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The fact that anybody would get upset over someone not standing for a song... is the most ridiculous thing. How does it affect you?

I think the big keys are to tackle well, pressure ryan, and stop their run game.

Their secondary had a very bad day. He had 4 for 60 in their second game. They also shut out the falcons in 2015, and gave up 13 points in the 2nd meeting.

Can't turn it over - need to keep them off the field and win on 3rd downs.

I don't think that was his zone. He was looking behind like three times to make sure the safety was there

Was e under pressure? Looked like he didn't step into it

I guess...? They have a DT who will hold out, their top CB, top WR, and starting MLB are all UFAs. They have cap room, but not a ton of picks and only 1 tag to guarantee keeping any of them. The players who are "high priced and no longer key pieces" don't have talented depth ready to step in because they've spent so many picks to acquire players. So cutting them just creates holes. Quinn and Brockers are both still very good, and i wouldn't want to lose both barron and ogletree. That's like the entire guts of the defense. They already tanked after dumping bradford in 2015. Then Drafted their rookie in 2016. They're essentially on year 3, and we're on year 1. So they should be better...? They're bringing in talent and vets, we're shedding them for picks.

Trumaine johsnons is a UFA, Ogletree is a UFA, and Donald will hold out again for a huge raise. I don't know that they can even pay watkins let alone tag him. We beat them last year, and their defense was actually playing well then. Their passing game seems improved, but its a young QB and i'd expect us to nail down the run game and pressure him.

We traded watkins... so i guess we dumped him. Woods was a UFA and got overpaid based on his accomplishments in years 1-4. So sick of hearing about these trades!! It's over - move on. As for Rob Ryan - you're a failure. Get on with your life - the NFL dream is over for you.

We found plenty of cheap young players who can play - lawson, poyer, white. We're giving guys opportunities - humber, gaines, jones. We're accumulating picks - trading watkins, darby, ragland. You don't always build a winning culture by going 1-15. They've added a bunch of picks, and are trying to both have ammo to move around the draft, but also inject a bunch of young talent into the team in a single year.

20% of our cap is out this week. Wonderful!

White's been pretty good so far too at pick 27!

They felt that the offer provided was too good to pass up. That to me indicates that they weren't franchising him, and didn't see him signing an extension prior to hitting the market (since we passed on his 5th year option already there was probably a 0% chance he negotiate during the year). We're rebuilding, and don't have a QB. Does a WR make that big of a difference this year? Not really. Could he next year? Sure - but there was a good chance he wasn't here next year anyway. There's a decent chance he still hits the open market. Ogletree, and Trumaine Johnson are both UFAs too. I guarantee the players behind them are not as good as Woods/austin/kupp...

We had some stinkers the last 2 years too :-D We're consistently inconsistent

Franchise tag will be around 16 million for a WR. We will have around 35 million if we cut TT.... The following starters are UFAs: R.Humber J.Matthews K.Williams L.Johnson P.Brown E.Gaines Almost 20% (22% of projected 2018 cap) of our salary cap is tied up in 2 players - who won't even be playing tomorrow. Most people would look at our roster next year and see --- No QB, need to draft one this year Old RB, need to get younger there 1 WR, bunch of scrubs LBs, we don't have any really next year except lorax We need every pick we got, and we need to keep costs down while we ride out the terrible glenn/dareus/clay contracts.

So what... they spent a ton of picks on their QB already. Their roster has some top end talent, and they want to try and maximize it and get into the playoffs. I don't blame them, they're new to LA and have been bad for so long that nobody cares to go watch them. We on the other hand don't have our QB, we have a lot of overpaid guys, and are clearly rebuilding. A talented WR isn't putting us over a hump, and we probably don't franchise him because it hamstrings your cap while you work on a negotiation. So he probably walks, and in order to get the comp pick you have to be a little less active in Free agency. We got a better pick and a player for it. I don't know that the rams franchise him either... their best CB, WR, and MLB are all UFAs....

At the same time... i do think that we could beat them? Like they'll have a better record this year - but i think we beat them H2H. Pressure on a young QB, and stopping gurley would hold their O back.

Bring em all back - do we make the playoffs...? No. Do the rams make it this year? Probably not. Donald want's an extension, sammy's a FA, Trumaine Johnson's a FA, Ogletree's a FA. They'll have cap space... but not if they re-sign those guys, and if they don't their roster is paper thin. The jury is out on Goff being the man as well. If he's good - they'll have a shot at playoffs.

We don't know what the extension negotiations were like (if they occurred at all), and we decided not to exercise the 5th year likely because of issues with injuries. If you don't think that our training staff and doctors looked him over before they made that decision you are wrong. Truth be told - they very likely weren't going to franchise him because it ties up a lot of the cap and he was going to hit the open market. He seems like the type of player who wants his money now, In exchange for 1 year of his service we would POSSIBLY get a 3rd round comp pick in 2019. Instead we got a 2018 2nd round pick, and Gaines who is currently starting at CB. I look at it like this - we weren't a WR away from a super bowl this year. If you don't see him with the organization in 2018 and beyond... it makes sense to maximize value in your rebuild. They didn't pick up the option because they had injury concerns. The team dr's probably looked it over and were unsure if he'd have ongoing issues. The trade came later when we received an offer to build the team quicker for hopefully long term success.

How does this dude have any money left to sue the patriots?

True - forgot about him. His goal is the boundary, with maybe a man to beat.

You don't need to be a running back to be the pitch back on an option. High schoolers can do it. It's not about cutbacks or vision, its about speed - so tate or clay would be my choices.

And you can use that aggressiveness against him if you screen o'leary behind him with dawkins/cogs in front of him blocking.

Zone read - maybe use clay in motion as the pitch back behind taylor on an option. Or have McCoy follow for the pitch while Tolbert is the handoff back. You can do it from pistol too with Tolbert behind and McCoy to the left or right of taylor. Taylor reads the LB on the pitch, and the end for the hand off...

They are a bit of a mess as a team in LA. No one will go to their games until they're good, their best player skipped camp and wants a dareus deal, their qb isn't very good yet, they pay their receivers a ton, and will pay them more if they extend Sammy. They're going to be cap strapped soon.