Jim Thomas ‏@jthom1 8m8 minutes ago
Fisher said next time Rams player gets a stupid penaltym such as Ray Ray Armstrong’s unnecessary roughness call, he’s sending them off field

Absolutely. There is NO reason for this kind of knuckleheaded crap. It’s time to make them pay for stupidity.

I do. Believe it or not.

I see a good, unestablished team making incredible strings of errors.

We just look at this a little differently. I see a team with talent.

But good teams don’t make the same sort of mistakes over and over. Good teams win these games.

Talent is meaningless if the team isn’t using it the right way or it doesn’t show up when needed the most.

To me–that’s a bad team–not an untalented team–but a bad team.

I had to pick up my wife during the last four minutes–missed the end.

But I am not feeling great about the game. Yeah–okay–they came back–to lose again. I’m sure Philly was playing a little soft too and that allowed the Rams to do somethings. Great. But that doesn’t erase the awful performance on special teams, the miserable offensive line performance, the bewildering inability of the defense to bring down a quarterback, or the penalties galore.

I just don’t care about close losses. They aren’t wins. They don’t mean much to me.

My bright spots?

Austin Davis. Yeah–he had some shaky moments but he also made some good plays.

You know what? That might be it for this game. They really disappointed in every other aspect of the game.

The secondary had screw ups–the DTs were non-existent and for awhile Philly ran through the middle as they pleased. The DEs can’t figure out how to tackle a QB when they do get their hands on him. Stacy had a turnover.

I don’t see a good football team.

The best I see for this year is inconsistent performances. They’ll lose some blowouts, lose some close ones, win some close ones.

Maybe they’ll get 5 or 6 wins tops.

I don’t know where they go from here. How do they get better? How do they become an elite team?

I have no answers. And I’m not sure that Fisher does either.

Ian Rapoport ‏@RapSheet 3m3 minutes ago
#Rams WR Tavon Austin (knee) makes his return to the field today, I’m told, re-joining QB Austin Davis’ team

Not only do I expect the Rams to win…I backed it up by wearing my Rams t-shirt to work on Friday and smack talking the Eagles fans.

Oh, I said some things I’d live to regret come Monday–IF the Rams should lose.

But of course, that won’t happen.

I made sure that everyone knew how I felt about the game by going out of my way to casually “bump” into those I didn’t see right away.

“Oh…hi, Phil. Didn’t see you there. Did you know that the Rams are kicking the Eagles ASS this weekend? Did you know that? Oh–you weren’t aware of that? Well–write it down. And write down who said it so you remember on Monday. They are kicking their ass in THEIR house. And…uh, have a nice day.”

So it will not be pretty for me if the Eagles win on Sunday.

Hopefully my rant was fueled by cool analysis of the situation and not raw emotion.

I am pretty pumped up for the game.

GO RAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had the Chiefs pick in my weekly pool at work and that would have given me enough to win the weekly pool but it was a tie and came down to total points selected for the game. My co-worker had 48 points. I had 46.

This is why I hate the Pats. They ruin everything. Not only do they give up 41 points on their own. They score 14 garbage points.

I hope they lose every game 41-14 now. By the way—if you reverse the 1 and 4 in the Pats score(14) you get the 4 and 1 or (41) that the Chiefs scored.

Can any of you math majors tell me what that’s called? Surely there has to be some name for that, right? It’s not a palindrome because that would have to be 414 to 414. I have been up all night worried about this. Is there a name for this sort of thing or are we in some strange new world now? Can I name it a “PA Ram” sequence and have I discovered the link to the “Unified Theory of Everything”?

Or is it just a thing and I should try to lay off the caffeine before bed?

In any case the Pats are losers and that’s always a good thing.

I am willing to pay for the pie.

The Saints have a terrible defense. For anyone who has ever accused the Rams of tackling poorly(I raise my own hand)just watch the Saints. It looks like they’re playing tag and the offensive player is IT and they’re trying to get out of the way. Just awful.

They’re offense wasn’t too great either. The mighty Saints have fallen.

Having said that–Murray is the best running back in the game right now. He’s elusive, fast and strong.

And despite that success–the 49ers still managed to look bad.

Delay of game penalties, Kaepernik looks slow and indecisive in the pocket. I wasn’t impressed with either team.

The Rams can beat Philly.

They can, they will, they must.

I don’t normally reply to “informal” polls, of course. I like “formal” polls.

When I eat at Dairy Queen I like to do it in full tux and tails. That’s just me.

However…I have solved this little riddle and the answer my friends…is that as of this very moment there have been 11 different posters responding to this thread.

You see,

We can not count ZN’s original post as it is not a “response”. Very tricky of him. He does, however, respond to his own thread later.

So…

Posters responding in the thread:

PA Ram

Zooey

ZN

sdram

NE Ram

Ram Rock

Invader Ram

Crazylegs

wv (by the way I just now noticed he dropped …”ram” from his name. Is he thinking of moving his allegiance to the Carolina Panthers? Let’s just say there are rumors)

Eternal Ramnation

Nittany Ram

Since Zooey did not include me in his answer because I had not responded yet–I win and would like my pumpkin pie with some soft serve ice cream from Dairy Queen. I will be showing up wherever it is served looking very much like Mr. Monopoly as I’ll be wearing a monocle and top hat for full effect.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 2 months ago by PA Ram.

Stacy should get the lions share of the snaps. At least 60% plus. I really like Bennie and Watts, but Stacy is our beast in both running plays and he is a runaway truck on screens.

I would like to see this happen.

I understand that they don’t want to wear him down–but he’s the best running back on this team–he’s solid. 12 touches is just too few IMO. Give him the rock. He beats up defenses.

I like that Fisher called out the officials. He did not sugarcoat it. I honestly believe that if the game had been officiated fairly or competently, depending on your view, the Rams–despite the mistakes–would have won the game.