QuoteAlbaNY_Ram From the article: "McVay also brought up Austin's left wrist, which was surgically repaired in the spring. " So ... if the wrist was an issue wouldn't someone be able to see that in practice? And then change the punt returner in practice to avoid having a problem in a game? Methinks coach is trying to protect TA with that line ... but it's a pretty weak cover ...by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSunTzu_vs_Camus sometimes guys can play their way out of it...sometimes they need to sit for awhile and get focused again. Getting another PR was the right thing to do...cuz TA is not focusing well now on PRs. They gave him this much rope...cuz they wanted him to breakout of the slump, but it took too long...and now he's gonna have to sit on PRs...as he should. And he's probably right.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteFootballGenius So it's a moot point pretty much imo. And after Sundays game, i don't see him getting a lot of playing time the rest of the year, especially now that he has been relieved of PR duties. Yeah if McVay can't figure out how to use him, sure, he should be gone. But I don't put that on Austin.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteJoeMad he can't catch. He HAS. Something's wrong this year, but he has before. McVay made it clear he believes this is a temporary situation and Tavon will be working on fielding punts and working through this issue. McVay sees the problem as temporary. And he's right about that. McVay knows better than to act like the last 4 games sums up an issue that has haunted Tavon all along.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quoteferragamo79 wouldnt be an issue.......his huge salary could go to others just too much for someone who is a decoy, runs the ball 4-6 times a game and catches 1-2 passes be awesome if he was a 4th rounder doing that. One ball, with too many other players like Gurley, Woods, Kupp and Watkins....Higbee is coming around and Everett and Reynolds will be........how many touches can he get?by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotemax Quotezn IMO people complaining about Goff on that play are asking him to be perfect. ... That is exactly the way it feels to me. And for some reason it infuriates me, especially when those same people call me a Goff guy and they are being unbiased. I'm more than fine with Goff criticism on stuff thats reasonable. He was pretty bad for most of the day, evidenced by his game stats.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteLMU93 They were 2-for-4 in the red zone vs. WASH. In McVay's three seasons in Washington the Redskins were 27th, 11th and 30th in red zone scoring. So a mixed bag. 21st, 15th and 9th in scoring offense overall. People forget that for all his limitations, Schottenheimer's passing offense was nearly 50% in the redzone, at least when he had a starting caliber qb. I think it's clear thby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRamsFanSinceLA I don't think it was an impossible catch, but if he caught it, it would have been a great catch. The throw was out in front of him just a little too far. If Goff had taken just a bit off of the throw it would have been perfect as that split second would have given Kupp the time to run into the ball. I put this on Goff more than Kupp. All in all, he was wide open and weby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteLMU93 Always a home run threat as a PR but way too much of a tease for my liking. He's the Mark Reynolds of return men- i.e. would hit 35 home runs but bat .225 and strike out 200+ times along the way. Yeah it gets down to that. What does one prefer? Homerun threat? Avg. yards per return guy? My own view is that it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. Some people tby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSpeed_Kills He doesnt have to have Elways arm to make that so But... we expect Kupp to catch that. I do think that the pass was odd in this way, he rarely throws a pass like that. He throws a very catchable ball so my guess is as he. Came to Kupp he got a little excited and put too much heat on it It's not possible for Goff to throw an UNCATCHABLY hot pass. That ball WAS catchable.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteHazlet Hacksaw Was he slowed by concussion protocol next week, then by legion of boom? or by bad coaching? How about none of the above? And the Rams do not have "bad coaching." I will say this. Watkins may not be a true member of the we not me club.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSpeed_Kills Quotemax I agree with you. For some reason it gets under my skin when a guy looks at that play and says that he is being unbiased when he says that Goff threw an almost uncatchable ball, and I'm a Goff guy so I'm not seeing it as clearly as he is. I don't know what guys are thinking with this "uncatchable" stuff. This isn't Elway or Favre (and their receivers caughby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteLMU93 I honestly don't know what it is. Even with the time he missed in OTAs and camp if he was useful at doing something downfield I think he'd be doing it by now. I think they simply can't justify playing him above much more talented players in Watkins, Woods and Kupp in this offense. And Cooper, Thomas and/or Reynolds might be nipping at his heels. He's had some really good moments asby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteLMU93 He really is a 3rd down RB. He's had a handful of games in 4+ seasons where he's made some nice downfield plays. But, that's been it. I think that ship has sailed. Use him with what he's good at which is taking the defense with him on misdirection runs or taking jet sweeps/inside handoffs. One of his 5 receiving TDs in 2015 was a two-foot shuffle pass from Foles. Essentially a runby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quote21Dog Sketchy hands and can't run routes. Rams have so many better options. Yes he is not a pure receiver. So you don't use him that way. But he's not just a runner either. He had 5 TDs on 52 catches in 2015. He can run certain routes and be effective doing it. You integrate those in because it means it is less predictable what he's going to do on any given play. .by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteSpeed_Kills He did something fellas.... wow What he did was play badly the same year they drafted his replacement. B)by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteJamesJM "Sry I don't know Adams' stuff. Never read him. I had to look it up." Heretic. - JamesJM My wife has read everything by him and keeps saying I should too but I never find the time. One day. B)by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteJamesJM Of my Joo Janta reference? QuoteDouglas Adams > Quotes > Quotable Quote: “Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.” Sry I don't know Adams' stuff. Never read hby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteJamesJM here's what my "Rose Colored Glasses" are showing me. This team is better than the previous several Ram's teams. They are young, they have a new HC... they have been in ALL their games so far. They began this season with a mountain the size of Everest to climb and have not only begun the climb but they're WAY beyond expectations. To NOT see that, in my humble opby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteCraigMatson Doesn't that kind of crimp PFF lauding grades of Alexander. At least past grades. Ok I'm going East coast cutthroat now . Alexander was a lousey stiff . 'Gittt' em' outta' here already !!" I don't know. When were their positive grades on him? This season? I thought they were last season. He may not be the type who learns things fast. It took him a couple of yeaby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteBlue and Gold bad angles and poor tackling. Butg he wasn't the only one. A couple of people speculate that one key thing was blowing the coverage and giving up the TD to Hanna late in the Dallas game. As I said earlier in here somwhere, Wade is famous for going out of his way to teach a player what he has to do, but then he is also very hard on mistakes.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Quotezn Well he wasn’t doing much this year. Hadn’t played well. And word on Wade is, he will bend over backwards to teach a player but then he doesn't tolerate mistakes. He was a FA at the end of the year anyway. Johnson was a good pick and they seem to believe in him. Thomas replaces him on special teams. This is something from the Dallas game that explains a lot IMO: QuoteStockby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
Well he wasn’t doing much this year. Hadn’t played well. And word on Wade is, he will bend over backwards to teach a player but then he doesn't tolerate mistakes. He was a FA at the end of the year anyway. Johnson was a good pick and they seem to believe in him. Thomas replaces him on special teams. This is something from the Dallas game that explains a lot IMO: QuoteStock Down:by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRampage2K- Quotezn QuoteRampage2K- Terrible rule, but it was also a bad call.... No way to tell by video if Gurley lost complete control of the ball before his foot was out....should have been ruled Rams ball on one yard line. Btw, the ball never hit the ground. Like I said though, that is just a terrible rule to begin with...there is absolutely no logic as to why the other team getsby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteRampage2K- Terrible rule, but it was also a bad call.... No way to tell by video if Gurley lost complete control of the ball before his foot was out....should have been ruled Rams ball on one yard line. Btw, the ball never hit the ground. Like I said though, that is just a terrible rule to begin with...there is absolutely no logic as to why the other team gets the ball and a 20 yardby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteKillrazor Quotezn QuoteKillrazor Quotezn QuoteFootballGenius Very ugly. Like the Washington game. You just named 2 McVay losses. So, they are like...McVay losses. Meanwhile the Fisher Rams beat Seattle in 3 of the 4 last games they played, and that was with Foles and Keenum. In fact in the first game in 2015 Rams came from behind to tie in the final minute and then won in overtime.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteFootballGenius Fisher was garbage. The game has passed him by. And before that he was nothing to write home about. My point was, the way they lost was the way Fisher lost many games. And my point was that I disagree with the general view about why the Fisher Rams lost games. Plus it's ironic that Fisher actually beat Seattle regularly. So really, generalizations like that often jusby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteKillrazor Quotezn QuoteFootballGenius Very ugly. Like the Washington game. You just named 2 McVay losses. So, they are like...McVay losses. Meanwhile the Fisher Rams beat Seattle in 3 of the 4 last games they played, and that was with Foles and Keenum. In fact in the first game in 2015 Rams came from behind to tie in the final minute and then won in overtime. And that was with Foleby zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteFootballGenius Very ugly. Like the Washington game. You just named 2 McVay losses. So, they are like...McVay losses. Meanwhile the Fisher Rams beat Seattle in 3 of the 4 last games they played, and that was with Foles and Keenum. In fact in the first game in 2015 Rams came from behind to tie in the final minute and then won in overtime. And that was with Foles and without Gurley.by zn - RamsFootballFans.com
QuoteLMU93 I'm hoping for a strong bounce back next Sunday too but by comparison the Arizona game in London is bigger. Division game, heading into their bye. They can get to 5-2 at the bye if they secure the ball. But if it's just getting to 4-3 at the bye it's Arizona they need to win. Leaving what counts as a big game out of it, I think Arizona is beatable. I think Jacksonville will be aby zn - RamsFootballFans.com