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Assuming the Alex Barron trade goes through, the Rams will have a total of four players on the roster drafted between 2005 and 2007. Hats off to Victor Adeyanju, Clifton Ryan, OJ Atogwe, Ron Bartell for surviving the most tumultuous period of Rams football in recent memory. Your commemorative T-Shirt is in the mail. Seven rounds, multiple picks in many of them, and The St. Louis Rams managed so come away with four players still under contract. Three of them are solid starters. The other is a valuable backup.
People wonder why the offense is anaemic. Rams fans pine for the heyday of 1999-2001 and will likely settle for a romp through 2006, the last time that the unit was even slightly cohesive for all sixteen games. To find anything that even slightly resembles an offensive starter you have to broaden the margins again. The 2004 draft heralded us Steven Jackson and the 2008 draft brought Donnie Avery to the spiral horns (and the jury is still out there). In five years, we've managed to draft two starters for our offense.
Alex Barron? Gone.
Richie Incognito? Buh-bye.
Claude Terrell? See ya.
Joe Klopfenstein, Dominique Byrd? You better believe it.
Brian Leonard, Thanks for playing.
You'll hear some posters go on and on about Marc Bulger. You'll hear how he single-handedly collapsed what was, until '06, a very good offensive unit, into a complete shambles. You'll hear that it was Marc Bulger's idea to throw the five yard hitch on every other passing play, to run it on third and ten and to never, ever attempt a pass over 20 yards in length.
Let's talk about necessity. When you can only pull two offensive starters from five entire drafts, there's little wonder why the Rams were limited to short plays and long 3rd down conversions. There was no other choice. You'll hear from far and wide posters on this board and abroad who will happily assert that Marc Bulger killed this franchise. You want somebody to blame? Take a look at this guy:
Here's your problem. He's responsible not only for Barron et al, but for the perennial failures we like to call Jerome Carter, Jon Wade, Jon Alston, Adam Carriker Claude Wroten and Tye Hill.
So you want to know what SUX?
People wonder why the offense is anaemic. Rams fans pine for the heyday of 1999-2001 and will likely settle for a romp through 2006, the last time that the unit was even slightly cohesive for all sixteen games. To find anything that even slightly resembles an offensive starter you have to broaden the margins again. The 2004 draft heralded us Steven Jackson and the 2008 draft brought Donnie Avery to the spiral horns (and the jury is still out there). In five years, we've managed to draft two starters for our offense.
Alex Barron? Gone.
Richie Incognito? Buh-bye.
Claude Terrell? See ya.
Joe Klopfenstein, Dominique Byrd? You better believe it.
Brian Leonard, Thanks for playing.
You'll hear some posters go on and on about Marc Bulger. You'll hear how he single-handedly collapsed what was, until '06, a very good offensive unit, into a complete shambles. You'll hear that it was Marc Bulger's idea to throw the five yard hitch on every other passing play, to run it on third and ten and to never, ever attempt a pass over 20 yards in length.
Let's talk about necessity. When you can only pull two offensive starters from five entire drafts, there's little wonder why the Rams were limited to short plays and long 3rd down conversions. There was no other choice. You'll hear from far and wide posters on this board and abroad who will happily assert that Marc Bulger killed this franchise. You want somebody to blame? Take a look at this guy:
Here's your problem. He's responsible not only for Barron et al, but for the perennial failures we like to call Jerome Carter, Jon Wade, Jon Alston, Adam Carriker Claude Wroten and Tye Hill.
So you want to know what SUX?
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