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Re:They'd really be fun to watch - 5 days ago
Yes! Great fun. Shuttle them in and out, keep them fresh all game and going into post-season when featuren backs typically are playing on tired legs. McVay would never do it, but I remember Arnett blocking for Bass when both were in the Rams backfield. I think these two on a sweep or zone-blocked run, OL leading it and Willioams picking up whever is left and Corum riding Kyren's hip until, plby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Another factor, and an underreaction - 6 days ago
McVay took some heat at the time of the play and immediately after the game for goinf for a 4th and 4 early on, instead of taking a likely FG with which, as things played out, the Rams would have won and there would have been no overtime. yards at that point. From McVay's perspective I can see his predicament in having been criticized for not going for 7's last time, and not wanting to repeby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Kyren Williams another on Hutchinson -- look on right side of defense - 6 days ago
Now that play was Faulk-like. He moves, does a quick read, decides quickly who to take and goes there, times and places the block to put the man on the ground. Kyren is a Football Player.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: I Remember Wanting The Rams to Trade for Deshaun Watson - 6 days ago
Character requirements. The so-called intangibles aren't - they always surface and are important.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: JW: Here's an overlooked factor - 6 days ago
His 40 time is within a 1/10th of a second of Tutu's. On the field he knows when to turn it on. He has that extra gear of game speed that makes him a legit downfield threat. Not a Tyreek Hill, but good enough to open things up underneath, and a legit threat to get some yards after first contact when thrown to anywhere. Now, son, I'd tell him, have coach Yarbs or anybody else on staff realby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Awesome story teller. I posted this video before but always a good watch... - 6 days ago
Both of these vids are classic. I remember Freddie. Living in a VW van on the beach while playing NFL football? Well, he liked to surf, wanted to save his money, and wasn't, despite the ink that his lifestyle brought, trying to promote an image of himself as a kook. It's just who he was, and he was comfortable in his own skin. Showing up at camp or home games wearing shorts and flip-by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: With Faulk is wasn't just his technique it was he ALWAYS knew WHO to block - 6 days ago
Yes, yes - I remember all of that well. Faulk had no peer in picking up blitzes. Timing - knowing WHO to hit, and WHEN. Sometimes he'd read a play and meet a blitzer in the hole. Play didn't look llike much, got overlooked as opposed to when he'd pick up somebody who leaked through into the backfield, but it gave the QB greater visibility than if he hd waited. Marshall was flat-out great at pby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Beaux Limmer - I keep going back to this - 6 days ago
The guy squats 700#. That translates into one 350#lineman in each arm . Well, maybe not really, but you get the idea.... the vets around him said they'd help Avila with blocking calls and whatnot. They'll do the same for Limmer. I saw Stafford reach down to below-knee level to one-hand a couple of snaps, but thought, that can come in time - I hope. I'm eacited to have Limmer in the lineby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: I Remember Wanting The Rams to Trade for Deshaun Watson - 6 days ago
Unlike you I was never that big a Deshaun Watson fan - real good, fun to watch, but he never caught hold with me. There was something missing. And as you point out - now we know. I had followed Stafford (as much as I could here in bumblesticks western Montana with a rabbit ears antenna and network TV) and admired him for his arm talent in his first season, his courage and leadership in playingby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: He played a lot of LT in the Scrimmages Brother - 6 days ago
Who will b he be facing if he plays LT against the Cards - I don't want to look it up and don't know much about the player if I did, so if somebody knows... please help. :help One thing I was extremely encouraged, positive, giddy even, to see vs. Detroit was McVay actually using a TE or a RB to chip on Hendrickson! Result: Stafford threw for over 300 yards. OK... that shows that theby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: I'll add only this: - 6 days ago
WQhile Hutch was going upagainst 2nd and 3rd tier tackles (although helped with some unexpected - from McVay - chip blocking) Vers was going up against reputedly one of the best OL's in football. Weigh that intangible into the stats. If guys got game balls in a loss, I'd give one to Verse. What a rookie showing!by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Thank you, thank you! - 6 days ago
Wow. Just wow. Thanks again.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Maybe, he's great, but S-Jax was no slouch, nor Gurley - 6 days ago
Yup, those are the ones I'd rank. I'd switch Jackson out with Gurley, though. As I recall when Jackson had it to do he done did it. But as you've watched all of them more than I have, and I saw very little Gurley, I'll willingly concede the point. I think we'd agree, though, MArshall was the best. He brought brains and technique along with beef enough to be an enforcer. Both he and Williby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: 2020 revenge tour - 6 days ago
Revenge tour. Love it. Stafford's revenge tour against Detroit didn't turn out the way he wanted although he played his butt off. And as far as Coach Mike the Genius is concerned, it's only one game. Let's see what he does by Thanksgiving before we decide he's all-of-a-sudden taken some sort of stupid pill. One thing: He's got an overload of interesting, shall we say, egos to meld into aby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: He'll come around... - 6 days ago
... let's hope so. He's always been hot and cold, show flashes one game and then unexpectedly fizzles the next. For my money he'd better get his arse in gear real quick, if not sooner - and I'd be looking real hard for a replacement right now. Wouldn't surprise me if Les has been on the phones for a while already, or if Shula doesn't have somebody he can coach up waiting in the wings.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Thank you, thank you! - 6 days ago
When this game was played, I was living in a converted tool shed, and at that time didn't have the rabbit-ears antenna and 15-inch screen used TV that I later acquired. My health was shot, I had no money, and had just been blindsided by a horrific divorce. I heard great things about Kurt Warner and the Rams, though, and mid-season I heard him speak at a Billy Graham rally over the radio - and hisby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re:Beginner's luck - 7 days ago
... is NOT in play here. Did anybody think I really meant it? :lol1by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Kyren Williams, nice chip on Hutchinson - 7 days ago
Best blocking back Rams have had since Faulk. I've said it before and I know... it's saying a lot. And it's meant that way. There are some uncanny, uncoachable things that go into it, from the balls of the feet on up through contact physically, and timing mentally, that go into it. His blocking is a big reason others don't get more chances. And thanks for this post. I didn't see it, lby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Puka's knee injury - 8 days ago
This type of knee injury frosts my sensibilities. Raw knee, no knee padding whatsoever, in a situation where you might come down on it and hurt yourself. Common sense dictates otherwise. Worser yet: You're pushed from behind and land real hard on that knee. Worserest after that: Some guy weighing between 185 and 325 is on your back as you go down on that knee and you hurt yourself realby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Baldinger Tweet - Thank you Rams - 8 days ago
Baldy gets it - and is practically alone on the national commentator stage in giving the Rams their due. Even in the Sunday night loss, the Rams raised some eyebrows - and Stafford, finally, is getting the respect he's deserved for fifteen years.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Article: Surprisingly? - 8 days ago
I'm not surprised - are you? 'Spoon's sudden dropoff in performance is a mystery to me; was he nursing a nagging injury - what? Glad to have him back. When he's right, he's good - and comes through in the clutch.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Another...Dirty Hutchinson comment from the announcers - 8 days ago
They saw what I saw. You can't unsee what you've seen. You can rationalize it away, ameliorate or dismiss it, but it's still there. You can't make it go away. And enough of us seem to sorta kinda mostly agree on what we're seeing.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Rotate them - 8 days ago
Think down and distance, matchups. Matchups! You hear Warner talk about matchups and finding mismatches all the time. McVay has the weapons. I'd like to see him exploit that concept to the max.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: (Opening a can o worms) The O.T. debate. - 8 days ago
Maybe. Or we score a TD, and go for a 2-point conversion? Or, after a long O scoring possession, our D gets a stop? Or playing it out further, the team scoring a TD first goes for 2, and misses? Suspense rises... Many possibilities with that rule in place. Exciting football.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: My preference too MT - 8 days ago
Yup! But you're so much more succinct than I am! You win the board for today! :partytimeby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re:1 game - 8 days ago
Detroit plays physical. We go in, without starting OT, and a modified gameplan calling for quick throws to receivers who can get physical for YAC. That ain't Tutu's game. I'll wait - meantime, I want to see X. Smith and maybe Whittington returning kicks and punts, and X. in for a few snaps as receiver. Let's see what he can do against thye big boys. After the Detroit game, Tutu looks lby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Who's scraping the barnacles off Ty? - 8 days ago
At 6'8" I like him where he is. That's a lot of bones to pile the beef on. Journeyman pro who knows the system; ain't gonna run block on sweeps too much, so we hire him as pass pro insurance. I though he played well, all things considered, when he was here last. when he's in run through the guard holes.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: I also noticed was it Davenport twisting Stafford’s ankle - 9 days ago
I saw that too. That's the sort of dirty underhanded ply that I call underhanded and dirty. Every twist doesn't take somebody out - but for sure, Stafford felt it. The fact that those extra-cirricular additions to a tackle occur all too frequently with a couple of teams, along with other observable evidence, doesn't let me write it off, or count unnecessary roughness penalties as a criteria foby mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Rams sign multiple O-lineman - 9 days ago
We should remember Ty; has anybody seen Christian?by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com
Re: Sign Kadarius Toney??? - 9 days ago
Overstuffed with athletic ability, but (as A.A. Milne said of Winnie the Pooh) very little brain - and not quite as loveable. If he doesn't know how to line up, how could he possibly manage the McVay offense, or enough of it to be useful? Pass. The Rams value stand-ins who don't make mistakes.by mtramfan - RamsFootballFans.com