Clarifying the TE picture
by VanRam on Mar 7, 2010 3:49 PM CST
in 2010 St. Louis Rams offseason
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First off, let me issue a correction. I hastily threw up an earlier post speculating that the Bears may cut ties with TE Greg Olsen, a player of much conversation recently. The thing is, I misread the report I linked to, the report that actually said Desmond Clark. Apologies. Since we're on the subject, I thought it might be worth checking in on the situation with Olsen, since there has been some talk that he'd like to be traded.
Word is that he's still available to interested teams, with Bears having traded away their early picks in this draft. The asking price is believed to be a second or third round pick. That probably leaves the Rams out of contention right now, unless trading takes a breather until the draft when teams start swapping picks. With the first pick of the second round, the Rams could really make things interesting as far as trades go.
And what about Desmond Clark? Why not just bring back Fells if that's something the Rams would consider.
Ben Watson is available as a free agent, and surprisingly hasn't gotten much attention so far. Seattle is scheduled to meet with him on Monday. I don't know what the Rams front office is planning to do to address their need at TE, but Watson could be a nice addition. This may be a money question, as in how much money can the Rams really spend with ownership in transition.
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I’ll retract my earlier comments if the Olsen article was a sincere mistake.
I think there is still a chance they could bring Fells back.
He just wasn’t worth the $1.25 million tender level. Watson could be a possibility, but he didn’t do all that much last year with the Pats. I’m not sure why he never seems to live up to expectations. The Rams do need someone for sure, and it’s hard to understand what their plan is. I sure hope it isn’t keeping Mr. Cement Hands.
Olsen
I would offer Chicago our 3rd rounder for Olsen. He would go a long way toward solidifying the receiving corp and to do that with just a 3rd round pick would be cheap.
agreed
Olen would give our most likely new qb a solid, reliable target. A strong run game and the ability to dump it off to the tight end would mean wonders for our offense. A third round pick seems high but a younger proven threat is far too hard to pass up.
Woops
I’d also offer them Barron as a straight up exchange. They are in need of an OT.
I don't think you can fill the hole he leaves
Before trading Barron, realize this – he was the most penalized player in the NFC West and noen of the backups on the Rams could convince the coaches to play ahead of him. That says a lot when thinking about whether you can just plug in the next guy into Barron’s spot. I don’t think that you can, with the OL’s currently on the roster.
by CoachConnors on Mar 8, 2010 11:21 AM CST up reply actions
Once again I would happily give up Bradley Fletcher or Scott Dorell (last years 3rd and fourth round picks) for a proven tight end of a Pro Bowl caliber. Once again a young proven player or the flip of a coin draft pick? Too much draft hype, stop watching the combines!
If you want us to believe you know what you're talking about,
it would be good to get the Rams player’s names reasonably correct. It’s Darell Scott. The Rams roster is sometimes in the right column here.
i dont know where to put this
so i’ll just say it here. Now that Fujita has left the Saints for Cleveland, there is literally no way Weatherspoon makes it past NO at #32 in the first round….sucks I know….so close
You're a man of integrity Mr. Van Ram
I didn’t even notice that you erred in your report. Appreciate you coming forward and letting us know about the mistake. No worries.
As far as the tight end picture is concerned, I’m in the Daniel Fells camp. I would like to see him come back. I don’t think we need to do anything extreme like trading a draft pick for one. There is plenty of good talent out there. I think Ed Dickson or Dennis Pitta can easily fall into our laps in the mid rounds.
My Proposal ...
Let the Bears nego a deal with Atogwe, Rams agree not to match in return the Bears give Olsen and pick #65 in the draft.
To be fair Van
There was a lot of talk coming out of Chicago about Martz having no interest in Olsen so speculation started up about them moving him for something. Now though, it seems, that Jerry Angelo has convinced Martz that he should keep Olsen and get rid of Clark.
Olsen is kind of like Angelo’s offensive prized possession. He hasn’t drafted worth a shit on the offensive side outside of Olsen so I think he wants to keep him around. Btw, he hasn’t drafted worth a shit on the defensive side either. Since Angelo and Lovie started running the Bears drafts (two big defensive guys), they’ve drafted 4 defensive players who’ve turned into starters.
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