…is Smith at RT. But that feeling is oddly crushed because of how well (yes, well) Alex Barron has played. The video highlight of Dwight Freeney zipping by Smith doesn’t help either, but he IS the LT of the future, so idk how this is going to work. Tha being said, I almost don’t want to see an adjustment to our O-Line after they played so well the last game.

He gets a B+ from me because a lesser man would’ve broken down into tears with this level of talent.

Even though thiers a possibilty that this might be our only win and have a worse record then last year. I think letting go some of these players that plagued us in the past and all the new faces he brought in have done alot of good for this franchise. His game decisions im still undecided about and i really think they should be more agressive and demand to see what thier players can do and see if they’re worth keeping around. Still another half to play lets give em hell

This team is bereft of talent, but I have really questioned some of the play-calling which goes to his choices of OC and DC. A few innovative plays may’ve won the Redskin and Jaguar games. 3-5 would’ve been a solid “A”

Here’s the way I think Spags is thinking. He knows full well that this team is NOT devoid of talent. In fact, many of them have so much ability that a Rookie can and does over-run the play. To much juice flowing, bad angles, etc. All that is coachable. Spags knows that the Rookies often blow a play for a vet, by showing their hand to soon. He keeps everything toned down and a little slower as a teaching tool as much as injecting Look-React rather than Kneejerk or think-analyze. Spags doesn’t go for win-win at all cost for this year. He has said so many times. This year we lose, next year we win.

I’ve looked into this quite a bit lately. I think he’s doing everything I hoped he’d do before the season. I think he has handled the highest priorities in an “A” manner. I think the assistants issue cannot be graded to severely yet, not enough to drop him to a B, but that could end up being his weakest area and change his grade 2 months from now.

He’s built the best he could with what he has, he has them believing in the program which is HUGE, and there are decsisions left to make about what to do with certain players that will definitley have impact on his end of season grade….but so far I feel he has accomplished the highest priorities at a level above B.

In a seperate thread I lamented that the Defense needs to be lead by the most talented players getting it done on the field…..leading with their play….and the Detroit game was clear evidence that is not a problem on offense.

3K, Coachconners, Vanram, TackleBox and others who comment on turfshowtimes. You guys are brilliant i was just browsing through other forums and none of them have the in depth coverage nor the fan base like we do. Just thought id give a shout out to the future dynasty ram team and the fellow fans that report it and analyze it better then anyone in the business period!

I think that Spags’s coaching philosophy has been worth an A+ grading for the simple reason that he is getting his players on board. I believe that he prepares the team hard evry week for the games but I think that he’s not trying to get some quick success. I don’t think he’s looking at other coaches like Josh McDaniel or rookie coaches from last year who had quick succes(I.e Tony Sparano) and trying to just get us rams fans a quick fix. He’s determined to not only build this team for a future playoff team, but a dominate team in the league. He knows his team is lacking the talent on both sides of the ball but he’s bringing in character guys and a group of youn g players who will be clicking on the same cylinders that creates chemistry with one another.

The only thing I would have to say negatively is that he needs to veto some of the calls that shurmer is calling. Especially in the redzone. When we get into the redzone, with the current team we have, we need to give it to #39. A few of those calls and we win against Jax and wash

In previous years, an injury at ANY position threw the team out of sync and timing. Under spags player re-locations, only one or two injured players bothered us at all, and sometimes it was even an upgrade. Spags is building a method of beef as a [rotation team] instead of having a [second string] for injured players. I’ m diggin it! GO RAMS!!!