Do the Rams have a running game? Do they have a top defense? I’m not convinced that the Rams have the “established” components that will take the load off of a young quarterback. I certainly haven’t seen much this season that would indicate that this is the case. The Rams are one of the youngest teams in the league. They could have a couple more young offensive linemen in front of the quarterback, whoever he might be. I don’t believe that the Rams are in the position of those other teams that you mentioned who started young QBs and thrived. A lot can change between now and then, but as of now, color me dubious. I think a young QB plays like a young QB, and the progress of the team is likely to stagnate for a time while the youngster gets acclimated.

Just look at Carson Palmer’s knee injury Sunday. He was being grabbed in the shoulder area, but his knee wasn’t hit. His leg wasn’t hit. It just buckled. We’ve seen it plenty of times before. I don’t understand how these things happen, sometimes it’s just an awkward step. Does it mean that a knee joint that is injured without contact is fragile? I haven’t the slightest clue. I fear for Bradford’s career. I think that having to draft a quarterback will set the team’s building efforts back at least a couple of years. I don’t relish the thought of a rookie quarterback. But I know that depending on Bradford’s twice injured knee is an enormous gamble. I’d say that the Rams are between a rock and a hard place with their quarterback position.

Gotta take my hat off to Gregg Williams and his defense. What a tremendous performance. I’ve been down hard on ’em but you have to give credit where credit is due. They got it done. What a great win, and let’s hope it’s a building block to better things.

I didn’t read Bernie’s article, but I tend to agree with the premise that another coaching change is not what this team needs. At least not at the head coaching position. That doesn’t necessarily mean that I am pleased in any way with the state of the team under Fisher. That obviously not the case. But the constant upheaval of hiring all new staffs and bringing in all new philosophies has to end somewhere. A team cannot start over time and time again. All that said, he needs to do a better job of selecting his coordinators. Look, I might be wrong about Williams (I tend to believe his is badly overrated), maybe he’ll get the defense organized and playing some decent football. I’d love for that to be the case. We’ll see. I don’t really think that Shotty has much of a guiding philosophy to his planning and his in-game management of the offense. I wouldn’t mind seeing something done there to bring in someone who has demonstrated a concrete body of work that has brought some success. But I think Fisher is a good coach if not a great coach, and I don’t really see anyone on the horizon who I would want to replace him. I am not a fan of grabbing the latest hot coordinator. I just don’t think that the success rate of that ploy is high enough to make it worth firing an established NFL coach for. I think they need to gut it out with Fisher, painful as it may be. He is the most likely to bring them out of the fog.

wv wrote:

There ‘are’ people out there
who think the league has
“figured out” GW. I dunno.

Mike Martz was a great offensive coordinator at one time, but his ego got in the way. When the league caught on to him, he refused to adapt. He thought his system was bullet proof, and his stubbornness got him tossed on the scrap heap. Hopefully he is reserving a spot for Williams right beside him.

I believe that Gregg Williams bears the lion’s share of the blame for the condition of this defense. It was a young, promising defense last season, and expected to be among the league’s best this season. The cast is largely the same, minus Chris Long (but add a talented Aaron Donald), and another year of experience under their belt. Enter Gregg Williams and they can’t find their asses with a mirror. I think we need to stop labeling the draft picks as mistakes and apply that label to Williams. He was a horrible hire and has set this defense back to where it was two or three years ago. I think he is an egomaniac who constantly feels the need to demonstrate his genius and has over-complicated everything. He needs to go. He has his own good in mind and not the good of the team. The season is essentially over, so I see no reason not to fire him now. Bring in someone who is driven to put his players in a position to succeed, not to put himself in a position to succeed.

They’re the Washington Generals of the NFL. Seriously, I’m all for just blowing the whole thing up. Just pull the plug. Burn it all to the ground and maybe a real franchise will grow up in its place. (disclaimer: all references to pyrotechnics are metaphorical. I am not advocating arson.)

again. I don’t know if they’ve quit or not today, but I don’t think it could be much easier on the Chiefs if they did. Please, before you sully the legacy of those who came before you, fold up the tents and call it a millennium. You’re just wasting money and embarrassing yourselves.

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It also seemed to be a strategy to wear down the Seahawk offense by letting them run up and down the field. Shrewd.

It’s sad, but the game was pretty much what I expected. I didn’t watch it, I just looked at the box score this morning. I can’t bring myself to stay up late on a Monday night for what I anticipate being just another ridiculous train wreck. I know Rams’ fans have a deep seeded hatred for the 49ers, but you have to admire the fact that they are ‘in’ every single game, no matter the opponent. Unless the Rams are playing a very mediocre or lousy football team, I have little reason to believe that they are going to compete for four quarters. Or even three. If not for the numerous really good football games that I have been able to watch this season (none of which included the Rams), my interest in the NFL would be just about gone. The Cleveland Browns, for crying out loud, are competitive and even fun to watch. St. Louis has become a football black hole. Being a fan of this franchise has almost become a curse that ruins five months of the year. I need a diversion program to rid myself of them.

“Easy” was used in a relative sense in regards to the rest of the games, not in it’s strictest literal sense. The point being, if the Rams can’t deal with Minnesota, how are they going to deal with the like of the Niners, Seahawks, Broncos, etc.? Just very discouraging as a fan to have such a harsh reality shoved into your face so early in a season that you’ve looked forward to for a while. It’s the same as it’s been for several years now. The loss isn’t the hardest aspect of the opener to deal with. It’s the utter lack of competitiveness. And I’m not interested in reading how they were doing OK until……football is a four quarter game and doing OK for about a quarter and a half is not doing OK. I hate believing that they are incapable, but they’re going to have to show me otherwise. Game one was not it. Game one was business as usual.

I thought the Minnesota game was the “easy” one among the first ten games. And they got crushed. I honestly believe that they have a real shot at an 0-10 start and I believe it has a real chance to get real ugly along the way. I guess if I see something positive, it’s that the Rams might find themselves in the Jameis Winston sweepstakes. Of course, if Winston thinks he might be sentenced to a career in St. Louis, he might just stay in college.

I think I know where the “dumber than a box of rocks” came from. I think Pryor has been judged in an unduly harsh manner. I don’t think he was given the credit he deserved for his improvements as a passer when he was in college. If you watch some of his last season at Ohio State, the kid made some big time throws. He’s better when he is throwing the ball down field. He tends to short-arm the short stuff. I tend to believe that his biggest problem is that he was such a freak athletically that he was never required to learn the positional nuances. He was never required to refine his technique. He lived on his athletic superiority and his coaches let it happen. Now he’s playing a game of catch-up that he might not win. Am I advocating signing him? No. But I’m not totally against it either. Strong coaching and leadership could make all the difference, and we just happen to have a starting quarterback who will be watching from the sidelines this season who could give Pryor some much needed insight, both in the film room and on the field. But he may never take that next step. I would say at this point that the chances are much better that he won’t than he will. But, at his age, I think he might still be worth a shot. But his next one will likely be his last.

I think we can be relatively certain Tebow won’t get hurt.