I haven’t watched him lots, but in the Cotton Bowl he had a lot of wide open receivers to throw to in the first 3 quarters. He did a good job hitting those guys in stride. He won’t see guys running that free, that often in the NFL.

Jenkins makes me hold my breath unlike any other player. I wonder how coaches feel about him.

wv wrote:

JJ reminds me a bit of GW. There’s
something flashy and bold about him
but there’s also this…’unsoundness’
to his game. Can you win a Ring
with a guy like that? Can you count on
him through a playoff gauntlet? I dunno.

Anyway, apparently he’s an alternate
for the ProBowl. So, go figure.

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I’m not sure that I remember a Rams player who has provided me with such a roller coaster of emotions. Capable of a pick six one moment, and then giving up an 80 yard TD The next. Even when he’s not making INTs he can be pretty sticky in coverage, then he gets caught looking into the backfield, or bites on a double move. Frustrating. I wonder what kind of Patriot he’d be.

InvaderRam wrote:

with the defense i think the key is that there are a bunch of young core players who have yet to reach their full potential and probably will get there within two years.

i think we’ve yet to see the best from quinn, donald, brockers, ogletree, mcdonald, gaines, joyner…

although the downside is that none of these players continue to progress. so far they’ve just been inconsistent.

but if this was a defense full of older veteran types, i’d be less optimistic.

Agree with all of this.

BTW, stopping a run away brawl is pretty difficult for one or two guys to do. From what I’ve seen of the video neither Long nor Laurinaitis escalated the brawl. It looked like both were in the middle trying to hold back some people. Not sure what other people are seeing, or expected of them.

zn wrote:

canadaram wrote:
don’t know who screwed up on the second Beckham TD, Joyner or Johnson, but it looked like Joyner to me.

That was Joyner, according to Joyner.

Oh well. His first real playing time in over a month, coming right after the injury to Gaines. Rookie CBs and rookie QBs make the most costly types of errors.

No idea really.

However, I expect JPP to be a problem for both Robinson and Barksdale, depending where the Giants line him up. Similarly, Hankins is good enough to cause some problems for the Rams shaky Wells/Joseph combo.

The Giants offense has actually looked pretty good lately, even if it has mostly been Eli-to-Beckham. I hope the Rams do a better job against the run his week than they did vs Arizona, cuz if the Giants get the run game going Beckham will produce some big plays as a result of Rams having to respect the run.

Anyway, I’m not confident that the Rams win this game, but I never am confident about the Rams winning.

That’s kinda cool. Had it come to fruition I know that I’d be feasting on Whatchamacallit chocolate bars and staying home to watch football on the the last Thursday of every November. Two things that make me jealous of every citizen of the U.S.

wv wrote:

(Bumrap —
quoting Arians – no link )

“Everybody wanted to talk all that stuff about how great their defense is. I think they saw a good defense tonight, it was in red and white,” Arians said before talking about his 143 rushing yards. “We blocked them. I think they had been reading their press clippings way too much.”

Arizona’s D is good, no doubt. They’ve proven that for a few seasons now. Solving the mystery of the Wells, Joseph and Hill trinity isn’t exactly a revelation, however.

I think the Rams defense can expect to see a steady diet of screen passes and intermediate passes over the middle. I’m not confident that the defense has figured out how to stop that stuff consistently vs strong skilled players. That said Drew Stanton hasn’t dominated on the road, so who knows?

Also great to keep a guy who plays such a pivotal role in controlling field position when you can’t play the Raiders every week.

zn wrote:

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zn wrote:
If he breaks one or two, fine.

But he doesn’t have to, as long as the defense is just worried about it.

They stop him because they focus on doing it. That gives the Rams offense all sorts of subtle advantages whenever they line him up.

But see this is what I don’t believe. I see no evidence that defenses are making adjustments to stop Tavon that lead to other opportunities. I just don’t think that’s happening.

He seems to me to be pretty easy to stop.

I forget which games? But in 2 recent games the analysts showed how a TD was set up by the defense paying attention to Tavon and therefore being susceptible to something else. So that’s twice now in the 2nd half of the season where the tv announcers have made a point of that, with replays and talk and Madden-markers drawing lines on the picture to show how it happened etc.

Someone else might even remember the games and the plays.

The Britt TD vs Denver is one of them I believe.

Those are excellent.

Regarding Johnson, perhaps it is just me, but he looks like he has bulked up quite a bit.

I had neither heard, nor read about the possibility of Kroenke buying the Broncos and selling the Rams. That’d be an interesting development.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 1 month ago by canadaram.

No. I didn’t want a such a diminutive WR picked in the 1st round in 2103, and nothing has happened to change my mind about that. Having said that, I was hoping for Patterson and he hasn’t lit the world on fire either.