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Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
McVay has a totally different kind of quarterback in LA than Cousins. It's not the same offense he is running. Plus he is relying on his great RB a lot more. It's same coach but not really comparable. Cousins does certain stuff very well and McVay took advantage of it. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
One thing the Rams are not doing is throwing a lot of screens and such. There are a lot of short passes but it seemed to me, and I didn't watch all their games, that the Skins with Cousins threw a lot of quick WR screens and two yard passes and short slants and outs because Cousins is very good at that. Goff is a much different quarterback. They are rarely throwing those balls to Sammy. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I think he is a pretty good part of their offense only because he is the guy the defense moves toward. A lot of passes when they show the replay two guys are on him. Goff is taking the easier play very often because Kupp and Woods are being left to roam free across the middle. The whole thing is working so they don't need to rely on him. If teams change how they play him and the Rams and worry about Woods and Kupp and the middle more, or play eight in the box to stop Gurley, he is going to be the guy that runs free. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
That's yet to be determined. I think Sammy would have helped them tremendously even as a decoy or three targets a game. I think Gillislee would have helped them. They have been able to squeak out wins but that is tricky business. The pass defense is likely more like it was the last two not the first four, when everything was going right. Any reasonable person knew we weren't going to go the whole season giving up four total passing TDs. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I've watch d every game. Virtually every single play the opposing team has a guy in press coverage against Watkins. Right at the line. I won't say at all he is double covered every play because he is not. But they almost always move the safeties to his side. That said, the Rams coach, McVay, is very clever with his formations and plays and play calling. And Gurley has been excellent. They have been moving down the field incrementally and making first downs and winning games for the most part. Kupp has been taking advantage of being ignored or allowed to run free in the middle. Woods has been open a lot. There is no need to really change what they are doing much. Goff has missed Sammy deep when he was open a few times but they are not targeting him and they don't really have to. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Actually, mostly he is winning with their top three free agents, Hyde and Poyer and Hauschka, their #1 pick Tre White, Brown and Alexander at LB (with help from Humber), Hughes and Kyle up front, Tyrod, Shady and Clay and Incognito and Glenn when healthy on offense. Those have been their performers. The role players have filled in as cogs rather nicely, for sure. But the core players are the ones performing. -
What role did Marrone play in this trade?
Kelly the Dog replied to Captain_Quint's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Pretty sure you absorb all clauses. A bunch of us expect a reworked contract either soon or after the season. -
What role did Marrone play in this trade?
Kelly the Dog replied to Captain_Quint's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
They didn't get along at Syracuse. They brought him to the Bills. They said we get along great now. Then they quickly didn't get along. -
What role did Marrone play in this trade?
Kelly the Dog replied to Captain_Quint's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
"He played great for me. I can get him to return to form. I challenge McD and Brandon Beane to an IQ test. I have the best words." -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
While that may be true, the trade deadline is a week or so away I think. Teams could get desperate and offer more. According to Beane, which I don't really believe, the offer just came up and they took it. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
While I don't think anyone here, even Dareus apologists and haters of the trade believe that he is worth the money we are paying him right now, IMO in the middle of a season that just doesn't matter. Every year, in general terms, about a third of the players on any team outplay what they are making, a third are about you get what you pay for, and the last third are underperforming. Tre is way outplaying his contract. Humber and Milano were outplaying theirs. Nick OLeary is outplaying. Hyde and Poyer and Gaines are outplaying. Dareus is way underperforming. Zay is underperforming. Miller is underperforming. But it all adds up to the team in total. You can say sure, he's being paid way too much but you're not going to decrease that in the season (outside of trading him) just like you're not going to give Tre a huge raise. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Kind of liberating I would imagine. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
And fans can gripe about production and effort and off the field stuff all they want, but other teams worry about Dareus and game plan for him and double team him all the time, and they are now going to be doing this against Jax.. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Yep. It's quite obvious. Although, for example, each of the draft picks, plus Matthews and Gaines, plus anyone they have been signing to the PS fits this hard working, no nonsense, no baggage, overachiever, team player character guy. My only worry is that ignoring talent for all those kinds of players may not be a recipe for a championship team. In every sport teams that win have a couple stars on them as we have discussed before. We have one. Shady. We could just as easily be a team that gets to the playoffs all the time but cannot get over the hump because we lack sheer talent. I don't know of any team in any sport any year that has done it this way and won it all. Not saying it's impossible but we have to wait and see. Usually stars can be divas. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
His salary is deducted from the dead cap for both years. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Fwiw, raw stats of "tackles" for a DT mean less than zero. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Yup. Dareus is a unique character. I don't think he's the jerk people make him out to be. I do think you can't excuse his behavior anymore. I do think that his teammates like him more than don't. It's possible that we will be better without him with all overachievers. That has yet to be determined. And who knows whether Dareus will perform for Todd Wash, the DC of the Jags. I know nothing about him except they kept him because his D was top ten last year. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I know that to be true and what they are thinking, that doesn't mean I have to believe or agree with it. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
We have had him for a decade and no playoffs!* *One of the only other nearly as ridiculous things as TB was a sixth rounder, "We didn't win with Joe Blow so how good could he have been?!, -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
We better hope to God that Dareus doesn't play well. If this sixth rounder turns into a fifth, we lose our shot at Tom Brady. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Perhaps. But even when he is a tub of goo he is such a big tub that no one runs up the middle on us, and haven't the entire year really. Other guys have surely helped but he's pretty stout even when not making a lot of plays. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
When I heard of the trade a couple hours ago, I immediately thought we are about to hear a trade, like a sixth round pick for Terrelle Pryor. Similar to the losing Watkins and Darby, gaining Matthews and Gaines idea. -
Dareus traded to Jacksonville!
Kelly the Dog replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
When you put it like that, what a steal!!