So what's worse?

Is it worse that Orlando Pace got dominated by Kyle Vanden Bosch in Saturday night's game,
or that Pace has pretty much dominated Chris Long all of training camp?

At first it seemed fine that Pace was taking care of Long. Orlando's supposed to make everybody he goes up against look bad.

Then Saturday night, you see (admittedly, a Pro Bowler himself) Vanden Bosch whip Pace on just about every play and make him look like a lightweight. You see that the Pace the Rams have got right now is maybe 50 or 60 percent of the Pace you were expecting (and are still hoping to get back).

What does that say about Long? He gets stonewalled by a 50% Orlando Pace all day long?

Not good. Not freaking good at all. It's starting to look like a completely wrong move to have taken the 3-4 Long and try converting him to 4-3. It's starting to look like he needs to be a stand-up pass rusher if he's ever going to see a NFL backfield. I'm seeing a run/pass platoon with him and James Hall in his immediate future. I'm not sure there's more than platooning in his long-term future, if it's in a 4-3.

It's really starting to look like I should have taken Long's 4-3 inexperience much more into account when I opined he was the perfect player for the Rams in April.