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With Bradford gone, the Rams need a QB...

Tolar's Ghost

Waterboy
They're going to start working out quarterbacks on Monday.

So if I'm Rick Smith, I'm on the phone to the Rams. Not to offer Schaub - all they need is another injury-prone QB - but Yates.

Get a draft pick and let Keenum take it the rest of the way, with Schaub as his backup. Yates is clearly expendable.
 

EllisUnit

Vote RED!!!
They're going to start working out quarterbacks on Monday.

So if I'm Rick Smith, I'm on the phone to the Rams. Not to offer Schaub - all they need is another injury-prone QB - but Yates.

Get a draft pick and let Keenum take it the rest of the way, with Schaub as his backup. Yates is clearly expendable.
there is a yates on pretty much every roster, i doubt we would get much at all, i would send Schaub there or any where for even a 2nd and 3rd rounder.
 

Tolar's Ghost

Waterboy
I don't think Schaub would bring a second- or third-rounder.

Great if it would happen. But I don't see it. At least not now...maybe after the season.

I do think Yates would bring something in the fifth-round range. That's OK. I just think they (the Rams) are pretty desperate.
 

EllisUnit

Vote RED!!!
I don't think Schaub would bring a second- or third-rounder.

Great if it would happen. But I don't see it. At least not now...maybe after the season.

I do think Yates would bring something in the fifth-round range. That's OK. I just think they (the Rams) are pretty desperate.
my 2nd and 3rd was best case scenario haha, who knows he might not even get us mr irrelevant.
 

Corrosion

Idealist
Staff member
i would send Schaub there or any where for even a 2nd and 3rd rounder.
Its really hard to trade players in the NFL because of the way the salary cap works. Schaub's signing bonus makes that very unlikely. I believe they would have to eat the entire bonus under the cap now .... instead of having it spread over either the remainder of his deal or the next two seasons should he be cut after the season and designated a June 1 cut.

Also the Rams would have to have room under the cap to make to take on his salary. I don't know what their cap situation is .... but Schaub's salary is large enough that it would not be as simple as you might think.


We're stuck with Schaub being on the roster for the remainder of the season ....:rake:
 
They've seen Schaub play first-hand. They'd probably ask for us to package picks with that loser for them to take him off our hands. Same thing with Yates, they'd have no interest in either of those jokers.
 

gafftop

All Pro
Its really hard to trade players in the NFL because of the way the salary cap works. Schaub's signing bonus makes that very unlikely. I believe they would have to eat the entire bonus under the cap now .... instead of having it spread over either the remainder of his deal or the next two seasons should he be cut after the season and designated a June 1 cut.

Also the Rams would have to have room under the cap to make to take on his salary. I don't know what their cap situation is .... but Schaub's salary is large enough that it would not be as simple as you might think.


We're stuck with Schaub being on the roster for the remainder of the season ....:rake:
Someone please explain to me how you think Rick Smith should still have a job as GM. He may or may not get the things that don't really matter right or wrong, but who cares when he misses on every major decision that will really mold the team for the future.
 

chicagotexan2

Easterby = Little Finger/Cal = Fredo Corleone
They've seen Schaub play first-hand. They'd probably ask for us to package picks with that loser for them to take him off our hands. Same thing with Yates, they'd have no interest in either of those jokers.
Yeah I dont see any scenario where teh Rams or any team for that matter would want to trade for Schaub or Yates.
 

Norg

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best case we could get a 3rd for matt maybe but I doubt FIsher would want him esp since he seen him last week LOL
 

Corrosion

Idealist
Staff member
Someone please explain to me how you think Rick Smith should still have a job as GM. He may or may not get the things that don't really matter right or wrong, but who cares when he misses on every major decision that will really mold the team for the future.
I'm probably in the minority but I think they have done a reasonable job in managing the cap situation.

This season is a bitter pill to swallow because of the sky high expectations we had going in .....
 

b0ng

Bad Hombre
I'm probably in the minority but I think they have done a reasonable job in managing the cap situation.

This season is a bitter pill to swallow because of the sky high expectations we had going in .....
This post is correct. There's some sort of groupthink that just started that thinks everything going on is the fault of Smith. Glover Quin is a solid player, he's not some superstar, and Smith went out and tried to hit a home run with Reed to try to catch one or two more seasons of big play.

As far as the draft goes I'm pretty much going to ignore the people who will inevitably come in and talk about how any good or great draft pick we've had the past 6 years is due to <insert coordinator here>, or was lucky or whatever. Rick Smith was the only part I was really wavering on whether I'd want him to be gone in a total house cleaning at the end of the year if it were to happen (yes, even our beloved Wade Phillips).
 

Premier

Rookie
They've seen Schaub play first-hand. They'd probably ask for us to package picks with that loser for them to take him off our hands. Same thing with Yates, they'd have no interest in either of those jokers.
idk, if they think perhaps schaub is slumping and could get it together they might bite. thats assuming they want to give bradford some competition next year, they could trade for schaub and have him under contract. i keep hearing fans of other teams saying they would take schaub in a heartbeat, people get caught up in stats.
 

gafftop

All Pro
I'm probably in the minority but I think they have done a reasonable job in managing the cap situation.

This season is a bitter pill to swallow because of the sky high expectations we had going in .....
What is most important task of GM?

GK still here.
MS given contract.

If you say Rick does not have the power then we need a REAL GM, not a Kubiak buddy.

I guess we will just disagree.
 

Corrosion

Idealist
Staff member
What is most important task of GM?

GK still here.
MS given contract.

If you say Rick does not have the power then we need a REAL GM, not a Kubiak buddy.

I guess we will just disagree.
I don't blame Kubiak all that much either .... He wasn't the one throwing touchdowns to the other team.


I also don't blame him for sticking with Schaub .... a guy who won you 12 games last year over Yates and an undrafted Keenum (despite his play yesterday - hindsight is always 20-20).

I don't think anyone here expected such a regression by Schaub .... no one thought he would be a world beater but to say he'd look worse than JaMarcus Russell .... or Mark Sanchez ... none of us expected that.


Also , I think they came up with a rock solid gameplan for Keenum yesterday .... that was working just fine until both Foster & Tate were injured and they got behind .... The Chiefs knew they had to throw and they got to him when it mattered most.
I know a lot of people will blame the play calling .... but keeping a back in just allows them one more rusher as they have one less guy to account for down field.

If Keenum made any mistakes yesterday it was in recognizing and accounting for the blitzers - as much the OL's fault as his.

Bottom line - they had more big plays yesterday than they had all season.
 

gafftop

All Pro
I don't blame Kubiak all that much either .... He wasn't the one throwing touchdowns to the other team.


I also don't blame him for sticking with Schaub .... a guy who won you 12 games last year over Yates and an undrafted Keenum (despite his play yesterday - hindsight is always 20-20).

I don't think anyone here expected such a regression by Schaub .... no one thought he would be a world beater but to say he'd look worse than JaMarcus Russell .... or Mark Sanchez ... none of us expected that.


Also , I think they came up with a rock solid gameplan for Keenum yesterday .... that was working just fine until both Foster & Tate were injured and they got behind .... The Chiefs knew they had to throw and they got to him when it mattered most.
I know a lot of people will blame the play calling .... but keeping a back in just allows them one more rusher as they have one less guy to account for down field.

If Keenum made any mistakes yesterday it was in recognizing and accounting for the blitzers - as much the OL's fault as his.

Bottom line - they had more big plays yesterday than they had all season.
Ok, but really has nothing to do with my post about GM that you were responding to.
 

Playoffs

Hall of Fame
I don't blame Kubiak all that much either .... He wasn't the one throwing touchdowns to the other team.


I also don't blame him for sticking with Schaub .... a guy who won you 12 games last year over Yates and an undrafted Keenum (despite his play yesterday - hindsight is always 20-20).

I don't think anyone here expected such a regression by Schaub .... no one thought he would be a world beater but to say he'd look worse than JaMarcus Russell .... or Mark Sanchez ... none of us expected that.


Also , I think they came up with a rock solid gameplan for Keenum yesterday .... that was working just fine until both Foster & Tate were injured and they got behind .... The Chiefs knew they had to throw and they got to him when it mattered most.
I know a lot of people will blame the play calling .... but keeping a back in just allows them one more rusher as they have one less guy to account for down field.

If Keenum made any mistakes yesterday it was in recognizing and accounting for the blitzers - as much the OL's fault as his.

Bottom line - they had more big plays yesterday than they had all season.
Exactly. :clap:
 

Dutchrudder

Hall of Fame
The Rams currently have $257,903 in available cap space, so no, they can't take Schaub's contract even if they wanted to. Yates is certainly doable, but unlikely to yield anything more than a 5th round pick.
 

Carr Bombed

Hall of Fame
Nobody would trade a hill of beans for Yates right now, he has no trade value. The league view is he is a back up QB who couldn't take advantage of a struggling starter and he just got beat out by a UDFA.. He has no trade value,
 

deucetx

Rookie
Unless they expect their team to make a serious playoff run I highly doubt they'll go making a trade for someone that could cost them valuable picks. They are building for the future. They'll accept that Bradford is hurt and sign someone off the street most likely. Fisher is not the type to be unrealistic. His team is not a playoff team just yet.

Clemens will be their QB and they'll have someone back him up from the street corner who was selling life insurance a week ago. What this really means is that it is likely Bradford will find someone in camp next year that can threaten his job via the draft.
 

bigmck

Rookie
I'm probably in the minority but I think they have done a reasonable job in managing the cap situation.
If a team is not close to the Cap, then the GM has not done his job. Being 20 million below the Cap is not good at all. The money needs to be spent every year to be competitive.
 
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