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September 8, 2014 at 9:03 am #6622

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The worst thing for the Rams: the looming schedule.

Of the 28 teams that have played so far this weekend, the Rams had the worst day. A disaster at quarterback—and whether Shaun Hill (a calf injury, no, a thigh injury) really was hurt enough to leave the game at halftime—was weird enough. But a 28-point loss at home to a team that won five games last year, and no offensive answers whatsoever, and a defense with eight first- or second-round picks on it giving up 6.2 yards per carry and 68% completions to Minnesota, was plain awful. The Rams did lead the league in something on Sunday: penalties. They committed 13. “Embarrassing,” linebacker James Laurinaitis called it.

The Rams look to have two weeks to do the unlikely, which is save their season. They play at Tampa Bay, which had a bad home loss to a backup quarterback Sunday, and then come home to face Dallas, which looked terrible Sunday. Then there’s a bye. Then there’s the toughest eight-game stretch any team has this year—or at least it looks the toughest. Seven 2013 playoff teams, and Arizona, which won 10 games. The roll call starting in Week 5: at Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, at Kansas City, at San Francisco, at Arizona, Denver, at San Diego.

Jeff Fisher certainly will stress to his team this week that it’s only one loss. His team is young and impressionable, and maybe they’ll buy the optimism. But St. Louis is a show-me NFL market anyway. The locals have bought into winning through the draft, and not even the loss of Sam Bradford for the second straight year with a knee injury should have made the team bottom out like this.

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/09/08/nfl-week-1-surprises-derek-anderson-panthers-dolphins/2/

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

September 8, 2014 at 5:21 pm #6649

HighPlainsDrifter
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I thought the Minnesota game was the “easy” one among the first ten games. And they got crushed. I honestly believe that they have a real shot at an 0-10 start and I believe it has a real chance to get real ugly along the way. I guess if I see something positive, it’s that the Rams might find themselves in the Jameis Winston sweepstakes. Of course, if Winston thinks he might be sentenced to a career in St. Louis, he might just stay in college.

September 8, 2014 at 5:34 pm #6652

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HighPlainsDrifter wrote:

I thought the Minnesota game was the “easy” one among the first ten games. And they got crushed. I honestly believe that they have a real shot at an 0-10 start and I believe it has a real chance to get real ugly along the way. I guess if I see something positive, it’s that the Rams might find themselves in the Jameis Winston sweepstakes. Of course, if Winston thinks he might be sentenced to a career in St. Louis, he might just stay in college.

Well, i think they could win a lot of games
if the OLine hold up, and Roman Gabriel
comes out of retirement.

Two big Ifs,
i know.

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September 8, 2014 at 5:53 pm #6656

GreatRamNTheSky
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I thought the Cowboy game is the easiest of the 1st three and I still do.

Grits

September 8, 2014 at 6:02 pm #6658

HighPlainsDrifter
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Only time will tell, but we disagree. I think the Rams will have to score a lot of points to beat Dallas, and I have a hard time believing that their offense is capable. I doubt Romo will be quite so generous as he was yesterday.

September 8, 2014 at 11:13 pm #6711

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HighPlainsDrifter wrote:

I thought the Minnesota game was the “easy” one among the first ten games. And they got crushed. I honestly believe that they have a real shot at an 0-10 start and I believe it has a real chance to get real ugly along the way. I guess if I see something positive, it’s that the Rams might find themselves in the Jameis Winston sweepstakes. Of course, if Winston thinks he might be sentenced to a career in St. Louis, he might just stay in college.

I dunno. I am not sure it’s true the Vikes game was just supposed to be easy. Zimmer is a good D coach and that was a veteran defense. Turner can use the weapons they had, not an issue.

September 9, 2014 at 4:47 am #6728

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“Easy” was used in a relative sense in regards to the rest of the games, not in it’s strictest literal sense. The point being, if the Rams can’t deal with Minnesota, how are they going to deal with the like of the Niners, Seahawks, Broncos, etc.? Just very discouraging as a fan to have such a harsh reality shoved into your face so early in a season that you’ve looked forward to for a while. It’s the same as it’s been for several years now. The loss isn’t the hardest aspect of the opener to deal with. It’s the utter lack of competitiveness. And I’m not interested in reading how they were doing OK until……football is a four quarter game and doing OK for about a quarter and a half is not doing OK. I hate believing that they are incapable, but they’re going to have to show me otherwise. Game one was not it. Game one was business as usual.
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