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wvParticipantTwo best teams – Saints n Rams. Good for the NFL.
Saints offense doesnt look quite as zany-wacky as it was. Maybe they are beatable in the dome.
Alshon Jeffrey. Did u see that play? The one that he will always remember. Right thru his hands for an INT. Well, back in, oh, about 1971 when i was in 9th grade, i did exactly the same thing. 1971. Still havent forgotten it.
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vwvParticipantThat was a singularly ‘satisfying’ game. They just flat-out beat the shit out of the rough tough boyz.
Byes help. Man, do byes help.
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vwvParticipantStill watchin, late in first half. Seems like Goff is taking a lot more time than usual to call the plays. Lots of talking and motioning and presnap moving. Interesting.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipant“Jason Garrett is not bad enuff to fire, and not good enuff to win”
Cowboys fanwvParticipantI’m watchin the game on replay. I just watched Ebukam drop a pick6.
This after watching Higby drop a TD pass. This after Cooks dropped a TD pass.WTF?
If they lose this game, I’m gonna be pissed.
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vwvParticipantFor some reason this game reminded me of an old GSOT game. The one where the Rams had to play the Saints in, i think the last regular season game. And the Saints had already bullied the rams in the first game. And Martz decided to run the ball down their throats. And Faulk did just that. The team was just ‘determined’.
Course the next game was the Hakim fumble game, i think.
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vwvParticipantSomeone explain who the Rams are — they had the wild shootouts with the Saints and Chiefs,
and now they look like the Tim Tebow broncos er somethin.Someone x-plain it to me.
Have they always been both?
They always had the capacity to be both. You can see though that after the Chi & Eagles games Kromer was talking about getting back to basics and fundamentals. To me the Chi & Eagles games were always about the OL, and how it had unravelled a bit. A lot of people put all on that on Goff but my feeling was that no qb looks good when OLs crack like that and a young one will especially not look good. (Stats show Goff was under an unusual amount of pressure in those games, double the amount from previous games.)
So what I think happened is, they took a veteran OL and focused on technique and reconfigured them a bit.
They could always run, they could always pass, but what has shifted is the emphasis.
I think also discovering what they had in CJ motivated a lot of that.
On defense, I also think they just got back to basics (eg. gap discipline) and changed a few things and just said, we have to defend the run it’s now or never for 2018 to do that.
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Sounds right to me. I’d add that when Gurley is hurt, its a different team. Also when the OLine gets two weeks off it probly helps a lot.
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vwvParticipantSomeone explain who the Rams are — they had the wild shootouts with the Saints and Chiefs,
and now they look like the Tim Tebow broncos er somethin.Someone x-plain it to me.
Have they always been both?
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vwvParticipantThe opposite of the offensive and defensive game plans I expected. Neither Saints nor Eagles wanted to see the Rams OL doing what they did today.
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Agree, totally. Did McVay remake this team in two weeks?
At any rate, the biggest win in….um….?
Rams are legit.
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vwvParticipantJanuary 8, 2019 at 4:00 pm in reply to: does Dallas stand even the remotest chance in this game? #96332wvParticipant“this is not a normal home field”
January 8, 2019 at 3:53 pm in reply to: does Dallas stand even the remotest chance in this game? #96331wvParticipantwvParticipant…the Rams OL had gone through a long nightmarish list of injuries and they were basically starting guys they had just signed off the street. And, for many, what that meant was, Bulger was complacent after signing a fat contract and just not playing well.
There is often an analytic amnesia around injuries in football discussions.
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Well, ‘maybe’ the celebrity-media has amnesia about injuries. But i have a suspicion that the corporate-suits dont like talk about football-injuries. They probly think talk of injuries should be toned down or avoided if possible. I dont ‘know’ that, but i suspect it. I mean, the pundits job is really to ‘sell’ the game itself. Injuries dont sell the game. Etc, and so forth.
At any rate, i blame Bulger’s ribs for being complacent.
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vwvParticipantI started this near the end of the vid. Worth watching, i think.
January 8, 2019 at 9:51 am in reply to: does Dallas stand even the remotest chance in this game? #96308wvParticipantZooey that might be best course of action. Use the pass and take the cowboys away from running the ball. Take Zeke Out of the equation
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Oline. Its all on the Oline.
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vJanuary 8, 2019 at 9:49 am in reply to: AD’s season grade of 123.9 highest PFF has given in 13 years of ranking players #96307wvParticipantwvParticipantIt would be surreal for me if the Colts won the AFC. I mean i havent noticed them all year.
I suppose i would like to see the Rams play the Chargers in the Super Bowl.
It would make the spirit of GRITS very happy.
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vJanuary 7, 2019 at 2:26 pm in reply to: does Dallas stand even the remotest chance in this game? #96257wvParticipantYou know after the Kansas City game the media was all agog, about how the NFL is now a pinball league, etc.
Well…apparently not. Lots of defense in the NFL these days.
I watched the Cowboys beat down the Saints. I have no idea why the Rams are 6 point favorites.
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vwvParticipantWell, this is it. They are rested. They play at home.
13 wins, and I’m still not sure they are legit. We shall see.
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vwvParticipantYeah, i wanted the Bears. But the Cowboys will do.
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vwvParticipantI’ve never had any complaints about Snead, I dont think. He’s done a good job.
In a personnel-world that is ridiculously uncertain, he’s been good. The onliest thing I dread iz…if the Rams win a Ring, the celebrity-pundits will call him the ‘G word’. I guarantee it. They’ll call him a ‘genius.’ Coz that iz what they do.
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wvParticipantThey are in pretty good shape, really. I dont think ‘any’ of those guys are irreplaceable.
Some good players there for sure, but there’s no Aaron Donald’s on that list.
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vwvParticipantYeah, the orcas didn’t attack that person, but then they swam off and killed a dolphin, seal, or whale.
I’d rather they eat the people and leave that other stuff alone.
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Brilliant.
Reminds me of an old Dr Snook post about sharks ‘working down the jet-skier population.’
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vwvParticipantBeating the Bears would go a long way with me. Even if they lost
the next week.
Coz da Bears just humiliated them in Chicago. Bullied them.It would be huge to turn that around.
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vDecember 31, 2018 at 9:36 am in reply to: Playoff game 1: who do you want to see / expect to see? #95869wvParticipantWell its GOING to be the Bears. Foles season ends ugly this time.
Its a heckuva matchup. Great Defense against the Rams in LA.
Goff and the OLine have a second chance.
I wasnt sure about the Bears defense until late in the season. But man, they are a great D. Best in the NFL, I’d say. It would not surprise me to see a game like the 99 Bucs/Rams game. Ugly…and gut-wrenching and…Ugly.
Really tough to call the Hawks Cowboys game. I dunno. I suppose, I’d go with Wilson.
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vwvParticipant13 Wins in the NFL is a rare thing. Great accomplishment. McVay has what, 11 and 13 in his first two seasons? Thats ridiculous.
Of course McVay is 0-1 in the Big Dance. 0-2 would raise a tentative whispering question in wv-brain: what if he’s another shottenheimer?
They earned their Bye. They earned their home game. But are they legit, or are they paper-rams? I have to say, I’m not sure.
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vwvParticipantDo we think the Rams know what the problem is? I mean surely they’ve done every kind of test imaginable. So THEY know what the problem is, right?
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vwvParticipantaeneas1
altho it was interesting (great?) to see the rams offense mix it up by going with a lot of 12 personnel groupings @ arizona, the 22 tape has me wondering if the move was more a reynolds demotion than a commitment to a standard 12 personnel scheme… i say this because technically speaking the rams did play a lot of 12 (1 rb, 2 te) last week, but in a lot of cases they simply trotted out their usual 11 sets (groupings) with the only difference being everett filling in as a wr instead of reynolds.
after what appeared to be a break out game vs the chiefs (8 targets, 6 catches, 80 yards, 1 td), reynolds’ numbers looked horrible in the next 3 games (26 targets, 12 catches, 46% catch rate, 0 tds, 2 picks) – add to this everett is much a much better blocker than reynolds, especially in pass pro and downfield, and is also very capable route runner and pass catcher… as a result, seemingly, everett not only played in typical 12 schemes last week, but he also took a lot of josh’s snaps in what appeared to be 11 personnel groupings… hell, everett even had 2 jet sweeps @ arizona.
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I would speculate that its kinda both. A bit of a demotion for Reynolds, and a bit of a move toward protecting Goff with a different set, and running better with a better blocker.
Plus maybe its an easier set for CJ to learn, who knows.
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