Our reactions to the Bux game

Yep…

Bucs showed up for a gunfight… but the Rams had bigger guns

The better team won today…

Easy win against a sub-par quarterback. Next.

Rams excelled in all phases of the game today. They look unbeatable.

Pretty clear they are be the best team in football.

Perhaps the best team ever.

MAY-be the 85 Chicago Bears or 26 Frankford Yellowjackets could beat them on an off day.

MAY-be.

The defense exceeded my expectations.

Impressive what the offense can do without the presence of a strong running game.

Seattle lost again.

Fun day.

We NEED a running game. Other than that, Great Win (and my Yankees too).

I didn’t expect them to win that convincingly. I was expecting a nail-biter. That was solid.

I knew I was going to see DJax score on a bomb. Jax was doing some minor grumbling last week because he hadn’t been used, and I thought, “McVay is saving him for TB.” Pretty clearly he had this game circled on the calendar. That guy was somewhat charged up for this game.

Gronk was maybe showing some age, finally. And the Bucs have an issue in the secondary. They’ve been lit up for over 1,000 yards passing in three games. I’m here to say that I do not feel sorry for them.

Meanwhile, the Rams miss Akers, a lot. I hope to see something more coming out of the rush attack in the next few games, or we have a problem.

The Rams will be on top of most Power Rankings this week.

Billy_T wrote:

Yes, slow start from Stafford

Looks to me like McVay was seriously amped up about this game, and he undoubtedly passed that on to his team. I thought Stafford looked like he had the Yips, early. Those guys were open, and he missed them. Defending SB champs are gonna get that a lot the following season. It will be different in the playoffs if these two teams meet again. The Bucs can’t match that energy every week, but they can match it in the playoffs. The Bucs can play better than that (I think).

In any event, the Rams are likely to have HFA if they meet again, though that’s obviously no sure thing with 14 more games to go. But that was an important win for this team, and you couldn’t really ask for more 3 weeks into the season. The Rams are a game up on the 9ers, and 2 up on the Hawks, and they will likely take care of AZ next week in LA. So… carry on.

Hey, Billy. I have been to only one game since the Rams returned to Los Angeles, and that was at the Coliseum which is wide open, and not designed for acoustic reinforcement whatsoever.

All I can tell you is that I have heard Colin Cowherd, Rich Eisen, and the announcers all say it is unbelievably loud in SoFi. Eisen said it’s louder than the Seattle stadium.

One caveat: the stadium acoustics are just as loud for fans of the visiting team, and as of now, it still appears to me that Los Angeles has a higher proportion of visiting fans than anywhere else because LA was without a team for 20 years, but not without football fans. Many Los Angelenos chose to follow a team elsewhere, and have not changed their allegiance to the Rams just because they moved into the local area. That will change over time, but the Rams lost a large part of a generation during their absence from LA. The Rams have a significant home field advantage – bigger than it’s ever been in the past – but not as big as it will be in a few years, especially if the Rams bring a Lombardi to LA.

There must be somebody around who has attended a game at SoFi, and can give a better answer, though.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Zooey.

zn wrote:

I like Michel.

I do, too. I think he was a good pickup, and I think he will have better days. He didn’t have training camp with the Rams, and if Henderson was healthy, he wouldn’t get this much of a load yet. He will improve, and get more use down the road.

I think that the Rams woulda had an A running game with Akers, and it’s gonna be a B without him.

InvaderRam wrote:

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Zooey wrote:
One caveat: the stadium acoustics are just as loud for fans of the visiting team, and as of now, it still appears to me that Los Angeles has a higher proportion of visiting fans than anywhere else because LA was without a team for 20 years, but not without football fans.

it’s changing. in just the five years they’ve been here, i’ve seen a big change in the amount of rams fans in the city. it’s mostly older folks, so i think a large part of it is just old rams fans starting to welcome their old team back. but there are a lot of younger fans too.

and most importantly i rarely ever see chargers fans walking around.

Good. There was certainly a lot of Rams signage around the city every time I’ve been there.

Side note: In re-reading my own post, I realize I wrote an ambiguous line that is likely to be misinterpreted. I said, “the stadium acoustics are just as loud for fans of the visiting team.” What I meant was “the acoustics are the acoustics. They don’t distinguish between the fans making the noise, and because there are a lot of fans of the opposing team also present, they will also be loud.” I did not mean to imply that they are equally loud, since there are fewer of them, even if there are more visitors than in the average stadium. But obviously the higher the % of Rams fans, the louder it will be at “the right times.”