wv wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Stop the presses {yawn}. Skip Bayless hates the Rams more than he hates the Commanders. That’s unnatural for a Cowboys fan. There has to be an Inciting Incident, and I’d like to know what it is.

== Well, he does indeed hate the Rams, but it might just be media-schtick with Shannon Sharpe. Cuz Shannon always takes the Rams’ side. Ya know. Bayless calls McVay ‘mc-yay’ ever since McVay ran down the sideline to congratulate desean jackson on the long td pass. w v

I think it’s because McVay is 3-1 vs the Cowboys and 3-0 against his favorite player (Tom Brady) since he became a Buccaneer.

wv wrote:

And with all that success — they still barely won. The 49ers are just beasts. And one would think SF will be better next year. Add a weapon or two. NFC West. w v

True, the 9ers may be beasts next year – depends on how quickly their rookie QB develops.

But the reason the game was so tight was largely due to the Rams shooting themselves in the foot.

– Stafford forced a pass to Kupp that was tipped and picked off in the end zone. That cost the Rams 3 pts.

-Kupp dropped a pass that, had he caught it, he likely would have been able to run inside the 9ers’ 10 yard line.

-Skowronek dropped a TD pass.

-Gay missed a long but make-able FG.

-Ramsey dropped an INT deep in 9ers’ territory.

The Rams should have won the game by a comfortable margin.

That said, I am always impressed with the 9ers’ toughness. And Debo may be the best weapon in football.  Fortunately for the Rams, Jimmy G was an anchor around their necks last night.  His limitations are the only thing holding them back. If Trey Lance develops into a good QB, look out.

zn wrote:

They’re righting at the peak time. Or. Uh. Something like that…

It’s timed at the right peak.

🙄 Amateur…

wv wrote:

Yeah, I trust him to be like Favre. Not Brady. And yeah, I’ll take it. But it aint always gonna be pretty. w v

To me Stafford is like Elway only in the sense that he’s a gunslinger and has Uber-confidence in his arm and his ability to fit the ball into tight places.  Now he’s way more accurate than Elway ever was but, like Elway, when you have that attitude and the arm to back it up it means that you’re going to make a lot of hi-lite type throws, but you’re also going to throw some picks. We just got to hope that the former continues to occur at a higher frequency than the latter.

Zooey wrote:

For sure Vermeil would top that list if he had stayed.

The surprise for me is Knox. I would have guessed he had won more than 3. The Rams won the division 7 times in a row in the 70s. And Knox won only 3 games?

Malavasi was head coach for the 7th championship in that streak.

Knox was HC for 6 of those seasons. He made the playoffs each season and never made it to the Super Bowl, so he would have to have 6 losses. So how can he be 3-5?

zn wrote:

<strong class=”d4pbbc-bold”>Cameron DaSilva@camdasilva
Matthew Stafford’s passer rating yesterday when targeting:

Kupp: 158.3
All other WRs: 16.3

O-kay.

1. Bench every receiver except Kupp.
2. Replace benched receivers with extra o-linemen.
3. Hoist Lombardi Trophy in February.

The NFC West Champs will host the Cards next week. A very winnable game.

wv wrote:

…now, all day, I’ll be thinking of “how would a leftist rewrite The Incredible
Mr Limpett….what would a marxist fish look like….?

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Perhaps you and Bezos can mull that over together at the next “Goldman-Sachs Appreciation Day” event you two cohost?

Having Stafford as your QB is like having an Aston Martin with a bad timing belt.

Good looking but lots of misfires.

Agamemnon wrote:

https://twitter.com/RamsNFL/status/1344024630651092992

This is from 2020.

I see Stafford is taking some lumps for his performance:

21 for 37, 197 yds, 1 TD, 3 INT

Yeah, not his best, but Joe Namath went to the HOF putting up numbers like that every week. 😉

Stafford was bad but McVay is even more frustrating. Either he just can’t read the flow of a game, or he simple disregards it and calls whatever he wants to call regardless of what’s happening right in front of him.

The running game was outstanding even with having to shuffle the o-line a bit, and the defense continues to impress. Minnesota is a tough out and given everything the Rams have been dealing with the last few weeks plus the short week, this was a good win.

The Rams could win the next three games or lose the next three, and neither of those scenarios would surprise me more than the other.

zn wrote:

The Rams seemed to play more man coverage yesterday than they have recently, and it clearly suited Darious Williams and David Long jnr. They easily played their best games of the season so far.

Darious Williams had a Pro Bowl caliber season last year playing in a defense that played a lot of man coverage. I hope the Rams continue to do that.

The NFL should shut down for two weeks and quarantine all players and coaches.

canadaram wrote:

I have already seen enough of this year’s Rams to know what’s going to happen on Monday. They look like world beaters vs. Sub .500 teams, but aside from the Tampa game, their weaknesses are easily exploited by good teams. I would expect Arizona to target any player not named Ramsey all night. I think that Murray will have plenty of time to sit in the pocket to find his open receivers. I think the Cardinals defense will pressure Stafford into a couple of turnovers. I don’t expect his game to be all that close. Cardinals win by at least ten to thirteen.

Yup.