Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

[the butch]

Expected new Huddle babe pics when I clicked.  Needless to say, I was disappoint once I was here.   -_-

 

 

 

 

 

[KendrickPanther]

That girl is ripe for the picking.

 

 

This is why the Rams are cutting guys:

They turned 1 pick into 8. The Panthers don't do things like that. In fact we rolled our 7th rounder into the Bene Benwikere pick. 

 

In the past three drafts the Rams have drafted 28 players.

 

The Panthers have drafted 18. We've also traded for Colin Jones and Greg Olsen with picks. They both met expectation for the pick conceded. We traded for Louis Murphy as well who gave us 1 season of reserve football.

 

But for all the draft picks the Rams have acquired, their starting Quarterback is still Shaun Hill. Their fan base has to be pulling hair out. They have a Ferrari being driven by a guy with a learners permit. 

 

[B.BERSIN]

GOOD for us. BAD for Rams

Les Snead is one overrated GM. Man suck ass. No one had as many draft picks as he had over the years. Look what he've been able to do. $HIT!

Can't even draft a QB too.

Bradford's hurt is not in his plan... But yeah he sucks at wasting that many picks.

•••Sent from my couch while fuging the Saints•••

[KendrickPanther]

I don't think you can say he wasted them all. He's drafted many bright prospects. But he doesn't have a quarterback.

[DaveThePanther2008]

The question should be.  Would you pick up any of those players they dropped?

 

 

[Mage]

The sixth round pick and all four 7th round picks of the Rams were cut. Not good enough.

 

 

The Panthers keep all of their picks and also three UDFA......

 

 

hmmmmmm

 

That has a lot to do with the fact they drafted 11 players and we only took 6.

[MHS831]

We have had ZERO cap space to bring in free agents or to re-sign our own.  I expect that to continue until the year 4 A.H. (After Hurney).  Fortunately, our GM has an eye for bargain-basement talent.

 

I would also like to thank THE Ohio State University for providing 2 undrafted free agents to our roster.  When has one school every done that for one NFL team? 

[Sapper]

DG and RR want to save face on the draft I guess. We'll make some moves tho. Sam is roster worthy but probably freaked out some players. Which is so stupid and archaic. Getting King on the PS would give us options at WR if we need it.

[footballisasport]

I guess it really depends on the player. all things being equal it shouldnt matter where you are drafted but life is not equal

 

Yup...Just ask the Seahawks.

 

it's not just the talent. It's what u do with the talent that counts in the end. 

[caatfan]

I heard the Rams got 5 starters from the draft picks they got from the RG3 trade. Apples and oranges comparison.

[panthers55]

It is a good thing and a bad thing. Good Gettleman has an eye for talent. Bad because our cap issues keep us from bringing in a ton of veteran free agents to bolster the roster. We have to rely on the draft which means our coaches better be great teachers because we keeping having to develop guys like Captain or take vets like Ginn or Mitchell last year who leave for more money after being one year rentals. Are they on the roster because they are gems or because they are the best we could do for rookie minimum.

[MV%doe]

Yes having too many draft picks, can be a problem. 49ers and pats stock pile picks year after year, 49ers have done great, pats terrible. Depending on draft talent, most drafts fall fast after the fourth round. So having ten seventh rounders is mainly stockpiling fodder.

[KendrickPanther]

They had multiple 7th round compensatory picks. Probably because they had so much young talent they let veterans walk. Think Steven Jackson.

 

As far as Michael Sam. I think he is good enough to make an NFL roster. Just not ours or the Rams. We don't fit his skill set and we have so much depth Igo wants us to trade somebody.

[firstdayfan]

So I thought about this for a while and then looked around the interwebs for answers to this question.  It took me about 5 minutes to discover this interesting nugget, the seattle seahawks and denver broncos (two of the best teams in the league) have 7 rookies on their final rosters.

 

The Panthers have 8 rookies on their final rosters.  The Rams have 10 rookies on their final rosters.

 

So what is the answer to your question?  The answer is actually that its not a "thing" at all, just something that you happened to notice.  I think the thing that separates teams isn't which rookies make the team but instead what those rookies' roles on the team are.  Because just by a quick glance we have just as many rookies as the two best teams in the league, but the difference is that our rookies have higher expectations.  

 

That's what you should really be concerned with.  We have 2 rookies on offense that will start right away (one of which is already the best WR on the roster).  Another rookie will be the starting nickel back.  The broncos and seahawks combined only have 1 rookie that is penciled in as a starter.

 

I hope that in a year or two we begin to develop our own players much like good teams tend to do.  I think that is Gettlemen's plan and I think that so far he is doing a good job.  Years of wasted late round picks and two years without first rounders put this team in a much worse hole than the ridiculous contracts that Marty gave out ever did.