Rams win

Awesome finish. Clutch on offense and defense.

I told y’all we would never win with Raheem Morris…….🤷‍♂️

Gutted out wins against the Bucs, the 49ers, the Bengals.

Quite a run.

Let us bask.

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wow.  aaron donald.  in the biggest moment.  comes through.  again.

same for stafford and kupp.  but i’m most excited for donald.  he’s in a stratosphere few players reach.

I stopped believing in the third quarter.

What a storybook drive to win the game. Aaron Donald finishes it off. Wow!  What a season from Kupp. Exhausted.

Great game ! Woohoo!

Obviously, I’m too close to the game to be objective. So, I wonder how football fans who weren’t fans of either team saw it.

My guess is they loved it — as a great football game. As a Rams fan since 1966, however, it was too close for comfort for me.

;>)

But it had a host of great moments, with a lot of surprises. Loved seeing Hopkins step up, for instance, and I think the Rams have something there. Jones, at linebacker: They don’t have to search for that position any more. Stafford improved throughout the playoffs, but made that one goof. He’s still the guy who can bring them back to another one next year, and there is no tougher QB.

A great win, and a lot of fun to watch. I really hope AD comes back!

Anyway, congrats to them and to all of us!!

Did anyone else have the feeling that this was not Akers’ day, and the Rams needed to play Henderson and Michel instead? I was yelling at the screen to take him out. Have the feeling that his long battle with his injury, and his miraculous comeback, caught up to him. He just didn’t seem to have any juice left. Gutsy, gutsy guy. But he looked off.

Of course, the Bengals were shutting down the run in general, like the Niners, but I think Henderson and Michel gave the Rams a better chance.

Any word on OBJ’s knee yet?

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On the pass interference call.   When the play is slowed-down, it sure looks like

a great play by the defender.   But the refs see things in real time.  And in real time, the defenders body and hand placement are exactly where they would be if it were an infraction.   So, I totally get the call.   It ‘looks’ like P.I. in real time.

Slow it down, play it back and forth, and it looks picky ‘at best’.

Still, the call was understandable in real time.   Its not like the thing in the Saints game which was…ya know…divine intervention.

The noncall on the cincy TD with Ramsay.   Kinda hard to understand how that one was missed.   It looked like a clear penalty in real time and slowed-down-time.

I thought it was classy of the Bengals coach to say he thought the officals

did a good job.    Whether he actually thot that or not, it was classy.

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On goodmorning football show.   Lady who interviewed Kupp said, after the Kupp TD against Apple,

Kupp goes to sideline and Robert Woods smiles and sez “apple sauce”.

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I have never seen so many post-game “wife runs into husband-player’s arms, with kids right behind…”

Perhaps its all spontaneous… but it looks to me like its practically staged and choreographed by the NFL.

Smarmy I can stomach, but staged-and-smarmy, makes me cringe.

wv curmudgeon

zn wrote:

I just think the Rams had to run the ball regardless of the results because the alternative was to just let the Bengals defense tee off against the pass.

i agree.  and i think mcvay did a good job calling the game.  i mean what can you do when you’ve lost woods, obj, higbee, AND blanton.  i mean what can you really do?  you can’t just pass the ball every time under those conditions.  i think he needed to keep cincy’s defense off balance just enough to keep them from teeing off on stafford.  even on the last drive there were some timely runs that kept the chains moving.  kupp and akers both made some clutch runs there.

I feel a shared sense of joy with this place and you folks.

That was outstanding. The big guys had big moments. The opening of the second half was a nightmare, but the defense did it’s job. That winning drive was a masterpiece.

High fives and fist bumps all around.