Although not a victory, I think an honorable mention should go to the 24 – 24 tie in San Fran in 2012. Besides, only the score says it was a tie. Anyone who watched the game would tell you the Rams won.

This game served notice to the rest of the NFC West that the Rams would no longer be out-physicaled by their opponents. It also established my favorite attribute about the Rams under Fisher. Don’t ever count them out, because when you assume they are dead and lean over their apparently lifeless body they will smack you in the face. The Rams had lost three in a row coming into that game and had no business thinking they could hang with the best team in the NFC in their house. But from the opening drive to the disappointing finish in OT the Rams out-hit and outhustled the 9’ers. SJax was a beast and they should have erected a statue of Danny Amendola after that game.

Of course, the following week the Rams established another pattern under Fisher…inconsistency. They got hammered by the hapless Jets in the ED.

Nittany is an anti-Clownite.

With good reason…

They’d be 2-9. Those three clowns would really fuck things up.

Awesome! I’ve only been to one game where Rams fans out-numbered the opponent’s fans and that was at the original Herdfest – a home game for the Rams. I have to say it’s much more enjoyable to watch a game that way for obvious reasons. It was cool to see there were so many Rams fans at the San Diego game.

Yes it is as you and TD say. He was released Oct 30th. I learned this through the dark and arcane art of “looking it up”.

This “looking it up” you speak of…do all of your people possess such lore?

Your ways are strange to us, Portlander.

Obviously no playoffs this year. I think we’re probably looking at 8-8, gentlemen.

One game the Rams could point to as their “superbowl” would be the Seattle game. How cool would it be to sweep the Superbowl champs?

Especially if the Seahawks need a win in that game to make the playoffs.

I want them to make Pete Carroll cry.

Patterson would have been the better choice.

wv wrote:

nittany ram wrote:
That second gif shows Hill against a blitz. The safety walks up to the line to make it look like he’s blitzing, At the snap of the ball the safety drops back into coverage but all three LB’s blitz. That makes a total of seven pass rushers. Hill calmly and quickly reads the all-out blitz and hits the hot receiver in single coverage across the middle before the safety can help.

I don’t want to make too much of this (it was only one play) but this is an example of a QB reading the blitz while keeping his eyes downfield and knowing where he’d have single coverage and making a decisive throw. If he had hesitated the safety coming to help would have broken up the pass or he would have been sacked. In other words, Hill did just the opposite of what Davis has been doing against the blitz. Davis never seemed to anticipate the blitz and instead of finding his hot receiver he would hold the ball and/or try to bail out of the pocket. The entire time his eyes would be on the pass rush instead of looking downfield.

Again, it’s only one play but it’s lightyears away from what we’ve been seeing with Davis.

One wonders how it is
that Davis did so well
his first few games.
I mean, surely teams were
blitzing the youngster in those games.

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The Rams could run the ball in their first few games. That’s why Davis did so well. Play action was working. When they started playing better defenses and they couldn’t run anymore, defenses could exploit Davis’ weaknesses, which is specifically, an inability to stand in the pocket and read a defense, especially when he’s hurried by a blitz.

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Silent but deadly?!

You compare the greatest WR in Rams history to a particularly nasty type of fart?!

You really do hate the Rams, don’t you.

HighPlainsDrifter wrote:

Just look at Carson Palmer’s knee injury Sunday. He was being grabbed in the shoulder area, but his knee wasn’t hit. His leg wasn’t hit. It just buckled. We’ve seen it plenty of times before. I don’t understand how these things happen, sometimes it’s just an awkward step. Does it mean that a knee joint that is injured without contact is fragile? I haven’t the slightest clue. I fear for Bradford’s career. I think that having to draft a quarterback will set the team’s building efforts back at least a couple of years. I don’t relish the thought of a rookie quarterback. But I know that depending on Bradford’s twice injured knee is an enormous gamble. I’d say that the Rams are between a rock and a hard place with their quarterback position.

Palmer had a devastating knee injury before. It happened years ago in the playoffs when he played for the Bengals. It was a controversial hit – a defender purposely went in low at his knee. This happened after Palmer had finally “arrived” and was living up to his pre-draft hype. After that his career was never the same until this season in Arizona. He was finally back at the top of his game and *boom* – it happens again. I don’t know what he did to anger the football gods, but…

With Bradford we were hesitant to judge his poor performances too harshly because his receivers were so bad. Reverse that now. Bailey’s invisibility probably has more to do with Davis than anything else. There was one play where Bailey was wide open over the middle and Davis missed him badly.

My wife and I saw Interstellar and both liked it. The science was good and the story was fresh (although it did borrow from 2001 a little bit). There were some minor things that bugged me and I agree it was too long and some of the characters were a little over the top but overall it was an enjoyable film. I didn’t find it boring although for me the film was strongest towards the beginning and then began to fade. I could have done without the stuff about love also. However, I like this new Matthew McConaughey who has finally stopped playing basically the same character he was in Dazed and Confused in every film. He has really grown up as an actor as evidenced by his role in True Detectives and now this. I also thought the child who played his daughter and the guy from Third Rock from the Sun had strong performances.

How did Greg Robinson look?

Better than sammy watkins?

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Robinson didn’t have a reception for the 9th straight week.
Can you say bust?

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Well, I still have hope for Bradford. As wv says draft a QB high and let him, Bradford, Hill and Davis battle it out next summer.

Davis has hit a wall, that’s for sure. He shouldn’t be starting.

Looking at the Rams, there is nothing about them that suggests they should win this game, and looking at the Cardinals, there is nothing to suggest they should lose. The Rams played well last week, but they often follow up good games with complete disasters. See KC this season. Just when you think they’ve turned the corner, they demonstrate that they don’t even know where the corner is. They never seem to build on past successes. They don’t seem to learn anything. It’s hit or miss (usually miss) every week.

The Cardinals, on the other hand, seem to be very consistent. They play well each and every week. Even in their one loss they didn’t play badly. They were eventually just overwhelmed in the rarefied air of Denver. This week they’ll be home playing their methodical, consistent and mistake free brand of football against a team that is consistent only in its lack of consistency.

All that said, I think the Rams will lose but it’s gonna be a close game. They’ll give the Cards all they can handle. I think the light just might be coming on for the defense. The offense is hampered a bit without Quick and Long and I think defenses may have figured out Davis but overall the team will play well. I just have a feeling they are finally starting to learn how to win in this league. They are probably just a little too undermanned to pull one out this week.

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