QuoteRamgator To be on the road vs a QUALITY team, in the cold and the O puts them in MANY bad spots........and only lose 15 to 6? #1. One thing all Rams losses from 2017 have in common is no sacks from AD. But I don't put that on AD. If AD is stymied someone else has to step up. Rams are too easy to figure out when it comes to that. Everyone knows who can step up if you're controlling AD, andby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteBumRap had seized control of the team. Not a fan of that game and after tonight/morning will try to forget it. With this difference. This team has both a healthy starting caliber veteran qb, and a healthy veteran OL. The previous regime, they only had both of those things in 15 out of 80 games. B) Either way, this offense is a good one and so is this coach, so I don't expect them toby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRamsFootballFans.com They are acting like they did under Fisher... 73Ram Except with a pro bowl qb and a healthy OL. ....by zn - Game Time Forum
QuoteMamaRAMa If there's no wind chill and it's relatively dry, it's doable. I used to live in Chicago. Anyone who has been in a Chicago wind chill knows what I mean.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quoteferragamo79 plain and simple Not quite. Though depends on how you mean it. They tried to pay Watkins but KC came through at the last minute with an offer the Rams were not willing to top. After that they explored the Cooks option again. It is true that they tried to trade for Cooks the year before and the Patz drove up the price of the trade too high. It is true that McV wanted Cooks in thby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRams43 Quotezn I think one main thing with McCarthy is that the new GM was not behind him. GB fired Ted Thompson who is the guy who hired McCarthy. Team president Murphy took over hiring and firing of head coaches. McCarthy was a Thompson hire. The new GM was his hire. With Thompson gone the people in the front office were not the ones who hired McCarthy--he wasn't "their guy." Havby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
I think one main thing with McCarthy is that the new GM was not behind him. GB fired Ted Thompson who is the guy who hired McCarthy. Team president Murphy took over hiring and firing of head coaches. McCarthy was a Thompson hire. The new GM was his hire. With Thompson gone the people in the front office were not the ones who hired McCarthy--he wasn't "their guy." Having "your guy&qby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRockRam Wilson is by no means the "new running QB" that the media talks about all the time. He is a completely unique animal. He can do things that other "running QBs" can't do.....such as stay healthy. He is so darn smart and accurate. You could make a highlight reel of him running AND passing. Wilson is one of those guys you stumble across; you don't plan for him. Lby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRockRam He wants to play an antiquated style of football that doesn't work. Well it does for Seattle. Though of course the difference is Wilson. They're 7-5 and are 9th in the league in points.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSunTzu_vs_Camus at the end of his drop on many many passes in the Lions game....they were doing something that took away those intermediate passes...Goff pulled down so many and then stumbled around awkwardly in the pocket...he's sure not a Wentz type in the pocket and more like a KWarner as far as his movement. imo However, again...the Lions were doin somethin that confused Goff and theby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteNewMexicoRam 32 degrees at game time, mostly cloudy. Basically a nice day then.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotedzrams One can rationalize Goff not being ready I personally don't "rationalize" that, I see that as just plain true. Plus as I said the move messed with them, to the point where LA reporters were saying in advance don't expect a team that moves to win, they never do. And of top of it Gurley had an "off" year for him to the point where McGinnis said he was playing hurby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRamBill Todd Gurley named NFC offensive player of the week I think maybe you mean to edit that post title? (Just a friendly support comment). Or...and this is always possible...maybe there's a joke I didn't get?by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteLMU93 Between the offense and defense I'd rather see the Rams improve somewhat in red zone scoring defense. They're 23rd (62.2%) after being 58.0% (which was also 23rd) last year. 58.0% would be 15th this season. They're getting better on 3rd downs defensively. Just 29% the past 3 games which is 3rd best in the league. 39.4% (17th) for the season. Fowler, Talib, etc. likely helping therby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotedzrams QuoteRams43 For openers, I think all posters in this thread have made good points. But this is a multifaceted issue and here goes... 1. Yeah, there was a lot of talent on this roster when McVay walked in the door. Largely misused, but it WAS there. Goff and Gurley immediately morphed from bust to Pro Bowl status. 2. McVay quickly made excellent asst coaching hires. The importby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRamgator Mine is easy .... Vince to Waddy and as time expired to that game. When Waddy scored, I literally almost busted our screen door off the house and ran a lap in our cul de sac. Yeah. Easy. Vince to Waddy. I started jumping on and off the couch.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotedzrams Quotezn Quotedzrams Cowherd is right in the sense that teams see McVay's success and want the same results. Consequently, coaches will be fired. Teams are looking for the innovative, energetic coach who will bring them up to date with the modern offensive game. And quickly. You keep bringing up all of these old coaches from 20-50 years back which misses one of the main pointsby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRams43 Heck, they even have 3 Elite players (Top 3 at their position in the entire league). Aaron Donald Todd Gurley Johnny Hekker Don’t know for sure, but is there another team with 3 Elites on it? And Sean McVay is an Elite HC. We are blessed, y’all. Well you're right about all that. Just to add on. Plus a very talented and up and coming qb. He's not top 3 yet but Iby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotedzrams Cowherd is right in the sense that teams see McVay's success and want the same results. Consequently, coaches will be fired. Teams are looking for the innovative, energetic coach who will bring them up to date with the modern offensive game. And quickly. You keep bringing up all of these old coaches from 20-50 years back which misses one of the main points of Cowherd and the aby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRampage2K- Not really the point, zn. Point is teams see what McVay has done and want the same results with an energetic young coach who is imaginative with the offense. You can point out all those old guys who were quick with the turnarounds and all that other stuff you want...not really the point here. McVay took the WORST offense in the league and turned them into the BEST offenseby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotedzrams Cowherd said McVay is going to get a lot of coaches fired. Sure sounds like that is the case. The climate in the NFL seems to have changed where teams have less patience for long rebuilds. GB was not in a rebuild. And it's entirely possible it won't be next year either. They have Rodgers, they have a top OL (including one of the 2-3 best young LOTs in the league), and a lot of youngby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotejemach Yesterday, when he ran it up the gut it was stuffed over and over again.. I think that was a case of Detroit being well-coached enough to attack and negate things the Rams are good at. Like the screen pass, which they also had some success attacking. Doesn't mean the Rams should abandon the screen pass. And besides, of Gurley's 20 carries, only 4 were up the middle.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quote1) Goff's accuracy, decision making and ball security - I think this is self explanatory... Don't agree. Not only is it far from self-explanatory, I think it's incorrect in general. He had 3 games where he struggled on the road. Though they won all 3 (@Seattle, Denver, Detroit). In all the rest he's fine, and that includes against top defenses like Seattle (in LA) and the Chargers.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteznPatricia and the Lions had 3 extra days to study the Rams cause their last game was a Thursday nighter. Spielman, during the game, kept pointing out that the Lions D was reading some thing the Rams were doing that other defenses had not figured out how to read For example the 2 consecutive near pick 6's on screens. Those weren't bad Goff plays, those were the defenders pulling up becaby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotewaterfield They clearly wanted to run as much time off the clock AND still score which they did. Had he run into the end zone the Lions would have been down the same score but with more time to play. Of course that doesn't work if the Rams can't score or they fumble on the next down or two, etc. A fumble is possible. But there's no scenario where they don't score. If they didn't score theby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSpeed_Kills McVay's pretty danged smart but I don't know that anyone is saying he told Gurley to do it. I think these two games where he's done it, he's done it on his own. The first time we know for certain that came from M cVay. He talked about how he told Goff to remind the team, don't score. So far today there is no direct quotation but yes absolutely McVay has done that before.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteClassicalwit . . . which was written by a sports journalist who stated that Aaron Donald spent most of the game today "reeking havoc" on the Detroit Lion offense. Surely American English is on it's deathbed. Yeah! It's "reeking havoK" with a K. As everyone knohws. . B) Jokes aside I agree.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteClassicalwit ZN your writing and your arguments for everything you discuss are so clear and precise. Are/ were you a professor or something? Thank you. I take that as a big compliment. My (half-joking) response is, I write the same post over and over so that eventually I get better at it. B)by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteClassicalwit I think what Donald is doing is unprecedented for an interior defensive lineman. Yeah if they had to, they could find another franchise qb. That's not to diminish who and what Goff is. If they had to, they could find another franchise RB. Same thing. That's not a diss on Gurley. NO ONE will find another Donald, at least not for another 20-25 years (that number is baby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotemax He did play like that. Just awful. Denver, for example. He wasn't fairly "off" in the first Seattle game, too, but not like this game and the Denver game. Sometimes Goff is just inexplicably down. A lot of it is the defense too. This game: 17 of 33 for 207, 1 TD 1 INT qb rating 68.6 Denver game: 14 of 28 for 201, 0 TD 1 INT gb rating 58.8 People just wrote the Denby zn - RamsFootballFans.com