency to not tip […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 2/26/2010
John Clayton put on his “business of football” hat and wrote a pretty compelling argument on ESPN about why the Rams will take a quarterback first overall — without distinguishing between Bradford or Clausen. It’s not about football, says Clayton, it’s about money — specifically, top-3 money. (Well, it’s a little bit about football, as […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 2/25/2010
Does the UF wide receiver curse extend to tight ends? When asked what the Rams’ need from this draft, the answer is simple: everything. But to put a more precise point on this answer, the Rams need to get the best available player at each and every point of the draft, because they have so […]
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The next Steve Spagnuolo project? Andy Staples (
0 comments by Will Horton on 2/23/2010
Reading this excellent article by Jason Cole at Yahoo Sports, “A Step-by-step Guide to Drafting a Quarterback,” I see a series of red flags for the Rams as they consider trying to find their quarterback of the future in this year’s draft. Perhaps ironically, these red flags correspond to the three steps of Cole’s advice […]
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Nick Wagoner at StLouisRams.com had a chance to sit down with the preeminent scout on Twitter, Daniel Jeremiah (@MoveTheSticks), for an interview on how the Rams should approach this year’s draft. Unfortunately, I can’t link the story directly, as the official blog of the Rams doesn’t appear to support individual permalinks. So here’s a series […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 2/22/2010
*swoon* Early in Senior Bowl week, I developed a pretty strong man-crush on a certain road-grading offensive guard from Idaho. But I was hardly the only one. Since then Mike Iupati has been generating tons of pre-draft hype, and is expected to rise well above the #33 overall pick, where I was hoping he would […]
