Beyond freaking belief…9ers game reactions thread

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

21Dog wrote:

wv wrote:
I have not seen the game yet,
but did 500 year-old Brandon Lloyd
actually outrun JJ ?
Is Lloyd faster than JJ?

w
v

Word to the wise (I’m giving you credit for wisdom, wv).

Don’t watch it.

Brutal. Inexcusable.

Watched the replay of it.

O dear.

One of the worst regular-season
plays I’ve seen from a ram CB
in my 40+ years of watching ram
football.

JJ loves the big plays
dont he.

w
v

Yep.

Lloyd is slow. We knew that when he was a Ram and is older now. Jenkins is much faster.

Jenkins made a bigtime, primetime, big circus mistake. He peeked in the backfield with one on one coverage late in a half.

You don’t do that.

ESPN tried to make it about the coverage, so there was supposed to be safety help.

No…Jenkins is SUPPOSED TO KNOW not to do that.

He knows he’s supposed to know that. That’s why he’s hiding under the table like a cowering dog.

Maybe they draft a CB high
next year.

w
v

I will never forget that play. Jenkins could never get burned again even once in the next 12 years of a certain Hall of Fame bound career, and I – when I think of Jenkins – will remember that play.

I am 53 years old. And if I was put out on that field for that one play, I would never have let that happen.

There is NO WAY you let Lloyd get upfield of you in that situation no matter WHAT you give up underneath.

joemad wrote:

despite all that crap, the RAMS still had a chance late in the game…. two 4th down stands by the interior lineman in the closing minutes…..

and it could’ve been worse, Vernon Davis had some easy drops that could’ve easily been catches….

I was all up for Austin Davis to replace Hill, but I’ve seen enough, he can’t handle pressure… plays well when nothing is on the line, but when the pressure is on to deliver, he can’t do it.

I agree. I think I’d like to see Hill in there too. Here’s the problem…Fisher named Davis the starter for the rest of the year, and even though he struggled in certain situations, he really didn’t play poorly enough to lose his job.

sdram wrote:

Rams stepped in it last night. Looked like they were either horribly out coached or quit in the second half. Neither shines favorably on Fisher. Another top five pick. I watched Mariotta and Hundley on Saturday – came away feeling meh?

The ode to the 99 team was nice but it seemed like a farewell to St Louis as much as an honor.

So, I’m curious who’s getting paid more to force the Rams to move to LA – the refs, Kroenke, or Fisher.

wv-mom asked me today,
“why are you still a rams fan?”

i tried to explain to her
that the Steelers once went 25 years
without a playoff appearance.

she just rolled her eyes

w
v
wiki:
“…The Steelers’ history of bad luck changed with the hiring of coach Chuck Noll for the 1969 season. Noll’s most remarkable talent was in his draft selections, taking Hall of Famers “Mean” Joe Greene in 1969, Terry Bradshaw and Mel Blount in 1970, Jack Ham in 1971, Franco Harris in 1972,[13] and finally, in 1974, pulling off the incredible feat of selecting four Hall of Famers in one draft year, Lynn Swann, Jack Lambert, John Stallworth, and Mike Webster.[14] The Pittsburgh Steelers’ 1974 draft was their best ever; no other team has ever drafted four future Hall of Famers in one year, and only very few (including the 1970 Steelers) have drafted two or more in one year…”

• This reply was modified 10 years, 2 months ago by wv.

zn wrote:

To me there is a main culprit here. Team psyche. Now…that gets close to “psych 101″ posts but I don’t know, I think I have a feel for this particular issue. You can tell if a group has a “mental issue” and I think this group does.

Let’s assume for a sec that the bad call on Cook started them down the slippery slope. Interesting, did you notice that after that call Cook started just sucking as a player? Whole 2nd half. So did the bad call undermine them? If it did, and I think it did, that’s bad. A good, solid, veteran team with confidence overcomes setbacks like that.

So that to me is the key. This is a team with fragile confidence. Mistakes have killed them even though they knew they could have had a couple of games. When confidence goes, so does steady play.

The Rams need a dramatic win to give them team confidence. The paradox of course is that lack of confidence undermines them.

I dont know. They got the three big wins last season and it did not last or carry over to this season. Why do you think that is? Is it because of the turnover in QBs?: Bradford, Clemens, Bradford, Hill, Davis?

OahuRam wrote:

I dont know. They got the three big wins last season and it did not last or carry over to this season. Why do you think that is? Is it because of the turnover in QBs?: Bradford, Clemens, Bradford, Hill, Davis?

Well, I don’t think things like that carryover. But yeah all the ups and downs at qb and so on…they might not know yet where their strengths come from.