Because you usually take off your Ram glasses when calling outcomes.
I have no idea who is going to win.
Here are factors I'll be watching.
1. Three names - Russell Wilson, Frank Clark, Doug Baldwin. I don't need to explain Wilson. I thought Clark beat Whitworth in their first matchup and that was a factor derailing the Ram offense. When Wilson runs around and gets loose, Baldwin is more often than not the guy that he finds downfield wide open somewhere. They practice it. And it seems like Seahawk receivers just have a much better feel for the jump timing of those Wilson prayers than opposing DB's.
2. Crowd noise - It will be intense cacophany all afternoon there, unless the Rams take a HUGE lead. IMO, crowd noise (example - Vikings, Eagle fans at LA) has had big effect on Goff, and the pace and rhythm of the offense. It almost seems to me that it has gotten to be a bigger problem later in the season than it was early (as in Dallas). I speculate that McVay is trying to have Goff do more at the LOS, where before they ran more hurryup with the first play called. It may be helpful for development, but not beneficial in the short term.
3. Ram pass rushers need to keep their feet. How many times against Keenum and Wentz did we see them dive or lunge and miss, then the QB skips away into open territory and has a chance to get his feet set for a throw. They don't have to get Wilson down, but they need to be in hot pursuit, or blocking his sight angles, not on the ground. That way he may have to make off-balance throws that are incomplete, or even intercepted.
4. Woods could be an X factor in this game if he is really ready to go and he and Goff are in synch. The Seahawks don't have any corners left to handle him.
As I said, I have no idea about the outcome, but just because it's for the division, it's against a team I can't stand, it's where I lived for 24 years, I absolutely dread the outcome of losing this game.
Ramily!
