Random Ramsdom, 5/4: Softli leaving the Rams?

by Ryan Van Bibber on May 4, 2010 6:31 AM CDT in St. Louis Rams news

A pleasant Tuesday morning to you Rams fans. If you're taking finals this week like ram_rod, we wish you all the best. Remember, it's important that you graduate and get a job so you can sit at a desk and come to TST and talk St. Louis Rams all day in the future. On with the links...

Meet EJ Reid
The Rams brought University of Mary (North Dakota) DT EJ Reid to rookie camp on a tryout basis, and announced yesterday that they signed him to a contract. The 6'2" 320 lbs Reid played DE in the 3-4 in college. He profiles as a DT in the Rams 4-3. Adam Carriker who?

Killing them Softli
Hired in the summer of 2006, director of player personnel Tony Softli received permission from the Rams to look for other jobs. He and Scott Linehan were responsible for the 2007 draft.

Who grades the grader? - Football Outsiders scores the pundits who scored the draft.

Boise State has receivers
You want to talk receivers? The Boise State duo of Austin Pettis and Titus Young are a pair to keep your eyes on.

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He's killin' me Sofltli with his heart.

The name's Rams, St. Louis Rams.

by Bond_007x on May 4, 2010 8:18 AM CDT reply actions

I've got Ethics in a few hours

Aristotle, Jane Austen, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke.

Who’s with me?

The House of Spears reigns supreme

by Eric Nagel on May 4, 2010 11:11 AM CDT reply actions

Darwinism

Thoughts? Reality or subsidized until money has no value or is unattainable?

Karma.

by jlcdb70 on May 4, 2010 11:17 AM CDT up reply actions

everyone does everything in order to get laid.

by CoachConnors on May 4, 2010 3:49 PM CDT up reply actions

I'm not too sure how far you could go with that in class

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by Eric Nagel on May 4, 2010 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions

I actually heard that theory in different words from a psych teacher. Some philosophy of human motivation or something. Not that that makes it legit..

by CoachConnors on May 4, 2010 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions

But a teach' said it...

It has to be right.

Or that’s what I’ve been told from my profs around here…

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by Eric Nagel on May 4, 2010 6:55 PM CDT up reply actions

Do the right thing

I can take a beating ... I'm a Rams fan.

by Midasknight on May 4, 2010 11:13 AM CDT reply actions

There may be a reason it

isn’t done this way – but I’ve always hoped that the links would open in a new window, so I don’t have to try the back button on my crappy work computer. Any chance that you change it to work that way in the future?

I know how to do it in Wordpress, I’m not sure if it’s a problem on this platform. Mocking the Draft does seem to have them open in a new window.

Just a thought. It might also encourage people to stay on your site/page, if you care about that. Thanks.

The Personal Finance Playbook.

by Toddius on May 4, 2010 11:20 AM CDT reply actions

There is an option to do so, yes

I’d change it to that, but only Van and 3k have that kind of power. I’ll let him know though.

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by Eric Nagel on May 4, 2010 11:41 AM CDT up reply actions

i'm working on it

i used the clipper tool on the backend of the site and it defaults to opening links that way.

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by Ryan Van Bibber on May 4, 2010 11:59 AM CDT up reply actions

Cool

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by Toddius on May 4, 2010 1:19 PM CDT up reply actions

Right click, open in new tab...?

I like opening in same window if it’s a link to somewhere else within TST.
Outside, I always check the new window option,.

by CoachConnors on May 4, 2010 3:51 PM CDT reply actions

I don't want to start an argument, but ..

some folks on here don’t want to believe Seattle and San Francisco had better drafts than the Rams. While it is true that we won’t know for sure for three years or so, it is interesting that the consensus of the raters is that both Seattle and San Fran had far better drafts than the Rams. I suspect if we had picked Navarro Bowman with our 3rd round pick instead of another CB our ratings might have been higher. I guess we’ll find out in the fullness of time, as the poet says.

by andyrose on May 4, 2010 5:40 PM CDT reply actions

A+

by Ram-on on May 5, 2010 5:05 AM CDT up reply actions

Grading in retrospect

Is there any site that shows what these guys thought about the 2007 draft (for example)? We could see their comments in ’07, and see how it has worked out now that the rookies had time to develop. This way, we may see some high grades given to teams that struck out, or vice-versa.

by Oski Bear on May 4, 2010 5:46 PM CDT reply actions

I just saw

on SBN somewhere, one of the communities went back and looked at the “experts” 2007 draft grades. Funny stuff. I’m working on my 2011 2-round mock, then I’ll revisit my earliest 2010 mock to look at how difficult it is to grade prospects a year out.

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.

by 3k on May 4, 2010 7:20 PM CDT up reply actions

Does anyone think this scout has any idea what he's doing?

Softli’s results were almost criminal. It’s amazing just how wrong he and Linehan and the rest of them could be about so many players. You’d think they would get lucky and hit on one guy at least (with all due respect to Clifton Ryan). They could’ve thrown darts and had better results.

by CoachConnors on May 4, 2010 6:59 PM CDT reply actions