Maybe this really is his last season.
I certainly hope not, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Rams: (#13) 1st Round QB Ty Simpson
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I certainly hope not, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
bwdenverram
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Wow! Well have a good life. Buh bye.
McVay’s pissed because he wanted to add depth at another position that could help this year, and this pick is basically Les telling him “I will be here longer than you, and I’m not letting you leave with the cupboard bare”. Which, in Snead’s defense, almost happened after the ‘21 Super Bowl season! Like, I get it. I get Snead’s line of thinking. GMs do this all the time.
WestCoastRam
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Put me in the wait and see mode with Simpson, wasn't my first, second or third (... or 6th option) in the 1st but I'll trust McSnead with the selection but McVay's attitude does not sit well though I find it highly unlikely that Snead would make a pick in the 1st round that he didn't want. I think the more likely answer is that the first like three options the Rams attempted (trades) or wanted (guys falling to them) didn't materialize.
Picking Simpson had to be an option (most likely tonight) or they wouldn't have told Stafford.
Now at least I don’t need to worry about us wasting a Day 2 pick on Allar, Klab, Nuss, etc
WestCoastRam
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It honestly feels worse than when the Rams lost to the Pats in the Superbowl.
I had flashbacks of Vinatieri's kick when they announced his name.
Right? You can go back and forth on who wears the pants in the relationship, but there is zero f**king way that mcvay can't pull his weight on a first round qb
I don't think Les is the type of GM who shoves picks down his coach's throats, even if he had that power which I doubt he does. As I think the Rams are well aware that McVay is a rare head coach of quality and thus the power in this franchise. Keeping him happy is undoubtedly something that Les does very well.
As someone who didn't like the pick if I thought McVay didn't like it I would say so. But my read on it is Stafford probably wasn't too thrilled about the decision, when it could have been a weapon or lineman or defensive addition. So the last thing Coach is going to do is come to his presser and act all pumped up that they took a rookie QB in the first round who will be competing for backup duties.
Dude, YOU or I could be a backup if your view of a backup is a guy who will never play.
You draft Bennett to be a potential starter...otherwise just draft a dude in the 7th round and call it a day.
Pretty simple, even for you.
This is the type of pick that gets the front office fired or more rings.
A terrible run-game for Bama, sure, (even though Jam Miller will likely be a UDFA pickup), but I refuse to say that they had "terrible receivers"; not with Germie Bernard or Ryan Coleman-Williams (who will likely be a top-fifteen-pick next year if he rebounds and does what he did his freshman year). Isaiah Horton and Lotzeir Brooks looked good as well.
And Proctor just got selected with #12 overall. Parker Brailsford (center) and Jaedan Roberts (guard) will both likely be drafted. They may not have had the big-time O-line they've had in the past, but they weren't terrible. Had they all been terrible, there's no way they would've made the College Football Playoffs.
Simpson had less than Mendoza, but let's not say he had nothing.
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From the draft videos it seemed to me that Bennett was really Snead's guy as a cheap long-term backup.
Besides, he was the 128th player selected in that draft class.
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My guess is that has more to do with Stafford than anything else. If McVay didn't want Simpson we would not have taken Simpson.
WestCoastRam
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You are the one who said "impact player." And I proved your point by pointing out that we drafted the only impact player taken after we drafted Stetson Bennett in the late fourth round? Okay. Good to know. McVay spending a late fourth round pick on a backup is not remotely comparable to spending a top 15 pick on a QB.