All right, Rams Nation, I'm super excited about the guests we have on today. He's a former scout. He was a recruiter for Akron and Pitt, spent 10 years over at ESPN, and now we are lucky enough to have them over here on the Lockdown Network. He is the host of the Lockdown NFL show. He is Matt Williamson. Matt, thanks for joining us. How you doing today, bud?

Yeah, absolutely. I'm psyched to talk. You know, we set this up, what, late last week. And as we were emailing back and forth, your Rams were making move after move. And obviously, we had to wait

over the weekend until we actually get to have this chat today. But it almost feels like it's yesterday's news because the NFL's moving so fast. But I am really excited to dig in and talk Rams. Yeah, it has been crazy. I think you're right. Every email that we had, there was a move that happened right after that. So I was kind of expecting, it was kind of a quiet weekend here, you know, thinking, wow, they've done so many trades. And you saw some of the other teams like the Browns chip in with their, their movement. And you saw how their offense has almost switched overnight and some of the potential they have with their draft picks. Rams finally have a first round pick as well. And we've got still some question marks out here. You know, obviously the Peters and Talib trade and then they, you know,

tagged Lamarcus Joyner. We added Sam Shields, you know, let go of Alec Ogletree and Robert Quinn,

Tavon Austin today. I don't know if it was actually made official, but I know that they

basically came out and said they're releasing Tavon Austin. Tremaine Johnson had his goodbye

letter to Rams on social media, so we're not expecting him to be

back.

But there's still a couple other question marks.

Sammy Watkins being that big one, he's another guy that's kind of posted on Twitter a little

bit with kind of some messages where he said it sounds like things are getting close.

And you were like, is it close to the NFL New Year where you get to go to be a free agent? things are getting close and you're like is it close to the NFL

New Year where you get to go to be free agent or are we close on contract talks what are we talking

about Sammy your take on what we have left on this roster where we have some question marks

and particularly Sammy Watkins what's going on with them what do you expect and what do you

recommend yeah and let's dig into that for a minute, or in a minute.

There's one thing I just wanted to kind of mention to sort of start the show is,

obviously your fan base knows this, but this is also going to be a locked on NFL show

that might not be as downed into the Rams.

Right.

You've got to think, I mean, you've got to think, McVeigh took this team over after a four and 12 season in 2016.

And yeah, you know, they were moving and everybody wants to blame Fisher.

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