our reactions to the Seattle game

Defense big, particularly the line, but the defensive backfield is 100% an area where we need improvement.  They got their ints, but far too many big plays given up, to a suspect Seahawks WR corp, that looked like just poor coverage.

I thought Geno was terrible. Much like our defensive backfield he had his chuck it up moments, but at other moments just made terrible decisions. Glad he is not our QB.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall, next to Puca, when the Rams won.  I am betting a big sigh.

Road win against a division rival always a good thing.

Perhaps it is hyperbole on my part, but Verse’s sack was incredible. Best sack I’ve seen by a Rams edge rusher since Little or Quinn. I can’t stop thinking about how he bullied his way to Smith with both strength and speed.  I think I’m in love. Fiske and Verse really seem to be working out. Last week I thought Kinchens looked lost early in the game. Today he looked like he knew where he had to be more often. Not a perfect game by the Rams db’s but some good moments. Even if McCollough gets some lucky bounces, it is nice to think that the Rams might have some young ballhawks in the secondary.  No TD for Williams, the streak is over. A messy win, but winning a division game on the road is always nice. Especially if you have to comeback to do it.

Got to see last two minutes or so, plus OT. Bonus coverage locally. Nice to see defense play well when it counted, especially the rooks.

Stafford came up big when he had to, as did Robinson. Great one handed catch, with the DB holding down the other arm. He’s a very good #3 wideout.

Tied for division lead! Didn’t see that happening after the first few losses.

I echo the “strange flags” and non-calls sentiment. I’m still not sure I got a good look at the Nacua penalty, but it looked like he swung and missed. After the defender kind of assaulted him twice. I was surprised by the ejection. We’ve all seen many far worse personal fouls than that. I thought it was the worse officiating I can remember in… I dunno… several seasons, probably.

I think Seattle deserves some credit for screwing up the Rams in the first half. Even when Nacua was in there, the Rams weren’t producing anything, and Seattle bottled up Williams most of the day. I think you would have to go back pretty far in time to find a game where he got just 3 yds/carry. He made some helpful plays late in the game, and I thought he was helping keep Stafford alive back there often, so he helped them win.

I guess Kinchens musta got a game ball. Looked like Smith threw the ball to him on purpose, and he made them pay. Play of the game, or maybe runner-up to Stafford’s last throw and that great catch by Robinson, but they don’t get the chance if Kinchens doesn’t kill that drive plus hang a 6-spot up on them.

Overall, the secondary looked shaky, though, especially Witherspoon (who maybe gets a break since he just barely got a jersey with his name on it). And thank the lord Metcalf didn’t play, or I think we would be consoling ourselves with a 3-5 record.

Mind you, the Rams were 3-6 after Week Nine last year, so it could be worse.

Looked like the OL gave up the most pressure Stafford has seen all season, or at least since the line stabilized, but fortunately the Rams DL cracked the code up front and scuffed up Geno’s backside pretty well.

I will take any win over Seattle any way I can get it. That wasn’t a Rembrandt, but it mighta been a Pollock, and that’s good enough to send them into the next two games (MIA, NE) as favorites.

zn wrote:

Young (OLB with uniform # 0 ) hits Smiths arm on that throw so the ball is off target.

The DL got after it yesterday, man. They were flying in from everywhere. And so young. These guys get better every week, and the Rams DL is turning into a problem.

Now. If they can just learn to contain the slippery QBs….

wv wrote:

But, if they can eek out a playoff berth…and get some OLine health….

jackson and avila are on their way back.

Rams OLs Steve Avila, Jonah Jackson to resume practice this week https://t.co/qNPlplOBBn

— L.A. Daily News (@ladailynews) November 4, 2024

wv wrote:

Is there a throw that better exemplifies the essence of Stafford, more than that one? The gunslinger. Ice-water. Assassin. Reckless. Pinpoint power-accurate. Stubborn. Tough. I wish some football expert would go over the details of that pass. The TD will get all the press coverage, but the pass to TJ was as interesting a play as the Rams will have all year.. w v

Someone on twitter quipped that if Mahomes had made that throw, there would already be a one-hour televised special about it on NFL network.

Zooey wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

wv wrote:

Is there a throw that better exemplifies the essence of Stafford, more than that one? The gunslinger. Ice-water. Assassin. Reckless. Pinpoint power-accurate. Stubborn. Tough. I wish some football expert would go over the details of that pass. The TD will get all the press coverage, but the pass to TJ was as interesting a play as the Rams will have all year.. w v

Someone on twitter quipped that if Mahomes had made that throw, there would already be a one-hour televised special about it on NFL network.

I agree with all of this. That was either the greatest shitty pass of all time, or the shittiest great pass of all time. Or something. I dunno. But I’ve never seen anything like that before. That was brand new fresh and original. You know, he led Tyler Johnson precisely, and put that ball EXACTLY where it need to be for that to be a catch. And the fact that “Pants-Around-His-Ankles” Worrell tried to deposit that check before it got endorsed just adds to it. That Stun Gun was set at eleven. That’s all I know.

I will just add, though, that I had more-or-less the same reaction after that No Look pass in the Super Bowl when I saw it in replays after the game. I didn’t notice it at the time, and neither did Al Michaels, or anybody else, but when I saw the replay, I was like “fuck me.”

And now I’ve seen Stafford do that repeatedly cuz now I notice that.

So I dunno, but I have to say that I’m in the “gotta give him the benefit of the doubt on that” because…Matthew Stafford might be the best QB I’ve ever seen. You know, the Rams are not really QB rich, historically. They are RB rich. But not QB rich, even though they have some jewels. So I dunno. But I ain’t complaining about Matthew Stafford. Dude is a dude.

Well, part of it, I think, is that the camera doesn’t see what Stafford sees.

If you watch that play through the camera – which is what we do – it looks like an INT all the way, and then Johnson bursts in like a comet and snatches it out of nowhere.

But that isn’t what Stafford was looking at when he cut that throw loose.

So, again, I dunno. I’m inclined to think it was a brilliant throw, and Stafford erased Worrell because he tracked Johnson all along, and saw the window.