2012 NFL Mock Draft: In Which The Rams Pull Off The Trade

But know i am all for drafting Kahlil 2nd and getting one of the other top wrs in the 2nd round cause i can not imagine all of the good wrs going in the first round

jeff fisher is sending a message to the other players, no job on this team is safe except a hand full of players. with fishers name, we should get some gooood free agents that will help out right away. no more drafting soft players that can’t take it. fisher will draft tough guys or you won’t be around. listen up jason smith.

be receiving the Browns two first rounders. All you will get is #4 because cleveland can sell you something other teams cant….. A Guarantee. Guarantee that you will either get Blackmon or Kalil (Whoever Minnesota doesnt take.) There may be some 3’s and 5’s involved, but get number 22 out of your mind

our 2nd pick, I think Ram fans are kidding themselves if they use the Falcons trade of last year as a benchmark. First of all the Falcons were highly criticized right after the trade and that will only increase as April 26th approaches. The entire prospective bidding war for our #2 and RG3 hinges on what Cleveland wants to do. All you need to do is review where the Rams, Browns and Redskins are drafting to confirm that notion. As a reminder, here are the slots in the first three rounds:

Rams = #2, #33 and #66
Browns = #4, #22, #37 and #68
Redskins = #6,#39 and #70

By virtue of the Browns holding draft picks two selections ahead of the Redskins in addition to having the #22 pick, they hold all the cards as a potential trade partner if they are interested. Unfortunately, the Browns don’t even need to offer up the 22nd pick to outbid the Redskins from a slotting perspective. The only way the Redskins can outbid the Browns is if both teams are determined to get RG3 is to offer the Rams a Rickey Williams type of deal, include high 2013 draft picks or include a player(s). Otherwise, the Browns have them by the throat.

For those who are dissing Blackmon you are simply overlooking one crucial fact……“production.” You remind me of so many of these self-imposed super talent evaluators that get caught up in trying to outsmart everyone else with wise guy selections that you are missing the real picture. The “eye test.” Blackmon gets seperation plain and aggressively attacks the ball. He looks to me like a cross between T.O. and Andre Rison. The guy is a player plain and simple. I can just hear it now that once the combine hits there will be yells for Hilton and others who kill it while Blackmon is unjustly villified. Remember this, some players are total “eye candy,” others are tremendous “practice players,” while others like Blackmon are simply game players. It is a shame more talent evaluators still can’t figure out the distinctions between the three. That is why teams end up drafting plyers like Jamarcus Russell and Jason Smith.

Personally I like Kalil, DeCastro and Konz as much as the next guy like buckeyfan55 is leading us towards. However, not one of them is remotely viable for the Rams based on our overwhelming needs unless we pick up the Browns #22 pick and draft Konz in that spot. The Vikings IMO opinion are definately taking Kalil @3 and DeCastro will be long gone at #22. Where I will disagree with buckeyfan55 till the cows come home is not in his assessment of these O-Line players but rather in the absolute dire needs of the Rams needing quantity over O-Line quality in this draft. By virtue of the Vikings beating the Redskins and RG3’s late season heroics, a perfect storm has provided the Rams with the bargaining leverage to solve 3 or 4 needs in the draft rather than just one assuming they keep the #2 pick.

So, unless our next GM has the ability to make 2 or 3 trades in the 1rst round, we are drafting at #2 (I sure as hell hope not), #4 (I sure as hell hope so with at a minimum either #22 or #37 and other picks coming along with it) or #6(Plus #39 and other picks). So trade ideas should be for #4, #6 or compounding trades going down at each interval.

or not is unfortunately 100% correct!

you prefer “quality” over “quantity.” My point is I would prefer to have Blackmon + 2 or 3 other starters assuming we don’t screwup the draft over Kalil and I like Kalil. In addition, I think the Rams have so many holes they need to go quantity over quality or the turnaround will take a lot longer. Jake Long is a stud but he isn’t turning aroudn that Dolphins team anytime soon.

then I would give your view on college production more credence. But he simply did it over and over again for multiple years. On the contrary, I think you can argue that mitigating factors can hamper a good NFL prospects college production. Case in point is Alshon Jeffrey. I think he is a top 15-20 pick but I’m not sure he will go that high because his production got hurt by that whack job Garcia and his successor.

don’t be surprised if they trade down. As bad as the Rams receivers were in 2011 the Jags have the worst set of receivers in the NFL. You may see the Browns drop to #7 and swap picks with the Jags so they can get their #1 receiver.

for some reason RG3 has some good workouts before the draft and the Colts take him first? If you are JF, would you still trade the pick or take Luck and keep him?

This is exactly why im so excited about the change in the organization. That staff had no plan or a bison of what they wanted accomplish. No disrespect to pettis or salas or even kendricks but I would have bit the bullet and held out on offense and rolled with the receivers which were already on the roster because they were the only who produced anyways. None of the WR we drafted last year were a vast improvement.
With the tons of late projected talented defensive players which were in the draft last year I would have just improve my defense and feed of them and the 2010 season hype coming into the season (mason foster, pea, Marvin Austin) and also draft one of those late round talented backs (Hunter or Rodgers) which we basically traded for players who is not even on the roster anymore and those picks would have filled holes.
I’m sure they could have looked ahead and saw how deep the 2012 WR class would be and just take the change on that because now pettis maybe a forgotten man by time the training camp begin. Damn I hated the front office. Drafted Fendi to be a project only to be release for a practice squad TE which barely even played. Let go a talent young linebacker for some1 old which was eventually cut. They just erk my nerves. I wanted spags to have one more year but I’m sorry they had to go

Imagine taking both Blackmon and one of those two in the first round…

I know this is not going to ever happen, but what if we got Blackmon in the first Kalil in the second and Trent Rich in the third.