Bradford #1 or not?
by Jas the Mace on Mar 19, 2010 7:14 PM CDT
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The top few picks in the draft are made for the top talent....not the top need. While Bradford is the unquestioned top QB, he is not the undisputed top talent.
Expecting total heroics from a rookie QB is misplaced and rarely successful. When it does happen, the rest of the team is usually in much better shape than the current Rams.
Expecting a rookie DT to play well alongside Veterans is not a huge stretch. All the weight is not on his shoulders alone like a QB. A DT can have a learning curve without feeling the wrath of the fans.
So I say......
#1 Suh/McCoy
What say you?
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I dont think anyone is under the delusion that Bradford will come in a stron arm the Rams to the Superbowl in year 1. I think the reckoning is that Bradford is actually a damn good QB talent regardless of people see it or not and he feels a much greater need than a rotational defensive tackle in a draft that is abnormally deep at defensive tackle.
When we FINALLY get our QB of the future in this draft we have the luxury to take Suhs and Mccoys at the top of drafts, as of now we do not. Get your guy and move on to 33….
good day to you
I will have to start copy and pasting this argument in a minute…
Suh for me. That's nothing new though.
"I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber."
"Everything negative- pressure, challenges- is all an opportunity for me to rise."
-Kobe Bryant
A mantra for all athletes.
by TrojanRam on Mar 19, 2010 7:40 PM CDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
As I have been for 6 months
Suh, but I don’t think it will happen.
You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In *St. Louis* his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Win by attrition. Well, *Steven Jackson* was the best.
How many fanposts will we have asking the same question?
Free Brandon Wood!
At this pace - I'm gonna let it ride on 3k's OVER
Free Brandon Wood!
Over/under
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You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In *St. Louis* his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Win by attrition. Well, *Steven Jackson* was the best.
you nailed it, mang.
when you posted that first mock, I read in shock (rhyming couplet not intended, Shakespearean scholars). But your Puxatawney Phil- like ability to prognosticate Bradford-fever gave me a headstart on getting used to the fervor.
my favorite Bradford fun fact: He is the first QB of Native American heritage to start for a D1 football program since 1972. The last one to do it? University of Washington’s own Sonny Sixkiller.
by mooseknuckles41 on Mar 20, 2010 3:46 AM CDT up reply actions
they got new IPs in mass quantities
and come right back. All the trouble they go to for a handful deleted posts acorss SBM. That impressive waste of man hours is what 22 cents a day will buy you in China.
The blind stares of a million pairs of eyes, lookin hard but won't realize, that they'll never see the C. And when I'm rollin by, you can't see me!
by CoachConnors on Mar 22, 2010 7:47 AM CDT up reply actions
Start buying your Bradford jerseys
The Rams will take him for the same reasons the Lions took Stafford last year.
Rams wont draft Suh #1
The last 17 years in the NFL draft only one DT been drafted #1 (Dan Wilkinson 94).There are multiple reasons but in the Rams case no new owner will blow a 6 figured guaranteed contract on a DT (Suh)…..Meet Sam Bradford Rams face of the franchise #1 draft pick
6 figures for Suh?
We can’t pass on such a bargain!
*Most married couple make 6 figures, 100,000$ isn’t much money…
All of which were Good reasons.
and even after the draft we’ll be getting posts from whiners about what Suh is doing in whatever camp he’s been sent to. It wont matter what Bradford does, even if he leads the rams to 10 straight SB wins; according to the people we’ve been seeing on this site Suh would’ve lead us to more and we’d have been more dominant along the way as well.
Yep. Unless Suh busts and Bradford is great, we'll keep hearing that.
Although if we win 10 straight SBs I think we’d have a pretty good counterargument.
10 straight SB....
I’ll put up with whoever then!
by Jas the Mace on Mar 20, 2010 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions
for 10 in a row
the Church should announce him a Saint for he will surely have worked miracles.
Are you implying that those who believe Suh should go #1 are dumb?
Because if Bradford leads his team to 10 SBs, no amount of success from Suh, real or imagined, can add up.
FYI, it won’t be one guy changing it. If Bradford ever touches the Superbowl, it’ll be because we built a hell of a team around him, or at least a team that peaked in the playoffs (See: Peyton Manning failing to reach the Superbowl until the defense was good-great).
"I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber."
"Everything negative- pressure, challenges- is all an opportunity for me to rise."
-Kobe Bryant
A mantra for all athletes.
by TrojanRam on Mar 21, 2010 4:47 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
No I wasn't implying that
What I AM however is that several people are so enamored with him that they have forgotten that a Qb is more important to a team’s long term success than any DT. A third of QB’s posted 4k yard seasons last year. That’s huge! Defenses are getting hampered by the league everyday. Get over it. The QB is so very much more important than the DT if you want lasting success in the NFL these days.
Too bad the NFL doesn't agree with you.
You might have an argument about how quickly he will be ready to play in a pro system, but not on his long term prospects. Bradford is clearly seen as having more upside.
Tha's overstating it quite a bit
There is so much disagreement within teams, let alone between teams, how in the world are you going to say “the NFL” agrees or disagrees on something like that?
The blind stares of a million pairs of eyes, lookin hard but won't realize, that they'll never see the C. And when I'm rollin by, you can't see me!
by CoachConnors on Mar 22, 2010 10:02 AM CDT up reply actions
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