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  • #1

    Loyalty LITTLE

    sorry guys but I've just got to let off steam about LITTLE!!!!

    He's just been offered a deal worth $3.5 million a year over 5 years and with a $5 million signing bonus!!! AND he TURNS IT DOWN????? WHY!!

    All that talk from LITTLE, about the RAMS have been great sticking by me through my troubled past so I owe it to them!!.

    I mean $3.5 million for a situational passrusher is prety good and I think the RAMS have been fair, the RAMS stuck by him in his hour off need plus he's playing for a championship team!!!!!

    I sometimes think maybe we should let him go, I was reading on ESPN that the RAMS would take a look at REINARD WILSON if Little departs

    It just puzzles me what these players are thinking is it there Agents??

    Any thoughts

    steve:mad:
    "The breakfast Club":helmet:
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  • #2
    You're right...

    Little did turn down the Rams' first offer, so it looks like he won't stay. The Rams are the only reason he's still in the NFL, but apparently he doesn't care. If he wants to leave the Rams, that's his mistake, whether he or his agent makes the decision or not.

    :shield:

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    • #3
      Sounds like the Rams made a fair offer to me.I guess greed got the best of Little.Thats a shame,but I think our defense will be fine without him.
      ST.LOUIS RAMS:THE MOST FRUSTRATING TEAM IN THE NFL!!!

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      • #4
        I was one of the biggest Little supporters :mad: you human piece of garbage LIttle, you mother ****er:mad: "I owe it to the Rams" Yeah my ass ****face!!!!! **** YOU LEONARD LITTLE You were my favorite player on defense, you asshole!!!! .i. .i. .i. .i. :mad: I'M PISSSEEEEEEDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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        • #5
          I read on ESPN that Little is going to talk with the Cardinals.Now that would be a career decision.:rolleyes: I cant believe he would consider giving up the Rams for Bidwells losers.By the way Mr.Blond,You're not a tad bit angry are you?;)Take a deep breath and relax a bit.Sometimes these things can be a blessing in disguise.
          Last edited by Aries51; -03-02-2002, 08:57 PM.
          ST.LOUIS RAMS:THE MOST FRUSTRATING TEAM IN THE NFL!!!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Aries51:
            Sometimes these things can be a blessing in disguise.
            Got that right.

            Originally posted by Aries51:
            I read on ESPN that Little is going to talk with the Cardinals.
            If he signs, I'll look forward to seeing him twice a year playing against the Rams. Let's hope the Rams can sign or draft a right tackle with enough talent to crush Little. Or maybe John St. Clair is good enough to step up...

            :shield:

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Mr.Blond
              I was one of the biggest Little supporters :mad: you human piece of garbage LIttle, you mother ****er:mad: "I owe it to the Rams" Yeah my ass ****face!!!!! **** YOU LEONARD LITTLE You were my favorite player on defense, you asshole!!!! .i. .i. .i. .i. :mad: I'M PISSSEEEEEEDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
              I have to say I would not have posted this but I sure as heck was thinking just the same thing :rolleyes:

              I agree 100% with your feelings Blondie ;) If that is the sort of loyalty shown by a player that owes EVERYTHING to his team, well good ridance ........... get you ass to a loosing team Little.

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              • #8
                Hmmm...

                Originally posted by majorram:
                He's just been offered a deal worth $3.5 million a year over 5 years and with a $5 million signing bonus!!! AND he TURNS IT DOWN????? WHY!!
                Interesting... Little just signed a contract- 5 years, $17.5 million. With a $5 million signing bonus. Sound familiar?

                :shield:

                p.s.-for those of you not good at math, that's $3.5 million a year

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                • #9
                  Thanks for the backup Dez and Aries, It's good to know you feel the same way. This Little thing, well, I just don't understand it. Maybe the guy will change his mind, if he doesn't, you're right, SCREW EM'. Take care:mask:

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                  • #10
                    Evil Disco Man, WITH THE RAMS?

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                    • #11
                      Yep...

                      Look at Dez's recent thread... "Little signed". I think you'll be happy. Now stop complainin'. :p

                      :shield:

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                      • #12
                        This is beautiful Thanks for the update Disco, :king:

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                        • #13
                          I hate to say this as I thing the earth of London Fletcher but...


                          It looks pretty obvious to me that Little stepped in and told his "Agent" to get the deal signed with the Rams and stop farting about ......


                          on the other hand, Fletcher must have had a brain fart, its obvious that he has left this in the hands of his "agent" and the agent screwed him up.

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                          • #14
                            These secret agents...

                            "Agents." :confused:

                            I wonder what level of loyalty these fellows might sustain for an NFL team. That's obviously NOT their kind of business; apparently it cannot be in their interest. But fans and players need them: at times it is unfortunate for them, other times it becomes so unfortunate for the club -- and us!

                            :mask: Bah!
                            Glad Little is back with the Rams. Duncan should be a fine :helmet: LB.

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                            • #15
                              from Barry Waller (clanram feature writer)

                              Fletcher has a bad agent. Little has Rocky Arceneaux, who is Faulk's agent and lives in St Louis and is considered one of the best. I think the loyalty issue was big for Little.

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                              • r8rh8rmike
                                The Legacy Of Leonard Little
                                by r8rh8rmike
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                                By Nick Wagoner
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                                So it was that then coach Mike Martz made the decision that the best way for Little to unlock his many skills was to get his behind kicked every day in practice.

                                “If you were going to get better, you were going to have to go against someone great,” Little said. “I was going against the best every single day in training camp. He told me if I was going to be an impact player in this league, I have to practice against the best and Orlando Pace was the best.”

                                Practice after practice, repetition after repetition, all world left tackle Pace utterly destroyed Little. Every move Little made was turned away, every spin move stonewalled.

                                Eventually, Little had a breakthrough. After hundreds, perhaps thousands of opportunities, Little finally began to solve Pace or at least battle him to a draw.

                                “He was the best at the time and when I first went against him it was intimidating because he was a great player,” Little said. “He would get the best of me and I’d keep battling and then beat him sometimes. He would beat me. It went back and forth. But I think that was the first time I realized I could play in this league.”

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                              • RamWraith
                                Little Working to Return
                                by RamWraith
                                Thursday, March 27, 2008

                                By Nick Wagoner
                                Senior Writer

                                After finding himself in a precarious position that could have ended his tenure with the only NFL team he’s ever known, defensive end Leonard Little arrived in St. Louis this week for the team’s offseason conditioning program with a bit of a chip on his shoulder.

                                When you’re one of the team’s highest paid defenders and a veritable one man pass rush, a single sack in seven games and a season ending toe injury isn’t exactly the type of return anyone is looking for.

                                While Little understands that, he also recognizes that he isn’t that far removed from being one of the best edge rushers in the NFL.

                                “People don’t remember that the year before that when I had like 13.5 (sacks),” Little said. “I know I can still do it, and obviously the team knows I can still do it. It’s just a matter of me going out and doing it. Last year, I missed a lot of opportunities for sacks and stuff like that. I don’t like to dwell on last year because it’s passed, but I missed a lot of opportunities. This year, I just have to capitalize on opportunities and hopefully come out a little better.”

                                The opportunity to improve on a disappointing 2007 in which he was regularly getting close to quarterbacks but not finishing the job almost came in a different NFL city.

                                On Feb. 27, just before the start of the free agency period, the Rams and Little worked to re-structure the multi-million dollar contract he signed near the end of the 2006 season. Little was due a $7.17 million roster bonus and would have had the largest cap number on the team heading into 2008.

                                That number would have severely affected the team’s ability to make any kind of a splash in free agency. That left both sides with two options: re-structure or part ways.

                                Little prepared himself for either scenario.

                                “It’s a business before anything else,” Little said. “I kind of figured if they were going to do it, they were going to do it. If not, then I was going to move on and hopefully go somewhere else. I wasn’t really concerned about it. If it happened, it happened. If it didn’t, it didn’t. I was prepared either way. That’s the way I took it.”

                                For a player who has been with the Rams for the entirety of his 10-year career, the thought of not being in St. Louis wasn’t the most appealing option.

                                “It was pretty simple,” Little said. “I thought about it like I was here 10 years of my career, and it would be good to end my career here, but if I had to go to another team, I would be willing to do that.”

                                Ultimately, Little and the Rams struck a deal that would keep him in St. Louis and save the team upwards of $3.5 million in salary cap space, money the team would spend in the hours after the re-structure.

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                                -03-27-2008, 03:45 PM
                              • RamWraith
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                                Little missed a pair of games after finding out about the shooting death of his brother before returning to the field with a heavy heart. With the Rams struggling, particularly on defense, Little couldn’t find a way to play with the passion and enthusiasm that had been motivating factors behind his immense success.

                                “Last year, it was hard for me to cope with it because he was younger than me and we grew up tight,” Little said. “We were a close knit family. Last year, I was trying to cope with it and now I just deal with it.”

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                              • RamsFan16
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                                Tonights honoree is hiding behind a tree. He stands in the chill fall darkness in his best suit.--a beautiful brown suit, a rich man's suit-- atop a hill that eases down to a high school football field. Some of the 3,000 people in the stands are here to watch his No.30 be retired at halftime soon to wach there Asheville (N.C.) High Cougars whip the North Buncombe Black Hawks. The honoree visited with the Cougars before they burst onto the field, telling them about his own life at Asheville, now 12 years gone, about how they could cherish their high school years, about the value of innocence.

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                                HE WAS quiet, at first, because he was in shock. It was Oct. 20, 1998. Leonrad Litte was in Harriman, Tenn., at the home of his mother, Wanda, in her windowless basement, the TV sitting cold. It wasn't clear who he was now, not after what happened the night before. He wasn't the boy nicknamed Head, the locla star who had overcome poverty and an absentee dad and the temptation of easy street money. He wasn't the linebacker who, with Peyton Manning, co-captained the Volunteers and then earned a special-teams spot with the St. LOuis Rams. Now he was something ugly. He spent a few days in that basement before someone knocked at the door, a man in his 40s with sandy hair and a warm smile.

                                John Berble's arrival was a suprise. They'd met at Tennessee years earlier, and Berble was a psychologist and finincial adviser for several former Vols. Everyone around Knoxville knew him as Dr. John, but Little hadn't talked to him in months. They went upstairs to the family oom, and Dr. John asked, "What Happened?"

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                                -02-19-2006, 10:56 AM
                              • ZigZagRam
                                Little Speaks - Awesome Article
                                by ZigZagRam
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                                By Jim Thomas
                                Of the Post-Dispatch
                                Saturday, Apr. 09 2005

                                Rams defensive end Leonard Little simply says he was with some friends the
                                night of April 23, 2004.

                                "Not players or anything like that," Little said Saturday. "But I was with some
                                friends, and we were just hanging out. Listening to music. It wasn't anything
                                wild or anything like that."

                                Little's alcohol consumption that night?

                                "Just two beers," Little said.

                                Well after midnight on what became April 24, Little headed home on Highway 40.
                                He lives in St. Charles, but had to drop off a friend first.

                                "I was just trying to get home," he said. "I was tired. It was late. And I'm
                                not usually up that late. I was just trying to get home. I saw the (police)
                                lights behind me. I got pulled over to the side of the road."

                                He was charged with speeding and drunken driving after being questioned by
                                Ladue police officer Gregory Stork and given field sobriety tests. Little
                                refused to submit to a breath analysis test at the Ladue police station, which
                                would have pinpointed accurately his blood-alcohol content.

                                Stork later would testify in court that there was no doubt in his mind that
                                Little was drunk. Little's attorney, Scott Rosenblum, portrayed Stork as a
                                police officer with an agenda of making as many DWI arrests as he could.

                                "I don't have anything against the police officer," Little said. "He was a nice
                                guy, but I think he just had bad intentions. That's the only comment I'll make
                                about it. I'm not here to bash the police department, because I respect police
                                and I respect authority."

                                More than 11 months later - on April 1, 2005 - a St. Louis County jury found
                                Little guilty of speeding but acquitted him of the felony drunken driving
                                charge. Had he be found guilty of drunken driving, Little could have been
                                sentenced to four years in jail under Missouri's persistent offender law
                                because of a previous drunken driving offense, one that led to a fatality. He
                                also could have been subject to suspension by the National Football League.

                                While waiting nearly five hours for the verdict, Little kept reading a prayer
                                given to his mother from James White, a pastor from back home. (Little is from
                                Asheville, N.C.; White is from nearby Spartanburg, S.C.)

                                "It said: 'Be strong and courageous. Don't be anxious. Live life anew.' Which
                                means start a new life," Little said. "It really helped me out. God's given me
                                confidence, and I had that faith that everything was going to work out fine."
                                ...
                                -04-09-2005, 09:29 PM
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