This Sunday in San Diego Lot P3

I sat in the north sideline (the Rams’ sideline) and the ratio of Rams fans to Charger fans were pretty even. I don’t think that was the case on the other side of the field, but it was great watching the game with so many Rams fans. I went to a game in New Orleans a few years ago, and I don’t know if I saw more than a handful of Rams fans the whole day.

As for the game, I really thought that they were going to pull it out at the end. I felt watching the game that the Rams were the better team, but that San Diego had the better QB and the Rams kept getting called for too many critical penalties.

Cowboys, Eagles, 49ers, Seahawks, Chiefs, 49ers, Cardinals, Broncos, Chargers ===> 68-31 with no team less than 7-4. Has any team in NFL history played a 9 game stretch like that? And they played that stretch with two quasi-third string QBs against their opponent’s first string QB. As the youngest team in the league.

Awesome! I’ve only been to one game where Rams fans out-numbered the opponent’s fans and that was at the original Herdfest – a home game for the Rams. I have to say it’s much more enjoyable to watch a game that way for obvious reasons. It was cool to see there were so many Rams fans at the San Diego game.

Isiah58 wrote:

I felt watching the game that the Rams were the better team,
but that San Diego had the better QB and the Rams kept getting called for too many critical penalties.

After watching replay,
I did not think the rams had the better team.
I also did not think the Chargers had the better team.
It looked to me like neither team could really
take control of the game. It looked like one of
those games that either team could win, and whoever
had the ball last would win.

I think they are about even at this point.

Course i agree Rivers is better than Hill.
And Rivers had to deal with the Rams pass-rush
and Hill did not.

I enjoyed seeing Tavon and Stedman more
involved, btw.

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GreatRamNTheSky wrote:

There was a lot of good things in this game and you can see that Stedman Bailey and Tavon Austin are finally looking comfortable and becoming a big part of this offense. Still, this was the Rams game to win and that decision to throw that pass without any real pressure on him makes Hill look like an idiot.

This could have been a huge win for the Rams and next week they could have been playing for 500 with 4 games left after that.
Inexcusable is what that interception was and is. Hate to put all the blame on one player for that loss but in this case it is deserved and the goat horns belong to Hill.

The more I think about what could have been and it makes me feel sick.

Grits

Except there’s a reason Tavon and Bailey are back in the game–Davis couldn’t make those throws. The re-emergence of the Rams receivers is directly related to Hill. Someone posted a stat–the qb in the entire NFL with the fewest percentage of throws outside the hash marks was Davis. He can’t drive the ball so a lot of the throws Hill made to Bailey would never happen.

And Hill alone did not lose that game.

Here are 3 things that lost the game:

* defense fell back on poor tackling, as opposed to the Denver game.

* Mistakes. Rams mistakes led to a blocked punt, a basically unblocked qb sack and strip, 2 TDs called back cause of penalties.

* Hill was solidly effective overall but misread that redzone play. He gets graded down for that because if you’re trailing late in the 4th with a chance to win the qb has to come through. But that doesn’t make him the sole cause of the loss.

Those three things are off the top of my head and without re-watching the game.

Subtract any one of those things and they win even if the other things still happen. For example, subtract #2 and it never gets down to 1 redzone play in the final minute.

That’s my view anyway. So we see this one very differently.

Hill also had a TD negated by a penalty.

Was that his fault, too?

Looks like you had a good time, GRITS.

zn wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>GreatRamNTheSky wrote:</div>
There was a lot of good things in this game and you can see that Stedman Bailey and Tavon Austin are finally looking comfortable and becoming a big part of this offense. Still, this was the Rams game to win and that decision to throw that pass without any real pressure on him makes Hill look like an idiot.

This could have been a huge win for the Rams and next week they could have been playing for 500 with 4 games left after that.
Inexcusable is what that interception was and is. Hate to put all the blame on one player for that loss but in this case it is deserved and the goat horns belong to Hill.

The more I think about what could have been and it makes me feel sick.

Grits

Except there’s a reason Tavon and Bailey are back in the game–Davis couldn’t make those throws. The re-emergence of the Rams receivers is directly related to Hill. Someone posted a stat–the qb in the entire NFL with the fewest percentage of throws outside the hash marks was Davis. He can’t drive the ball so a lot of the throws Hill made to Bailey would never happen.

And Hill alone did not lose that game.

Here are 3 things that lost the game:

* defense fell back on poor tackling, as opposed to the Denver game.

* Mistakes. Rams mistakes led to a blocked punt, a basically unblocked qb sack and strip, 2 TDs called back cause of penalties.

* Hill was solidly effective overall but misread that redzone play. He gets graded down for that because if you’re trailing late in the 4th with a chance to win the qb has to come through. But that doesn’t make him the sole cause of the loss.

Those three things are off the top of my head and without re-watching the game.

Subtract any one of those things and they win even if the other things still happen. For example, subtract #2 and it never gets down to 1 redzone play in the final minute.

That’s my view anyway. So we see this one very differently.

I agree it was not the sole cause of the loss. At least 2 td’s negated by bogus penalties. I do differ in your view of the wr’s re-emergence . Quick’s injury was a big factor there. Prior to KC Davis was spraying it around everywhere and TA couldn’t get of the line (remember Sherman holding his arm out straight pre-snap and TA still couldn’t make it into the play). In my view the OL implosion and resultant beating Davis took at KC changed Davis so I have pre KC and post KC Davis being different players.Also with the OL continuity and personnel issues we needed TE’s to help in pass pro add to that the Defenses that Davis faced SEA,SF twice AZ and KC were all quite a bit better than Denver or SD.Davis can throw those passes but not when he’s panicked shell shocked to the point where he doesn’t trust his OL enough to set his feet.After KC I don’t know that he will ever get it back. I know I noticed and Savard remarked early how he kept his eye’s downfield in the face of the pass rush reminded him of Warner. I don’t remember any comparisons after KC.