Our reactions to the Eagles game

That was the most disgusting win I can remember seeing.

The Rams looked like a JV team most of the day, but enough Eagles got injured that I think they literally were down to their JV team. The Rams played a very bad, sloppy, bad, mistake-ridden game, and they would have lost if not for attrition.

How about that Kyrien WIlliams effort on the go-ahead TD? Man is a stud.

Bad clock management last drive 2nd quarter. Could have let the clock run off 27 secs to 2-min warning. They had all their timeouts. They had 1st down at Phi 21. I think that was a mistake.

Puka makes an impossible catch every game.

Somebody explain to me why the Eagles gunner runs out of bounds on a punt and gets a 5 yard penalty, and the rams run out of bounds and it’s a 15 yard penalty.

So many special team disasters. The 41 yard punt return may be the worst, but sheesh.

Adams did not have a good game. Stafford had the worst 300 yard game in recent memory. He plunked a game-losing pass off the chest of an Eagle in the red zone on the winning drive on top of all the other misses and INTs.

Seriously disgusting game, though. 8 penalties for 100 yards.

Gonna have a heart attack, watching this team. Finally get a win in a close game.

The old cliche: Winning ugly. Very ugly game but a win is a win. Buffalo is going to be tough next Monday.

Yeah, McDuffie got his finger snagged in the guy’s t-shirt, and there was no intent, and no effect on the play. Hard to see that, though. The ref can see the t-shirt stretched.

I thought the 4th and goal was a terrible call. Take the 3. That forces the Rams to score 2 TDs, and they had only 1 all day at that point. Of course, the Rams DID score 2 TDs, but I would have taken the easy FG, if I was Siriani.

Anyway. Game Ball to the defense. Helluva an effort. Byron Young wrecked the Eagles.

Stafford has real trouble in the rain.

The stats make it seem like the Rams dominated.

Total yards: Rams 415, Eagles 172
3rd down conv: Rams 7/16, Eagles 0/12
Passing yards: Rams 309, Eagles 68.
1st downs: Rams 26, Eagles 12.
Sacks allowed: Rams 1, Eagles 4.

And on, and on.

And yet…there was what we actually watched. On the field.

I dunno. Hertz looked worse than Jameis Winston, if thats possible.

Maybe it was just two really bad teams out there.

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On the macro-level that was a huge win against a team the Rams might very well need a head-to-head edge against. If the Eagles win their division and the Rams end up a wild card, it wont matter, BUT, as of right now — guess who is leading the NFC East.

Giants 3-1
Eagles 2-2
Dallas 2-2

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Zooey wrote:

Yeah, if you showed me the final box score (from the future) before kickoff, I woulda thought that the Rams just rolled them. It was all the mistakes. Lots and lots of mistakes. Penalties. Drops. Bad throws. But excellent defense, and when the rain stopped, Stafford did his thing.

According to the Prime Directive I’m forbidden from showing you boxscores from the future. God knows what you would do with them.

Stafford, as we in the future know, is a gunslinger, and will always be bold and take chances and there’s gonna be some INTs. And we know he has a history of streaky-ness.
But all i can say is, for whatever reason, he is not in one of his hot-streak-zones. He’s just not looking like he’s ‘in the zone’ at all. I’m not ‘worried’ about him, but I am hoping it comes together sooner for him, rather than later.

The offense in general just doesn’t seem smooth. Not against Shannahan. Not against Payton. And not against Syriani. I dont think this is McVay’s best coaching year. So far.

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joemad wrote:

I listen to this game on Rams’ radio today…

JB Long, Maurice Jones Drew, and DeMarco Farr made this a very memorable game…

They ripped special teams…,.

I suppose the special teams play was better than last year. I guess.

Philly Phanz… fuck em

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPL8QJRpn/

You know, I’ve been a pretty harsh critic of Kyren over the years, but man-o-man, that last TD run was just historic. That one goes in the Rams running-back hall-of-fame. Up there with some of those old-school Steven Jackson barbaric-mauling-rabid-beastly runs. It wasnt exactly like a Jackson run, in that he didnt just bulldoze people, it was more like he sliced through cracks and bounced off people. Or somethin.

I’ve watched Kyren’s run from different angles and that one was special. There is no way he should have scored or even come close to scoring.

He earned somethin on that one.

Baldinger is gonna have a field day with that one.

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Zooey wrote:

I haven’t spared a thought for Philly fans until now. A gut-wrenchng loss for them. Philly had that game the whole time and just gagged it up like a furball. It hurtz.

Good.

Lotta philly fans are blaming Sirianni for going for it on fourth and goal from the 2. They were up 10. Seems to me it was the right decision. Even if it failed the rams were 98 yards away and down by ten. The Rams offense hadnt done shit. There was no reason think LA was going go on two drives and score 14 points.

People think of McVay as a genius. Sirianni is 67-31 overall, with a Super Bowl win and a close Super Bowl loss to Belichex. And he’s beaten McVay, like four out of five times or something like that.

And yet Sirianni is perceived as a bit of an idiot. Its one of the weirdest perceptions in all of football.

And, btw, I think Sirianni is an idiot. I cant explain it.

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zn wrote:

The Eagles of the 2020s were strong when their OL was elite. For a long time it was. It’s not that caliber nowadays, though.

Yeah, it was an awesome Oline. Even A.D. had problems with it. That super bowl team with Saquon behind that Oline was reminiscent of those beastly Dallas teams of yore.

The NFC East is kinda hilarious this year. Each team is a bit of a mess.

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joemad wrote:

I agree with everyone praising Kyren Williams on that last TD…that was a great play

Thank goodness. We were staying to worry about you.