The Lions must be giddy right now.

As much as I hate watching this offense right now it hasn’t occurred to me to me angry with McVay and his play calling. However, after reading around different places in the internet, I am wondering if I am cutting him too much slack. Some of the villagers are in the town square and they brought their pitchforks and torches. Perhaps this is justified modern day fan reaction and I am naive, but I have no idea how McVay is supposed to do anything with this grouping. It’s like watching a preseason game. For me it is pointless to get upset about a team playing 2nd stringers as well and backups to the backups backups. I’m not even upset about the lack of rushing attempts.

Anyway, I am not a fan of Wolford as a backup, and while the offense will have other more pressing needs this offseason, I hope that finding a backup QB is one of them. They might even need to find a new starter if Stafford is being held together by duct tape and bubblegum.

That was atrocious. Bobby Evans was horrible. I don’t care how logical and well researched the argument is, nobody can convince me that there isn’t guy somewhere on this planet that can play better than Evans.

This loss is on the offense, no doubt. However, the soft coverage by the db’s totally frustrates me. The constant walking up into the Rams end of field is so frustrating to watch. Yet I realize that without a pass rush and guys like Kendrick and Rapp playing, the Rams would probably give up too many deep passes every gamef they played tighter coverage.  I just hate watching the drives unfold with opposing teams picking them apart using all the underneath stuff.

Anyway, this team is not fun to watch. Take my fan card away if you must, but I’m considering not watching them next week.

canadaram wrote:

It’s just the Niners have owned the Rams over the last several seasons regardless of health or circumstance.

Thats all I’m really saying. Also, thank sweet baby jeebus that Tart dropped Stafford’s pass in the 4th quarter.

zn wrote:

canadaram wrote:

My memory is fading. Hopefully Allen and Edwards can return and play well. Put Havenstein in bubble wrap in the meantime.

Havenstein is fine, so I am a little curious about what you mean by that. In contrast, Edwards may not be coming back this year (consecutive concussions).

It was a bad joke referring to the fact that Havenstein is the only starter on the line yet to be injured this year.

Wonder if they’ll keep Jackson at LT, and on the off chance that it is not his achilles, play Noteboom at guard when he returns from injury.  Even when the offensive line injury woes were plaguing the St Louis Rams between 07 and 13, it was never this bad. What a crazy season.

Overcoming the injuries on the line seems like an impossible ask. Even so, it appears that beyond Kupp there are no weapons on offense.

Yes, I’m aware of the hypocrisy of what I am saying. How can we know that the Rams lack weapons when the play of the offense line is so dreadful? It’s just hunch, I suppose.  I don’t see the return of Van Jefferson as something that will fix things either. I do miss Robert Woods though.

I saw that RGIII tweeted that the Rams are misusing Robinson. True or not, it’s been awhile since I’ve felt like the Rams are lacking weapons on offense. The offensive line looked like I thought they would.

Bobby Evans is starting. This worries me.

Shouldn’t have been that close but as you said they were dealing with a lot of injuries. It’s weird that this is the same franchise (albeit in name only) that would get destroyed with a relatively healthy secondary in 2016, but was down to 3rd stringers back there today and they didn’t give up a touchdown. The run game took another step forward,  even with the Akers fumble, but I’m still doubtful that it’s going to be something that will define the offense positively this year. I guess it’s difficult to know for sure until the offensive line has had a chance to work together for more than a couple of weeks. Anyway, the depth of this team is something to be pleased with so far, but the Niners are going to be buzzsaw next week. Trent Williams just went down though.

An off-season where two key members of the offensive line departed, followed by consecutive weeks of losing two offensive linemen to injury seems like it could be one of those things that you look back on when pinpointing what went wrong.

Hopefully Allen comes back soon and strong.

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Cancel tonight’s opener.

I am cautiously optimistic about McCutcheon. The TC reports have all been good and he followed that up with a strong showing last night. IIRC, the knocks against him in the draft reports were a lack of speed and subpar route running (someone feel free to correct me on that if I’m remembering that wrong). Perhaps a guy can make the NFL if he is lacking in one of those areas, but it seems unlikely if he is lacking in both.  I guess that route running can be coached up, but obviously speed is a different story. What made McCutcheon’s night so impressive for me were the two TD’s. Both came in very different circumstances, but both were contested catches. If he can do that consistently versus starting calibre NFL db’s he could carve out a role as receiver in the league and the develop as a route runner along the way.

zn wrote:

Josh Kraushaar@HotlineJosh “The [abortion rights] counterattack will be led by a woman. And there’s only one woman on the Democratic side of things who has the network and reach to underpin and underwrite a national movement. That woman is Hillary Clinton.” Gail McGowan Mellor@authorpendragon Counterrattack will be led by Gen-xers and Millennials, who outnumber Boomers, and Blacks, all with skin directly in this game. Stop looking at every crisis as My Chance for a Comeback, Clinton. This is not about you. You blew it, did enough damage for four lifetimes. Sit down. The American people are profoundly decent and on the same page on almost every progressive issue you could name. We’ve been taken over by a White Christian Nationalist totalitarian cabal, a rabid minority, backed by billionaires and Putin. We’ll win.

On a kinda related note…

For years I had voted for whoever the Green Party candidate in my riding was, in both provincial and federal elections. I always knew that they didn’t have a hope in hell of winning but I didn’t care, it was a matter of principle to me. They seemed to be fighting for more of the things that I believed in than the other parties. I no longer vote Green and I now vote strategically against whoever the conservative candidate happens to be. With the lack of empathy and outright cruelness that I see  from both the federal and provincial Conservative Parties up here, it just seems too risky to do anything other than to vote strategically in order to keep them out. I hate that I’ve adopted this way of thinking, but after watching the tactics of the right down there I am seeing the same things starting to happen in Canada.

Here’s a video about buying a gun in Canada.  This is from 2016, so some of our regulations have likely changed, I’m certainly no expert on gun ownership in Canada. There is often talk of more regulations being needed or regulations needing to be  altered or relaxed depending on who is in charge federally. Anyway, AR-15s are not banned up here and  it’s not like we never have mass shootings up here, but it certainly doesn’t seem to be the issue that it is down there. I find it frustrating to hear American conservatives say that regulating gun ownership won’t make a difference and it’s about mental health, but access to mental health services seem to be extremely limited in many places in America. Anyway, I am no expert on any of this. It just hurts to keep seeing it happen and then  listen to how conservatives respond.

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