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October 2, 2016 at 10:16 pm #54326
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Keenum’s pass to Kendricks that was wiped out….the play was incredible…. very headsy play by him….too bad the penalty again Grob wiped it out
Very proud of this team. Offensively the biggest reason the Rams were in this game is because of Keenum…. gutsy gutsy performance from him…Was he perfect no, is he the long term solution absolutely not… but the Rams defense won this game today with a big time assist from Keenum and this offense.
Keenum had three plays that didn’t count but caught my eye
1) 1st scramble on 3rd and long where he got the Rams inside the redzone only to have that played wiped out by a questionable hold on Grob. It was a fantastic play
2) the play I mention above if you have access to replay watch it again – it’s a lot of fun
3) he threw a fantastic deep ball to Austin that Tavon nearly got and Fisher reviewed (unecessarily). It is those kinds of throws that are going to make people back off
Its going be awesome for them to get back home to play a Bills team that appears to be a mirror image of them
Another slugfest for sure
October 2, 2016 at 11:08 pm #54331znModeratorRams starting to grow confidence in QB Case Keenum
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/rams-730878-keenum-sunday.html
GLENDALE, Ariz – . In the third quarter Case Keenum saw daylight, even indoors. He ran through the bad-intentioned Cardinals for 27 yards, and a first down on the Arizona eight.
Hold everything. Penalty on Rams’ tackle Greg Robinson, for holding.
In the fourth quarter Keenum felt the ceiling descending on him, and he took off, stutter-stepped, doubled back, kept hoofing, and lobbed a 27-yarder to Lance Kendricks that took the ball to the Arizona 12 and put a broad smile on the face of Fran Tarkenton, wherever he was watching.
Hold everything. Penalty on Rams’ tackle Greg Robinson, illegal receiver downfield.
“I was out of breath when I was calling the next play,” Keenum said. “I felt kinda foolish, running back 40 yards to where it started.”
Somewhere between those two forfeited moments, and the end of the Rams’ 17-13 win over the Cardinals on Sunday, you remembered what everybody said. Keenum is basically part of the Rams’ ride-along program, carried by the defense and Todd Gurley.
But your eyes are telling you different. The Rams are not succeeding in spite of Keenum. At times, it’s the reverse.
Keenum had a 111.2 quarterback rating Sunday, which is Rodgers/Brady territory. He hit 18 of 30 passes with no interceptions, although he flirted with a couple. He threw erratically to Tavon Austin on one play and then drilled a pass between two Cardinals to Brian Quick, and when those Cardinals lost their footing Quick went 65 yards for the first touchdown.
He has thrown one interception in the three-game win streak. He might not be a master but he acts like a commander, and the Rams are 3-1. They were 3-2 when he started last year.
“He wants to make a play,” defensive tackle Michael Brockers said. “It’s the confidence and the trust we have in him. On some of those plays, we’re saying, ‘Hey, Case, what are you doing?’ But he keeps his eyes downfield and looks for that big bomb. That’s what we appreciate about him.”
The Rams still won, and have to win, in grinding, NFC West fashion. They had three interceptions, two fumble recoveries, three sacks and four tackles for loss. Aaron Donald and Eugene Sims knocked Carson Palmer out of the game. Larry Fitzgerald had only one catch.
Not until Austin exploited Bradley Marquez’s block and jumped out for a 47-yard punt return, with a face mask penalty thrown in, did Keenum get close enough for the winning score. That was a four-yard strike to Quick, after he had thrown to Gurley for a first down.
“The trust in Case has been there,” Rams coach Jeff Fisher said. “He’s really good in the huddlle. He overcomes tough situations. He’s reckless, but he’s fun.”
The game falls to Keenum because NFL defenses continue their obsession with Gurley. He squeaked out 1.7 yards per carry on Sunday. He was averaging 2.8 before Sunday. The Rams are putting him wide more often, but they will continue to butt their heads, or his, against that wall until something breaks.
“We felt that if we were handing the ball off to Todd in the fourth quarter we’d be in good shape,” Fisher said.
But Keenum came up with three pass plays of 30 or more yards on Sunday, and that’s with a couple of dropped balls, and those two buzz-killers by Robinson.
“I can think of at least three passes I’d like to have back,” said Keenum, who was also thinking of the Rams’ failure to get any points off those five takeaways.
“We were realy close on some of those explosive plays after we faked to Todd. There’s a lot of offense out there. I took a sack (and fumbled) one time, with too many hitches. I need to let the ball go there. The chemistry isn’t perfect, but we’re getting there. You have to win close games in this league to be successful.”
The Rams beat Seattle by six, Tampa Bay by five, and Arizona by four. Next week they play host to Buffalo, who won a shutout in New England Sunday.
“In our recent history, once we get on a high, that next game is really not there for us,” Brockers said. “We have to make sure that changes.”
As Carson Wentz, Trevor Siemian, Dak Prescott and Jimmy Garoppolo have thrived to various degrees, the NFL intelligentsia continues to wonder when the Rams will remove the bubble wrap from Jared Goff. But with each week and with each win, they should notice why Goff isn’t playing quarterback for the Rams. There isn’t a vacancy.
October 2, 2016 at 11:25 pm #54332znModeratorCase Keenum is holding tight to job as Rams’ starting quarterback
Sam Farmer
http://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/la-sp-rams-cardinals-farmer-20161002-snap-story.html
As he showed Sunday on a zigzagging scramble that seemed to last a minute, Rams quarterback Case Keenum can move backward and forward, this way and that, finding pockets of breathing room when everything is breaking down around him.
The only thing Keenum won’t do is step aside.
With No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff waiting for his chance to play, Keenum is only tightening his grip on the starting job.
“He’s preparing every week and he expects to win,” Coach Jeff Fisher said of Keenum. “That’s how he is. That’s why months ago we said that he was our starter, because we have confidence in him and he can win games.”
Keenum had a memorable afternoon against Arizona, completing 18 of 30 passes for 266 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, one fumble, and a lofty passer rating of 111.2 to help the Rams to a 17-13 win, their third consecutive victory. That after a 28-0 loss at San Francisco in Week 1, when Keenum and his teammates were flatter than a Johnny Unitas haircut.
Dating to last December, the Rams are 6-2 in the last eight games Keenum has started. Only Denver has a better regular-season record during that span at 7-1. The Rams’ average margin of victory in those wins? Six points.
“Good teams win close games,” Keenum said. “That’s this league. You go across the board every week and most games, if not all of them, are one or two possessions. Some of them are just a field goal or two. You see time and again, the good ones find a way to win those.”
The Rams are far from an offensive juggernaut. They were the NFL’s only team to go without a touchdown for the first two weeks of the season. But they ground out a 9-3 victory over Seattle at the Coliseum, won at Tampa Bay in a 37-32 shootout, and Sunday had to come from behind late in the fourth quarter.
With 2 minutes 36 seconds to play, Keenum made a four-yard, back-shoulder throw to Brian Quick for the go-ahead touchdown. That capped a clutch drive that started with a 47-yard punt return by Tavon Austin — augmented by a 15-yard facemask call tacked on at the end — and included an eight-yard reception by Todd Gurley on third and eight.
Making that Keenum-to-Quick touchdown pass even more remarkable is it came with the wrong personnel on the field. Although Keenum wouldn’t say who specifically was out there who shouldn’t have been, he confirmed that there was a mix-up.
“We just had to get everybody lined up and the play clock was at 4,” he said. “There was one wrong guy in there, and he was at the wrong position. We got it figured out, though.”
There were a couple of big plays by Keenum that didn’t work out so well because they were wiped out by penalty flags. One was that wild third-down scramble in the fourth quarter, when Keenum slipped away from at least three tackles before finally connecting on a short pass with tight end Lance Kendricks, who turned it into a 27-yard gain. That was nullified because tackle Greg Robinson, who had lost track of Keenum, had started run blocking upfield.
In the third quarter, Keenum broke loose for a 27-yard run, then popped to his feet, pumped his fists, and yelled in jugular-bulging celebration. He didn’t notice the penalty flag — a holding call on Robinson — behind the line of scrimmage.
“I felt a little foolish when I had to walk back 40 yards to the huddle,” Keenum conceded. “But we overcame it in the end … Good teams overcome those things.”
Unbelievably, the same Rams who looked so inept in their opener are now atop the NFC West with Seattle and have a two-game lead over the defending division champion Cardinals.
“It says we’re fighters,” said Keenum, whose team plays host to Buffalo on Sunday. “We’ve won two road games in a row. We’re not going to dwell on where we are. We’re looking at where we’re going.”
Keenum took his time getting dressed and packing his duffel bag for the short flight home. His right leg was wrapped in cellophane that held ice bags in place. Walking out of the locker room with Gurley beside him, Keenum moved somewhat gingerly but with the confidence of a quarterback and team leader who knows the starting job belongs to him.
October 2, 2016 at 11:59 pm #54338znModeratorHere’s a play from 2013.
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October 3, 2016 at 8:46 am #54351znModeratorCase Keenum highlights from the Cardinals game, including some great plays that got called back from penalties.
#BelieveInKeenumhttps://www.facebook.com/Jimibowers/videos/10157661043785121/
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