PRO FOOTBALL : DAILY REPORT : RAMS : Holdouts Won’t Hold Up Robinson

With 10 veterans and six draft picks still left unsigned and training camp opening Wednesday, Ram Coach John Robinson made it clear that this year he is prepared to go on without anyone who stages a long holdout.

Last year, besieged and distracted by holdouts, the Rams sputtered in training camp and never recovered.

“We’re not going to get caught in the starting gate like we did last year,” Robinson said as his team wrapped up its final practice of a five-day mini-camp at Rams Park. “What I have to do this year is build this team with the people that are here.

“Last year I think we all got caught up in it. Maybe we exaggerated it. . . . And I’m very much prepared to go with the guys who are here and give whoever’s here an opportunity to be a starter. At all the positions I look at holdouts, I look at someone else at every one of those positions and say, ‘You know, we can get along without this guy.’ ”

Bob Woolf, agent for No. 1 pick Todd Lyght, said the four-year, $6-million deal Cleveland gave safety Eric Turner, the No. 2 pick overall, should open the floodgates for signing top picks.

“I assume things will start to move on pretty quickly now,” said Woolf, who also represents linebacker Mike Croel, No. 4 selection overall by Denver. “There was no market value set, but now the signing of Turner should be very helpful to give fair market value.”

Although No. 2 pick Roman Phifer also remains unsigned, the Rams are believed to be very close to a deal with the former UCLA linebacker. . . . Ram Vice President Jay Zygmunt had a 90-minute meeting with Ted Marchibroda Jr., agent for wide receiver Flipper Anderson, and Marchibroda said both sides agreed to meet today. Anderson wants his contract renegotiated.