our reactions to the 9ers game

Kupp and Goff not in sync today…

Shanahan’s game plan with Garapalo worked.

McVay has lost 3 straight to the 49ers…

It sucked.

Watched it live

Painful to see

Outcoached was McVay

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Hram.

zn wrote:

I see too much despair out there around the net. I need two losses like that before I feel that kind of despair.

I have not given up, but I can’t think the Rams are as good I thought they were. I still think they can make the playoffs, but it is hard to believe they will do much better. The Rams have hope. Hope = some players who haven’t done much yet. A’Shawn Robinson, Terrell Lewis, Justin Hollins, Jachai Polite, Terrell Burgess.

Tough game to watch. The Niners cut through the Rams defense like melted butter. Far too easy for them, especially that opening drive. Side note, for me: felt sorry for Aaron Donald. A generational talent, without much help, especially via the Nose. A true space-eating hogmolly next to him would do wonders for his overall game, which is, of course, already otherworldly. A true run-stuffing maniac would just set things up for the entire D to click. I know it wasn’t their previous DC’s style, and probably not this one’s, either, but I think it’s pretty clear that their main weakness is getting gashed up the middle on running plays. The answer seems to me kinda obvious: They don’t have the personnel to stop the run up the gut, and I don’t see them scheming their way to a fix.

And, of course, the O was off. Bad drops by the usually reliable Kupp, one by Woods, and Goff was off. Just too frustrating. Poor throws, drops, so-so blocking — the latter getting better in the second half, finally.

Chicago is likely better than the Niners. The Rams are gonna have to turn this ship around, here and now.

zn wrote:

I just don’t buy this “game you should win” thing on this game. I think that thing adds to the feelings of disappointment without adding anything real to actual analysis. Actual analysis, IMO, says that they were much more evenly matched than many of us thought in advance.

I agree with that. Forget I said “game they should win” and replace it with “game I really really wanted them to win because I am more emotionally invested in it than I am when they play, say Buffalo, for instance, given who the opponent is…”

I myself was pretty sure they were going to lose. I even predicted it in the thread about the game.

But for me that doesn’t lessen the pain of losing (now three straight) to the 9ers.

9ers backs against the wall intensity matched by the Rams nonchalant coast mode. You could see when they came out of the tunnel they weren’t hyped up to play no energy looking disgusted that they had to be there. Showing up at a division rivals without your A game is inexcusable. Play your best and get beat you’ll have my respect show up like last night and you lose it real quick.