Yeah, I’ve had about enough of Foles. He’s getting worse by the week. I don’t know why he is so horribly inaccurate. I don’t know why every ball leaves his hand like it was punted. I don’t know why he is so slow in his progressions and therefore holds the ball so long. I do know that the Rams can’t win with him at QB – not as long as he’s playing like this anyway.

It’s time for him to sit and watch.

wv wrote:

“If Quinn and Long are out again, I’d say we should be favored. If Quinn is back, it tips to St. Louis’ favor. Even still, I think the run game will be out the window; between Donald, Brockers, and Fairley I think we will get eaten up inside. Our best bet for consistent production is going to be Alshon and Bennett in the 7-12 yard range.”

This guy sounds too intelligent
to be a Bears fan.

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Yeah, except he thinks if Quinn and Long are out the Bears should be favored? I’m not saying the Bears can’t win, (but they can’t) but there is no way they should be ‘favored’ even with Quinn and Long out.

Favored?! The Bears?! Over the Rams?!

Someone should take a pair of tweezers and carefully pull his pea brain out through his nose, rinse it in a mild bleach solution to clean off the ‘stupid’ and then reinsert it back into his heretofore useless head.

Then maybe he won’t make ridiculous pronouncements like “the Bears should be favored if blah blah blah”…

• This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by nittany ram.

I wouldn’t do it if I had his concussion history.

rfl wrote:

I was really wrong about Foles. I figured a guy who had once had a historic year had to be at least solid.

He isn’t. I’ve seen enough this year to get a feel for what he is doing and not doing. And he really sux.

People talk about the opening play, but they tend to say it wrong. He didn’t “miss” Britt. He didn’t even see him. And he had time, Britt had major separation, and clearly that had to be the focus of the play as drawn. Foles never seemed to see Britt as an option. On the 1st scripted play of the game.

I know. He hit one later. In between pathetic, fluttering, indecisive flings (you can’t call them passes). I also know Tavon dropped one, the WRs struggled to get open, Cignetti and the OL struggled some. But Foles had time to do things. He just couldn’t. Couldn’t see the openings.Couldn’t hit a receiver when they were open. Couldn’t even challenge the WRs to make some plays with any deft throws.

Foles is a major problem, IMO. And his problems aren’t the sort that are going to get better. Especially with the experience Foles has.

I was so pumped that the Rams had figured a way to get a decent QB and save cap money. Well, they blew it. And now we face the biggest headache of all. Trying to find a decent QB from a mid-table draft position.

Ugh. You know, it’s fairly easy to imagine the OL settling in and picking up a WR or two next year. But finding a QB? That’s hard to do.

Hell, maybe Mannion will be able to play.

Yeah, Foles is not who I hoped he was. Unfortunately there’s nothing they can do THIS season except to keep playing him and hope he gets better. Then try to get Mannion ready this offseason.

PA Ram wrote:

I always think about this when they mention the Rams defense and talk about their front 7.

The secondary for the Rams is very underrated.

Those guys are quite good.

Jenkins transformation into a true shutdown corner this season is truly remarkable.

Dak wrote:

Not a big fan of the nickname Mob Squad. Didn’t like Sack City, either.

I don’t think they’re good enough to even have a name right now. I think if they actually win something, like some playoff games, then they’re worthy of a title.

Well, I think they are on the verge of being good enough to have a nickname. They’ve played well in every game this year except one and have been dominating in some games.

I also didn’t like “Sack City” at the time. I would have gone with ‘Sack Louis’. It’s sorta reminiscent of the Steelers’ nickname ‘Blitzburgh’ in the 90’s.

But I like Mob Squad. I especially like that it was coined by a player (Aaron Donald) and not a journalist.

Enjoy this day

Interesting. There is only one elite team in the top 10 (Pats) and there are 4 losing teams in the top 10.

I guess ‘toughness’ (as Bruschi defines it) isn’t that important.

Happy B-day, Mac!

joemad wrote:

long time Rams fans have a bad taste of the Ram playoff loses to the Vikings during the 70’s, but Ram fans rarely mention this Viking playoff game.

December 26, 1988

Vikings safety Joey Browner recorded two interceptions in the first quarter to set up a two touchdown lead that the Rams could never recover from. Browner also finished the game with 7 tackles, had the Vikings only sack of the day, and recovered a Rams onside kick attempt to seal the win

Browner’s first interception, on 3rd and 17 from the Vikings 32, led to a Minnesota 73-yard drive that featured Wade Wilson’s 34-yard completion to reserve receiver Jim Gustafso and was capped by running back Alfred Anderson’s 7-yard rushing touchdown. Then on the first play of the Rams next drive, Browner intercepted another pass from Jim Everett and returned it 14 yards to the Los Angeles 17-yard line, where Allen Rice took it in for a touchdown on the next play.

In the second quarter, the Rams had three chances to score, but only managed to get any points once. First, Mike Lansford missed a 41-yard field attempt (later matched by a 44-yard miss by Minnesota’s Chuck Nelson). Then they drove to a 3rd and 1 on the Vikings 30 and were stopped for no gain on consecutive running plays. But just before halftime, Everett led the team 70 yards to cut the lead in half at 14-7 with his 3-yard touchdown pass to tight end Damone Johnson.

Minnesota took the second half kickoff and moved the ball all the way to the end zone with a 1-yard touchdown run by Anderson, going back up by two touchdowns at 21-7. The Rams countered with a 33-yard field goal from Lansford, but in the fourth quarter, Wilson completed a 44-yard pass to Anthony Carter on the LA 5-yard line. On the next play, he threw a touchdown pass to tight end Carl Hilton, giving the team a 28-10 lead and essentially putting the game out of reach. The Rams managed one more touchdown with 1:11 left in the game on Everett’s 11-yard throw to tight end Pete Holohan, but Browner recovered their onside kick attempt and the Vikings ran out the rest of the clock.

Wilson finished the game with 253 passing yards and a touchdown, while Carter caught 4 passes for 102 yards. Rams linebacker Kevin Greene had 3 sacks.

That loss didn’t bother me so much because the Rams had rebounded to 10-6 after going 6-9 in the previous strike-shortened season. Plus it looked like the Rams *finally* had an elite passer and a solid defense under Fritz Shurmer. The future looked bright and I was looking forward to all the playoff victories to come.

Sigh…

Sounds like most of them know as little about the Rams as we do about the Vikings.

Yeah I dunno. I’m not sure what a victory or loss tells us when you face an evenly matched team.

I think the Rams still have a decent shot at the playoffs even if they lose this game. The Vikings got to 5-2 by feasting on patsies. The meat of their schedule remains including games against the Falcons, Seahawks, Cardinals, Giants and two games against the Packers.

Agamemnon wrote:

We are better than Minn. I am not sure by how much. We need a better passing game anyway. Against Minn would be a good time demonstrate that.

I agree with you that the Rams are probably better but I also think RFL is correct when he says the Vikings can do more things on offense. I don’t think the Rams are going to be able to hold them to just FG’s so more help from the offense would be appreciated this week.

InvaderRam wrote:

their defense is ranked ahead of the rams in terms of total yardage, but i find it curious that football outsiders has their defense ranked 24th while the rams is ranked 5th.

i haven’t seen much of the vikings defense, but i’ve seen enough of the rams to believe they are better than the 13 ranked defense according to traditional stats.

but also. the vikings offense could give this defense some problems. the rams strengths on defense are in the secondary and the pass rush. so i could see them struggling against adrian peterson. the niners were absolutely depleted at running back, and that made a huge difference in holding them to 6 points.

Actually NFL.com has the Rams defense ranked 6th giving up 328.1 yds per game and Vikings ranked 7th at 334 yds per game.