Re: simple

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Speed_Kills
because I don't believe they can win every game on the final play of the game like they have every week with their star player not being a factor

that and as I clearly spelled out they actually beat the Bills a team they should beat at home.... something they haven't done under Fisher

have at ...be giddy that they beat the Seahawks and Cardinals (just like they did this time last year)

The Falcons started last season 6-2 and finished it 2-6 (stuff happens)

If I want to be cautious what do you care? That's all it is...its not a diss. Carry on yourself

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Suh-weet!

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Speed_Kills
I just wrote something similar

we have to acknowledge when players do something well...even if we don't like them

look... I'm not changing the 7-9 thingy but I might if they can beat the Bills Sunday - Because that is a game that they generally lose. Beat the teams that you are supposed to on your own turf.

Remember in 2012 Jets at the Rams - Rex Ryan comes into St Louis and the Rams were coming off a big game against the 49ers. A game they should have won but ended in a 24-24 tie

The Jets under Ryan came in a pummeled the Rams

Sorry I can't change the 7 win talk... not just yet

Show me Rams!!!

Unless you expected them to be 3-1, why *wouldn't* you change your 7-9 prediction? And you say if they beat the Bills, you *might* change that prediction? So you might also predict that a 4-1 team will go 3-8 the rest of the way. Really? It's obviously possible, but hard to believe you genuinely would expect them to.

The underlying sentiment, presumably, is that even at 3-1 you're far from convinced there're a "good" team., which is fine. Still, if a .500 (or so) team somehow lucks into a 4-1 start, it still doesn't make sense to think they'll then become a much-worse-than-.500 team.

Anyho... carry on!

I'm really not trying to fuss w/you; just trying to understand your thinking. I get that you don't yet believe they're as good as 3-1 might suggest. And of course it could happen that they win in Buffalo and then go 3-8 (or 0-11, for that matter).

I'm making a different point.

If you think the Rams are *really* a .500 team, more or less, then you're saying you expect them to win half their games from here on out.

That implies you expect them to go, say, 6-6 over the last 12. Which would make them 9-7. Or you could say, eh, I think they'll probably go 5-7. Which would get them to 8-8.

But that's not what you said. You said even if they beat Buffalo you might not change your prediction. Meaning that if they're 4-1, you predict that they'll go about 3-8 the rest of the way. Maybe you really are saying that. But a 3-8 team is actually quite a bit worse than a 7-9, per your preseason prediction.

I'd *expect* you to say: hmmm, the Rams have surprised me, but I don't think they're nearly as good as their record. So even if they're 4-1 after Sunday, I might predict them to go, say, 5-6 the rest of the way. Which gets them to 9-7.

Anyho...