PA Ram wrote:

You’ll be jealous to know that one of my neighbors is out back playing a tuba.

Yes–I’ve got free tuba music for New Years Eve!!!!!

Hah!

2016–going out on a high note.

Now that’s funny.

Did you enjoy your evening?

Happy New Year Huddle board…good things are on the horizon.

nittany ram wrote:

He had more success than Linehan and McDaniels but ultimately he was a failure. He was handed a team that should have been a dynasty and ran it into the ground.

I agree…I like Martz, but sometimes a great coordinator doesn’t pan out as a head coach.

Martz is a brilliant offensive mind, maybe one of the best in the business…but he also had his misfires as a head coach.

I wouldn’t mind Shanahan with his dad and Martz as an O-coordinator but I just don’t think it would work out. Martz is very head strung and could he work in a subordinate role to a young up and comer? I’m not so sure, but I would love to find out.

Agamemnon wrote:

zn wrote:

2016 was bad, but for me it doesn’t change 2012-15.

Even up until when Fisher got fired, I have been pretty much, “I don’t care if he stays or goes.” I find that I am a bit relieved that he did get fired, because we get a new set of eyes on the team.

Yea…me too

PA Ram wrote:

Thanks. I want him but not at a crazy cost. And the Saints will want too much.

I kinda think the same thing. I have a lot of respect for SP, but I also don’t think this is a 1 man race.

It doesn’t appear as 1 of them has taken the reins. You know the saying…when you have 3 RG’s you don’t have 1.

I agree…I think they should keep the Chargers brand.

San Diego isn’t that far down the road and they will need some of those guys to make the trip for their home games.

Sure, they’re gonna lose some fans due to the move, but experience has shown us some fans will remain loyal no matter the local and with them just a hop and a skip away…will make time for the trip.

I’m not so sure they remain if the team rebrands.

I’m not so sure I would have remained a fan if the Rams rebranded when they left Cali all those years a go…and I don’t have any ties to Cali.

I think he had an idea. We started seeing things the last few weeks that we never saw in Fisher previous years…I’m specifically referring to the disagreement he and GW got in to, but not limited to that.

I think everybody on the team had been feeling the heat leading up to the hatchet job.

He is sounding like a guy in search of another shot to run a team…we’ll see.

Grob absent this week huh? I think the next guy has to look at moving him inside and bring in a FA band-aide until they can get their LT…unless Battle can play, which I have no idea because that’s a secret as tightly kept as the D-day invasion.

Hav appears slow to get out…is he still hurting? I’m starting to think Hav has been battling his injury all year and it is making him just a step slower.

Good to see Barnes getting a decent grade…I would consider him in a back-up type role next year…3M for a back-up might be too much but they could move on because it doesn’t appear there is any dead money. Next guy might just keep him because LT is a bigger need…Grrrr.

Seattle beat the Rams at the most important aspect of the game…they won the decisive battle of the red flags. Once they had that in the bag, the game was all but over.

Goff tossed a couple of nice passes and a lot of ugly ones. Not convinced either way on him, still way too early to make a call but I would like to start to see a lot of good throws and a few ugly ones.

Seattle out special teamed the special teams head coach. Cooper is not a good kick off returner and they made a huge gaff assuming Seattle was gonna play it straight on the fake punt.

Grob is lost if the D throws a stunt at him

Havenstein has trouble on the outside speed rushers…looks like slow stiff feet…I had to check his jersey name to ensure it didn’t say Frankenstein.

Pulled this from another poster off the net. I think it’s a good article about Gruden and how obsessed he is.

I’m not pushing for him at this point…just interested.

Inside Jon Gruden's 'Maniacal' Obsession with Football

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by sanbagger.

Agamemnon wrote:

Demoff doesn’t do contracts any more

Really? I was always under the impression KD was the wizard behind the cap.

If it’s not KD, then who is responsible for contracts and cap…and what exactly is KD’s job then?

I just have a bad feeling about Thursday. Rams are reeling after the hangman visited the team and coming off of 2 lackluster performances.

Some would say a wounded animal is most dangerous…I say hogwash.

Seattle is playing for playoff contention. The Rams are playing with clouded brains with an Ensign at the helm of the ship.

Seattle wants to put a beat down on the Rams because they aren’t too happy about hearing how the Rams can beat the Hawks but nobody else.

I see another 4th quarter facing reserves in the making.

InvaderRam wrote:

grob got a 79. or a C+. slightly above average. decent. he also happened to score higher than anybody else on offense. which is slightly depressing.

I look at a grade of 70 as a decent game, or to put a letter grade a C, 80 = B, 90=A.

I’m not too impressed with his score yet. I said before the game he was gonna score high because of the matchup. I thought the benching at NO was a strategic benching, because after that game his next 2 opponents were not that good. He has a tougher matchup Thursday against Bennet who burned him for a sack in their last meeting.

He needs to continue to post 70+ grades for the rest of the year IMO.

zn wrote:

Word out there was that FISHER invited Shaw AND the entire coaching staff. They watched a practice

That would make sense….Just I didn’t get to read an article about it…just heard he visited the Rams. Very “special ops” stuff I thought.

PressureD41 wrote:

David Shaw (I mean funny he was at Rams headquarters a few weeks ago)Hmmmmm

I can’t get that out of my head. What was that all about? If they were talking about a possible HC gig while Fish was still in the building…man that’s pretty bad IMO.

Then a couple weeks later…goodbye Fish.

I’m gonna double down on that Hmmmmmmmm.