Los Angeles Rams of Anaheim thread

Lol

Originally posted by ArizonaBlue:

If I can make any non goofy comments here. And I'm silly and playful, so won't happen often.

What Rams are doing, you would all love if it was your team.

Your judgement is against a div rival. I get it.

Rams have been bottom scum forever.

The changes have been fast. From what I've read here: locker room will implode!!!!

Too many egos!

Paying for FAs!

Goff is a puppet!!!

No cap left!!!!

Did I miss an insult?

Originally posted by crabman82:

Originally posted by SisterFister:

Originally posted by WINiner:

Originally posted by ArizonaBlue:
https://twitter.com/vcsjoecurley/status/1035564850615791616?s=21

Just to head off those "future cap jail" tweets, Rams were $58m under the cap for 2019 per @Jason_OTC. Don't know next year's AD cap number yet, but even after subtracting Donald's $22.5m AAV from that figure, the Rams would have more cap room in 2019 than 20 NFL teams.

I think it'd be more relevant to provide a multi year outlook, but yeah they are not in danger of immediate cap health issues.

Right. But what this guy fails to mention is Joyner, Suh, Brown, Saffold...all free agents. Draft class will cost $10 million. Rest of roster needs filled out. Good luck keeping everyone.

U never keep every single player, but so far they have a done a good job keeping their top priorities there. Plus they added talent through fa and trade. The assumption they wont be able to draft a guy to help replenish whatever talent leaves is also funny. As niner fans we're biased so many just say good luck keeping everyone. But when u take an honest look at it, they are actually doing a good job knocking out these deals one at a time.

With Donald signed long term that team looks scary. There's more than a few Rams on my fantasy teams.

Originally posted by WINiner:

With Donald signed long term that team looks scary. There's more than a few Rams on my fantasy teams.

As there should be.

This is the first year I can't take them late and win my league.

Originally posted by Morgan49:

#thinskin

Me? I've been posting here for 5 years or so.

I'd say you all have way thinner skin than I do.

But, hey. Let's go!

I saw the complaint in the Hawk thread that there are no 12s here.

I've been fairly consistent posting here since Rams were in STL. I posted here while Rams sucked.

I am not new to this board.

Originally posted by ArizonaBlue:

Me? I've been posting here for 5 years or so.

I'd say you all have way thinner skin than I do.

But, hey. Let's go!

Most of us have followed the Niners through steeper peaks and valleys than any Rams fan ever has. We've seen dramatic rises, and harrowing, gut wrenching collapses before.

This Rams team is exhibiting the classic overnight rags to riches story, added to it the move back to LA glamor. Underneath all that pizzazz is a rather shallow patina—their stockpile of talent is due mainly to being s**tty for much of the late 2000s-mid 2010s, so consistent high draft picks (Niners went thru the same, 2005-2011). Now they're writing big checks on FAs and re-signings, which most of us Niner fans have seen before: there were the big spending sprees in the late 90's that got the Niners into salary cap hell, the tiny McCloughan splash in 2007 when we all thought the playoff drought was gonna end, and the run under Harbaalke when we thought we had another dynasty on our hands. Coachwise, we've run the gamut of blustering incompetents, to young "geniuses", and from those who had a measured approach, to those who made a seemingly big splash right away only to fizzle and burn out.

My point is most serious Niner fans have seen and experienced it all before. So color most of us skeptical of this premature accolade some would accord the Rams. So far all they have to show for this recent run is an 11-5 season, one wild card round exit, 9 months of no live snaps for their starting QB and RB, and a whole lotta $$$ spent on frankly only marginal improvement (for the amount of $$$ invested, they should've bolstered the team a LOT more). Right now, they're seemingly the walking embodiment of you're stereotypical blasé "California" team, going through the motions and expecting the NFCW title and a playoff berth to just be handed to them. In life, the toughest lessons learnt are when you believe your own hype and then get your ass handed to you. The Rams are ripe and due to learn this sooner rather than later. They benefited from the confluence of Seattle's overdue collapse, the Niners 3rd straight regime change/reboot and the Cards' annual mediocrity, to finally have their bust-out year. If they think resting on those laurels and exhibiting their recent unorthodox preseason approach is a recipe for success, IMO the Rams are in for a rude awakening.

Lastly, I live in SoCal and these so-called Rams fans are currently a joke. Their biggest topic is usually a debate in which old school uniform is better and how often the Rams should wear them. I wouldn't call them as bad as an expansion team fan base since the team had been in LA for almost 5 decades prior, but being away for an entire generation in StL, it might as well be an expansion. I'd say trying to talk in-depth, Xs and Os football with 85-90% of Rams fans in SoCal is a futile attempt. They might tread water for a few minutes, but anything more than that and it's like talking football with a novice. They'll eventually get there (probably after a decade) and success and a renewed rivalry with the Niners will accelerate their re-education.

Originally posted by ArizonaBlue:

Originally posted by Morgan49:

#thinskin

Me? I've been posting here for 5 years or so.

I'd say you all have way thinner skin than I do.

But, hey. Let's go!

Lol

Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:

Most of us have followed the Niners through steeper peaks and valleys than any Rams fan ever has. We've seen dramatic rises, and harrowing, gut wrenching collapses before.

This Rams team is exhibiting the classic overnight rags to riches story, added to it the move back to LA glamor. Underneath all that pizzazz is a rather shallow patina—their stockpile of talent is due mainly to being s**tty for much of the late 2000s-mid 2010s, so consistent high draft picks (Niners went thru the same, 2005-2011). Now they're writing big checks on FAs and re-signings, which most of us Niner fans have seen before: there were the big spending sprees in the late 90's that got the Niners into salary cap hell, the tiny McCloughan splash in 2007 when we all thought the playoff drought was gonna end, and the run under Harbaalke when we thought we had another dynasty on our hands. Coachwise, we've run the gamut of blustering incompetents, to young "geniuses", and from those who had a measured approach, to those who made a seemingly big splash right away only to fizzle and burn out.

My point is most serious Niner fans have seen and experienced it all before. So color most of us skeptical of this premature accolade some would accord the Rams. So far all they have to show for this recent run is an 11-5 season, one wild card round exit, 9 months of no live snaps for their starting QB and RB, and a whole lotta $$$ spent on frankly only marginal improvement (for the amount of $$$ invested, they should've bolstered the team a LOT more). Right now, they're seemingly the walking embodiment of you're stereotypical blasé "California" team, going through the motions and expecting the NFCW title and a playoff berth to just be handed to them. In life, the toughest lessons learnt are when you believe your own hype and then get your ass handed to you. The Rams are ripe and due to learn this sooner rather than later. They benefited from the confluence of Seattle's overdue collapse, the Niners 3rd straight regime change/reboot and the Cards' annual mediocrity, to finally have their bust-out year. If they think resting on those laurels and exhibiting their recent unorthodox preseason approach is a recipe for success, IMO the Rams are in for a rude awakening.

Lastly, I live in SoCal and these so-called Rams fans are currently a joke. Their biggest topic is usually a debate in which old school uniform is better and how often the Rams should wear them. I wouldn't call them as bad as an expansion team fan base since the team had been in LA for almost 5 decades prior, but being away for an entire generation in StL, it might as well be an expansion. I'd say trying to talk in-depth, Xs and Os football with 85-90% of Rams fans in SoCal is a futile attempt. They might tread water for a few minutes, but anything more than that and it's like talking football with a novice. They'll eventually get there (probably after a decade) and success and a renewed rivalry with the Niners will accelerate their re-education.

I'm spending most of my time in the Bay Area these days.

I'd say I know more about your team then most fans I meet.

And, you have not discussed Rams w me.

Nothing you said applies.

Like I said: let's go!

As to rams fans. We kinda are the best.

I've been here a long time. I'm also stuck spending a lot of time im the Bay Area. I've yet to meet one single fan who knows more about YOUR team than I do.

I've tried.

Rams fans demanding respect like they haven't been one of the worst ran organizations in football since the 1990s outside of a few years with the greatest show on turf, and their coach didn't pull a b***h move by benching his starters in the last game of the season because he was scared they would get their asses kicked by a team that wasn't going to the playoffs, and it didn't even matter anyways because they got blown out in the first round Atlanta Falcons at home of all teams, btw good job at being the first NFC West team since 2004 to fail to win a playoff game! Sure congratulations on the great offseason you guys better be super bowl contenders this season or else you better be prepared to be nonstop mocked. There have been plenty of teams in the past that stockpile on talent but couldn't do anything once the season started, 2000, Redskins, 2011 Eagle, the Buccaneers the last couple years. Will the 2018 Rams be added to that list?, we'll find out soon enough. But don't come onto rivals forms with all this bravado when your new "super team" hasn't even played a game yet

#insecure
#thinskinned
#smallpenissyndrome

I'm not going to say they will flop, but it will be interesting to see how all the new faces fit in. This isn't like other sports where you just change a bunch of players and hit the ground running.

They were completely healthy for the most part, that evens out over time as well as other metrics such as TOs STs etc

They are the favorites and should be, just saying.

Originally posted by FL9er:
I'm not going to say they will flop, but it will be interesting to see how all the new faces fit in. This isn't like other sports where you just change a bunch of players and hit the ground running.

They were completely healthy for the most part, that evens out over time as well as other metrics such as TOs STs etc

They are the favorites and should be, just saying.

And then there is the case of the Eagles winning the last SB with a bunch of FAs

Originally posted by ArizonaBlue:

As to rams fans. We kinda are the best.

I've been here a long time. I'm also stuck spending a lot of time im the Bay Area. I've yet to meet one single fan who knows more about YOUR team than I do.

I've tried.

Why do care so much about our team?