Agamemnon wrote:

I think Havenstein did ok against Clowney in the second half.

i also seem to remember some of the damage clowney did was against guys like kupp and higbee. which was probably not the best idea.

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the only thing i worry about with saffold is he seems to get injured when they move him outside. maybe it’s having to deal with the quicker more athletic defensive ends and having to extend himself more that does it i don’t know.

InvaderRam wrote:

i don’t know if i missed anyone.

oh i missed kurt warner. duh.

one season he led in four categories. he ranked first in ypa, aypa, nypa, and anypa.

one season he led in all five categories.

jared goff leads the league in yards per attempt at 8.5.

he’s second in adjusted yards per attempt which factors in touchdowns and interceptions at 9.0.

he’s first in net yards per attempt which subtracts sack yardage and includes sacks as part of the attempts at 7.81.

he’s first in adjusted net yards per attempt which factors in touchdowns and interceptions into the net yards per attempt number at 8.28.

he’s also first in yards per completion with 13.9.

most likely he does not maintain these numbers especially with these string of games coming up. but it’s impressive.

by comparison. brady only ever led the league in four of those five categories once. he ranked first in ypa, aypa, nypa, and anypa. he failed to rank first in ypc.

peyton manning led the league in all five of those categories once in his career. and never more than 2 of the 5 in any other season.

aaron rodgers. one season in which he led the league in four of the five categories. he ranked first in ypa, aypa, nypa, and anypa.

dan marino. one season. he ranked first in ypa, aypa, nypa, and anypa.

joe montana. one season. he ranked first in ypa, aypa, nypa, and anypa.

steve young. four seasons in which he ranked first in ypa, aypa, nypa, and anypa.

dan fouts. one season. he ranked first in ypa, aypa, nypa, and anypa.

philip rivers. one season. he ranked first in ypa, aypa, nypa, and ypc.

matt ryan last year led the league in all five categories.

guys like brett favre and john elway never did it.

i’m rambling. and probably this post won’t get read. but i guess my point is this is really freaking hard to do. if he can finish the season first in four of the five categories, he will do something that is rarely done. what’s insane is young doing it 4 times!!! everyone else i looked at. never more than once. peyton and matt the only ones to lead in all five categories for one season. i don’t know if i missed anyone. aikman never did it.

i also read that he leads the league in yards per attempt on play action at 12.1.

so i went on football outsiders to see how they ranked goff after week 10. they now have him ranked fifth among all starting qbs…

just behind case keenum! well. should be interesting game this week. for what it’s worth keenum also ranks third in espn’s total qbr stat! he’s fourteenth in passer rating.

also. football outsiders has brees ranked third. wentz sixth. so rams will be facing three top 6 qbs in the next four weeks. yikes. not to mention russell wilson and marcus mariota after that.

it’s gonna be a ride for sure.

wv wrote:

And he’s only in his, what? 17th game? Somethin like that.

and just raw coming in. he’s only 23. turned 23 in october. and came from a system that doesn’t develop pro qbs.

by contrast wentz will be 25 in december and learned in a pro style offense.

he just needs to stay healthy and needs consistency around him.

but yeah. he looks like he’s got a legitimate chance to be very very good.

zn wrote:

There’s holes. Goff isn’t that accurate or consistent yet. But that it’s already this good with so much ceiling left is scary for the rest of the NFC.

that’s what’s so exciting. he hasn’t really just flat out dominated in any game yet. he’s looked really good in spurts. you can see the talent. he just needs seasoning.

his accuracy needs to get better. it should. offseason should be huge for him and the receivers. more than anyone else i think.

the rams can totally compete against the vikings. i don’t think that can be questioned. they can compete against any team in the nfl.

can they beat them? i think they can. i think this team is good in all phases. that’s always tough to beat.

threw 2 ints keenum did, but he’s hanging tough. came back to get them in fg range.

that’s the game i’m watching. case looks tough as usual.

rams could lose that game. but i still think the eagles game will show me who the best team in the nfc is.

Zooey wrote:

InvaderRam wrote:

Zooey wrote:

I just checked ticketmaster.

The game is going to sell out, or come very close to it. Both ticket websites I checked show only a few HUNDRED seats for sale.

i see a lot more rams gear around these days.

momentum is building.

Are you in LA?

When I was there last October, the Rams were everywhere.

No sign of them in this August anywhere in the city.

well now i’m in santa barbara county. but my wife and i have family and friends back in los angeles, so we go there a lot. lately i’ve seen more gear everywhere. in los angeles. and even occasionally up here. jerseys. bumper stickers. i went to three games last year. the first game i went to there was rams gear everywhere because it was gameday and the rams had just arrived. but by the end. the niner game in december. there were a lot less. and in fact i was surrounded by niners fans the entire game.

i haven’t gone to any rams games this year. but just casually i will see people in rams gear. driving down to los angeles, i see cars with rams bumper stickers on and such. i think momentum has been slowly building up again especially with the team being away for a month and just pummeling other teams. so if they can come back to the coliseum and lay a beatdown, i think fans will jump on the bandwagon.

i could be imagining things. but i see a difference between just this past august to now in november.

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PA Ram wrote:

This game scares me. It’s the perfect game for a letdown. They are something like 11 point favorites–they’re getting great press. Things are going so well.

Still–they say they are taking them all one game at a time. I hope that’s true.

They should win this one. SHOULD.

i think they will not have a letdown.

they haven’t played a home game in like what? a month? and no i don’t count the arizona game as a home game.

the last time they played at the coliseum was against seattle. it was a big letdown. home crowds have been sparse.

but since then they’ve gained a tremendous amount of momentum. i think they’ll come out wanting to prove something. i think they want to get la on their side. the playoffs are over, and a big win over houston would go well with la fans getting over the world series loss.

my guess is they’ll want to come out and just smear them. bury them under an avalanche of touchdowns. and i think the fans have been watching from afar the past month and there should be a bigger turnout.

i don’t know. i just get the sense that people here are itching to hop on the bandwagon, and the rams really want to come here and prove that they’re for real at home. that combo should be enough for no possibility of a letdown tomorrow.

sean still has a long way to go obviously. we have no idea where this journey is going to take us.

but supposing sean coaches here for 20 years. he’d be 51 years old. by contrast belichick was 48 years old when he accepted the head coaching position with the new england patriots.

i hope it all works out and he can stay here for awhile.

also wondering what tidbits he can glean from sonofbum on the defensive side. just being a head coach and knowing wade isn’t gonna be here forever.

zn wrote:

I say this reaches a critical point after 2018 in the 2019 off-season, but, they probably do something about it in 2018.

keep adding guys and let kromer develop them.

i think brown and havenstein shouldn’t be too hard to replace. maybe they could even keep one of them. it’s whitworth i worry most about replacing. just reading around it sounds like he’s playing about as well as any left tackle in the league.

Zooey wrote:

J.B. Long‏@JB_Long
No.1 in red zone opportunities, but only 16th in league in red zone TD%. (Plus, 12 total giveaways.) #LARams

i just think about how impressive this offense already but also how much better they can get. young guys still. give them an offseason or two, and they’ll get those things squared away.