reactions to the Steelers game

We did not look like a playoff team. imo

Our Offense still has not been right all season. Is it possible the teams figured out McVay? Since starting out 3-0. We have gone 2-4. I don’t have the confidence that this team is going to get any better this season.

Hate to say this, but

canadaram wrote:

I don’t think that anything is wrong with McVay. I think the biggest problem that the Rams need to figure out how to fix is the running game. The already mentioned issues on the offensive line are clearly a problem. I don’t know if the answer at RB is currently on the roster either. I believe once they fix the running game the rest of the offense will fall into place. I don’t see that happening this year though. It’s going to have to be addressed in the offseason. Right now I think we are looking at a .500 team maybe a little worse.

Sad thing is CJ Anderson is a free agent. He was a big part of our running game last year.

Yes. Plus he is healthy.

The offense scored 3 whole points. This looks like a 5-11 team to me.

I listened to a bit of the game on Game Pass radio, saw a few highlights on NFL network, but decided against watching the replay. Too depressing.

From what I heard and read, including from posters here, it sounds like most of the loss comes down to the O-line. Injuries, plus the line wasn’t good even prior to them.

Told you so’s generally aren’t good form . . . but I’m gonna show bad form today. Cuz, yeah, I thought they neglected the O-line before the season started. They put far too much trust in their red-shirts and late round picks. And I was never a fan of Havenstein from Day One.

In a league with more and more elite athletes on defense, you can’t survive with poor athletes on the O-line. You need to match them. And, with rare exceptions, you aren’t going to find seriously athletic linemen even in the third round these days, much less later than that.

Again, exceptions occur. But you need to go for them when they’re available earlier. And now, the Rams, having traded away so many first rounders, won’t be able to upgrade their line for several years, and they don’t have the cap space to grab elite linemen via FA. It’s gonna take a miracle/great scouting to uncover the proverbial diamonds in the rough in both venues.

If they can’t, the Rams O will continue to decline and, as others have mentioned, the Rams’ FO will have wasted the prime years of a generational talent on D.

This. Isn’t. Good.

Well, ZN,

I vote that your vote is the wrong vote. That’s my . . . um, vote.

;>)

But, yeah, there’s plenty of room for different takes on the O-line and what ails the Rams. We should be able to agree, however, that they are ailing, whatever the rationales.

It’s all the more frustrating, when we think of the promise we all likely felt before the season. Despite my reservations about the O-line, and they were strong reservations, I still had no doubt the Rams would make the playoffs and do well in them.

Now, my cold-eyed look at the team says they’re not going to make the playoffs at all, while my fan-side says it’s still possible.

Regardless, they’re going to have to make some major changes in the off-season. IMO, it starts with the O-line. And if I had my druthers, they’d bring in a monstrous-sized, lane-clogging DT too.

zn wrote:

but I’m gonna show bad form today. Cuz, yeah, I thought they neglected the O-line before the season started.

I don’t agree.

I think this is a case of out of an out of sync OL with new faces being rough (though winning 5 games) and then that gets taken as a talent issue.

They drafted 5 linemen in 2 years, 4 look good, and in fact one (Edwards) may be the best Rams low round pick in years and years. I think the future will vindicate the picks of Noteboom, Evans, and Edwards above all, and probably Allen too.

They then traded for one (a high 2nd rounder) and picked up another one as a cut (a viable move in line building).

That is not neglecting the OL.

Meanwhile yesterday they ended up with 4 spots on the OL manned by guys either out of position or fresh off the bench. No line looks good under those conditions.

I am in pretty strong disagreement with all the “told you so” OL posts.

That’s my 2 cents on this. Just posting it as my vote in the informal poll. We could argue about it all day but I don’t intend to. I just see it as 2 different votes.

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i almost agree. except i’m waiting to see what happens with whit.

and at this point noteboom is still very much a question mark. and edwards at left tackle? perhaps. it’s a long shot. but then that leaves a hole at guard. possibly.

i only saw the second half. but some of this is on goff as well. he’s gotta adjust a little bit. and there was some questionable decision making.

also. they shoulda ran gurley more.

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by InvaderRam.

Was out of town. Just saw the highlights.

Talked to a longtime steeler fan and he said thats the best the steeler D has looked in years. Ah well.

Nothing new in this game. Same story. Gurley + Oline.

Bear game should be interesting. Should be about 4 to 3. Not sure who will have the 4.

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