All these ex-great running backs hang out together?

I’m so sorry for your loss

My story is unremarkable and bland, but I’ll tell it anyway.

I grew up in a small town in Missouri, which means we all followed the religion that was the St. Louis Cardinals….BASEBALL TEAM. Back then Whitey Herzog was taking them to the world series every other year, you can probably guess why it’s my name on here. I wanted that man to adopt me. I watched and/or listened to every game, even in school. Sometimes the teachers would notice, but they didn’t care, b/c they too loved the cardinals.

The st. louis football team at the time was the Cardinals. I was in Junior high school when Neil Lomax was doing his thing, and I was a fan, but hardly cared about football.

It wasn’t until they announced that they were leaving that the big void filled my heart. I couldn’t believe they left and I was just so sad about it. I have no idea why. I was just a kid so who knows.

Years went by and I got older, started watching more football and realized I love the game. When rumors started to fly around that St. Louis might get an expansion team called the Stallions, I was very interested and primed to be a lifetime fan. It broke my heart when we didn’t them.

Then it happened. The L.A. Rams were moving to St. Louis. I thought Rich Brooks was going to be the next great coach and I was simply in love. Chris Miller and Isaac Bruce…OH LORD it was fun to watch.

I have to admit that I love this team more than my beloved Cardinals. Which is saying a lot. I will always be a Rams fan no matter where they go. Still, I will have a very heavy heart when they leave the Gateway City.

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

zn wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Yeah but the quote sorta implies that prior to this year he wasn’t as dedicated to mastering his craft as he is now. I think it takes some of the really special athletes time to figure out that athleticism by itself isn’t enough in the NFL.

I just took it as (potentially) a Brian Quick situation, ie. he’s breaking through. Going from more green to more savvy. I don’t think it meant he didn’t work before.

Yeah, I agree with you. Although I still don’t think he’ll be any good.

Well. OK, so I don’t think the Rams are planning on building a team around Gurley with bad quarterback play.

Also, no mention of defense

NO mention of Seattle winning the superbowl building a team around Lynch and a great defense.

Good read…very interesting.

Did I read that right? Greg Williams is Erin Shannon’s husband? As a baseball Cardinal fan lifer, that just blew my mind.

He could improve by leaps and bounds, but it may not show up in the stat line due to the position he plays. I hope he shines, he’s always been on of my favorite Rams.

wv wrote:

Five pounds of muscle a week?

I dunno. Is that possible?

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No Way No HOW. He’ll gain mostly fat.

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

I am totally ok with starting a couple
young, healthy, big, heavy, maulers
on the OLine.

Just keep it simple,
and play the Lombardi way
and execute.

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I am much more “have to seem em first before I can say.”

Though in principle, I have nothing against young, healthy, big, heavy maulers on the OL.

Not so much for dentists.

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You know I’m a dentist right? Everyone hates us

This is where I really miss Tony Softli. Uncle Tony was good for some relevant scouting info and for calling Steven Jackson a “war daddy.” Come back, Uncle Tony.

I thought Brockers was the “War daddy”.

Mackeyser wrote:

I don’t think that point can be driven home hard enough.

If our OL RUN blocks well, which should be about 50% of the play calls, then you have the Play Action passes which I presume is 33% of the remaining 50%, thus 17% rounding up, then optimistically, the amount of Run or Run Affected blocking is in effect 67% of the time.

That leaves only 33% of snaps where an opposing D can expect to be able to purely get off and rush. Combine that with the uncertainty of down, distance and situational football and it makes it hard for a defense to really pin their ears back.

THIS PLAN CAN BE DEVASTATING. As the Eagles proved in 2013.

The KEY is the RUN BLOCKING of the OL. If the OL blocks well and the D has to focus on the run essentially 67% of the time knowing that a run play typically gains near 5 ypa and they have to play COMMITTED run D because big gains are a very real possibility (hence the NEED for a RB like Gurley), then the OL will face a DL that won’t have the same “get off” that DLs do when facing pass happy teams. That will allow rookies and less than all-pros to play effectively within the confines of a relatively simple system because the focus will be on execution.

Again, we saw that in how they drafted. They chose guys who showed that they knew how to execute, especially Havenstein who led the way on most of Gordon’s big runs at Wisconsin AND was extremely effective in pass pro only having one holding penalty all year and giving up zero sacks.

I like it. This whole plan hinges on a very effective running game.

Yeah I like it.

Fisher has to reign Williams in the way Vermeil did with Martz.

Jenkins has to stop being Jenkins.

THAN I think we might have something.

That offensive line would probably get us the number one overall pick next year

Cool, I can talk about movies here. I saw it and it was a great film, however I took my pregnant wife and that might have been a mistake.