zn wrote:

zn wrote:
d the team’s inability to make adjustments at halftime

This is a crock. I would sit there during games listening to the broadcast analysts (usually an ex-player) talk about the adjustments.

Yeah, I agree. I think Schotty was under-appreciated. He was a good coach. Note how the Rams offense often got off to a quick start. For example they ranked among the best in the league at scoring on their first possession. I think that speaks to Schotty’s understanding of how to dissect and attack a defense. However, despite adjustments, in the second half they would begin to fade. The third string QB, the reshuffled o-line, the lack of experience and inconsistency at receiver – eventually that will catch up with you. Especially when you are facing the murderers’ row of defenses the Rams faced…Seattle, San Fran, Arizona, etc…

Winston actually “Quarterbacked” better. He used more head movement, and threw with better anticipation of the field than Mariota did. Reminded me why I held him in such high esteem before he started his boneheaded mistake filled year. If he wasn’t a knucklehead I’d draft him over Mariota, but being a knucklehead is something you have to grow out of, and that doesn’t happen overnight.

All 3 of these guys threw one baaaad ball and got it picked. All 3 guys recovered and kept pushing.

I hope he doesn’t drop to #10 and force the Rams into making a bad decision.

I think taking him would be a HUGE mistake.

I don’t think Mariota or Winston are sure things. They are not Manning or Luck.

It’s a weak QB draft and by lack of competition they’ve floated to the top. That doesn’t mean either will be good at the next level. I have this nightmare of Winston falling to # 8 or #9 nor #10 and Fisher sitting there saying–well–I guess we gotta get him now.

I don’t want him anywhere near this team. His talent isn’t THAT special. And even if it is–I just see a knucklehead and sometimes you can’t fix that–it just gets worse.

No thanks.

Yeah, and Fisher isn’t afraid to take a chance on a knucklehead. He’s done it many times with mixed results.

Karl Sweetan is out for the Lions but it doesn’t matter – 17-7 over the Cowboys at the half.

I wonder if Larry Fitzgerald would like to finish his career as a Ram? 😉

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

I know a WR that’s 6’2″ has a 6’7″ wing span and 13″ hands

Draft him and switch him to QB.

Agamemnon wrote:

Bringing back Bradford is the definition of sanity.

I agree. Besides, Bradford isn’t being brought back to “be the starter”. He’s being brought back to “compete for the starting job” with a QB that, according to Fisher, is not yet on the roster. That’s not the same thing. It’s not being handed to him this time. However, I have little doubt that Bradford will win the starting job if healthy because he was a pretty good QB when he got hurt, despite his 79.3 career passer rating. Citing his career passer rating is misleading because it includes his numbers from when he was young working behind a patchwork o-line with lousy receivers. I’m more interested in how he was playing most recently, that is the way he was playing before his injuries. He was easily having his best season (94 passer rating?) when he tore up his knee against Carolina and everything looked like he was gonna be even better this year prior to re-injuring his knee.

zn wrote:

I wonder if people noticed.

Roberson played for Johnson, and Joyner player for Gaines.

Gaines was hurt, but Johnson wasn’t inactive.

I’ll have to check game snaps, but it LOOKS like Johnson was just plain demoted.

I dunno…Johnson still played a lot. I remember he got beat on a slant for a first down.

So if you sit in front of the tv at 1:00 PM expecting a Rams game, forget it. Ain’t gonna happen.

I’m not sure if you’re confused about how time zones work or about how TVs work but that depends on where you’re sitting. If you’re sitting in front of a tv on the west coast at 1:00 pm then you will see a Rams game, assuming you have NFL Sunday Ticket and/or the game is being broadcast in your locality and you are tuned to the appropriate channel and the TV is switched ‘on’ and there is electricity running to the TV and you have the ability to see.

• This reply was modified 11 years, 5 months ago by nittany ram.
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wv wrote:

nittany ram wrote:
Is Quinn still the best player on this defense?

Yes.
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That may still be true, but AD is having the better year.

And if it is true, it may not be for much longer. AD is just a rookie.

Imagine a defense where a guy like Robert Quinn is only the second best player on it.

That’s like trying to imagine a message board where zooey is only the second most annoying poster on it.

Wait. Wait. Scratch that. I saw how ridiculous that statement looked on the screen before my fingers could even type it.

More annoying than zooey. As if…

But my point about AD still stands, so admit that I’m right and let’s put this ugliness behind us.

I’d rather he coached somewhere other than the Big 10.

zn wrote:

Which game is more important to you to win? Giants or Seahawks?

That’s a hard question to answer; I am not even sure it’s a fair question.

I want them to win both.

A loss to the Giants would mean bad things. So you want a win there.

A win in Seattle would mean great things. So you want a win there.

Yeah I agree. Impossible for me to decide which loss would be more palatable. Trying to makes my head hurt. I feel like my memory banks are overloading like those alien computers on Star Trek that Kirk tricks into destroying themselves by presenting them with a paradox they can’t solve.
The correct answer is they have to win *every* game. Obviously that won’t happen but for me choosing between them is like trying to decide which of your children you would rather sell into slavery.

That list tells you all you need to know about the priority the Rams place on QBs. And by extension on winning.

Hopefully the priorities have changed under SK.

I highlight particularly tough (as it looks now) away games:

Home: Arizona, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay

Away: Arizona, San Francisco, Seattle, Green Bay, Minnesota, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Washington

I think I would highlight all those away games except Washington. All those teams would be favored at home against the Rams anyway.

Welcome to the board, bnw. That’s interesting. I wasn’t aware that the Rams were responsible for all those QB changes.

Unfortunately, with the possible exception of San Fran, the Rams made all of those teams much better by injuring their starting QB’s.

And only a team as cursed as the Rams could manage to knock out their divisional opponents’ starting QB’s and make it harder for themselves to win the division.

They are their own worst enemy in more ways than one.

I wonder if those points given up numbers are adjusted for only scores allowed by the defense?

In other words, are all the points the offense gave up(pick six’s, fumbles returned for TD’s) taken out?

Because I saw a stat at several sites that said if you counted only those points given up by the defense, then the Rams are second only to Seattle in points allowed.