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April 29, 2015 at 10:39 am #23314znModerator
It’s appropriate to ask this before the draft.
Some people I think are disheartened because of the move.
Some are getting worn down by Fisher—they have doubts about him.
Some (like me) are still the same optimistic idiots they’ve always been every other off-season.
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April 29, 2015 at 10:51 am #23318wvParticipantI think they are a solid healthy OLine
away from double-digit wins
and playoffs.All the other Units are
good enough, i think.One unit left.
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vApril 29, 2015 at 10:53 am #23319znModeratorIt’s appropriate to ask this before the draft.
Some people I think are disheartened because of the move.
Some are getting worn down by Fisher—they have doubts about him.
Some (like me) are still the same optimistic idiots they’ve always been every other off-season.
I think they are a solid healthy OLine
away from double-digit wins
and playoffs.All the other Units are
good enough, i think.One unit left.
w
vBut that implies you have an emotional interest running fairly strong. (Me too.) But we’re nomads. It’s going to be a strange season in many respects. But a lot of us are still invested. Some? Not as much, maybe.
So that’s a fair description on my part? You’re still chugging along, interested as usual? Plus (also like me) you see the potential for good things….
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April 29, 2015 at 11:39 am #23320PA RamParticipantThe great thing about the NFL are the plot changes from year to year–the twists.
This year it’s Nick Foles.
I am really optimistic about him and that has me excited about the season. But I am concerned about the o-line. If they can’t protect Foles we’ve got a problem. I am excited about the running game getting better but again–if the line is a mess it won’t.
I am not much concerned about the defense. I believe it’s a defense that is championship caliber(assuming they have a decent offense–not spectacular but decent). I would be thrilled to see this team in the playoffs again. So I’m looking forward to that.
The draft will be fun. The Rams have been drafting very well of late and I can’t wait to see who they pick.
So yes–I still have interest. And I have expectations. But I also know that they have a tough schedule, not much of a homefield(in all probability) and the distraction of “the move”. It’s sure to be a year of drama.
But I’m excited. And ready.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick
April 29, 2015 at 1:59 pm #23328DakParticipantI’ve expressed this elsewhere. My strong allegiance to the Rams has waned. I am a little surprised at how much. I will try to watch the beginning of the first round of the draft, and try to be part of the chat room, but even as I type that, I realize that I’m not nearly as excited as usual. And the NFL Draft used to be “the thing” for me this time of year.
I think my waning interest is due to two factors:
1) The Move. It’s not just that the Rams may move, it’s that Kroenke has pre-determined that they should move to L.A. If there were discussions, I would be optimistic. But, there aren’t. And, that means the Rams’ move sure seems inevitable. I’ve looked at it from various angles, and it all comes back to Kroenke is doing everything he can do to hightail it to the West Coast. And, that bums me. Because I thought the franchise was at least headed upward. However …
2) … I am tired of a weak offense and inconsistent defense. But, worse, are the slow starts each year. After reflecting on last year, and looking at Fisher’s history, I wonder if he has the coaching acumen to bring the best out of an offense. He might be too “old school” and not innovative enough. Now, we have Foles at QB, and that doesn’t excite me, either. The whole QB situation is pretty weak. There’s not much to this team that really excites me right now, until I know that the D will be dominant, and I’m not sure about that. … Still, if the Rams weren’t trying to move to L.A., maybe I’d be more optimistic or engaged, I don’t know. Perhaps that’s coloring my view of the team (or, opening my eyes).
April 29, 2015 at 2:28 pm #23330joemadParticipanti’m “disheartened” because Sam Bradford is gone…… he played very well right before his last 2 knee injuries….This might be the first time since 1997 that I do not get Sunday Tix and just go with “Game Rewind” because they might have a Tony Banks QB situation with Nick Foles…… I’ll wait and see what I feel in September when it’s time to renew Sunday Tix…..
In regards to the move, I was on the Save the Rams committee snail mail list in 1994 (before the internet was widely available).
I was sad to see the RAMS move, I mean how could a team from LA, rich in tradition, move to STL?????, but when I saw those Ram helmets in a preseason game vs the Raiders as the ST LOUIS Rams, I still found myself rooting for the team…. also, when the internet was made available, the fans on the Post Dispatch message board kept me engaged… Thanks to HAPPY4LA, GRITS, TONYDE, DAVEL, BARF, XACH WVRAM, RFIP, and all the early adopters of the Rams social network to keep me engaged and accept the St Louis Rams….. i think starting off 5-0 in 1995 helped…………then, Ken Norton punched the goal post and the 4 year spiral began………
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April 29, 2015 at 2:29 pm #23331Isiah58ParticipantI personally am as excited and optimistic about 2015 as I have been for the last 45 seasons. We are not only returning our starting defense, but with one exception we are returning our second string defense as well. We have a new QB, young and upcoming weapons, and the best coach in the division. Yeah, I am a huge Fisher fan, and I am one of the people who try to look past the record and see whether the team has gotten better over the last three years. He started with an absolutely miserable roster, and had to compete in the NFC West just when it was ascending to its crescendo. And he had to compete with back-up journeymen QBs the last season and a half going up against the division’s first string QBs. Under those circumstances, I am not sure who could have done better.
This team is ready to turn it around, right now. Go on a big run. Start crushing people. In 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
“Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.” - Homer Simpson
April 29, 2015 at 2:57 pm #23336nittany ramModeratorI would normally be excited but I’m worried that their lame duck status will be a distraction and impact their play on the field. They likely won’t have much of a home field advantage this season either.
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April 29, 2015 at 3:41 pm #23338wvParticipantIt’s appropriate to ask this before the draft.
Some people I think are disheartened because of the move.
Some are getting worn down by Fisher—they have doubts about him.
Some (like me) are still the same optimistic idiots they’ve always been every other off-season.
I think they are a solid healthy OLine
away from double-digit wins
and playoffs.All the other Units are
good enough, i think.One unit left.
w
vBut that implies you have an emotional interest running fairly strong. (Me too.) But we’re nomads. It’s going to be a strange season in many respects. But a lot of us are still invested. Some? Not as much, maybe.
So that’s a fair description on my part? You’re still chugging along, interested as usual? Plus (also like me) you see the potential for good things….
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Oh, i get your question now. I misread it, i think.
Sure, I am as invested as ever. A move to LA
wouldnt change my feelings.Heck I followed this team for years with
Georgia and Shaw and Zygmunt at the helm,
and I couldnt stand them. I mean, i loathed
them. Now, i loath Kroenke. So it goes.For me, the ‘team’ is the players and coaches.
I just try not to vomit when I think of
the Owners and corporate PR-suits.The Rams are the Horns to me.
Which includes the blue and white Merlin
and the blue and yellow Youngblood,
and the gold and blue Warner.w
vApril 29, 2015 at 4:11 pm #23344ZooeyModeratorI am as attentive as ever, but I don’t think I will be excited about the start of a season again until the season after they break out of mediocrity. I guess I am part of he Show Me state of mind.
Moving to Foles does not excite me. I’m hopeful, but not expectant. I guess I should be more hopeful about the Rams because I was thinking playoffs last year. Of course, they lost Bradford, and that ended the hope. But it just seems like it’s something every year. They were just a middling team last year, and they’ve got the same playmakers, and same…everything. And where is the OL? They may retain Barksdale, and maybe the center is on the roster, and they start only one rookie – best case scenario, right? That isn’t a great line no matter what. And Ayers and Fairley are nice, I guess. But I’m just not, you know…excited.
I’ll get excited when they win.
April 29, 2015 at 4:29 pm #23345HerzogParticipantI’m interested, but hateful. I am every off season. I hate waiting for the season to begin. Then it begins, and we only get to watch once a week.
I HATE that it takes so long for the draft to happen.
I turn my brain off to the rest of this stuff. If they move, they move. I’m married to this team now. Just like in marriage, I both love and hate it. It won’t matter where they play or who the coach is.
April 29, 2015 at 7:40 pm #23353InvaderRamModeratori am excited. however, i have this feeling more of restlessness than i have in previous seasons. i feel like the team is close. and while i am excited about the draft, i just want to get the draft done and move forward to the regular season.
at the beginning of this whole offseason, i was intrigued by all the new potential toys the rams could draft. cooper, gurley, mariota, white…
but approaching the draft, i’m coming to the realization that the rams just need to draft an offensive lineman. and they really need to hit on this one. like they need to draft the second coming of steve hutchinson. although i do think they should draft a running back later on. maybe a jay ajayi in the second round.
but more than that. this team just needs to take that next step toward making the playoffs. and they’re close. but it’s been frustrating. i’m restless.
as far as the whole move. i’m torn. i don’t know which way i want it to go. though ultimately it hasn’t had an effect on my enthusiasm for the rams.
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April 29, 2015 at 8:22 pm #23356sdramParticipantSame for me – anxious to see how the next year plays out on the field and anxious to see how the draft goes. I have a good expectation that the Snisher draftees youthful experience is going to start paying off. Health is the big issue. Williams being there again with a great young group he knows. A healthy QB. I’m optimistic the Rams can compete for the division.
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April 29, 2015 at 9:34 pm #23361cgsuddeathParticipanti’m “disheartened” because Sam Bradford is gone…… he played very well right before his last 2 knee injuries….This might be the first time since 1997 that I do not get Sunday Tix and just go with “Game Rewind” because they might have a Tony Banks QB situation with Nick Foles…… I’ll wait and see what I feel in September when it’s time to renew Sunday Tix…..
In regards to the move, I was on the Save the Rams committee snail mail list in 1994 (before the internet was widely available).
I was sad to see the RAMS move, I mean how could a team from LA, rich in tradition, move to STL?????, but when I saw those Ram helmets in a preseason game vs the Raiders as the ST LOUIS Rams, I still found myself rooting for the team…. also, when the internet was made available, the fans on the Post Dispatch message board kept me engaged… Thanks to HAPPY4LA, GRITS, TONYDE, DAVEL, BARF, XACH WVRAM, RFIP, and all the early adopters of the Rams social network to keep me engaged and accept the St Louis Rams….. i think starting off 5-0 in 1995 helped…………then, Ken Norton punched the goal post and the 4 year spiral began………
You’re not the only one.I think the quarterback move set the offense back and it’s going to be another slow start.
April 30, 2015 at 12:47 am #23382MackeyserModeratorI’m very optimistic. We’ve been saying “this team is built to win in 2015” for awhile and now it’s here.
I really don’t care if they play in outer space.
Home is where the heart is and my football heart is with the Rams.
If we take care of our OL, and there are several paths to doing that, then we should not only make the playoffs, but be that team in the playoffs that no one wants to face.
Am I excited? Hell yeah!
Sports is the crucible of human virtue. The distillate remains are human vice.
April 30, 2015 at 9:44 am #23406ZooeyModeratorI’m very optimistic. We’ve been saying “this team is built to win in 2015″ for awhile and now it’s here.
I really don’t care if they play in outer space.
Home is where the heart is and my football heart is with the Rams.
If we take care of our OL, and there are several paths to doing that, then we should not only make the playoffs, but be that team in the playoffs that no one wants to face.
Am I excited? Hell yeah!
Then I’m coming over to your house to watch the game. I’ll feed off your energy, but to you, I will be the sullen guy in the corner mumbling, “Six yards on that play? Six measly yards? Schottenheimer woulda got seven.”
April 30, 2015 at 11:57 am #23412TrenchRamParticipantI’m less engaged than I can ever remember being. While I seldom post, I’ve always checked this board (or one of its predecessors) at least a couple of times a day, even in the off-season. This year it’s been once or twice a week. I’ve hardly read any draft coverage at all. I don’t even have any players that I’m really hoping they’ll take and that’s very strange.
I think that there are a lot of things playing into it. Fisher is part of it. I don’t have much faith him. I’m pessimistic about the OL, and I’ve reached a point where I just assume that when week 1 rolls around this team won’t yet be ready for the season and will – yet again – just concede some of the early games. Part of it’s the move. While I don’t live in STL anymore, it’s home and their leaving will make me sad. The way that it’s been handled is even worse. Reading so much news that involves Kroenke has created a sort of conditioned emotional reaction that transfers to the team as a whole. Some of it’s the league too. All the coverage of injuries and the league’s response, Ray Rice, public subsidies, etc. also saps a bit of my enthusiasm. It’s not that I’m just learning that there is so much about the league that is evil; it’s just that it’s getting harder to ignore.
In spite of all that, when the bill for Sunday ticket comes, I’ll pay it. When they kick off on week 1, I’ll be glued to the TV with my dad on speaker phone, and I’ll be rooting for the Rams; just with a bit less enthusiasm than in the past.
April 30, 2015 at 12:37 pm #23415bnwBlockedIt’s appropriate to ask this before the draft.
Some people I think are disheartened because of the move.
Some are getting worn down by Fisher—they have doubts about him.
Some (like me) are still the same optimistic idiots they’ve always been every other off-season.
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I’d be an optimistic idiot too if not for the impending move. I don’t know when the draft starts and I’m OK with that.
The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.
Sprinkles are for winners.
April 30, 2015 at 1:48 pm #23421MaddyParticipantI don’t have any conscious memory of a time before I was a Rams fan. I don’t have a second-favorite team. I am a sucker for the Rams, because I require nothing from them in order for them to retain my total allegiance. No Ram owner or front-office executive – in fact no Ram of any kind, ever – has ever known or cared that I exist. I have no voice in the Rams’ realm. There have been some dismal years. Stretches of years. Difficult to watch years. I am critical, but I don’t waver.
My enthusiasm frequently manifests in the hope that I will be pleasantly surprised at how well the Rams play.
This season represents a potential step backwards, with a new QB and a first-time OC. That scenario has become monotonous. I have no clue as to which Foles we will see.
Everybody knows that priorty number one is the offensive line this offseason. Nothing but crickets so far, but that just means they’ve passed on two or three free agents. This isn’t the time to worry yet, even though we want all problems addressed immediately.
I already know how I will react if they move. I went through it when they left LA. I don’t hope they move back to LA. At this point, I think it will hurt Stl more than it will help LA or the Rams if they leave. I hope they stay put. But in either case, I’ll still be a Rams fan.
April 30, 2015 at 6:11 pm #23449znModeratorThis thread is interesting. Diverse and completely non-judgemental. I am bumping it again in hopes of keeping it going.
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