zn wrote:

Jay Ali@therealjayali
Rams w/Talib for 10 games are a top 10 defense. 18.3 ppg 204 pass yds and 102 rush yds per, 1.8 TO. I think people are sleeping on just how good this defense has become.

i’m hoping.

i know i’m stating the obvious here, but this is goff’s biggest challenge yet. on the biggest stage against the ultimate winner in tom brady.

i mean no pressure or anything. holy crap. brady’s played in more superbowls than goff’s played seasons.

belichick’s coached in the nfl longer than mcvay’s been alive.

this is gonna be tough.

zn wrote:

Grant Paulsen@granthpaulsen
The Redskins announce that they have hired a new TEs coach. Former TEs coach Wes Phillips is expected to join Sean McVay’s staff out in LA, sources say.

i like this hire if true. he’s a former qb, and he coached qbs in college. and with zac taylor possibly leaving…

wv wrote:

I dont think there is a big ‘talent disparity.’ I say that because almost every year i read that, and almost every year, the Pats are right there at the top.

Maybe we just dont recognize their talents very well.

Maybe their ‘talent’ is playing like a ‘team’. Ya know. Plus of course Brady has otherworldly talent, apparently.

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i know right?

they have a mental edge few other teams in the history of sports have ever possessed.

the rams can’t just drive a stake in their hearts. they’ll have to chop their heads off too to finish the job.

in soccer they often talk about teams who practice the dark arts. finding an edge – legal or not – to gain an advantage over their opponent. the pats have definitely practiced their share of dark arts over the years.

rams are gonna have to have the game of their lives to take this dynasty down. belichick and brady have experienced and seen almost everything imaginable in the game of football. how exactly do mcvay and goff counteract that? maybe not knowing any better will be enough?

zn wrote:

Blown call in Rams-Saints game possibly could result in @nflcommish testifying before a House Subcommittee

this is a joke right?

Zooey wrote:

Dude is 24.

The youngest starting QB in Super Bowl history. And the Rams are going to have him for a long, long time. How cool is this?

it’s pretty fucking cool.

he makes some ballsy throws.

but he doesn’t make too many mistakes. outside of that one bad stretch.

and when he does he seems to have a pretty short memory.

at this point he’s my second favorite qb of all time.

wv wrote:

So…I say…let’em raise hell. They are entitled to raise hell.

also. the more they raise hell the funnier it gets.

unless it was a joke i thought i read somewhere that it was going to be throwback blue and yellow.

zn wrote:

I do think this though. If the situation were reversed and the Rams could have won except for a non-call near the end like that, my guess is most of us would NEVER let it go.

that’s what i’m responding to.

i would let it go. i’m usually not this sure. but i can say with almost certainty that i would. and if mcvay had called for a pass instead of a run like payton did, i would have raked him over the coals for that decision.

as far as most non-rams fans?

i don’t know. i definitely think it’s slanted toward the non-call, but there’s a fair amount of fans who take the other side. not saints fans of course. that’ll burn for a long time.

again. can i just say milestone game for goff?

this is one of the games we look back on in what is hopefully a long career. all hopefully with the rams of course.

in that dome? against a hof qb?

120 passer rating after the first quarter? having to wear his backup qbs helmet and it’s still cutting out?

whoa man. he grew up today.

Zooey wrote:

And, yeah, if it happened to the Rams that would be another mouthful of ashes. But I accept the possibility of that every time I sit down to watch the Rams play. That’s what’s at stake. I accept those terms.

Two weeks from now, I may have ashes in my mouth.

i would eventually get over it. i got over the 2002 superbowl, and i thought the pats cheated and got away with it.

but the rams lost. there were things they could have done to avoid it, but ultimately that’s the way the game went. nothing you can do about it. the rams lost. and payton made errors that also cost the saints. to me. passing on first down is unforgivable. it added at least 40 seconds of clock so that the Rams could come back and tie. that decision was under his control and harmed them as much as the non pi call. he should be kicking himself for that instead of the refs.

me? if that happened to the rams, i’d have taken mcvay to task for that. just run the ball, and force the opponent to burn a timeout. you’re introducing less variables to the equation and giving yourself a better chance to win. instead he passed. less things were under his control, and that non pi call was allowed to decide the game.

happy birthday, ramsmaineiac.

i like homefield advantage.

i think it was fine.

and it makes goff and the rams’ performance that much better.