Presnap penalties are just stupid.
Offsides is selfish and really bad, cause it gives the other team a free roll.
The patriots and seahawks coach the DBs to hold, they believe they come out ahead, cause the Refs won’t call it all the time.
PI can save a TD.
Personal fouls are mostly stupid and selfish. imo Unless you have to hit the QB to let him know you can’t get too comfortable and you are never safe.
Penalties stop the clock. You don’t always want that.
You don’t want your QB to get hit.
Anyway there are variety of penalties and some are better or worse than others.

JackPMiller wrote:

What makes me wonder is Collins is getting traded for a third round comp pick. How are they supposed to know they are getting a 3rd round comp pick? Is this information out before we as the fans know?

http://overthecap.com/compensatory-draft-picks-cancellation-chart/#afc-west-2017

They are guessing, but it is pretty good guessing. And those types of trades are conditional. The Rams have a trade like that going in the Goff trade, a 3rd round pick goes to Tenn. It is a comp pick. If they don’t have a comp pick, then it is their regular pick. Used to, you couldn’t trade comp picks, but they changed that. Check out the link.

i won’t watch much football. I will invest time is some of my other interests.

I was fine with Keenum this season. I thought he was good enough to QB this team to the playoffs. He has played better than I expected. But, with this team now, I think the playoffs are a dream. Fisher doesn’t, he really can’t think that way. He has to think that Goff gives the Rams the best chance to win before he plays him. I don’t think Keenum will be with the team next year, although he could be. So, I want to play Goff. If not, then I want to play Mannion. It seems we are in a pretty bad division this year, so maybe, we can win the division.

Does Keenum figure to be the starter next year?

Is he even on the team next year?

Maybe Keenum is the best chance to win. I don’t think so, but he isn’t winning anyway.

If Goff isn’t ready, play Mannion. I have given up on this year.

zn wrote:

Well after losing 3 straight I think we’re in “might as well play Goff” territory

Me, too.

I got this from X.

I expect to lose interest in the Rams, I did when the Cardinals left. Right now, I am disappointed in some stuff, but not enough to lose interest.

Having you guys around helps.

wv wrote:

Boy that game-ending INT was a bad one. Ah well.

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At that point you are kind of in desperation mode, you have to try to do something. imo

1:09 left on the clock, no TOs, etc. It takes 14 seconds just to clock the ball. You need a TD to win, a FG to tie. Your chances of winning are about 1 in 8, if you do everything right. Maybe you want to try something else, but you don’t have much choice at the point. imo

• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by Agamemnon.

Unforced errors negated some good performances. Playoff teams win these games. Good play by Keenum, Britt, and Qu ick.

Whenever you add something new to your game, a different technique, a different skill, you take a performance hit. You don’t get the improvement until you can integrate it seamlessly. Or, it isn’t enough to know it, you have to be able to use it without having to think about it. imo

Quick, Britt, and Austin have all done better than I expected.

I am proving that it wasn’t a bad decision to take the FG or later on to go for it on 4th down. In both cases either way is close to the other. Even if the other team knew it was going to be a fake, it is still 11 against 10. You can’t count the guy who is the returner.

Fisher did not make a BAD decision in either case. Either choice would have been OK. I prefer to line up with my regular team to go for, but if they do it off a fake punt, well, that is really doesn’t make much difference.

As far as your last statement. I think of that as more of a rant than a question.

There is one other way to look at this. Can I win or lose the game on this play?

If I don’t score, I probably lose the game. Scoring a TD just ties the game. Any score and the game continues.