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Jeff Fisher DOES have his way. So whether Goff plays or not is 100% up to him, as far as we know.
What Silver actually said – since you have misquoted him in order to get hits and increase your revenue – is this:
Actually, the headline on the post is different than the one for the article. It’s different because I couldn’t remember the exact wording and I had already closed the site and I was too lazy to post the link, click on it, copy the headline, then edit and resubmit the post. (I just now noticed the headline is written in the link)
But I didn’t mean to imply that Fisher didn’t have control of Goff’s playing time. I only meant that if things went the way Fisher would want them to, Goff wouldn’t have to play this year. In other words, I meant the same thing Silver said, it’s just that my wording wasn’t as precise.
Okay, well, it’s manly of you to come here and apologize. That’s the right thing to do. But now I’m going to have to ask you to leave the board for a few minutes, so we can talk about how we are going to handle this situation. You’ve been a good poster over the years, and it goes without saying that we personally like you, but there are bylaws around here, and to some extent our hands are tied. I’m sorry.
I understand. I am not fit to post here. I’m sorry that I let you all down.
So is Ryan Seacrest affiliated with the Rams now?
By the way, this is how you announce that the Rams will be wearing throw-back uniforms in the Coliseum…
As usual perception has nothing to do with reality.
Ain’t that the truth. Wanna hear something funny? Well, maybe not funny – but it’s kinda ironic. I drive a white Mazda CX7 with black-out tint on all windows and a light tint on the entire windshield. I also have 22″ chrome & brushed aluminum rims and a killer sound system – with which I bump the bass quite a bit. Would you like to know how many times I’ve been pulled over in that car for either no apparent reason, or very very minor traffic offenses? In the past year, 7 times. Know how many tickets I’ve gotten? One. Apparently I was in a subdivision that had a noise ordinance.
I’m glad you’re hanging out here, X. I hope you stick around.
What kind of music were you playing on that killer sound system? I’m thinking the reason you were pulled over is that the cops didn’t appreciate you blasting One Direction at 10,000 decibels…
Well that makes more sense explaining the crapfest but telegraphing plays is pathetic for a pro team.
Is that “telegraphing”?
Or the 9ers doing a great job of studying the Rams offensive tendencies?
The Rams defense has dismantled some top offenses in the past, and part of it is using film to read tendencies.
Well, the 9’ers player said they could tell the route tree by the Rams’ ‘alignment’. It does seem problematic if the defense can tell what route you’re gonna run just by where you line up.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/la-sp-rams-49ers-plaschke-20160912-snap-story.html
Rams opener isn’t what Los Angeles was waiting for
Bill PlaschkeWe waited 22 years for … this?
The Rams formally returned to Los Angeles on Monday night by stumbling through the door and tracking mud on the floor before flopping aimlessly on the couch.
Hey, St. Louis, you want them back?
Just kidding. Sort of. Maybe not. Is there a return policy on this golden-horned mess?
The Rams played the first regular-season game by a Los Angeles NFL franchise in 22 years by behaving as if it was the first game they have played anywhere in 22 years, losing miserably to the San Francisco 49ers, 28-0.
That’s right, after wandering for more than two decades in the desert, the Rams finally showed up, but then didn’t show up.
Twenty-two years later, the Rams are here, but Los Angeles still hasn’t scored an NFL point.
As premieres go, it was a face plant into the red carpet. As homecomings go, it was a Kiwanis Club float with no driver and no brakes.
“Like I told the players, there are 15 other teams that lost,” said Rams Coach Jeff Fisher.
Hello? Did any of those teams celebrate such great history by making such bad history? Any of those teams end a two-decade drought with a four-touchdown loss?
“We came out expecting the Rams to play better than they did,” said the 49ers’ NaVorro Bowman.
You think?
We all knew the Rams didn’t have the titles of the Lakers or the history of the Dodgers — they had not made the playoffs in 14 years — but did anybody actually believe they would be early-Clippers bad ?
They were worse. They were Benoit Benjamin in a helmet. They were Michael Olowokandi in shoulder pads.
It started with a first half during which they gained all of 87 yards while allowing two 49ers touchdowns thanks to a variety of mistakes and much confusion.
It ended midway through the fourth quarter with Aaron Donald, the Rams’ vaunted defensive leader, being ejected after knocking off Quinton Patton’s helmet and having contact with an official.
With the Levi’s Stadium fans gleefully booing, Donald embarrassingly stripped off his own helmet, smashed it on the turf, and stalked off the field like a big angry kid who had just been thrown out of recess.
“I let my emotions get the best of me … no excuses,” said Donald. “Anytime you lose a game like that, you’re going to be embarrassed.”
After thriving without professional football for 22 years, the Los Angeles sports landscape doesn’t need this. The landscape doesn’t want this. As the Rams will learn when they lose their buzz this week, the landscape will not tolerate this.
The Rams can’t just show up and play on “Monday Night Football” and think L.A. will love them for it, not when they play like this, and the Rams know it.
All the goodwill they built up during the summer disappeared Monday night with a terrible Case Keenum interception that killed their only decent scoring chance, with Keenum throwing two picks and completing fewer than half of his 35 passes.
All the excitement they generated this fall during well-attended training camp sessions ended as quickly as Todd Gurley was stuffed at the line of scrimmage, again and again, gaining only 47 yards.
All that talk about restoring the once-great Rams tradition was thrown around like yellow flags on a humiliating number of dumb Rams penalties, 10 for 102 yards.
“Yeah, it’s definitely embarrassing,” said Keenum. “I’m a winner. I know Todd is a winner. Everyone in that locker room is winners.”
Maybe so, but the only time the Rams seemed truly passionate was during the national anthem, when the team’s Robert Quinn and Kenny Britt stood with their right fists raised in unity with the 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid.
All that controversy over quarterback Jared Goff, the No. 1 overall draft pick who was appropriately inactive for this game because he struggled terribly during the preseason?
Watching this game from the sidelines while wearing a T-shirt, sweats and baseball cap was the best thing to happen to the kid. He kept his hands clean of this nightmare. He can learn from this beating without collecting a single bruise.
Goff would not have made a difference Monday night. But this could give Fisher the excuse to stick him in there in coming weeks. How much worse could he make it?
The 49ers fans began screaming “Beat L.A.” before the game as if they’ve been waiting all those 22 years to fill a football stadium with that chant. It took their football team all of about 22 seconds to start actually doing it.
At 7:21 p.m., the Rams ran the first professional football play by a Los Angeles team in 22 years. It was Gurley running right for four yards, upon which he basically disappeared for the rest of the night.
Later in the first quarter, the 49ers’ first touchdown drive contained all sorts of Rams foolishness.
There was ugly Rams defense, allowing Blaine Gabbert to scramble twice for a total of 16 yards. There were dumb Rams decisions, Lamarcus Joyner’s defensive holding adding five yards. Then, finally, a complete Rams breakdown on Carlos Hyde’s 11-yard run through a confused middle for a touchdown.
This set up more Rams indignation in the second quarter on a nine-play scoring drive by the 49ers that featured a fourth-and-six conversion on a diving catch by Jeremy Kerley and another defensive holding penalty on Joyner. The drive ended with Shaun Draughn fighting off T.J. McDonald and fighting into the end zone on a three-yard run for an eventual 14-0 lead.
The Rams made a nice effort late in the third quarter after a long Tavon Austin punt return and then a nice Austin catch on third down. They were still down by only two touchdowns. But then Keenum threw the ball directly to the 49ers’ Ray-Ray Armstrong on the San Francisco 23-yard line for his second interception. The game essentially ended, leaving the Rams to ponder the difficulties of the home opener Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks.
“We have to go out and fix the problem and do us, be us,” said Keenum.
Or at least be a team whose drive chart doesn’t read like the Rams’ drive chart on this most of horrid of Monday nights: punt, punt, punt, interception, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, interception, punt, turnover on downs, end of game.
Welcome home, Rams. Now go back outside and get your act together.
