zn wrote:

I keep reading around how some fans think with the knee thing, Bradford can’t take a hit.

Means they don’t understand knee injuries.

Now this does not mean he can come back or can’t. It has nothing to do with that. It just has to do with how you can hurt a knee.

Those who know all this, know that hyper-extended knees do not need to be hit.

They come from planting the leg awkwardly with the weight and pressure working the wrong direction.

If that sounds abstract, believe me, it ain’t. I have hyper-extended my knees several times, just fortunately not severely enough to tear an ACL doing it.

One time, I was 17, driving along on a weathery day, and I saw this car had gone off a country road near my house so I stopped to help others who had also stopped. We were going to push him out of a muddy field back on to the road. I was 17. I turned my leg wrong while pushing and the pain was like nothing I had ever gone through (though I have had it again a couple of times since). My knee swole up, I could barely walk. I’ve had kidney stones and if I had to choose between the 2, I would take the stones again, not the knee. If you have never gone through it, you have no idea.

Nothing hit my knee. It didn’t hit anything.

That’s what happened to Bradford. Awkward angle, hyper-extension, a tear, and those who know about knees know, it has nothing to do with being hit. It’s just a freak thing.

This idea that someone who hyper-extends a knee can’t take a hit is a complete crock and is just based on not understanding anything about this.

You bend it a certain way awkwardly and the body twists wrong in relation to it, and zap–your knee goes. And it hurts like you would not believe. The 2nd time the lineman was hanging on him, the leg just bent wrong.

Most recent knee for me was in the spring. I was sawing wood with a chainsaw. I had heavy protective boots on, gloves, goggles, and just turned wrong at one point. My leg turned, the boot was sunk in the mud and didn’t turn. This time it didn’t hurt till later. Doctor said I had a bruised meniscus. I was on a cane for a couple of weeks and had to pick my angles in a choosy way to sleep. It felt bad moving around but this time it was nothing like the times when I was young and twisted it wrong followed immediately by “you don’t want to go there” level pain.

So I get very impatient with the types who say “well he didn’t get hit hard.” Cause. It. Has. Nothing. To. Do. With. Being. Hit.

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He didn’t get hit at all on the first tear. That said, it doesn’t mean he can take a hit either,he had a concussion shoulder twice finger ankle and now the knee twice. That kind of history doesn’t exactly scream durability. He’s played in 49 games out of what is a possible 80 at the end of this season. Is not being able to run out of bounds on your own really better? If he can’t get on the field what difference does it make

When your OL allows 6 sacks we might as well put Hecker back there. Davis is the perfect fit for this horrible OL as he is durable.He won’t win many but when you allow 6 sacks you don’t win anyways.

I agree but I am just done with Fisher he’s just not a competitive coach and his OC is clueless on how to use TA none of them seem capable of coaching TA (hint)run forward fast.Williams is an average Joe that thinks he is smart

I didn’t see any jump passing/arm strength issues. I did see plenty of long passes with good velocity. Accuracy was great at times but not consistent. Looks like they should just let him run instead of sliding.Kept his eyes down field in the face of the pass rush,something that has changed since the KC game. Maybe he can get it back while he has the chance he is a good student and learns from mistakes

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My take is a little different.(shocking aint it) I saw the 9er game as a rebound from the KC game.Davis took a beating in that game and the 9ers got him to a lot in the first game. He came out and panicked he did, that is clear. But you know what Britt didn’t quit on his route his OL battered and bruised as it was didn’t quit on him either. The D that had disintegrated several times in the second half didn’t falter. They,the whole team had his back, they want him at QB. On Hill he has way way way more experience and I think he reads Defenses better but arm strength is at most a wash ,mobility isn’t even close and durability,Hill’s carted off the field in KC. Hill is old and nowhere near the athlete Davis is.

Pretty harsh on Tru, for one thing without those PI’s both throws were tds.

Great post ! Kap fumbled at least twice, ZN posted a nice Gif of it.

WOW GREAT GAME DEFENSE!

Warrick Dunn

zn wrote:

Have at it.

Who has a silver lining?

ZN I am not liking having my posts micro managed. The comment “and Barnes” makes even less sense than usual when you move it to from the OL thread and lump it in with the post game venting stuff.The silver lining is this minor annoyance got my mind off the 2 hour abomination I just watched.

zn wrote:

Are people re-thinking Fisher a bit after a win?

Nope. He’s always good for some trickery but I’ve seen enough. Of course I’m one of those guys that thinks the Music City Miracle was a forward pass,that the Titans ran into Wilkins and it should of been a penalty,that the Titans were intentionally trying to injure preseason 2000. They didn’t get much better today just a little luckier and the Refs were Fisher fans for some reason .

Well if he can learn from it ,a game winning ball security lesson against the World Champs no less it will be the best lesson ever!

When you watch the St.louis Garbage men play you can see they are not a well coached team. Fisher is a half assed mediocre 8 and 8 type coach. I’d love to see him gone the sooner the better.

This team in no longer the Rams to me. They will be known as the St.louis garbage men from now until they when a super bowl

zn wrote:

PA Ram wrote:
he Rams have the #1 defense in football against the pass.

I think that’s misleading.

They’re 1st in passing attempts against, meaning, they are thrown on the least of all 32 teams.

But they are 26th in yards per attempt passing on defense.

Which means if anyone DOES start throwing on them, they will give up lots of yards.

They are throwing less to avoid taking sacks,when they do throw it’s short getting the
ball out quick.