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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Great post and great pictures.

Except the fake punt return was against Seattle.

Sloppy, ESPN. Very sloppy.

InvaderRam wrote:

if i’m the rams, i make a serious effort at getting a blue chip quarterback in next year’s draft.

i don’t think you count on bradford playing at all next year or in the future.

and i’m not sure davis is the answer, but you play him the rest of the season to see if he can progress.

I disagree. I don’t think the rest of the season should be about evaluating Davis.
Fisher should start the QB that gives the Rams the best shot to win. He would be doing his team and the fans a huge disservice if he used the rest of the season as an audition for anyone, including Davis.

Greg Williams Guinta-fied the defense. That is the single biggest problem this season. I’m not sure we would be seeing articles about Fisher’s future with the Rams had the defense not imploded. If the Rams had hired a coordinator (or just promoted someone on the staff) who would have simply maintained status quo, the defense would be playing pretty well and they would have won a few more games. No one would seriously have playoff hopes due to the rash of injuries, but nobody would be questioning Fisher’s status as HC either.

The offense had been playing pretty well up until they lost 3/5 of the o-line in the Chiefs game. I think Schotty does a good job of play calling overall. I have no issue with the game plan. I think he knows how to get the best use out of the players he has (with one notable exception). I think he’s executing Fisher’s vision of the offense pretty well.

In the 2.5 seasons that Fisher has been the HC, the defense has played at its highest levels only when he had control over it. That was true his first season when B Williams was DCINO (Defensive Coordinator In Name Only) when they sorta took a “coordinate by committee” approach but with Fisher in charge. It was also true in his second season when Walton was DC. The defense improved greatly after Fisher took over, or at least was rumored to do so.

This is a lost season. Might as well see if the defense can begin to master Williams’ complex system for the rest of the year. Assuming that doesn’t happen, Fisher should fire Williams and go back to the DC by committee approach employed in is first season. There are a few good defensive minds on the staff including Dave McGinnis. That’s why the committee approach worked before and it’s why it could work again.

Well, nobody thought Ogletree was a bad player last year. Sure he had some flaws in his game (the same flaws he had in college so this wasn’t a surprise) but overall he looked like an up n’ comer. I just think Ogletree is struggling in GW’s system for some reason. It could just be a matter of experience in that scheme or maybe he just isn’t a good fit for it. Who knows…