i’ve never been so conflicted…

i’d been hoping for some more consistency from gurley at this point. to go along with all the explosive plays. unless they can actually accomplish that i don’t know how effective this offense can be.

reminds me a little of the lions when they had barry sanders.

this regime seems to be good at picking defensive backs, defensive linemen, and running backs.

i missed the whole damn game. damnit. i’m gonna have to watch it later… what a day to miss a rams win.

wow. watch the losses really pile up now.

wv wrote:

InvaderRam wrote:

it’s not all on the oline. signing underachievers such as britt and cook. ignoring the oline up until last offseason. hiring cignetti if we are in fact to believe he was the problem and in either case hiring such an inexperienced coordinator with a new qb and an inexperienced oline was in hindsight a huge error.

yes there are things that were under the control of this regime.

they’re getting failing grades right now.

Ok, but he didnt “ignore” the OLine. He signed Jake Long,
Wells, etc. They didnt hold up.

Now maybe he should have known they were big
medical risks, or maybe they were good risks
at the time — people differ on that.

w
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i was actually for the long signing but i had also called for the need to draft more linemen. for example i wished they had drafted cordy glenn. instead they passed over him twice to get quick and jenkins. that’s just one example. of course. i was for the robinson pick too. big fan. so what do i know? i really think this regime let it get to a point where it became a crisis. and i think this is an offense that is more reliant and strong line play than others. they should have been adding more talent year by year and instead tried to draft a bunch in one year.

we’ll see. but the exact opposite could be true as well. we’ve also heard that up until recently he was doing the bare minimum in terms of preparation. he’s got to take that love for the game and transfer it to his off field preparation. so far he’s saying the right things. so we’ll see.

i’m just worried he’s another cook/britt jeff fisher special. loads of talent but just mentally not into it.

i’m surprised cuz i read somewhere he was sec all-american. of course who knows with all the shenanigans that happen at those schools. he very well could have earned none of those grades.

i hope my fears are wrong and his third year is his breakout year.

i don’t think receivers are so much the problem as it is an injured and inexperienced oline and the quarterback.

if the rams can’t figure out the qb equation, not sure it’s gonna matter who is there at coordinator. the oline should improve with experience and health.

i think fisher’s got a problem drafting knuckleheads. could robinson be the next in a long line of super-athletic knuckleheads drafted by fisher?

well it’s not anything that’s going to be fixed soon. probably not until the offseason.

zn wrote:

InvaderRam wrote:

i seem to remember reports saying that robinson was not putting in the necessary preparation it takes to be a professional instead relying on his athleticism. that’s disappointing. so maybe he realizes he can’t get away with it at this level. hopefully it’s just part of the maturation process. he needs to wake up.

Well no the report was that he had STOPPED doing that, ie. that he had stopped believing he was just athletic enough and didn’t need more. The issue was specifically him studying film of his opponents.

That’s not that uncommon. Williams openly came out and said he had similar issues with Joyner, that in 2014 Joyner just believed in his own athleticism and wouldn’t do things the way he was supposed to.

The recent revelation about Robinson came in the wake of GR realizing that he was doing things the wrong way by not studying opponents and so on.

yes. it recently has changed. hopefully now he maintains that and actually learns from it. i mean he should be embarrassed right now.

his oline is decimated. and the passing game is in shambles.

i agree with those who say the rams need a qb. so it isn’t necessarily a matter of time but a matter of if they can find a qb. if they can find a qb it could be next year. if they can’t it’ll be never. and they just need a competent qb. they don’t need a great one.

geez. i thought that foles could be at least adequate. mediocre. he doesn’t even seem to be that.