Early speculation about the Rams

I can understand Peter King placing the Rams at the bottom of his power rankings given the Rams past two years win-lose record and you can’t get to upset over that. But you would think a senior writer for SI like Peter King would be a little more realistic before making a statement about "firing Devaney". He should know the majority of the fans, not to mention the Rams ownership, are behind Devaney’s decisions plus everyone should know input from Spag and the rest of the War Room entered into the Rams draft selections.

He seems so out-of-touch that he doesn’t even mention the fact that leaking the story about considering Sanchez could have just been a ploy anyway.

I basically, take his whole assessment about the Rams, or any of the teams for that matter, with a grain of salt this time of the year. I guess it might be worth a few laughs though.

Go Rams!

He really isn’t ranking teams by their projected records, he’s ranking them by their quarterbacks. Because that’s all he can see anymore when he looks at football teams — who do they have behind center, and how does that guy compare to Brett Favre, who is the greatest football player to ever have walked the earth?

From his opening paragraph:

You’ll find one very predictable thing in common with every top team in my annual Tick Off Half The Football Fans In America Post-Free-Agency, Post-Draft NFL Power Rankings: quarterbacks. The best teams have ‘em. The worst teams don’t, at least not that we can see yet. Look at the top dozen teams. Every one has a quarterback you wouldn’t be shocked to see playing deep into the playoffs this year.

The rest of his rankings are essentially critiques following the same criteria. Why else would you rank the Rams behind the Bucs, Raiders, or Jaguars? Why else criticize Devaney for not taking (the “next Brett Favre”) Mark Sanchez with the #2 pick, even though it would set back the rebuild by at least a year? Why else rank the BEARS (!) #4 overall?

And none of the SI staff likes anything about the “new” Rams or the whole NFC West for that matter. I think they’re po’d that Warner and the Cards made them all look like jackasses last season. I’d love to see the 2009 Rams do the same thing.

this division was won by a 9-7 team last year. our sched isnt a cake walk, but i could see us at 9-7. to put us at #30 is good. that way when we string off some wins, we can tell friends and front runners, “told you so!” we lost soooo many games in the fourth quarter last season, if spags can close that conditioning gap, we will look great. go rams