Maybe we should have taken Caldwell in the 3rd, or moved up…??? His brother is in STL…

We couldn’t take Caldwell in the 3rd - we really needed a lineman that credibly can play T.

We couldn’t take Caldwell in the 3rd - we really needed a lineman that credibly can play T.

Maybe the Rams finally got the receiver they thought they were getting when they signed Drew Bennett.

Nothing to do with the draft, but just read that Matt Morris was released by the Pirates. They have to pay his $10 million salary this year. Is he worth picking up by the Cards to see if he has anything left? By the way, I like the pick of Chris Long. Hope the rest of the draft works out better than the last few years.

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I DON’T LIKE OUR FIRST ROUND PICK…….I THINK THAT BECAUSE THIS IS ST. LOUIS, PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR A WHITE HERO INSTEAD OF THE MOST HERALDED PLAYER…WARREN SAPP OR GRANT WISTROM? YOU TELL ME.

I’ll take Warren Sapp over the capable Wistrom. We drafted so high in the rounds that it is hard to screw it up. And we may not have this chance to draft this high again. Part of drafting is timing-if you have a sleeper pick you sit on it to the just the right time. You don’t jump on a small speed guy from a weak league on the second pick of the second round. We could have had Avery in the 6th round, and Greco could have probably gone a round on or two later. The Rams jumping the gun on these picks crosses over to incompetence.

Tony,

I hate that kind of garbage. The question comes down to if the Rams were better with Carriker inside or outside. I think, in a vacuum, we would take either player, with a slight edge to Dorsey. We don’t live in a vacuum, and keeping Carriker inside provides you with two years of productive 1st round players. I don’t think Carriker can play DE in the NFL, and I don’t think Dorsey would be so disruptive in the middle that it would compensate for that lack of production.

It’s not about race. It’s a logical decision to make the team better. Add to it the fact that the Rams have an history of working with Long’s agent, and the decision should have been a no-brainer. I’m sorry you feel that there was a mistake made, but there are a multitude of reasons for this pick beyond whatever racial resentments that you, or others, might harbor.

Seems like the Rams draft the same guys each year. Round 1 - big, strong, white defensive end with around 4.74 speed. Hello again, Adam Carriker. Round 2 - small, black, speedster WR from a lesser school Derek Stanley II? I was wondering who else we could clone - maybe take Brad Cottam as a Klop clone, or Owen Schmidt to replace Mad Hedgecock? Nope, another converted wide receiver with good speed who now plays cornerback but not verry well. I guess we needed another Jonathon Wade

Wouldn’t a better comparison be Howie Long or Warren Sapp?

Shut up people! Your lucky we didn’t draft 7 tight ends. Thats what I wanted to do!!

anybody who thinks NFL coaches are racists is insane. Your have one of only 31 such jobs in the world, paying you millions of dollars a year to win. If you don’t win you get your butt fired. Show me one guy who doesn’t play the best players. You are telling me that coaches will forfeit millions and a lifetime of financial security to play a white player for the sake of making a racist point? If you believe that you aren’t smart enough to find your way to the Jones Dome and if you found it, you’d show up on the wrong day. I would almost gladly pay the higher taxes Obama is going to charge everyone if it would end this kind of talk. You want to argue we needed inside help insead of outside, fine (and I would agree with you), but get off that lame racial crap.

Anyone who thinks NFL coaches are racists is insane. You have one of only 31 such jobs paying you millions of dollars to win and if you lose you get your butt fired. You are telling me that you would take a lessor white player to make a racist point that might cost your family a big paycheck? Sorry. Anyone who believes that probably couldn’t find their way to the Jones Dome and if they found it they would be there on the wrong day. If you want to argue we needed inside help instead of outside, (and I would agree with you), fine. Get off this racial crap.

No, jjk.

He wasn’t calling the coaches racist. He was calling those of us who live in the St. Louis area and root for the Rams racists. I don’t appreciate it, and I’m tired of every disagreement denegrating into a race issue. There are racists on both sides of the argument in this, and every market. That doesn’t mean that MOST of us are. I’m tired of it being implied that St. Louis is somehow significantly more prone to this issue than any other metropolitan area in the country. It is crap. I travel a lot, and I see the same issues here as anywhere else.

The last time I checked, Marshall Faulk, DeMarco Farr, Leonard Little, Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, London Fletcher, Aenaes Williams, etc. (shall I go on?!) were NOT white players. Each was extremely well received in this market. If Dorsey had come here, I’m sure he also would have been as well received as Long has been.

The problem is that those who continually feel the need to bring up race, won’t listen to reason on the topic. I’m sure Tony will simply dismiss this as being naive.

Message to Tony: We obviously took Chris Long because he was white - not because he was the best Defensive End in the draft (undisputed)

not because we our sack total was horrible last year from our DE position and DE is what we needed

not because he could play the 3-4 or the 4-3

and not because he was the best all around pick and had no health concerns.

and not because he was rated on most draft boards as the #1 pick in the draft

But obviously we picked him because he was white

Back to this pick, Keenan Burton (I hope he wasn’t named after Mike Keenan) but I digress. The only way this team is better than last year after this draft is if they draft the Las Vegas magician Lance Burton!

Seriously Wistrom vs Sapp? You can guarantee that was was Long vs Dorsey boiled down to? Or is it more like Kearney vs damione lewis or ryan pickett or jimmy kennedy? it is ludicrous to assume that long = wistrom and dorsey = sapp. if anyone really could predict that, do you think it would have even been an issue? Put down your fantasy draft guide for one second.

Also, for years the draft graders have say Arizona, Lions, etc have had amazing drafts, and where are they? everyone poo-poos the packers drafts, but they end up in the nfc title game. no one lauds the Giants drafts (including the eli year) but they won the bowl. So Tony, I urge you, step away from your stack of draft previews and take a deep breath.

The rams draft stupidly. They should have taken limas sweed with the 2nd pick. Sweed is a 1st round talent who went middle 2nd. This would have eliminated the need to draft, or should i more acuretly say… a reach, burton. Why would you trade up to reach for someone? Also just as big of a reach was avery. This pick is proof that the rams have no faith in stanley, irregardless of how well they might lie about it.

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