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nittany ramModeratorI mean that was just an outright Alice’s Restaurant Massacre. A physical humiliation. A beat-down.
So, how do they come back from that?
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vNah, it was more of a “Mel’s Diner” beatdown. That ain’t so bad.
nittany ramModeratorSo, once again, a team played its best game against the Rams.
And, Philly is being touted as a super team. Maybe.
But watch the Eagles come out and play like shit, and Lose next week.
Because the football gods hate the rams.
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vThat’s because the Rams game is every other team’s Super Bowl, and there’s always a letdown after the Super Bowl.
87 years of uninterrupted excellence comes with a price tag – the Rams have a huge target on their back.
nittany ramModeratorSigh. 5-6.
Saints
Bills
49ers
Jets
Cards
SeahawksTo have a winning season, they have to go 4-2, now.
This is officially, a ‘disappointing season’ btw.
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vLooks like 5-1 to me. Honestly. They are better than all of those teams except the Bills, who will undoubtedly crush the crap out of them.
The Bills are great but they aren’t the physically dominating freaks the Eagles are. I think the Rams have a chance at SoFi. I was going to say “at home”, but the stadium will look more like Orchard Park’s western annex – but at least the Rams won’t have jet lag.
nittany ramModeratorThe combination of Barkley, that o-line, and that d-line is almost unfair. To quote Commissioner Gordon, “the sum of the angles of that triangle are too monstrous to contemplate”.
I’m disappointed, but somethimes you just gotta tip your hat to the other guys. If the Eagles play their A game, I don’t know how anyone beats them.
BTW, who else is getting tired of the Rams having to use silent counts in their own building in these prime time games?
nittany ramModeratorStafford, WR1, and WR1a were awesome. Williams and the running game looked like they did after the bye last season. I just wish the offense would ix-nay the slow starts.
It’s hard to expect more from the defense given their youth. Even with their inexperience they are better than most defenses in the league. But they commit stupid penalties at the worst times. Hopefully it’s just a product of their youth, but Verse and Young are sorta lunkheads.
nittany ramModeratorMine is from “The Thing with Two Heads” with Rosey Grier and Ray Milland.
nittany ramModeratorMy gut tells me, that Kamala is John Kerry. She’s Bob Dole. She’s just got a dull personality that did not excite enough people. Shallow amerikunz. Ya know.
it really is that simple.
I’m sure being a woman of color didn’t help, but yeah…
nittany ramModeratorI dont think captive-dolphin-orgies have anything to do with the rams red zone problems. I want that on the record.
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Do you even watch football?
nittany ramModeratorOh, thank goodness. I was beginning to think I was the only Rams fan on this board. I feel like I stepped into some kind of weird Dolphin orgy here.
That happened to me at Sea World once. I accidentally slipped and fell into their tank.
nittany ramModeratorI am in favor of the Rams dominating and obliterating the Dolphins. I vote for that. w v
Bacon and Mckeever gotta shut down Jim Kiick. That’s the key.
nittany ramModeratormaybe “the Rams have lost to far worst teams than the Dolphins” have thus far…
I mean the Rams have lost to Dolphin teams worse than this year’s Dolphin team.
The Rams have made a habit out of losing to this franchise, and some of those losses have been to really bad teams.
nittany ramModeratorRedAlice Week 10: Monday Night Football! Dolphins at Rams The 3 week winning streak has given us life … onto getting the 4th win. Dolphins are currently 2-6, but they gave the Bills some troubles last week before losing the game. Rams are only 2.5 favorites at home. Rams have played the Dolphins 14 times and have only won twice (1976 & 2001).
The Dolphins should have beaten the Cards and the Bills. They outplayed both of them, in which case they would be 4-4 and right back in the hunt like the Rams are.
Now, at 2-6, the pundits are saying their season is over, but I doubt the players feel that way.
The Rams have lost to far worse Dolphin teams than this one.
nittany ramModeratorWell, yes, we have the ability to ruin things for us and the majority of the creatures most similar to us, but as Stephen J Gould pointed out, we couldn’t destroy all life on Earth even if we wanted to. Life (even higher life forms) have survived global catastrophes greater than we can bring about. We are here indirectly as a result of the last one. And ultimately, our efforts would destroy us before we could exterminate everything else.
Well, my son tells me that we are pretty close to killing all the plankton that live in the ocean, and that the plankton produces far more oxygen than the rainforests do, and when the plankton goes, everything above it on the food chain goes. I think if we get down to plankton level, Stephen J Gould’s contributions to science won’t matter much to anything left.
We agree that the biosphere is in trouble and since there’s no political will to stop the damage we are doing, the outlook for us and for much of the life on this planet is craptacular. I’m not trying to paint a rosy picture of the future here.
Your son is right about the importance of plankton, and that is one more thing we need to be concerned about. We don’t know enough about plankton populations to say for sure how they are being affected by climate change. Some studies show a decline in numbers, some show an increase, but it’s likely that climate change is having some negative effect. Our ignorance about the main reason we can breathe is a bit disconcerting. Although, ultimately it won’t matter. No matter what we learn, one side will deny it and the other will pay it lip service but do nothing.
nittany ramModeratorSo YOU’RE why Trump won. I agree. I don’t know how you fight the system when it has so much influence and power over every aspect of daily life. This has to be unprecedented. No society in history has been under this much control while not realizing they are under control. Like you, what bothers me the most is the effect this is having on the environment. Propelling the “6th Extinction”. However, I get some relief knowing humans will be dead before the planet is. Earth will get the last laugh
I dunno what you mean by “the planet.” I think in 100 years, give or take a coupla decades, the only living thing on this planet will be those freaky things that live on the bottom of the ocean along the volcanic vents. We are headed for a hard reset.
Well, yes, we have the ability to ruin things for us and the majority of the creatures most similar to us, but as Stephen J Gould pointed out, we couldn’t destroy all life on Earth even if we wanted to. Life (even higher life forms) have survived global catastrophes greater than we can bring about. We are here indirectly as a result of the last one. And ultimately, our efforts would destroy us before we could exterminate everything else.
Yea, wv is right, it isn’t possible to fix what end stage capitalism has wrought, and the long term outlook for the ecosphere is pretty bleak, but I think zn is right too. In the short term, Trump’s victory is going to make things much worse, especially for the poor, minorities, women, immigrants, etc.
nittany ramModeratorI did vote, btw. Jill Stein, fwiw. w v
So YOU’RE why Trump won.
I agree. I don’t know how you fight the system when it has so much influence and power over every aspect of daily life. This has to be unprecedented. No society in history has been under this much control while not realizing they are under control.
Like you, what bothers me the most is the effect this is having on the environment. Propelling the “6th Extinction”. However, I get some relief knowing humans will be dead before the planet is. Earth will get the last laugh
nittany ramModeratorIs there a throw that better exemplifies the essence of Stafford, more than that one? The gunslinger. Ice-water. Assassin. Reckless. Pinpoint power-accurate. Stubborn. Tough. I wish some football expert would go over the details of that pass. The TD will get all the press coverage, but the pass to TJ was as interesting a play as the Rams will have all year.. w v
Someone on twitter quipped that if Mahomes had made that throw, there would already be a one-hour televised special about it on NFL network.
nittany ramModeratorThe Rams defense is fun to watch. Perhaps the scariest defensive front in football. The secondary is opportunistic but is susceptible to big plays.
The offense was disappointingly sluggish for most of the game with the exception of the third quarter and that final drive in overtime. I’m not worried about that side of the ball though. I think they are closer to what we saw against the Vikings than what we saw today.
Just a half game out of first place with more than half the season to play. Not bad considering all the injuries they had to overcome.
nittany ramModeratorI watched the Commanders/Bears game. The game was sorta ho-hum until the 4th quarter when the Bears finally woke up. The Commanders were in front the entire game but with 22 seconds left the Bears took the lead. Then the Conmanders won it on a Hail Mary.
Caleb Williams struggled until the 4th quarter when he finally found his rhythm. He looks like he will be special.
Jayden Daniels already is.nittany ramModeratorWhat a difference Kupp and Nacua make. All of a sudden they can throw down the field, and the red-zone woes dissappear.
Robinson, a guy who couldn’t get separation last week, is now running free in the end-zone…
The young defense will continue to get better.
If they beat Seattle next week, they’ll be in first place.
From worst to first in 10 days.
October 22, 2024 at 9:37 pm in reply to: Kupp on the block, apparently + Titans trade E.Jones to Seattle #152710nittany ramModeratorKupp responds to trade rumors:
Cooper Kupp comments on rumors that he could be traded by Rams
October 22, 2024 at 6:29 pm in reply to: Kupp on the block, apparently + Titans trade E.Jones to Seattle #152706nittany ramModeratorIt makes sense in a lot of ways but I’m gonna hate it if it happens.
nittany ramModeratorThe Rams look ugly, but, if there is a positive in that, they usually force their opponents to look ugly too.
They’ve lost to some of the best teams in the NFC – the 5-1 Lions, 5-2 Packers, and 4-2 Bears…which one of those teams looked particularly impressive against the Rams? They uglied their way to victories over the extremely talented, but weirdly inconsistent 9’ers, and the hapless Raiders.
The only team that looked great against them was the Cardinals, but that was a case of Kyler Murray taking out years of frustration against a Donald-less team that didn’t look ready to play.
That said, they could easily get rolled by the Vikings this Thursday. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they got enough ‘ugly’ on the Vikes to make the game competitive.
nittany ramModeratorThe Rams are 1 – 4. As bad as that is, they are no worse off than they were last year when they went into their bye-week at 3 – 6. They are now, as they were last season, entering their bye at 3 games below 0.500. Like last season I think they can still make a run, depending on the play of the defense.
I think the offense will be fine and the red zone scoring woes may be alleviated when Kupp and Nacua are back.
But to make a run after the bye like last year will be more difficult given the state of the defense. The pass rush is good but the run defense and secondary are huge weaknesses right now. How much of that is fixable this season is hard to say, but they won’t be serious playoff contenders without a lot of improvement.
nittany ramModeratorDefense is stinky-poo.
Two rookies that had been struggling had their coming-out parties against the Rams.
Hard to know how much of this can be laid at Shula’s feet. Secondary is horrible and I’m sure it wasn’t his call to trade Earnest Jones.
nittany ramModeratorI dunno if there is a stat on ‘close but missed sacks,’ but it seems like there’s been a lot of ‘almost’ sacks so far. They face another QB who can move, but I’m hoping for these young Dlinemen to not-miss this week. w v
I’ve noticed that too. The Rams might lead the league in sacks of Verse and Fiske could just wrap up.
nittany ramModeratorI can’t help but think about all those redshirts swaggering into “Levi South” and gloating for the first 57 minutes of the game, only to have drive 6 hours back to SF stewing on that finish and the $500 they spent to attend the game. A couple more victories in LA for the Rams, and the 9er faithful will be more reluctant to make that trip.
I think most of those redshirts live in LA.
nittany ramModeratorWhen you have Stafford and McVay you always have a chance.
Yup.
I’ll give even odds for McVay + Stafford + the Haneyville RD4 JV football team’s 2nd string against anybody.
nittany ramModeratorThe Rams next four games are against the Cards (away), 49ers, Bears (away), and Packers. Assuming there are no more injuries to key starters, they could go 3-1 against that schedule, especially if Jordan Love can’t play. The injuries have been catastrophic but it isn’t panic time yet. After the bye they could still be sitting at 3-2 with all/most of the starters back facing a very bad Raiders team.
nittany ramModeratorCan’t think of a current player I like less than Aaron Rogers, but I hope he goes off tonight.
nittany ramModeratorProud of the way they battled given all the adversity.
I hope Puka, Noteboom, and Avila are able to play next week.
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