looks like wichmann had a breakthrough this last game? haven’t watched it yet. hopefully that’s 3 linemen they can count on next year.

sure. why not?

at the very least that running game with gurley, austin, and kaepernick would be confusing to defend i’d imagine.

all negativity aside i am encouraged by the reports on the oline. didn’t see the whole game but hopefully this continues into next week. get some momentum going into the offseason.

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InvaderRam wrote:

not trying to be a wet blanket, but this game meant more to the rams than the seahawks. seahawks had no chance at the division and had already secured their playoff spot. seahawks were looking past this game.

would i rather be swept by a divisional rival and make the playoffs or would i rather sweep a division rival and hopefully not have a losing record?

hmmm… still don’t feel like these rams get it.

I don’t know about all that. They drop from 5th seed to 6th seed if the Vikings win again next week. And what kind of playoff team takes another team for granted? You’d think they’d want all the momentum going into the playoffs that they could get, and to keep their streak alive. There was also mention that the seahawks’ locker room was very somber. As if they just lost a playoff game. So that leads me to believe that they wanted this one bad.

they can talk about how much the game meant to them. how badly they wanted it. but at the end of the day the rams’ season ends next week. again. the seahawks are going on to bigger and better things. and whether they won or lost. it didn’t make one bit of difference in terms of making the playoffs or to who they face in the playoffs. yeah. momentum could help propel them to another superbowl berth, but that team has been there done that. this rams team can hang its hat on a lot of promise and talk but little else.

and i don’t put it all on the foles vs keenum. i don’t know that keenum would have been the difference of 3 or 4 games.

good stuff. the thing that most impresses me about him after the quickness is the hands. not just getting off blocks but when he gets his hand on the ball carrier, the dude is going down.

Dak wrote:

It’s like I’m watching his college highlight reels come to life in the NFL. I think that he’s the best defensive player on any defense that I’ve watched week to week. I’m trying to remember anyone really that close. Think about it: Even great DEs like Carter during his heyday, Little in his best games and Quinn in recent years haven’t been able to dominate game-in, game-out like this guy. DTs just don’t get to the QB this often.

I don’t know about the Donald vs. Watt stuff. Watt is a stud and deserves all the accolades. But, Donald is probably the best DT in football, or at least there’s nobody better.

Too bad Quinn got hurt. This line will be hell on wheels with both of them in there.

yeah. better than carter. better than little already. best rams dlineman in the last 20 years. another eight years of this and who knows?

in my 21 years of watching the rams i have never seen a defensive lineman consistently make so many outrageous plays as donald does. truly feel blessed to watch him play.

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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.