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Billy_TParticipantI’m reading folks say this was a matter of coaching. That McVay was out-coached by B.
Not my take at all.
You mean me. We disagree, but that is no biggy.
No. Wasn’t trying to be coy, etc. I’ve seen it on other sites. That seems to be an early . . . I don’t know, consensus, so far. The quick read this evening at least among a lot of folks.
Billy_TParticipantReally not a game I’d be proud of winning both teams sucked the pats sucked slightly less but still I doubt pats fans will watch it over and over again.The OL was awful Gurley took his millions and disappeared but next year will be interesting.
Agreed.
I think a true fan of the game, who wasn’t rooting for either team, would say, meh, to the whole thing.
Extremely disappointing as a Rams fan of more than 50 years. But I’m guessing football fans, without a horse in the race, weren’t impressed either.
Again, I’m just baffled by what happened, or didn’t happen.
Billy_TParticipantI don’t know how to tell what’s on the coach. The Rams OL got overwhelmed all game long, and that’s that.
And Cooks lost two TD passes.
If you had told me the Patriots would score only 13 points before the game, I would have taken that happily. The Rams defense really played well.
Yeah, it’s pretty difficult to suss that out. How do we know if it’s a lousy play call, or a lousy game-plan, versus just a failure to execute, one way or another?
We’ve all seen what appear to be rotten calls end up as TDs, cuz some player makes a great play . . . and we’ve seen what appear to be good calls fail. All things in between that, etcetera.
Yeats and his how to tell the dancer from the dance.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43293/among-school-children
I have no clue. Which is probably the case in too many, well, um, cases.
But my first impression is that the Rams offense, on the field, just didn’t have it, and I don’t understand that. They weren’t the same team I watched from September until, basically, the Saints game.
I don’t get it. I don’t get how an offense can be so dominant for 95% of the season and then play like that in the Super Bowl. It baffles me. It’s not as if the Pats were world-beaters on D during the regular season. They weren’t.
I’m beyond puzzled.
Billy_TParticipantI’m reading folks say this was a matter of coaching. That McVay was out-coached by B.
Not my take at all.
I put this on the players. On their total lack of execution. I think the O-line was atrocious, failed to open holes (with few exceptions) for the backs, and let the Pats overwhelm Goff. Goff, for his part, played terribly too, IMO. A reversion to his rookie year. He was off on most of his throws, and made too few good throws to matter.
The D? They played really well, and Peters really surprised me. Of course, when the offense punts the first nine or ten times, that means the D is on the field too long — waaay too long. So it eventually gave up key plays. But 13 points? To Brady? Sheebus but that should be more than enough to win for the Rams.
My take? The offense was horrifically bad, on the field. I don’t pin this one on the coaches. The players lost this, in my view.
All of that said, I see the Rams as only getting better. There is no reason why they can’t make it to the Super Bowl next season. They just need to match their regular season play in the post season.
Billy_TParticipantBruce deserves it.
A pet peeve of mine. Lynn Swan’s inclusion. He doesn’t have the numbers.
116 games, 336 receptions, 5462 yards, 16.3 avg per catch, and 51 TDs.
Compare this with Bruce’s numbers:
223 games, 1024 receptions, for 15208 yards, 14.9 avg per catch, and 91 TDs.
Not seeing Swan as HOF worthy. Yeah, he made some great catches, but pretty much every receiver in the NFL has done that, at one time or another.
Billy_TParticipantFinished Episode 4 from Season 2.
It’s a really difficult thing to do, to make a warrior drama — the Dark Ages equivalent of “Sword and Sandals” perhaps — moving at times. But it does. It’s violent, with its battle scenes and moments of revenge, but it still manages to be emotionally satisfying.
Game of Thrones makes that happen consistently. The Last Kingdom does as well.
I like another aspect, though it’s a minor thing overall. When the warriors journey across Britain, and they reach a town big enough to warrant a name of historical note, the graphics first display what appears to be its Saxon name — though I’m not positive about this. That name transitions quickly to the modern name we recognize. Like Winchester, York and so on.
Pretty cool. I like the music too. Kind of Celtic Twilight, with an odd trace of ancient Asian shamans, or something like that. Understated, though. Never intrusive.
Billy_TParticipantOn Bradford…I think that guy is the Anti-Foles.
Nick Foles is an Adequate Guy who benefited from every imaginable circumstance. A guy who was always in the right place at the right time. Everything outside his control always came together for that bastard. Luckiest guy in the world. And that’s not a knock on Foles personally. I like the guy…you know…on that level. Nice guy. Good for him.
Bradford is just the opposite of that.
Bradford was a very talented guy who just always got the short straw in the NFL.
He couldn’t throw a fade. That’s the worst I can say about the guy. That pass eluded him…at least in his time with the Rams. I didn’t watch him after that. But that was his limitation while I watched him. But he did everything else. And did it well.
He was fucked over by injuries and limited talent around him. That’s Sam Bradford in my book.
On the 5th weapon…I agree. A TE would just make this offense completely unstoppable.
I think the Rams have bigger needs…as you say…DT, LB, OL…but if they landed a blue chip TE…the Rams would score on every fucking possession.
Good points.
Bradford’s lack of “help” was a huge factor. Yes. If we can play some “what ifs,” I think he would be really, really good with this current offense. I also think McVay would probably be able to “fix” the attitude issues, and fire him up. Hell, just having Gurley, Woods, Kupp and Cooks around him would likely do that.
Agree with you about the fade pass. But I think he could work around that with this current lineup.
The old saw “Timing is everything” . . . You’re right. Bradford was pretty unlucky when it comes to when he played for the Rams.
Billy_TParticipantPS: I think Bradford had the potential to be truly great. IMO, he just lacked a passion for the game, and often seemed listless to me, sometimes appearing almost defeated before the play even started.
i would disagree with that. no one keeps coming back from injury after injury like he has without being passionate.
my problem with bradford was he was very mechanical. just not very fluid. he had an arm but not much touch. his pocket presence was lacking. maybe even a little bit stiff.
goff on the other hand is very fluid. whether it’s throwing long or short or with touch. moving around in the pocket or rolling out. he’s just so natural at it. it’s beautiful to see.
No biggie, but we disagree here. I remember watching Bradford — and this was before the injuries hit — and thinking, “He looks defeated on the sidelines, and takes his merry old time coming up to the line of scrimmage, still showing a defeated body-language and manner.”
It’s certainly possible that inside, his competitive fires were burning. But on TV, it seemed the opposite to me, with few exceptions.
I just never saw him visibly in the “must win now!!” mode. It was almost always “we’ve already lost!” mode to me.
Just my take.
Billy_TParticipantCould they lure another receiver via free agency? Someone who would be even better than Woods, Kupp or Cooks? As in, push all of the current wideouts down one notch? Just my take, but I’d love to see them find a really big receiver, with enough speed to gain separation, a huge wingspan for a dominant “catch radius,” and the skill set to win contested passes.
They could for around 18 M, which will probably be the going rate for FA WRs in 2019.
And, they are already pushing the limit in terms of big contracts. They’re getting to the point where they will be lucky to sign MOST (and certainly not all) of their own internal FAs (including Goff). Adding expensive outside FAs may be too much of a stretch for them.
Yeah, the price tag is a bit much. And, when I really think about it, they need help on the O-line more, and at DT, ILB, CB and Safety.
That extra wideout is a luxury, basically. Upgrades at the other spots are necessities — especially with the aging O-line.
But I’m greedy. So I want total offensive dominance!!
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Billy_TParticipantOn Youngblood. If the Rams want this, no one should be able to stand in their way. That’s flat out wrong.
When they win tomorrow — not if — it should be their decision, not the league’s.
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From an earlier conversation about QBs. I started rooting for the Rams in 1966/67, so Roman Gabriel was the QB I took to most. I see the first as the best, so unlike a lot of Rams fans, I put him above Warner. Didn’t get to see Waterfield or Van Brocklin, so I can’t really do them justice. But I’ve followed all the Rams’ QBs from Gabriel on.
Yes, Goff may surpass all of them. Obviously, I hope he does. But my guy right now is still Gabriel. It didn’t hurt that he also starred in The Undefeated with John Wayne and Merlin Olsen — back in 1969, if memory serves. But I think he had the most talent of any Rams’ QB from the 1960s right up to the present.
PS: I think Bradford had the potential to be truly great. IMO, he just lacked a passion for the game, and often seemed listless to me, sometimes appearing almost defeated before the play even started. Just my dime-store reading, but I think his head was what prevented “greatness,” not his physical skillset. And then the injuries pretty much sealed the deal.
Billy_TParticipantZooey,
That reminds me of the Rams when they had Ike, Holt and Az, plus Faulk. No way you can stop that.
The Rams are close, and their key guys are younger, just entering their prime. It would not be impossible for the Rams to find a fifth player to drive defenses crazy. Not sure where the optimal position for this would be, but there’s two kinda obvious candidates:
Could they lure another receiver via free agency? Someone who would be even better than Woods, Kupp or Cooks? As in, push all of the current wideouts down one notch? Just my take, but I’d love to see them find a really big receiver, with enough speed to gain separation, a huge wingspan for a dominant “catch radius,” and the skill set to win contested passes.
The other is the TE spot. I actually like Higbee more after this past season, and Everett has improved markedly too. But I’m not sure either of them will ever “scare” defenses and force double teams. If the Rams could find a TE who would do that . . . . they’d have their fifth guy.
Just imagine the old GSOT era with a scary TE too. The current Rams could do that.
Billy_TParticipantI guess this boils down to this for me: Do you want to see a good game, aside from your team winning, hopefully? I do. I don’t want to sabotage one team so mine wins. I want both teams to be able to give their all, their best, in a context that optimizes that.
Non-stop screaming prevents that. It tilts the field and, depending on the venue, can really screw up one team or the other.
Seriously, I just don’t get the rationale. A fan pays good money to see a game. In my case, I traveled across the entire country to see the Rams twice in San Fran. I want to see great football, period, and that takes both teams to make it happen. Yeah, I’m rooting hard for one of them to be victorious, but if the other team is handicapped for this or that reason, it taints the victory for me.
That’s my two cents, anyway.
Billy_TParticipantGood stuff. “Amphibious.” I like it.
On the crowd noise — thats the main reason why I dont give a shit about the bad-non-call. The Rams had to play against that incredibly loud noise as well as the Saints football team. If the Saints cant win a game like ‘that’, I dont have any sympathy for them.
And fwiw, I dont think its ‘fair’ for one team to have to play against ‘that’ kind of noise. I’m serious. I’ve always thought that. I dont mind a little ‘home field advantage’ but to ‘me’ that kind of noise seriously alters the game itself. I mean how much of an advantage is one team allowed before it makes the game a mockery? I got zero sympathy for the Saints. There was a time there were no Domes in the football world. BOTH teams had to play in the snow or rain or whatever. But with domes came this ‘unfair’ advantage, imho. Another reason to hate modern civilization.
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vWV, thanks for that comment. I thought I was alone on an island about crowd noise. Couldn’t agree with you more.
My entire life, I thought it was . . . I don’t know the right words for it . . . perhaps rude or obnoxious? “Live,” I’ve always responded to what I see as good play with clapping, and then I’m silent; but it never made any sense to me to continue screaming non-stop. At what? Why are these people screaming? What just happened to cause this?
Um, nothing. They’re just being rude and obnoxious, and it spoils the experience for me in the stadium. I can only imagine how annoying it is for the players.
That said, I don’t expect a football stadium to be like a golfing crowd, or a church. Fans don’t have to hold their breaths, whisper, or anything like that. But I wish they’d just respond to great plays and then shut the heck up between them.
Oh, and whistles should be prohibited.
January 27, 2019 at 5:25 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97363Billy_TParticipantWe agree, ZN. I want to talk about anything but this.
Ironically, with the media’s insistence on endlessly replaying that no-call, that helped kill my previous sympathy, as did Payton’s reaction and the owner’s.
I’ll leave this one alone too.
January 27, 2019 at 5:21 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97361Billy_TParticipantZN,
I was in the camp of “they got robbed” after the game. I’ve been a diehard Rams’ fan since 1966/67, and I was seriously bummed out by what happened. Felt terrible for the Saints fans.
What changed my mind? Stepping back, taking a deep breath, and thinking about it a bit, trying to be objective, trying to consider all the angles. This started me down a different path. Seeing the earlier no-calls that hurt the Rams got me most of the way there. Seeing the no-calls on that particular play sealed the deal.
I think your view of this precludes any kind of normal thought-processing by the Saints fans, any kind of evolution in their thinking. Unless I misread you, it sounds like you’re saying they’re going to forever remain where they were in the original moment, without change, guided by “fan emotion” even with distance — time and space.
I just don’t see humans acting and reacting like that. We change. We rethink things, etc.
Again, I see no reason why Saints fans would be different from anyone else. Rams fans evolve and change their minds about X, Y and Z in the proverbial “clear light of day.” It happens in Nawlins too.
January 27, 2019 at 3:03 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97356Billy_TParticipantBriefly back to the no-call. I understand anger and high emotions over an obvious missed call. But Saints and Rams fans should be able to agree to this: there were missed calls on that play that went against the Rams, too, and missed calls prior to it that went against the Rams. Even if we make the logical error in claiming one play can be decisive — it can’t possibly be — if the play were called to perfection, the Saints have to replay the down. Penalties offset.
To me, this is indisputable, no matter which team someone roots for. Number 75 clearly grabs hold of Donald’s face mask on that play. So the best case scenario for the Saints then becomes a do-over. That’s the rational way to view this, and, again, I can’t imagine that the Saints have fewer rational fans than any other team.
January 27, 2019 at 2:56 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97355Billy_TParticipantStrong emotions get media coverage/attention. I’m betting media won’t give air time to Saints fans who calmly, rationally discuss the no-call and conclude that it’s part of the game and couldn’t be “decisive,” because football doesn’t work like that. That doesn’t attract clicks or eyeballs or ears. But since I know a lot of people who start out with that view, that must include Saints fans as well. Why would they be an anomaly?
Anger and passions of one sort or another sell. Calm, measured dialogue tends not to. That’s why we’re not going to see Saints fans who view the controversy as a non-controversy.
As for your example of the Pats and the walk through. I know it’s just an example, and you could find hundreds more . . . . but on that one I didn’t think there was consensus among Rams fans that it even happened. Personally, I’m not so sure. But I am sure about their mugging Faulk and the Rams’ receivers on game day and getting away with it. Still, if the Rams had played better at a thousand other pivot points along the way, none of that would have mattered.
In short, just speaking for myself, I start out with the strong belief that no play can possibly be “decisive” in any game. Not even a last-second field goal that leads to a 3 to 0 win. A make or a miss at that point didn’t win or lose the game. It was all the moments leading up to and including that.
January 27, 2019 at 1:12 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97348Billy_TParticipantTo be more specific. Note my previous take on Goff’s mechanics. Is that the “official” Rams’ view on the matter? Is that the official Rams fans’ view? No. It’s one of many takes among just Rams fans, and it was opposed by other Rams fans. There’s disagreement about this just among us.
Every year, we argue about the draft, free agency moves, who should be kept, who should be dumped, etc. etc. We argue about time management, run/pass ratios, lineups, personnel configurations. There is no one Rams fans line on any of these topics. How could there be one for the no-call, either among us or Saints fans? Which means, logically, you can’t just flip this on its head, if you change teams. Flip what? There isn’t any consensus to flip?
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January 27, 2019 at 1:07 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97347Billy_TParticipantIMO, it doesn’t work to say, “We’d think differently if we were Saints fans.” Or, “We’d sing a different tune.” Why? Because there is no one song that all Saints fans sing on this issue. There are differing opinions among them, too, as is the case with Rams’ fans.
IOW, it’s actually impossible that we’d all sing that different tune, because there are many different tunes vying for space and time.
Take any issue just among Rams fans themselves. The draft. Free Agency. Individual players, their mistakes, their triumphs, their skills, their faults, etc. Front office mistakes, triumphs, etc. etc. You’re going to get different takes just from Rams fans alone, which proves there is no particular “fan’s” way to see things.
Humans always live in a mixture of the rational and irrational, and we tend not to be purely anything at any given time. Which is why it is entirely possible for Rams fans, and Saints fans, to discuss this controversy in a rational manner. Likely not in any “pure” sense of that word, but enough to make logical deductions, inductions, inferences, etc. etc.
Yes, the irrational will intrude from time to time, but it will never be “pure” either, or in just one form, regarding any aspect of the controversy. IMO, intelligent adults can make good faith attempts at rational dialogue, knowing we’ll never reach “purity.” But getting close is certainly within our range, and there really are some views closer to the truth than others.
January 26, 2019 at 11:53 am in reply to: A completely non-scientific and brief comment about passing mechanics. #97314Billy_TParticipanti don’t know enough about throwing mechanics to say one way or another.
i do think he has some streakiness to him. and i wish he’d be more consistent. maybe it’s related to his mechanics. i don’t know.
Watch him in the Super Bowl. He tends to wind up, extend his arm in an odd way — which reminds me a bit of a towel whip. This just flat out takes longer to get to the release point than a motion like Brady’s. But I also think it’s in that gray zone, where a QB coach is likely to think, “No big deal. Let’s not mess with it.”
IMO . . . and I’m likely on an island about this . . . it makes enough of a difference to try to correct this in the offseason.
January 26, 2019 at 10:53 am in reply to: A completely non-scientific and brief comment about passing mechanics. #97310Billy_TParticipantAll of that said, I’m a big fan of Goff’s. I think he’s an excellent all-around QB, who really came into his own this season. And, at just 24, the future is extremely bright for him and the Rams. He’s going to get even better, and he’s already among the best in the league.
I mention the above because I think his throwing motion holds him back a bit. I think if he held the ball, like Brady, and like Peyton Manning used to, it would improve both his accuracy and his release times. This would also mean fewer sacks and QB hits.
But, again, I think he’s really good, right now, and without him, the Rams don’t even get to the playoffs, much less the Super Bowl . . . .
Billy_TParticipantThe Saint lineman clearly grabbed (and held) Donald’s facemask. If the play had been called in a perfect manner, with all no-calls turned into calls, penalties offset. Best case scenario for the Saints is a replay of the down.
So where do we go from here? I know it won’t happen, but the most egregious “no-call” right now is the media’s. Unless I missed it, no sports show has shown the video of the Saints lineman grabbing Donald’s facemask, nor have they shown what appears to be a tipped pass by Brockers.
(From other angles, it’s not so apparent that Brockers blocked it. But from at least one angle, it was).
To me, this is all in the media’s hands right now. And they’re likely to no-call the no-call on the Saints.
January 23, 2019 at 6:35 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97192Billy_TParticipantThe dumbest part of the discussion, IMO — which again, sports media is obsessed with — is when someone accepts that the Rams had several calls go against them, but they still think the Saints were robbed. They try to make it sound “logical” by saying how pivotal that particular (no-call) moment was.
But that moment never would have happened if the Rams hadn’t had their no-calls, like the facemask on Goff. That moment never would have happened if the refs had called the three or four delay of games by the Saints. That moment never would have happened if the stomper dude had been flagged, etc. etc.
As in, if you alter the game at point X, everything subsequent to that point is different. Everything. Even the cheerleaders are different. And the beer. And the cheeseberders.
Oh . . . and I’d outlaw those damn whistles in the stands. Seriously. That shouldn’t be allowed. It’s amazing the players on the field didn’t stop, mid-play, dozens of times.
January 23, 2019 at 2:30 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97175Billy_TParticipantI suspect that their emotional level is higher partly because of their brutal loss to the Vikings last year. Two terrible losses in the row.
I also think…and I haven’t seen anyone comment on this, so maybe it’s just me…but when I saw the play live, it didn’t look terrible. The replay they kept running was from behind the play, and depth perception is skewed from that angle. From that angle it looks awful. I rewatched the game last night, and…again…it looked more bang-bang than the replays. I would like to see it from some other angle, but apparently there isn’t one.
Anyway. The clear response for the Rams is to blow out the Patriots.
Agreed, Zooey. The chosen angle makes it obvious. The other one makes it look bang bang. A ref looking at it from one angle could easily make the no-call. But not the other.
Immediately following the game, I felt bad about it. I didn’t want the Rams to have even a remote chance for an asterisk on this win.
But after three days of endlessly moaning about the call, from far too many media outlets, I’ve changed my mind. To hell with it. The Rams won. They deserve to be in the Super Bowl. Efff the Saints.
If they had shown some class about this, and said it was one factor among a host of others, and they never should have let it come down to just one, I’d probably still feel some sympathy for their take on things. But not after Payton’s call to the NFL, and the owner’s letter, and the fans’ lawsuit, etc. etc.
A number of sports pundits have egged this on, too, and I think less of them now.
Bottom line: In any game, there will be hundreds of pivot points, so it’s impossible for any one of them to be “decisive.” And if you alter the course at any point prior to that no-call, the context of the game is altered and that play never happens, so it’s still not decisive.
Cherry picking is wrong in sports, politics, history, anywhere.
The sports world needs to move on.
Billy_TParticipantBut that non-call screwed that up a bit for me
It all evens out in the end…. Tom Mack did not move on Alan Page in the 1974 NFC Championship game….BTW, I think the Saints were only flagged twice today…
The crew was supposedly famous for their anti-Rams bias, too. Vinovich? Is that the guy? Apparently, a group of Rams fans tried to get him kicked out prior to the game.
But, yeah, it probably all balances out across time. And I still think the refs let the Pats mug the Rams receivers and Faulk the entire Super Bowl (36).
Should be a great one this year.
Billy_TParticipantYeah, the D came up huge to hold the Saints to just six points on those two drives. That might have been the game right there, in a sense.
And, yes, Goff made some great plays, keeping drives alive. He was clutch for most of the game.
Reynolds impressed me too. He runs hard after the catch, and is a load to take down. Not the best pure hands guy, but when he hauls it in, he runs with violence. I think he has to be among the best backup receivers in the league, and the Rams did well to draft him.
Gotta re-sign Fowler. He’s young enough to give four or five more years, all in his prime.
Everett is improving as well, and I like Higbee. The Rams, basically, don’t have that many holes to fill for next season. If they win the SB, they have a very good chance of a repeat. Vegas thinks so as well.
So, is it a revenge game against the Pats? Or the two best offenses, head to head?
Billy_TParticipantI have to admit, this is one victory that runs bittersweet for me. Pretty much 99% of the time, a Rams’ win is an unalloyed joy. If I’m not literally dancing in my living room, it’s at least figurative. But that non-call screwed that up a bit for me.
Yeah, I know. No-calls went against the Rams too. And they’ve had more than their fair share over the course of the season — like holding on Donald. But it does bother me that this one was impacted by the refs so much. I wanted — to the degree possible — a “clean” win.
That said, the Rams could have put this away at several points before that play. Joyner and Robey-Coleman, for example, should have totaled three interceptions between them, including on the non-call. If we’re playing “ifs,” etc. Gurley’s drop for a pick was another gimme to the Saints, and Goff should have run it in for a TD near the goal line, instead of settling for the field goal.
Anyway, I’m thrilled they’re going to the Big Show. But it’s a hell of a lot more fun when there isn’t any controversy. They need to bring their “A” game in two weeks, and sustain that. I think, for most of this Sunday, they didn’t, except when it counted.
Billy_TParticipantI think the Rams can beat the Saints, especially if they do more of what they did Sunday. I agree with so many others: love that two-headed monster of Anderson and Gurley. Someone needs to find Timmerman and his buddies and see if they’ll elect CJ a member of their group. What was it? The donut brothers?
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He is such a tough little runner, fearless, bowls defenses over, north or south. And he looks out of shape!! Imagine what he could do if he were in peak condition!!
(A must re-sign for the Rams, obviously. What a great, great pickup!)
Has anyone else noticed that the Saints seem to have lost their offensive magic a wee bit in the last few weeks? They’re still winning. But they’re not crushing their opponents. Whereas the Rams seem over their hiccup.
It’s gonna be a doozy!!
Billy_TParticipantI’m fine with the league protecting the health of its players. In fact, I think it’s necessary and just.
But the calls that get me are the ones where the D barely taps the QB, and it’s a flag. Or when they’re basically already airborne and end up against the QB’s legs. I wouldn’t call that. I think you need to be intentionally trying to hurt the QB — or any player, for that matter. Flag that. Repeat offense, throw the guy out.
Helmet to Helmet stuff is really where they should focus, IMO. “Spearing” should get the two strikes and your out rule, and, again, I wouldn’t limit that to particular players, or just parts of the field. In my view, it should be universally applied. I cringe whenever I see it. Scares me to death for the players.
Billy_TParticipantonly saw the end. but man the stat line on anderson looks good.
i’m convinced the running game can be better than before.
I agree about how good CJA looked, I don’t think he had one single carry for a loss
But just a caution. ARZ ranks 31st in run defense.
After Sunday’s game, it may have dropped to 33rd.
To give you a sense how bad that is, Rams run D ranks 21st.
As you guys know, I always look for the silver lining, the bright side of life, the sunshine between the rain, etc. etc. . . . so, um . . .
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The Rams would be even worse in run defense standings if not for the O being so good this year. Teams mostly had to pass against them to catch up, so they abandoned the ground game. At least some teams did.
That said, it does appear they’ve made a serious effort to fix this in recent games. The D is playing better overall, and better against the run. Just in time for the playoffs.
I like their chances.
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