I'm starting to get worried about Bradford.
He was put on a shitty team with a shitty head coach and has had a couple of injuries now. You gotta think his confidence is shot right now.
The Rams should've drafted Suh and drafted a 1st round QB after the CBA for financial reasons alone and I remembered saying that at the time. Whatever head coach comes in is now forced to go with Bradford as his QB.
Before the draft last year, while everyone was screaming about Bradford, I was insisting on Suh.
My line of thinking, was some teams are just not ready to draft a QB (I believe larry was the only one to agree with me). The Rams had a bad o-line, bad WR's, and a bad defense. That's a perfect storm to both physically and mentally destory a young QB. The Rams team Bradford was drafted into helped destroy the career of a pretty good veteran Pro Bowl caliber QB (Bulger).
When a team has holes at every position on the field, they need to draft
football players, not QB's. Suh is a football player, and he was a sure thing. QB's are NEVER a sure thing. Ever. The Rams could have drafted a QB later in the draft (McCoy) or gotten one later after building a more stable team to surround one with.
People are saying the Rams should draft RGIII, which is even more stupid. Again, this team needs FOOTBALL PLAYERS, it does not need to pay 40-50% of the salary cap on QB's. The Rams need to trade down and acquire as many picks as possible, and get some talent on what is easily the least talented team in the NFL (which has been the case for three years under ***** *********, who failed to increase the talent level with his awful player evaluation).
With all of that said, it's impossible to evaluate Bradford based on 2011. He was playing on a badly injured ankle, with no talent around him, for a terrible coach. Throw it out, it didn't happen.
The Rams will hire a real head coach, a real GM, and finally start acquiring talented football players. Then we will see what Bradford brings to the table. This year goes into the garbage, only the progress of Chris Long can be quantified, the rest was just the result of the incompetent brain trust that will be history tomorrow morning.