reactions to the Dallas win

Agamemnon wrote:

Dallas loses home game.

seriously ag.

and they slowed elliott down.

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It didn’t have to be that close…. but that was a good playoff game

The better team won

GO RAMS!!!!!!

Thank goodness for CJ Anderson!
What gets into Marcus Peters’ head sometimes?
When was the last time we threw a quick slant pass for an easy six yards?
Can’t remember twoteams going for it on fourth down this often in one game

The opposite of the offensive and defensive game plans I expected. Neither Saints nor Eagles wanted to see the Rams OL doing what they did today.

gurley 16 carries for 115 yards.

in 2 postseason games, 30 carries for 216 yards and a 7.2 average per carry.

quickly carving out a reputation as a big time running back.

cj made a lot of headlines today but so did gurley. outperformed the leading rusher in the nfl in 2 matchups so far.

also i’m loving the 2 headed rushing attack. rams can’t re-sign anderson at this point. he’ll demand too much money, but rams should seriously consider drafting another running back next year in the later rounds.

rushing attack so important to this rams offense.

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

Someone explain who the Rams are — they had the wild shootouts with the Saints and Chiefs,
and now they look like the Tim Tebow broncos er somethin.

Someone x-plain it to me.

Have they always been both?

They always had the capacity to be both. You can see though that after the Chi & Eagles games Kromer was talking about getting back to basics and fundamentals. To me the Chi & Eagles games were always about the OL, and how it had unravelled a bit. A lot of people put all on that on Goff but my feeling was that no qb looks good when OLs crack like that and a young one will especially not look good. (Stats show Goff was under an unusual amount of pressure in those games, double the amount from previous games.)

So what I think happened is, they took a veteran OL and focused on technique and reconfigured them a bit.

They could always run, they could always pass, but what has shifted is the emphasis.

I think also discovering what they had in CJ motivated a lot of that.

On defense, I also think they just got back to basics (eg. gap discipline) and changed a few things and just said, we have to defend the run it’s now or never for 2018 to do that.

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Sounds right to me. I’d add that when Gurley is hurt, its a different team. Also when the OLine gets two weeks off it probly helps a lot.

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For some reason this game reminded me of an old GSOT game. The one where the Rams had to play the Saints in, i think the last regular season game. And the Saints had already bullied the rams in the first game. And Martz decided to run the ball down their throats. And Faulk did just that. The team was just ‘determined’.

Course the next game was the Hakim fumble game, i think.

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Well. I am thrilled with the game. I never saw that sort of rushing attack coming. They just destroyed Dallas on the ground. What can you say about CJ Anderson and how important he has been? He is amazing. The oline played great and Goff made the plays he had to and of course, NO TURNOVERS! They learned from last year. It was so important to get a playoff win this year. Mission accomplished. The defense scared me a bit but they did shut down Elliot. Nice job.

My one problem is with Peters. He is a punk who doesn’t like to tackle and he’s dumb. He is going to cost them. I would love to move on from him next year.

But besides that—great game.

2 to go!

I loved the two headed rushing monster.

The rams didn’t get as much pressure on the QB as I expected them to get. I expect some of that was scheme to contain Dak, and the cowboys running game, but I still thought they pass rush better.

Still watchin, late in first half. Seems like Goff is taking a lot more time than usual to call the plays. Lots of talking and motioning and presnap moving. Interesting.

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they’re actually a better running team than passing team according to stats.

they rank third in rushing and fifth in passing.

i think the important thing for the mcvay offense is balance.

so that the play action is more effective.

wv wrote:

That was a singularly ‘satisfying’ game. They just flat-out beat the shit out of the rough tough boyz.

Byes help. Man, do byes help.

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I like the word “manhandled” to describe the game.

The Rams manhandled the Cowboys. It wasn’t glitzy. It wasn’t a blow out. But from start to finish, the Rams won the game. Even when Dallas was up 7-3, I liked what I was seeing. Even at 7-6, I felt like the game was in hand.

They beat them inch-by-inch all game long.

I think all the talking heads just had it in their minds that Dallas was going to win. They haven’t gotten over that yet. 😉