St. Louis Rams Top Ten Draft Successes: #8 - Adam Archuleta
by Ryan Van Bibber on Apr 21, 2011 4:52 PM CDT
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PrintOur look at the St. Louis Rams ten best draft picks continues. Sitting at #8 on the list is none other than Adam Archuleta, Arch Deluxe himself.
The Rams had three first-round picks in 2001, and they used all of them on defensive players. DTs Damione Lewis and Ryan Pickett never got much traction with the Rams, but Archuleta became a cornerstone of their defense for five seasons.
During his time with the Rams Arch Deluxe had 15 sacks, 3 INTs, 351 tackles and 5 fumbles recovered. I can't think of many players I enjoyed watching as much as Archuleta. It's kind of funny to think about the Rams having a marquee name at strong safety, where they've gotten by with yeoman types for the last few years.
Oh, and I'd be remiss if I didn't say something about his wife Jennifer Walcott. Aye caramba!
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Archie?
A draft success? It’s funny, but I did enjoy watching him play the first couple of seasons… then, didn’t he hurt his back or something? He wasn’t the same at the end when he left for the Redskins (that is where he went, right?).
Strange, I didn’t realize he had been here for 5 seasons.
Jennifer Walcott!!!!
ouch… was that link work material safe? I had to close that quickly, but sure did look nice for that brief second.
NO!!! lol
She so gorgeous it hurts…lucky bastard….He’s living my life! Good for him though. 1st round pick with a great team. Had success and signed a HUGE contract with the Redskins even though he fluked there and signed on with the Bears Fluke once again now looks stoned everywhere he pops up and is married to a Playmate…asshole……
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no PLAYOFFS."
Winston Churchill
Damn
The Rams really suck at drafting
Is that great man formally known as Tevin T. Broner, also I'm on twitter T_bron
Adam Archuleta is to blame for everything
…at least if you live in Washington and listen to Tony Kornheiser’s radio show. Adam Archuleta was blamed for the following:
- the greenhouse effect
- the federal deficit
- Sanjaya remaining on American Idol
- long lines at the drive-thru
- Tony Kornheiser losing his hair
- kidnapping the Lindbergh baby
- starting the Great Chicago Fire
- why a second-grader didn’t turn in her homework (instead of blaming the dog)
- telling Jim Zorn that the Redskins’ colors were “maroon and black”
- and the list goes on and on.
Couldn't we have worked out an agreement,
We keep his wife on the team and he can persue other endeavors? Jeesh, put her at Safety and nobody will head for the end zone unless she’s in it.
you guys are dumb
He was one of my favorite players during his stint here. He didn’t have great hands but damn he could play in the box with the best of him. I believe he owns or at least a share of the safety sack record. And there’s a reason he got the richest safety contract at that time (even though it was a massive bust)… and my babys mamas sis used to cut his wifes hair here in chicago… not really relevant but she’s fine and I saw him once but didn’t have a chance to talk to him but the sis said he was a very nice guy
by markg1127 on Apr 21, 2011 7:36 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
He used to come through Whole Foods
when I worked there. Very unassuming individual for the amount of pain I saw him inflict on Sundays. Seemed like an alright guy. Really, he probably should have been a small linebacker.
THIS year there'll be football. I hope....
God I must of missed something
I didn’t think he was as good as you guys say.He was ok but not special.
I completely agree I thought he was ok but wasn’t spectacular.
by bobhugehands on Apr 21, 2011 8:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Agreed.
I give Arch some credit: he did deliver a couple of fantastic performances (a Monday night game against Baltimore where he destroyed Todd Heap, and the Titans game where he got a pick 6 off McNair and got the Rams back into a game they ultimately won). He seemed to also be a character guy and didn’t embarrass the Rams off the field.
But as great safeties go, he didn’t last long and there were always deficiencies in coverage, as Washington found out the hard way. After his back injury he wasn’t the same either. Not the worst pick, but I can understand why some would debate calling this a “draft success”.
The most painful part of this article? “The Rams had three first-round picks in 2001 and used them all on defense”. I’m not as down on Ryan Pickett as the article, but still, that’s a lot of wasted potential in a first round!
Adam was solid
But I wouldn’t say a success….it doesn’t say much for our team when Adam is our number 8 draft success
by JordansDad on Apr 21, 2011 9:36 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
Archuleta at #8 ?
Yikes… Really bad drafts since the team moved to STL…
Archuleta was only marginally better than Craig Dahl.
"For Better or for Worse; 'Till Death Do Us Part"
GO RAMS !!!
No way.....wait how big a gab is marginally?
He was a big hitter with no hands but can blitz and tackle…..I really liked him….wouldnt pay him what i’d pay OJ but imagine if those two played for us in their highligh yrs together…..mmmmmm what a defensive backfield.
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no PLAYOFFS."
Winston Churchill
Loved watching this guy
Always had a great go-get-em attitude and a motor that just didn’t stop.
One of my favorite plays of all time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMQoaa_xvaM
1) Cause the fumble while he’s under the guy, and then 2) get the ball immediately after you break contact. How’d he do that? I’ve never seen anything like it before or since then.
When he went to the Skins for the big bucks, I was happy to watch him do nothing except siphon money out of Snyder’s wallet…
I forgot it even had the Rammies on MNF….sniff, those were the days!
he did look like he was ...
gonna be something special at first… and yeah, his back did him in. Perhaps he threw it out with that wife of his… speaking of which, I bet her back hurts too. ;-)
I would not rate him above Kevin Carter
Kevin had much more of an impact on the defense than Adam. His ceiling was reached on his first start and he never got any better. Washington them made him the highest paid safety in the NFL and regretted it after his first season.
adam had his best yrs as a ram...
and as the usual trend that was in that era…the rams let him walk! of course he went for the big bucks, who wouldnt , but they let him walk nonetheless!
In Arch's case, I think the Rams did ok
They got a couple serviceable years out of him, then yes, they let him walk, but it was a good decision on the team’s part. The timing was perfect as Arch never quite delivered for other teams.
I understand your point though, because the Rams did indeed let good players walk and most of them hurt a lot more than Arch. London Fletcher…now there was a gap that took them a decade to fix. They probably also should have kept Ryan Tucker at tackle. We’ll see how badly the team ends up missing Atogwe.
Spags is gonna take a HUGH gamble-
He’s going to beef up the DL and the CB’s and then pick a blitz happy safety and then bet that Dahl can cover. Everything will be bet on the DL and the safety blitz.
Evidently
the Rams drafts were poor with the high rankings these players are getting.Carter got most of his sacks because the offense scored alot of points,the other teams were so far behind that the D got alot of easy sacks.He was considered a underachiever most of his career.Archuleta was oft injured mediocre talent not great but good.
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