game reactions from around the net (ongoing thread)

Big Amoco Sign

Fisher was blown out 59-0 once and came back and won 30-13…the next game after.

I guess we should calm down a little.

In 2009, Fisher was blown out by the Patriots 59-0. The Titans started 0-6 with that loss capping it off. Then they won 7 of their next 8 games. With Kerry Collins I might add

Fisher can get a team back on track.

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alyoshamucci

I start with the good stuff on here, regardless of how ugly the games were, and in general I have a optimistic POV. It’s my nature, understanding psychology, to lean into the positive, life is hard enough as it is, and life as a Rams fan is . . well . . ugly sometimes.

First thing I want to say before getting started is that until the INT and subsequent TD at the end of the half, we seemed to be playing the game we wanted to play. there were some errors and some penalties . . but we were moving the ball and shutting AP down. After the pick and the entrance of A Davis, we were done. Team was deflated after losing hill. We played good football in the first half. So did they. Hill made a terrible decision that put us in a hole. But the overall play didn’t go down until Davis got under center.

Also, I did not watch the fourth quarter, I had important laundry refolding to do.

The Good

1) The young DBs. Gaines!!! What a great job, a professional job, by a 6th round draft pick. I saw someone bust on him for the TD catch by multi-pro bowler Greg Jennings on a perfect throw in the back of the end zone . . I don’t get that. He did an amazing job all game, 2 passes defended and plenty of solid tackles. Joyner showed up with his tackling also. Jenks was playing really well in coverage (the tennis balls in practice seemed to have helped his grab issues), and has shown up better as a tackler also. Across the board, the part of our team I thought would be weakest was really strong.

2) Brian Quick. “Reliable and consistent” was not ever something I expected to be addressing him with. He was open, and aggressive. Im considering picking him up in fantasy ball.

3) Quinn forced how many penalties?

4) TJ and Mcleod were playing with fury. I love seeing that. You’re going to miss some tackles on AP, that doesn’t bother me.

5) Langford was really stout. And overall our run defense gave me a lot of hope. Gadget WR sweeps are not basic run defense.

6) Tree was all over the place.

7) It can really only get better from here.

The Bad

8) Refs. I should not have to list this. It’s dumb. The roughing the passer penalty? The offsides? The spot on the Quick catch?

9) Jeff Fisher not challenging the Quinn hit that was called an incomplete pass. Quinn hits people so hard that the ball goes forward when the palm is empty. That should have been a TO. Jeff needs to know that every time Quinn makes contact the ball is coming out.

10) Tavon in the backfield. Zac Stacy needs to get in rhythm with the O line, and he’s messing around? Once is fine, don’t do it 6 times.

11) Bailey being suspended.

The Ugly

12) Interior pass blocking. What. the. he!!. Saffold and Wells and Joseph got eaten alive by Linval Joseph and Shariff Floyd. Are they that good? I don’t think so. They looked like they expected an easy game.

13) Shaun Hill’s INT. You DO NOT throw that ball.

14) Austin Davis.

15) Tavon’s 2 bobbled punts.

16) The scoreboard.

17) The body language of the team. Unacceptable.

some more. I’m being very one-sided looks like. If you see things that fit your view better then post them…actually my ideal is that many people contribute posts to a thread like this, not just me

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jrry32

I’m going to try and inject some optimism. The season isn’t over, the sky isn’t falling, and the Rams aren’t the worst team in football. Am I angry? Yes. I am angry that the team came out and played that poorly in week 1. That all said, there are 15 games left in the season. We were down to our 3rd string QB when the game went from 13-0 to 34-6.

And frankly, the game very likely could have been 6-0 if our starting QB never got hurt(as he was injured on the play with the INT and I think that contributed to throw-away not reaching the sidelines). Hell, the game could have been 9-0 at half if the refs had called the holding or even 7-6 Rams if the refs hadn’t blown the call on the Cassel fumble when Quinn hit him from behind as the Rams likely have a scoop and score on that play.

Regardless, things didn’t go our way and we lost…badly. But may I remind you…this isn’t the first time this happened. We lost to Dallas by 24 last year. We lost to San Francisco by 23 last year. And that was with Sam Bradford.

Yes, we all thought we had the talent to beat Minnesota. We were all confident coming into the game. Maybe too confident. But there’s no reason to give up on the season quite so soon. If the team comes out in the next couple games and doesn’t look any better then I completely understand at that point. However, I think we’re a better team than we showed against Minnesota and we’ll come out and prove it. But we’re not the 49ers, Seahawks, etc. We don’t have the talent to compensate for losing our starting QB.

We probably won’t be contending for the playoffs this year even with Shaun Hill. I hope we do but I don’t see it as likely. However, I do believe we can be competitive. I also believe that Hill wasn’t bad in the first half against the Vikings. I think the Rams as a whole can come out more focused and execute better. And when they do, you’ll see a competitive team.

We’re all pissed about the loss but the anger, resentment, disappointment, etc. just isn’t contributing to anything. It just brings about more anger, resentment, disappointment, and misery.

Cheer up, we have 15 games left to play, we have a lot of football to enjoy and this team still has plenty of time to right the ship. If we can get destroyed by 47 total points in back to back games last year and rebound to finish the year 6-6 with Kellen Clemens starting 9 of those games. We can sure as hell bounce back from this beating and do some damage with Shaun Hill.

wv wrote:

Zooey wrote:
Well, Tavon did not have a good day, did he.

If you hate West Virginians so much
maybe you should go live
in North Korea.

w
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It is incumbent on all posters to read posts carefully before responding to them.

Nowhere does Zooey say or imply that Tavon is North Korean.

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