The most annoying thing is when the irrationally consistent fans ignore the salient issues and get into a convoluted tangential argument that supports their homer platform. You will not see them respond to the question, who trades away the farm for a guy who they aren't confident can help them this year? It's the elephant in the room that no one on the Rams is willing to answer, and yet somby max - RamsFootballFans.com
Quote9er8er The word used in that was "plan." Fisher planned to have Goff start the opening game. Fisher himself said that was the "goal." Plan and goal are synonymous here. So, if you believe Fisher should have known better about Goff's actual inability to be ready for the opening game, then it consistently follows that he should have had a different plan/goal for Goffby max - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteHazlet Hacksaw Keenum has made two big bonehead picks already, and has got sacked at least twice to take then out of advantageous field position. That's at least 4 bonehead plays in three games. So they aren't getting crisp play from the "vet". Couple more of those coupled with a loss or two and they could be ready for Goff. Keenum has not made a boneheaded mistake at the end ofby max - RamsFootballFans.com
Call me when Watkins does anything remotely comparable to what Bruce did in his 2nd year. Watkins never was, and never will be what Bruce was. Find another guy. Stop talking crazy.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
Why don't you just call him Jerry Rice while you're at it. This is getting ridiculous. Now Watkins is comparable tot the greatest WR in Rams history. That my friend is how you lose all credibility around here.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotekw13 The Rams run the most boring, predictable offense in the NFL. If that boring, low productive offense is also "complicated to learn" then someone needs to be fired and that system needs to go. Is that the technical term for the Rams system? I thought you were gonna tell me Waldman doesn't know what the Rams are running. Guess I was wrong.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRFIP Quotemax If the Bills offered you Watkins right now, straight up, for GRob, would you make the trade? Not me. That's the bottom line. Average at best LT's can be replaced in a heartbeat, especially ones that hold all the time. Watkins has already accomplished WAY MORE than ANY wr since Holt. Yes I would take the chance that he fully recovers and becomes the star he has been aby max - RamsFootballFans.com
If the Bills offered you Watkins right now, straight up, for GRob, would you make the trade? Not me. That's the bottom line.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
According to Faulk, the Rams run a difficult system to learn. One much harder to learn than what Norv Turner is running, which he said is similar to Martz. Faulk made it sound like the Rams system is non-intuitive when compared to Vikings system.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
I had a long dialog with Waldman yesterday. A ton of back and forth tweets on Goff, Tannehill, and some other rookie QBs. You can go on Twitter and check his tweets. One interesting point that he made was that the Rams should have known Goff would take longer all things considered. And that now its too late to change things for him because of the impact on everyone else. QuoteWaldmanTo beby max - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSoCalRAMatic Hogg will play when Wenke tells Fish he knows the offense and we should make the change. I don't think our record or CK's performance factors in at all. The problem with that approach is if Keenum has a bunch of bad games in a row and the Rams lose them all, they will have to make a switch. And at that point it will have to be Goff.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotemerlin I think it is a fair comparison, and if Case continues to improve week to week he might well hold onto the job longer just like you pointed out with Warner. Definitely a correlation there in terms of the team wanting to start the veteran in order to win. If he doesn't continue to improve, however, then we're going to see Goff much earlier. I'm still on the week five train, it makby max - RamsFootballFans.com
I keep hearing the Goff-Palmer comparison being used to justify sitting Goff for the year, but it's not the best one. Palmer was drafted #1 overall by a very bad Bengals team. The Bengals "earned" that pick by finishing 2-14 the year before so they weren't anxious to throw Palmer to the wolves in his rookie year. Teams were much more reluctant to do that back then. In addition theyby max - RamsFootballFans.com
If/when Keenum loses 2 straight games, that's when Goff starts. I don't believe Fisher will want to lose 3 straight games with Case at QB at this point. The Rams will likely lose in AZ. But I don't see Fisher switching just then, and if Case wins against Bills, that will buy him 2 more games. But if Case loses to Cards and Bills, I think he's done as starter.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
If the Rams beat the Cards on Sunday, then the Rams are in the driver seat in the division for awhile. I don't know how it can happen really. It just doesn't make sense to me, unless the Cards are in a real funk.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
He spit at a guy who allegedly spit at him first.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
If we had a legit QB, we'd be a lot higher even with bad game in SF. Guys who do these rankings look at 2 things. Team rep and QB. Rams are bad on both.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
Heck. I heard Vermeil admit mistakes before he made them. Just last year he was asked about Foles. And Vermeil said he thought Foles was gonna be good. Then he added but I could be wrong. DV is the best Rams HC ever, and he was better than other HCs who are in the HOF. I'd take him over Dungy and Levy any day.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
He's the only guy who gets it. Every other LA media guy that I've seen is too obtuse to get it. Some of them, like VinnyB are actually arguing in favor of Fisher. Fisher has bamboozled them all. That's what Fisher does. My hats off to him, he realizes he can do that to them. utt Damn, I wish I was 40 years younger and living in LA, I'd kick his butt on this stuff.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
My concern is the Rams. It is painful to watch a stupid football team and that's what Fisher has made the Rams. The Rams are a stupid football team. There's a reason they play stupid. It's not only because Fisher isn't smart enough to fix, he enables it. Now, am I saying he should get fired for botching the decision on the XP? No. I don't take the bait from clever agenda driven posteby max - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotedodgerram I know the jury is still out on who picked the better QB but at this time Wentz would make this Rams team a lot better And wasn't that the objective when they traded up? Go rams! What I do find a bit strange is that you'd think Wentz would have fit Fisher's approach more than Goff. Fisher approach is tough and determined. Just think back to his Titans SB team against the Rby max - RamsFootballFans.com
I have said that Fisher has not put the best support system around Goff for his development. They are inexperienced and unproven. And I doubt they are very smart if only based on what's important to Fisher.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
Quote21Dog Quotemax Fisher teams are inherently tough and hard hitting, they have never been viewed as smart, and that reflects on him. Couldn't agree more. And this speaks volumes for some things we are concerned about. The constant dumb penalties. The inconsistencies in play. And even the handling of Goff and his slow progress. It all stems back to Fisher. A team is a reflectiby max - RamsFootballFans.com
Fisher isn't THAT stupid, I don't think. He's at least smart enough to realize he can buffalo the LA media who are stupid, and will buy his irrational explanations. What's important here, and my takeaway, is that Fisher is a fatally flawed game day decision maker. He can get away with with inferior decisions against weaker coaches but he will ultimately fail against the stronger coachesby max - RamsFootballFans.com
Here's my brain on this subject. Fisher said... “We were up by 11, which in my brain is three scores: it’s touchdown, two-point conversion, and a field goal. What I want to do is, I want to try to get to 13. I was thinking if I can just get to 13, because if I got to 13, then that’ll put pressure on their place kicker for two scores, because he’d been struggling.” I don't get that train ofby max - RamsFootballFans.com
Quoteguinnessram Quotemax Imagine if the Browns stayed at #2 and took Wentz. I think its quite possible that Wentz would not look anywhere near as good as a Brown. CLE was ahead of BALT 20-0 up until they had an XP blocked and should have beaten MIA but for a half decent PK. I think they were ahead in all 3 of their losses and I could have made the argument that they are as good or betby max - RamsFootballFans.com
It was actually funny cause one of out naysayers friends here was taking shots at the Rams for not signing TruJohnson long term after he made one good play yesterday. Then Evans proceeded to go nuts. I said, let Tru show it on the field for more than 1 year, then sign him up.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
As soon as Goff is comfortable behind center he goes in.by max - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRFIP Quotemax QuoteRFIP If Tampa intercepts the 2 pt attempt and run it back it's the same issue. The attempt was idiotic and not one person with a football IQ would argue differently but Fisher escaped yesterday against a bad team. Keenum didn't throw the ball. That's the point. did you read my post? Ok well he couple have fumbled, scoop and score right? Same difference. Coby max - RamsFootballFans.com