Kurt Warner Burns the Rams *UPDATE*

There really isn’t that much of weapons around Sam except Jackson and Amendola and maybe Clayton. I think he means the Cardinals have Fitzgarald and the 49ers have Crabtree the truth is we need weapons in order to make that next step and be a force in the league.

For once I agree with everything they said. I said it before and I will say it again the 49ers have the most talent in the division. The Cardinals have the 2nd most talent, then the Rams,and Seahawks.

We don’t have any playmakers, if Bradford had a bad game we lost more then likely. The whole season we only had one real game changer and that was the almost touchdown run by our DT week 1.

I have no problems with what Kurt said.

and steven jackson stats say he is on the decline. he could respond with a monster year this year and it woudnt surprise me, but he has taken a beating in his career.

i do wonder why marshall and kurt warner seem to always be hating on the rams. maybe they dont want to seem biased.

I can’t take much more of the pie-in-the-sky optimism for a team that managed to eke out 7 wins against the 2nd easiest schedule in the NFL last year. Guys, we didn’t beat a single good team and in week 17 the worthless Seahawks made us look like UFLers. Now let’s review the Rams of 2011. Scratch Atog, he’s gone. Hall and Robbins are so old they creak and Gibson (DT) is near worthless. Chris Long registered 8.5 sacks and averaged 1-2 tackled per game. We have NO OLB’s. One doesn’t have to go much further with the defense to figure that teams like New Orleans, Green Bay, the NFC East, plus Pittsburgh and Ravens are going to feast on us. Now look at the offense. Sam still doesn’t have a #1 receiver. We’ve probably got a legit #2 in Clayton (if he’e recovered) and Amendola’s ok. The rest of our receivers are #3’s. SJax is a year older and still doesn’t have a credible b/u. We need TWO new OG’s. And we have a $33M RT playing average ball against bad teams. Now add in a coach that often makes irrational and idiotic decisions, i.e. how bout that inspired coaching job against Pete Carroll in week 17 for the NFC West Championship? Nope. I’m scared silly of 2011. Unless we can make some great draft choices/trades and score some high profile FA’s, we’re looking at 5-11 or 6-10.

Chop does overreact at times, like when he wanted to chop down half of the roster, which included Jerome Murphy. He’s right though, I don’t agree about his feelings on Chris Long, and the other WR’s though.

D was great…..played good but looked great especially in the situations the O put them in. Not saying our D is perfect and obivously holes are noticeable but all in all they played better than i expected and O fell hopelessly below my expectations it hurt to watch them and their 3 and outs. I just hope we score score score on offense or defense we just got to score.

That being said, he is and forever will be my all time favorite player.

Kurt said we lack playmakers. That I agree don’t get me wrong, but he didn’t show no acknowledgment that the Rams have vastly improved. Like someone said, teams with playmakers. i.e Vikings, Cardinals,Titains.etc proved worthless with now quarterback. The Rams have a quarterback, we just need a tight end and a #1 receiver.

how did our coaches react??

The only reason we won 7 games, is because of Sam Bradford, and that’s me being honest. Without Sam we probably win at the most 4 games.

Our defense is extremely overrated in my opinion, no OLB’s, Hall and Robbins should be declining this season. So thats probably three positions on the Dline that would need help. We will most likely start Dahl and Butler at safety. Our defense played better, but they didn’t stop good offenses so they can’t be that good.

On offense we have lots of WR’s with potential, but that doesn’t always mean they will work out in the pros. Sam is good, but he will have to play great to win 10 games with our schedule. TE doesn’t concern me since, MC D doesn’t use him in that offense much. The Rams need a new guard, and Steven Jackson is one injury away from our offense being half as good as we think it will be.

Combine that with the Rams having the third best talent in the NFC West, and it doesn’t look good. I agree that QB play helps, but our team is 2 years removed from the roster rehaul they did. You need a complete team to compete, just look at the playoff teams they were all solid. Most games came down to QB play, and playmakers

I can’t argue you with that, all true, but this is a vague year, who knows anything could happen with a few key additions in the draft, hopefully Juillo Jones will be available, if not no biggie, we get a DL or DT, Maybe in the second round we get Titus Young, And if there is free agency after the draft maybe will get some veteran additions as well, but like I said its a vague year, and too early by saying if the Rams are in trouble or a competitor.

I think what he said had some fairness to it. The main point is that the team with the best QB will win. We have the best QB and no QB in this draft is a touch on Bradford. Due to the CBA I don’t see any QB’s being available in FA or trade either. Kolb is pants and Palmer was the bum in the Bengals offense last year, not the ‘diva WRs’. I agree we don’t have quite the talent level SF and AZ have at playmaker positions, but Sjax and Bradford would be taken over Crabtree and VD all day every day. What use is a WR or TE without a QB?

So in essence, he was kinda harsh, especially on our defense, but not entirely wrong.
On D we lost our best playmaker in Atogwe, which still stings to this day. However, hopefully we can get one in the draft, and safety and OLB is easier to find that a starting QB.

In terms of defensive physicality we are the best in the NFC West hands down too. That was ridiculous, the SF defense had no bite last season and were really soft at crucial times.