Rams go offense in MTD's Mock Draft

…isn’t the fastest guy, but he has MITS and can run a hell of a route. He also isn’t afraid of contact, and has only suffered minor injuries to show for it. He’d be a fantastic pick, but I doubt we go offense with our top 2 picks. My ideal scenario is Suh, then offense.

Btw, the ESPN heads, as well as NFL Network, still think QB at 1 is a reach and it’ll be Suh/McCoy there. They’re usually right.

        If we go QB in the first overall, maybe because it changes our draft needs from pick-to-pick, but I think our quality goes down every pick. The DTs left after Suh and McCoy drop off tremendously where as the DEs may stay strong through the 33rd pick. I don’t know why this is what I think but it is. So draft a DE you say with the 33rd pick, after QB? Well I don’t want a QB without more protection up front.. I know we can’t get it all in one draft but there is a way to stage this, without requiring certain other teams to go certain ways.
        I wish we’d have gotten more O-line help last year but we didn’t so, We get some depth on the O-line this year with the 3rd and either 4th or 5th. O-line depth projects down that far in this draft at this point. this still leaves us room to get a CB, a TE an OLB, whom I wouldn’t get earlier than our 4th right now anyway. All this after Suh and a killer DE. If all the killer DEs are gone well start the whole process one round earlier.
       This whole plan is dependent on drafting a franchise QB next year, along with another offensive weapon or 2 and some more O-line help. The only D we’d need though would be another CB and OLB.

Best or (if he drops) Spiller.

I think Spiller could really fit a Reggie Bush type role where he can be a “jack-of-all-trades” type player on the offense. We could sure use that type of talent.

thanks to the past decade of lousy drafting (especial the Martz years) that it seems no matter who we draft, we will need them to plug one. I would be happy if the Rams just draft the ‘best player available’ in the 1st 3 rounds.

Go Rams!

I think of another former USC wideout Steve Smith, the New York Giants version.

but, as many of us believe, we should draft back. I’m hoping Suh or another player blows up at the combine and a few teams fall in love. Somebody will pull the trigger to have their guy.

but now Walter Football is going offensive with the Rams (although, he’s been predicting the Rams go QB 1st round for a long time).

1st Round – Jimmy Claussen – QB – Notre Dame
2nd Round – Golden Tate – WR – Notre Dame
3rd Round – Navorro Bowman – OLB – Penn State
4th Round – Austen Lane – DE – Murray State

He would be better fit for us at the SLB rather than the WLB. The guy plays the run as good if not better than any LB in this draft. He can blitz the C and D gaps to cause all kinds of havoc. I would really be happy if he was paired up with James Laurinaits for the next decade. That would be two young, intelligent, vocal, and talented LBs that would help solidify our Def for years to come. its been a while since we have had a solid LB core.
I really do not want us to go WR in this draft. I don’t see anyone in this class (Bryant aside) supplanting our top 4 wideouts for a spot. I just don’t see it happening. I am currently OK with Robinson, Avery and Gibson having a year of this offense under their belt.

        Check it out. So far We have Suh in the first and Pierre-Paul in the second round. The whole first 2 rounds is posted on a fanpost if you want to see who went where. The 3rd and 4th rounds are Saturday at 2pm Pacific I think. The best player available is a DE/OLB, Ricky Sapp. I’m thinking Offensive line, though. Anyone want to chime in?

1st QB Jimmy Claussen
2nd WR Golden Tate

i just think it will be a mistake taking DT yall have been going the “safe pick” last few years and that hasn’t gotten you very far.. you pick OL last year and DL 2 years in a row before that…. you avg 10 points a game.. i think it just time to get some more skilled positions.. you can make the point it all starts in the trenches all you want but when you got nothing behind them other then a ageing RB it don’t boge well…

Jimmy Claussen had 28 tds 4ints and a 68% comp in a west coast offence. i don’t see how people cant say he is not worth the number one pick.. if you are waiting for a QB to be the best player in the draft you are going to be waiting along time they are never the BPA let alone best in draft…

the rams just need to take a risk could he be the next leaf?? yea… but he could also be the next manning.. what would you rather have on your team a young Manning or a young sapp?? your kidding your self if you say a young sapp..

if Claussen isn’t good enough for you no QB ever will be

don’t take this as a bate btw i not trying for it to sound like that i just fell as if it is time

and on a some what related note most lions fan wanted curry last year not smith.. we couldn’t go OT( and still cant) do to current contacts and drafting a OT with the 17th over all pick in 2008

and a off-topic note (lol) i am thinking it is the viking moving to LA still just b/c of there leese and such regardless of who you think it will be.. if the viking are the team that gets moved out there do you think yall would move to the north div and vikings to the west??

i am against taking a WR in the second, but i am even more against taking a RB.

that being said, if Benn is there in the 2nd, it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if the Rams took him. I like him the most out of all the WR’s in this draft class (except Dez Bryant of course)

but if the Rams take a QB with the first pick in the draft they will again be drafting for need instead of BPA. I still curse the fact that they passed on Curry and then right tackle Phil Loadholt in the 2nd round last year. Both of these guys are going to be pro bowl players at their positions for years to come. Just goes to show you that you get what you pay for when you play it too safe in the draft… mediocrity.

I’m not knocking the Rams selection of James Laurinaitis in the second round. Imagine if the defense the Rams would have if they would have taken Curry in the first, Laurinaitis in the second and followed that draft up with getting Suh this year. They’d be on their way to putting together a top 10 ‘D’. This underscores the need to draft defense this year. The draft is front loaded with defense, why not take advantage of it?

We need to face the fact that if we can’t stop the run we will never win. Drafting Suh makes so much sense. Clifton Ryan-Suh-Chris long is a good start and next year we can draft Adrian Clayborn DE from Iowa(St Louis native) and give us a strong D-Line for many years

I cannot recall the Rams ever drafting a franchise QB. Time to change.Draft Bradford or Clausen #1.

Look what the Rams did with that opportunity.

THERE IS NO GOOD QB IN THE DRAFT FOR A “FRANCHISE TAG OR LABEL”!!!

Rams, go defense the first 3 rounds (unless Okung for 1st overall/trade down or Dez Bryant – offense); otherwise SUH, BERRY, McCOY, or DE Morgan———-or trade down for defense or Okung or Morgan———Berry, Suh, and McCoy probably don’t falll below picks 5 thru 7.

Rams offensive play was mainly due to poor line play and injuries. I would take Bulger back no question and groom Null and Reilly!!! Bulger needs time to throw, not time to wonder where to get sacked. Alex Barron has not really been the billing he was labeled. Hopefully, Jason Smith is better and Jacob Bell and the rest of the line can gel – I still like Greco and Setterstrom (damn Setterstrom has been injured 2 seasons in a row…reak incidents) Before the injuries, Sets was becoming a dominating guard, especially opening holes for the rb’s. Let’s hope Sets comes back and never has an injury again!