josaiah stewart and warren mcclendon have been the two biggest surprises for me this season. especially mcclendon. lessens the need to draft a tackle in 2026.

zn wrote:

IND sold Faulk short for a 2nd rounder. They made up for losing him by taking Edgerrin James, but that was them using a non-trade, homegrown pick to make up for losing Faulk, it wasn’t them getting something for trading Faulk. So for the Rams it was a steal, and for the Colts its was just “time to move on.”

yeah. my memory betrayed me there. i thought the james pick involved draft capital from the trade, but the trade didn’t involve a first rounder. my bad.

Zooey wrote:

wv wrote:

The big trade – Stafford to the Rams. Goff and two no.1 picks and a 3rd rd pick to the Lions.

Lions ended up getting: Goff, RB Jamir Gibbs, and TE Sam Laporta and WR Jameson Williams.

The Lions did fine in that trade.

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They absolutely did, and so did the Rams. The Rams would still have only one Lombardi without that trade.

has there ever been a more mutually beneficial trade in the history of sports?

i’m being serious.

zn wrote:

Though this is one game where they really could have run more than they did. Rams got 152 yards rushing on 21 attempts, for 7.2 a carry. Everyone talks about the Carolina run game, but they just ran it more often. If the Rams had run it 40 times, as Carolina did, that would have been 288 yards.

rams definitely could have run it more.

the defense also couldn’t stop them on third and fourth downs. panthers were 7-15 on third downs. 3-3 on fourth downs. one of those fourth down conversions was for the game winning td i believe.

that and the turnovers. hopefully this is a timely wake up call for the last five games of the season.

it’s crazy to think the rams could have forbes signed through 2027.

and they got this guy for basically nothing.

they could also have a high first round pick next year. i’m thinking caleb downs. curl will be a free agent after this season. lake will be a free agent. durant a free agent.

rams just keep making the right moves. amazing.

i’m glad to read about mcclendon. right tackle was a big worry for me going into next year. this should be a good audition for the rest of the season. especially with playoffs and a possible superbowl run on the line.

one of my favorite rams of all time.

wow. good red zone defense. darnold laying an egg. and probably stafford should have just ate that ball at the end.

not a great game, but they won. so it’s cool.

zn wrote:

“You’re only 37, you got at least another 8 years to play so, I can’t wait to watch all of them.”

i’ve been wondering for some time how much stafford has left in the tank.

i think he could easily play another three years after this season bringing his time with the rams to eight years. if he could do ten more, even better. rams might be better off just restocking the roster around stafford and just play him until he can’t or doesn’t want to play anymore.

stafford looks like a legit mvp candidate.

offense looks solid. stafford able to spread the ball around.

defense gave up some cheap scores.

still not convinced by the st unit. that seems like the main thing holding the rams back from a super bowl run.

Zooey wrote:

The biggest problem seems to me to be blocking on field goals.

yes which is why i say the kicking game as a whole. it’s not just karty. he’s not the main culprit. just as a whole they cannot get it together. if it was just the kicker, i’d see some way out of it. but the problem is pervasive.

Zooey wrote:

In any event, the final score is more indicative of poor Jaguar performance than Rams domination.

i agree. rams did not look great. maybe the defense was good. just need to get healthier now.

the rams played terrible. fortunately the ravens were even worse. maybe one good quarter. i’d say the defense played well, but was it more a case of the ravens offense playing poorly?

but i do believe they can get better. i don’t know what’s wrong with the kicking game. i don’t know if it’s karty or the unit as a whole. i just hope it gets fixed.

rams gave the game away.

what a shame.

i didn’t realize this at the time, but the colts only had ten men on the field on the tutu td. add to the fact that tutu’s defender tripped over himself. the rams were even luckier than i thought.

i knew about the two mitchell mistakes and that was bad enough.

this might be worse than the two blocked fgs on the rams.