SmokinwithWilly

I don't understand why people think future 1sts are not worth much. 2 future 1sts from the Rams. With Stafford, those could be really late 1sts. If Stafford's back had gone south and he was put the season, that late 20s could have been an early teens. You just don't know. But what is for certain is this team would have been in great position to find 2 late 1st rounders to fill needs of which we've had plenty. Talent always slips. Ironically, the Rams used their 2024 1st to select Verse who's already made the pro bowl. Not saying we would have, but it's highly possible since we needed a DE. It's also possible we could have used one of the Rams future 1sts as part of the package to trade up to 1 instead of giving up DJ and crippling the offense for whatever QB we ended up chasing. So much was done wrong because Fitterer was so far in over his head but Tepper wouldn't/couldn't see it.

McVeigh did not look or sound happy after he was drafted. The way he talked, it was a GM decision he was told about after and he tried to sound excited but he couldn't fake it that well.

I can imagine it. Now can you imagine people complaining how we get no respect from the media after back to back division titles.

I think it depends if that receiver is a true difference maker. Megatron or Jerry Rice, no issues there imo. But those are very few and far between.

I really don't want to be the only team to win their division 3 times with a losing record. Being the only one to do it twice is bad enough.

From what I remember it was for 2 future 1sts and an upcoming 2nd. For a non QB, that's a haul of an offer, if true. The problem is once we declined it, we lost any leverage with Burns to not make him a top paid edge rusher. As good as he was last year, he has never been a complete edge player. He has always been susceptible vs the run as we saw over and over. The picks may not have been top 10, but 1st rounders are valuable when you're in the middle of a rebuild, which we were, but Fitterer was in denial trying to act like we were only a player away from being a SB contender. It really is amazing how terrible of a GM he was. Of course, I also don't put it past McVeigh to put out a fake trade offer just to fug us over in contract negotiations because we wouldn't trade him away. God Fitterer's ability as GM was worse than swimming in a 3 week old construction site porta potty.

It's happening some, but not something I would bank on at this point. Only about half of players injured return to the NFL and of those, less than 25% return to pre-injury form within 2 years. I'm fine with keeping him, but for now, any contract has to be short term, incentive driven until he has some post injury game tape.

Very unfortunate but I think an important lesson to be learned. Certain positions, QB, blind side tackle, green dot LB, are positions that need to be constantly in search of a 1b. They're just too important to be lackadasical regarding depth.

I think it all depends on the level of healthy. He's going to need to play some sort of prove it contract before he gets a big LT payday. If he is fully healthy I expect someone will offer him a contract as a tackle, but it won't be the top 5 contact we were expecting to pay if he hadn't gotten hurt.

Icky has never really had the lateral quickness to be an consistently efficient pass blocking LT. I see him being able to slide inside to guard and thrive there where power is relied on more than side to side movement. It's not like pro bowl level guards make chump change and he has/had the power and short range lateral movement to be a dominant guard.

I think we played the odds. While not a guaranteed career killer, it's highly possible he can never play LT again. If it was an ACL tear it may have played out differently.

I thknk bringing in a new OC also had to do with Canales being extremely slow recognizing what was happening on the field. He couldn't be HC and OC effectively and it showed.

Not really if McVeigh thinks he's the future at QB. Sit him a year, let him learn behind Stafford. Rams have one more run with him as QB. They're taking a shot again.

I liked him when he was at Michigan because I'm a Wolverine homer. After that...

I haven't been a fan of his for a very long time, not that i ever really was. He seems to love the power, not the sport. It's more about the money and the experience has suffered greatly IMO.