[CanuckRightWinger]

Ram 2019 Draftee David Edwards rejoins his former OL Coach Aaron Kromer, as he signed Contract with the Buffalo Bills today.
When asked by a local WKBW-TV reporter if he remembered his time with Coach Kromer back in Los Angeles, David Edwards answered:
"Yeah, I remember it......but I signed anyway!"


In other Ram news...
Per OverTheCap, the Rams have reworked Brian Allen's Contract freeing up $3million.
The injury prone OC now counts for $3.2M against our 2023 Cap versus the $6.2M before.

So that means Allen stays for 2023, and probably 2024.

Allen must have pictures of Pastoors with a goat!

Hard to believe our intrepid Ram Scouts haven't been able to find a bigger, better & more durable OC since that snakebit 2018 Draft when we picked Allen, and that other injury prone OL Noteboom.....

....and precious little else.

[Elvis]

Allen must have pictures of Pastoors with a goat!

How Brian Allen was ever named a 2021 ProBowl Alternate has got to do with some secret video of some 2021 ProBowl voting officials....

Brian Allen Corleone!

Do you think Stafford woke up with a horse head in his bed when he decided to say stuff like this:

“He thinks like me, which is great," Stafford said Wednesday. "He thinks like the quarterback and sees things the way I see them. He’s making protection calls as I’m thinking them and saying them.”

[actionjack]

On a separate note, we dont know the money yet, but Gaines only signed a 1 year deal.
Why on earth would you do that. Hmmmm

[CanuckRightWinger]

I never said Brian Allen is dumb at making smart in-game OL calls. I don't doubt the truth & sincerity in Matthew Stafford's compliment on Allen's brainpower....

I just notice things like NoPush at PointOfAttack....and how Sean BigCajones McVay risked the Lombardi on Cooper Kupp's 4th Quarter end-around versus the Bengals in SBLVI....
due to zero confidence in getting the required ONE YARD up the middle!

Hey, we won the SB with BA at OC. Yup.
Hey, we won the SB with Bobby Evans on the SBLVI Roster too IIRC.

[actionjack]

And now he's a Bill (back with Aaron Kromer):

Maybe a comp pick, have to see what Gaines contract was...

[Elvis]

Hey, we won the SB with BA at OC. Yup.
Hey, we won the SB with Bobby Evans on the SBLVI Roster too IIRC.

LOL, Allen started 16 regular season games and all 4 post season games, pro bowl alternate, earned himself an extension. He was a major contributor.

I know you're not a fan but give the man his due. He didn't ride the bench all year like Bobby Evans...

[Elvis]

New Rams TE Hunter Long ready to make an impact, show full skillset

Mar 23, 2023
Stu Jackson
Staff Writer

Tight end Hunter Long admitted getting traded to the Rams caught him by surprise.

A month earlier, he was hoping he had done enough to earn an expanded role with the Miami Dolphins, and was prepared to attack the offseason accordingly with the team that drafted him 81st overall in the third round of the 2021 NFL Draft.

As the shock begins to subside, he's ready to do as much as he can to maximize his time in Los Angeles and looking forward to the opportunity.

"Definitely, it was a surprise for me, but I'm really excited for it," Long told theRams.com. "Really excited to join the Rams, really excited to get out there and start working with the coaching staff. Coach (Nick) Caley's a great tight end coach they just brought in, so I'm really excited to start working with him. But yeah, just excited for the opportunity. It's a great opportunity for me and excited to take advantage of it."

While the Rams are a new team for Long, they have a familiar face on staff in Caley, who interviewed Long several times during the pre-draft process in 2021.

"We've talked a bunch. He's coached a couple of other guys that I know, and they've all had great things to say about him," Long said. "I've heard nothing but great things about him. And obviously, we've talked for probably a couple hours on Zoom calls through the draft process, so I have some familiarity with him."

Long has one catch for eight yards in 16 games through his first two NFL seasons – and that catch came during his 2021 rookie season – but as is always the case with stats, context is important.

Upon his arrival in Miami, Long joined a tight end room that already included multiple experienced players in Mike Gesicki (a 2018 second-round pick by the Dolphins), Durham Smythe (2018 fourth-round pick by the Dolphins), Adam Shaheen (acquired by the Dolphins in a trade with the Bears during the summer of 2020, prior to his fourth NFL season) and Cethan Carter (signed a 3-year contract with the Dolphins in March 2021, entering what would be his fifth NFL season).

In 2022, the Dolphins changed coaching staffs, and Long had more of a blocking role. It wasn't necessarily a reflection of his full skillset, just what he was asked to do and something he did in order to help the team be successful.

"I came into kind of a tricky situation. I came into a tight end room that already had five tight ends, and three established tight ends," Long said. "As a rookie, my role was with a rookie role and kind of plugged in where I could and do I what could. This last year, I definitely carved out a bigger role for myself. Unfortunately, dealt with some injuries early on, and kind of picked up steam later in the season when I was able to get over those injuries. I was definitely in more of a blocking role this year, but that was not because I can't run routes and catch the ball, you know? I'm as team-guy as they come, and whatever the team needs to do to win games and help the team be successful, I'm gonna do and do to the best of my ability. So that's all I was asked to do, and I tried to excel at that, but that's obviously not my whole game."

[Elvis]

It's actually kind of amusing/sad that the Rams have so little to hype right now. There's a reason the RFU header image hasn't changed in a while. Nothing is happening...

[PARAM]

It's actually kind of amusing/sad that the Rams have so little to hype right now. There's a reason the RFU header image hasn't changed in a while. Nothing is happening...

Like somebody once said, "we're gonna lose every game from now until September!!"

But yeah, being rabid fans we want something to celebrate. You expect when trades and releases such as we've seen, come down, there's another side to that. Restructuring Allen saved 3 mil. We're now at about 14.......just waiting for free agency to burn itself out. Then we'll sign a couple of guys, have a wonderful draft and the clouds will have passed.

[actionjack]

It's actually kind of amusing/sad that the Rams have so little to hype right now. There's a reason the RFU header image hasn't changed in a while. Nothing is happening...

Sounds like the Rams wont make any FA signings as they dont want to lose any of the comp picks they have gained. So i expect we wont sign anyone until after the draft where those signings dont impact the comp picks.

The draft is much more interesting than in the past few years, but that isnt really a good sign lol. April 27th cant come quick enough.