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Rams Pare Down Practices for Minicamp

Myles Simmons
Rams Insider
@MylesASimmons

The Rams have gotten through the beginning of the end of their offseason program, running through the first day of minicamp.

As head coach Sean McVay said last week, the mandatory minicamp is a time for the club to somewhat emulate a training camp day — going through meetings, a walk-thru, and practice all in one day.

But McVay noted there is a twist to that. Given the time of year — the Rams still have months before the Week 1 matchup against the Raiders — and all there’s yet to do, the head coach decided to pare down practice for the next two days.

“Really, I think with the amount of things we feel we’ve accomplished throughout the offseason program and knowing still how much work needs to be done with training camp and then leading into that first game, we really felt like looking at it we’ll get a chance to get two good walk-thrums,” McVay said. “We’ve really emphasized the individual work where you kind of limit the risk of injury knowing that it is football and there’s going to be some things that you can’t avoid. But we wanna try to be smart about wrapping up this offseason program the right way.”

The emphasis on individual work was readily apparent on Tuesday afternoon, with the first-team offense and defense only working against one another during 7-on-7 drills. In fact, the first-team offense and first-team defense did not do any 11-on-11 work on Tuesday — whether against the scout team or fellow starters.

McVay also noted that aside from defensive tackle Aaron Donald, the whole team was in attendance for the first day of minicamp.

“It was a great turnout,” McVay said. “We’ll get a lot of good work done.”

But there’s also been a change of plans for Los Angeles third day of minicamp on Thursday. Instead of a practice in the morning, McVay said the club will go down to the Rams’ future home of the Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District in Inglewood.

“We all know how committed Mr. Kroenke is to this project, what an excellent job he’s done being invested and kind of being able to help put a product like that in this great city. We’re excited about that and we want to be able to have our players down there and get a chance to see that. So, we’ll use that last day of the minicamp to go to Hollywood Park and the Playa Vista [stadium preview] center.”

The visit will mark a fitting end for what has been a productive offseason program. The players will then have a few weeks off before the team reconvenes in Irvine for training camp.

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10 Observations from Day 1 of Mandatory Minicamp

Myles Simmons
Rams Insider
@MylesASimmons

1) With the beginning of minicamp on Tuesday, the Rams went through a walk-thru in the morning, then had regular practice in the afternoon following a lunch break. The club started with special teams drills before the rest of the squad went through a stretch prior to individual drills.

2) It’s a pretty minor detail, but the Rams got new scoreboards for practice. They’re bigger and easier to see from any part of the field. There’s a large clock, a play clock, and segment section on the scoreboard to the left. And then an offensive tally and defensive tally to the right for compete periods.

3) The defense began individual drills with each position group — defensive line, linebackers, and secondary — going through takeaway stations. One station simulated strip-sacks, with the defensive players rushing a QB dummy, hitting the ball out, and recovering the fumble. Another practiced the proper technique to dive on the football. And the last simulated a defensive player ripping the ball out from an offensive ballcarrier.

4) As always, head coach Sean McVay was active on the practice field during individual drills, covering different receivers on certain routes — especially Robert Woods, Brandin Cooks, and Cooper Kupp. McVay also would ask for different routes from the various wide receivers in the group, with routes changing for the X, Z, and F positions.

5) Los Angeles began its 7-on-7 drills with the starters on offense going against the starters on defense. It was a move-the-ball period with the offense pushing the tempo and going no huddle. Quarterback Jared Goff had a few nice completions to wide receivers Brandin Cooks and Robert Woods. He also fit the ball in a tight window to tight ends Tyler Higbee and Gerald Everett.

6) During 7-on-7 with the second group of offense and defense, cornerback Troy Hill went up to make a nice pass deflection on a deep pass from Sean Mannion to wide receiver Mike Thomas. Hill and Thomas were down the middle of the field, with the corner effectively keeping up stride for stride until the ball arrived.

7) As McVay noted after practice, the Rams kept things a bit lighter for the first team offense and defense, with neither group going through 11-on-11 drills on Tuesday. The second group, however, did go through a full speed 11-on-11 period.

8) That period began with running back Malcolm Brown ripping off a nice run to the right side of the field. Brown has quietly had a productive offseason program, working as running back Todd Gurley’s backup.

9) Wide receiver Fred Brown ended the 11-on-11 period by making a nice diving catch on the left side of the field from quarterback Brandon Allen. While the Rams have a talented receiving corps, Brown will have a chance to compete for a role on the 53-man roster during training camp.

10) Los Angeles ended Tuesday’s session with Sam Ficken kicking field goals. As McVay has said during the offseason program, L.A. will continue to bring along kicker Greg Zuerlein slowly so as to not risk any setbacks.

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