I agree with some of his arguements… We needed a strong D draft, with a tackle and a WR added in… and we got little in return… J SMith will be ok.. Laurinaitis played in a good scheme at Ohio St., so is he Katzenmoyer or Hawk… Scott might be serviceable and we got no upgrade at WR… we had a chance to get better and we didn’t.. the good teams find players in rounds 3-7 and I don’t think we got the best value at each of our picks and according to Devaney we are not bringing in a vet WR … so this is our team this year… and yes every team in our division got better especially the Hawks and Cards.. I didn’t expect to make the playoffs this year but I expected more from our front office in this draft…

Our team is sticking true to the goals that they set out once Spags and Devaney teamed up. We are becoming a running team. We are drafting hard-working and high character guys who will hopefully lead this team. When we are a running team, we need an offensive tackle who can run-block, and Jason Smith is far better than a guy like Beatty or Loadholt.

We can’t afford taking risks like Mark Sanchez when we have gaping needs on our offensive line. If we took Sanchez, then he didn’t become the next Brett Farve like you were hoping, that not only sets us back next year but for the next three years; let alone we would have around $20 million a year tied to quarterbacks.

As for Chris Long, it takes a defensive lineman at least 2 years in the NFL to even begin to reach their potential. For instance, look at Mario Williams on the Texans. After 2 full years of mediocre play, he is just now reaching his potential and had a huge year last year.

Honestly, I think this draft class is great. We hopefully answered a lot of needs. We’re going to have bumps along the way, but this franchise is on it’s way up.

Looking at the players the Rams drafted. They didn’t have the luxory of going for the “best talent available” at many positions. Something that definitely played into the minds of Spags et al. was drafting players that WANT to play football. They are mean physical beasts that will help transform the Rams locker room. Laurinitis and Smith are just mean to others when playing, but also are smart and have that impeccable character that will make sure they are playing every game.

Granted there are definitely still holes that need to be filled. We NEED a WR that will go along with Avery and make plays across the middle. I would have loved to see the Rams take a Barden or Robiskie in the third to do that, but instead they drafted a big mean CB to press the Crabtree’s and Houshmanzedah’s. Also, the Rams are going to have to find a QB in training for when the Rams let loose on Bulger, but that can be taken care of next year when the QB draft class is ALOT deeper.

So, was the draft perfect, no, never is, but it was a great start to making this team meaner and tougher on the field and able to stay in games and win some!

I don’t mind Smith & Dorrel, but we needed more than 1 LB, more than 1 OL, and a DE, I agree you can’t expect much of lower round picks, but low expectations in the draft are not going to improve this team. I too, have been a fan for a long time, 35 years. We didn’t manage a trade down when lots of other teams did. Look at New England, 3 picks in the 2nd round. The only reason the new regime makes us feel better is because the bar was so low. This draft makes me sick.

read the draft grades on this site? They gave the Rams an A- and placed them fifth on the list of 32. Granted, other analysts had other rankings for them, with the lowest I’ve seen being a C and most being in the B range. Listening to you guys the Rams should have gotten a D or F.

Sure, the Rams have been terrible the last two years. Yes, the old management left the cupboard bare. But this is new management, with all new people coming from successful programs. It isn’t Martz, Linehan, Shaw, Zigmunt or anyone from the past. You need to stop looking at them through the lenses of the last couple of years and give their work a chance to prove itself.

Oh, and if Kurt Warner had been the QB for the Rams last year he would have lasted about two games before he was injured and out for the year. Our offensive line was, well, offensive. They stunk. Teams could blitz up the middle on us all day. Yes, I wish Bulger was more of a fiery leader, but he had no chance to accomplish anything last year.

C’mon guys. Lighten up and give them a chance.

I’ve said it before, I’m not even sure Jason Smith was the best offensive tackle available. If you look at the video on him, the majority of the plays has the quarterback taking off with the ball almost immediately so it looked like a Michael Vick type of offense that Baylor was using. Smith really doesn’t get a chance to show how much of a blocker he really is with that scheme. It almost seems like the majority of the time the quarterback is running because of a breakdown in protection which is a huge red flag for me. I feel that Laurinitus was a good pick but I just flat out disagree with the rest of the picks we made. I was looking forward to taking Ramses Barden, Sammie Lee Hill, Devin Moore, Frantz Joseph and more offensive line support in the late rounds but it didn’t happen. I get the impression that the economy has gotten so bad that the Rams drafted disposable players just for the sake of avoiding making out more contracts. I was satisfied with day one but day two was an atrocity! Oh, and by the way, all this talk of Mark Sanchez being a superstar. Don’t be surprised if he flops. A lot of the video I see on him, it just seems like superior wide receivers burning inferior defensive backs and Sanchez just playing catch. Let’s see how he does with shut down corners covering his receiver corps.

judge this draft. Had Laurinitis been drafted in the 1st we would have been moaning because he didn’t fall to us. Time will tell whether the picks we made will pan out or not. I’m glad, in retrospect at least, that we took a tackle, because it’s a key position that won’t need to be addressed next year. That being said, I was devastated that we weren’t able to trade down. That’s just typically not the reality of having that high of a draft choice. Hopefully we added some ingredients that make us play competitively in games this year, and next year we’ll have a solid draft that adds more “face of the franchise” type players.

It’s tough to complain about the moves, because the people in the draft rooms know more about these guys than we do. At first glance, I like the draft. We definitely added some talent that can contribute soon, which is nice. Plus, there’s a very low probability that a tackle ends up being a bust type player. QBs are risky, so I’m glad we didn’t go that route. Every player in the draft had very apparent flaws. I think we got some guys that can help us. Again, time will tell.

We could have had Smith, Muauluga, Michael Johnson, Scott, Duke Robinson, Dominique Edison, and Ogbannaya . This idea was one of many that IMHO would have addressed our immediate needs. I am now very interested in whos coming to rookie camp. I hope we invite some good UFAs. There certainly are many to consider. Especially at wide receiver & Graham Harrell. Maybe a couple of OTs and some LBs. I hope we’re still busy with that.

On defense there is:Darry Beckwith, Dannell Ellerby, Jonathan Casillas, and Lee robinson for LBs; Cris Baker, Rulon Davis and Julius Williams for DLine; Gerald Cadogan for OT; and WRs Jaison Williams and Kevin Ogletree. Unfortunately we don’t have the advantage of a shitty record in this 8th round so we’ll be lucky to get 1 of these guys into rookie camp. Obviously we aren’t the most glamorous team to play for. Hopefully our recruiting team has some charisma.

Maybe its because I haven’t been a Rams fan as long as some of you have at 35 years, largely because I wasn’t born then. So, I cannot argue that Steven Jackson isn’t Eric Dickerson, I wasn’t there. I know Eric Dickerson was an insane back, but that was YEARS ago.

Now the draft posted above would have been great, but I find it hard to second guess what we should have drafted now as we can now see who was going to be available, and the FO could not. They didnt know that they could pick up a Michael Johnson in the third round until that round came, so who knows if that information would have changed things.

There were just too many holes to fill. You can argue that they should have taken Maualuga over Laurinitis, and might have a valid complaint, but Spags isn’t just trying to throw the best talent available out there, he is trying to build a team. A team that is completely different than what we have seen really since that ‘99 season, and even a different team than that. This is going to be a playmaking team. Not something that wows everyone in attendence, but a team that makes plays by keeping their opponents from making plays. Really, if you don’t see that, thats understandable, it hasn’t ever been in STL before. But I would argue that it does make it hard to judge this draft a day afterwards when we haven’t even seen what the finished product is supposed to look like.

Other than character, talent has to be the dominate characteristic in the rebuilding process that we are in. A 2 year plan would have allowed for us to not address certain needs if the talent led us to fully address other maybe more pressing needs. I think we would have been able to pull off some trade downs and still been able to get a good draft. Smith is great but I would have been happy with Monroe and another pick in the second, Muauluga and Barden, with the other picks I mentioned before. That’s not that creative and with 28 draft weekend trades being done, it’s hard to believe trades were that hard to do. Obviously the jets wanted Sanchez, but there was other round 1 movement. after the 4th pick we should have tried to move 5 and 6 for some 7s. Then we could have a better shot at the UFAs.
     I haven’t been busy posting on this website much until now, breathlessly awaiting the possibility that truly now things would be different. Bottom line is I’m not willing to wait before I declare that we weren’t on the game the way we should have been. I know it sounds negative, but, please, don’t think I don’t want the best for my team. I remember the superbowl in 1980. I remember 1 & 15. I remember how much I hated Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, and frickin John Taylor. But mostly I remember # 52 Mike Jones, my hero. Rock on Rams.

     Anyone have any idea where we can find out which undrafted free agents went where? Are we done now adding players?