our reactions to the ARZ game

Good team win.

Dline played well.

I like our RB.

I would like to request that one of the moderators edit my post in the “Setting up the AZ Game” thread so that it says something about how I see the Rams stepping up in a big way on Monday night. That was my intended message, it’s just that sometimes translating Canadian English to American English gets messy.

Anyway, when I saw that the Rams would be playing with a high school secondary tonight I thought that Aaron Donald will need multiple sacks to even keep this game interesting. I love Ernest Jones. If I were a jersey wearing kind of guy, I think I’d buy his jersey. Kupp is having a generational season.

Hope that the Covid guys are back for the Seahawks. Seattle has been playing well. Not a game to take for granted.

Wellllll… I dunno who that Orr guy is, but I think he showed the world tonight why he is not an NFL starter. I wish the fella well, but he’s never showing film from this game to his kids, even if this is the only game he ever plays.

The Rams DL gets the game ball. That’s what I like. They just effed up Kyler Murray all night long, and that – along with two big TOs – is why they won. That INT by Jones was huge. Red Zone TOs are just killer, and Stafford made the best of it, driving down to score, and the Rams were in control from that point on. Leave it to the Rams to make it interesting by failing to fall on an onside kick, but a helpful penalty and DL pressure made sure the Cards couldn’t steal a game they were outplayed most of the night.

I liked it. I thought it was the Rams’ best performance of the season, in fact. They HAD to win this game, and they did, in spite of wide Covid chaos. I like the way CanadaRam called the secondary “high school,” because…man. That was not the starting lineup you want to see the Rams roll out on the road against the highest seed in the game.

Just… well done.

I thought I was going to scream when McVay started with 7 passes to 2 rushes, but he ended up using Michel effectively. I wanted more rushing, but when Stafford uncorks a throw like that to Jefferson, you can’t really complain that they should have given it to Michel to pick up 5 yards around the end.

And that TD to Kupp over there…what the hell was that? Looked like a bad pass in the dirt to a guy who wasn’t open, and couldn’t possibly catch that for a TD. It was so unlikely, that I wasn’t sure it was going to be good on the third replay. Just WTF was that pass? I don’t know how that ball got in there, and I don’t know how Kupp caught it, but I will take sandlot TDs any time the Rams feel like scoring them.

Best defensive effort of the season. Especially considering the state of the secondary. Wow.

Taking an injury/covid depleted team into Arizona and getting a victory was a masterful coaching performance by McVay. I’m not refering to strategy/play design. I mean coaching.

I think that was one of the best team wins the Rams have had in a decade.

I could claim that I called this before hand, that I predicted the Rams would rally around the Horns and overcome the major losses due to injuries and Covid. I could just say I knew it! But, um, well, that would be false. In reality, when I heard about the last-minute losses, I couldn’t help but think of the likely lineup as something akin to a third exhibition game, with players “on the bubble” vying for a roster spot. It all seemed far too dark for me, but I watched the game anyway.

And, then it happened. The D stepped up big time. Great plays, especially, from the Front Seven. The O played great, including the call-ups at TE. Stafford was on fire, as were Kupp, OBJ, and Michel, and the line was stalwart.

McVay called a really good game.

Echoing WV, what couldn’t they do this when they were at or close to full strength?

We need to start proving that we can beat physical teams. If we get in as a Wild-Card, we will be playing Dallas.A physical team on both sides. If we can get lucky, and get through Dallas, we need to learn how to beat Aaron Rodgers, & January Tom.

I’m still mad about the refs not calling two blatant roughing calls facemask should have put us 1st and goal at the 1. The helmet to helmet while another defender torqued Stafford’s knee way late (he completed the pass) at the very least cost us 4 points. On the positive the really played like the well connected team we saw early this season noting the Covid-19 outbreak a little too connected.

I listened to most of the game on the radio (WFAN 660 kHz NYC) while driving home from Long Island to CT. The very fist Cards play resulted in an AD sack. Right then and there, I knew we were off to the races. Great listen. I actually drove around the block until we got to the two minute warning. If you have never listened to a football game on the radio, you should. Of course, whoever is doing the game helps, and in my case, Kurt Warner was the color guy.

Where was this energy during the Green Bay game?

OK, I really don’t care, but carry that energy through the rest of the season and win out!

OK. What happened to Desean Jackson? He has caught 6 passes in 5 games.