The Eagles are a very good team. The RAMS are a very good team! They've got a good QB. The RAMS have a good QB! This is what following a team is about. Watching them play another good team, enjoying the moment, and seeing how it turns out. I'm predicting a victory today! It's gonna be fun! Best to you, Speedy!by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
One, he helps us. Two, sometimes the first game back for an injured player is not his best as he readjusts. I'd rather have the rust shook off of him before we play the Seahawks.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
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They aren't a prediction about who will be able to beat who on any given Sunday. What they do, or at least attempt to do, is add in strength of schedule and margin of victory so that apples are being compared to apples. If people want to look at this measure of past performance rating and use that to make predictions, they can. But success is not guaranteed. Stronger teams beat weaker tby Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
Interesting stuff. Since it's all math based, there is no fan bias in the rankings. Some things that I notice. Jags are solidly higher than Seahawks (as are Rams, of course!). That might bode well for a Jag victory this weekend. Titans, despite their record, rank pretty low. A good sign that the Rams have an excellent chance in that road game.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
So after it became known through the cameras and microphones of NFL Films that McVay sometimes pushes tempo by getting his offense to the line early enough to help Goff read defenses through the magic of the helmet speaker, a much tidier explanation for Goff's success emerged: The virtuosity of McVay's brain must be the reason his quarterback no longer looks like a bust. And so it was decreed thaby Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
Per the NY Times playoff calculator... With no games projected, Rams chance of playoffs is currently 94% (actually it says 94% of scenarios have Rams in playoffs) Without projecting other teams' wins/losses... Disregarding ties... In the final 4 games... If the Rams go 0-4, playoffs 11% If the Rams go 1-3 win against Eagles, playoffs 86% win against the Seahawks, playoffs 92% winby Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
What if there were no hypothetical questions?by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
A lateral that hits the ground is not a dead ball. So the pass you described is a lateral whether it hits the ground or not.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
Here's a very fun lateral vid - American football, no rugby! video:by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
I am a big fan of the run game. Just to be clear when making these remarks. I have at times loved having a team that could just muscle opponents with the run whether they liked it or not. But I don't think these Rams have the run blocking to enforce it when the other team is ready for it and wants to stop it. How many games this year has Gurley had 25 carries? Not that I'm against it, buby Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
What you say about Goff protecting the ball is true this year. Few ints and fumbles. But I'm not sure this game was one to illustrate that. He had an interception and didn't he also fumble with a Rams recovery? Or was that last game? There was some rejoicing when it at first appeared that the Rams offense was ok with Robert Woods out, but I'm beginning to think they really do miss him. Sby Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
and thought that it looked just like plays the Rams run. I'm not saying they were Ram originals. Maybe the Seahawks have been doing that all along and I didn't notice.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
See bolded content. The kick snapper is defined as a "player in a defenseless posture". I guess that combines with the rule about where they can line up, but I still don't see what the Rams did against the rule. Defenseless posture players aren't protected against all contact. Just certain forms of contact. PLAYERS IN A DEFENSELESS POSTURE It is a foul if a player initiatesby Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
I can think of a dozen guys I would rather listen to in that role.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
Rather than thinking that the Saints had beaten the Rams.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
It wasn't about what it looked like on TV, waterfield. It was about their creative ways of trying to deny/misinterpret/reinterpret/twist/fold/mutilate and spindle the plain meaning of the rule rather than just say "we got away with one". I don't "care". I thought it was funny, and since I had to live with Seahawk fans up there for 24 years, I'll call them morons if I waby Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
I think Wentz is having a better season than Goff. Even better, I would put it. His rating, as you say, is 102 to Goff's 98. And he has thrown a lot more TD's (which is built into the rating and is probably the primary reason his rating is higher than Goff's). That is to date, and since it is deep into the season, those numbers will probably hold close to that until the end. It's approxiby Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
So I guess I'll have to retract what I said about a bunch of those Seahawk fans.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
ARF and I were watching the game together and I said it was a good lateral right after it happened. He said no, and when they showed the slomo graphic he was right. The motion of the players is irrelevant to the rule. The illusion that he tossed it behind him is irrelevant. In football all that counts is the motion of the ball relative to the field. That's the key here. And relative tby Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
I wasn't talking about US, of course! I'm talking about this thread on the Seahawk forum in which numerous posters have magical and "physics" theories trying to prove that Wilson threw a lateral last night, not a forward pass. Link - The Lateral I have no problem with the people who say it's the officials and Eagles fault for not getting it right or challenging it. But the oby Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
For the crime of having intercepted a pass. Frustration, he says. In a game the Pats were easily winning. Thuggery, I say.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
It stopped whatever momentum the Cardinals were trying to achieve and left them deflated. He deserves a little better than a "dud" rating just for that.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. I'm still coming up with 16. I've been saying for years. Any win on the road is a good win. Especially in the division.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
Standards have changed here now, and that's good. But I like to keep it in perspective.by Saguaro - RamsFootballFans.com
We've landed a winning season? This team has a winning property about it?by Saguaro - Game Time Forum