Definitely interesting, Ag.

Lots of different views on lots of different
players at this point. Its so early,
there’s not a lot of consensus on players yet.

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I think Hill gives them a better chance to win
IF he’s healthy. I think a Good defense (Seattle)
that game-plans for Austin Davis
would cause two or three INTs.

I’ll keep sayin this too, though — its about the OLine,
not the QB. The OLine is the biggest problem
on the team right now. Not the QB.

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zn wrote:

Relevant remark by Fisher:
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We’re not where we need to be in run defense. We’re going to really be tested this week. We have to get better there. We missed too many tackles. We had some run misfits. We’ve got our work cut out for us this week because it seems like yesterday that mess happened in Dallas last year. We have to get significantly better.

Damn run-misfits.

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Mackeyser wrote:

Considering we’re talking about Texas and corporal punishment… if he gets anything other than a medal, I’ll be shocked.

He’ll be found Not Guilty.
Jury will deliberate about ten minutes.

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Mackeyser wrote:

Okay… Lemme get into this a little bit.

As others have noticed, teams are game planning around our DL. What we need to do is counter their counter… (insert My Cousin Vinny reference here…hahaha)

GW’s defenses are meant to get pressure and take chances. Unfortunately, teams are trying to beat us with a very vanilla game plan. The first game was a bit of an anomaly, but both games showed us a lot of the same in that respect.

However, our DL is getting closer. Also, what you are missing is that we are getting more TFLs on running plays each week. Each week, we’re improving on shutting down those gaps and ATTACKING the run.

REMEMBER, any new system takes TIME to implement. GWs defense IS new to this defense and they are doing a pretty good job of getting into it.

The Cowboys will be a big test as DeMarco Murray leads the league thus far in rushing. Now, the Rams stuffed Peterson for only 85 yards and the Cowboys don’t have anything like Patterson. So, we’ll see…

I know nothing about X’s and O’s but, I’ve bin-a-watchin
the bucs game on rewind, and sometimes, i get the impression
that the Rams D is ‘slashing upfield’ a bit more than last year.
They are just rocketing upfield and it can lead to TFL’s and big plays,
but it can also lead to big gaps and big plays for the opposing team.
I dunno. Maybe I’m just hallucinating cause of the fried pickles
and fried oreos I’m eating from ‘Munchies,’
the new stoner cafe down the street.

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Mackeyser wrote:

Fun. Tampa fans are very cordial. Maybe it helped that I had my Native Navy Veteran hat on, but not one fan talked smak to me or really any of the whole crew other than a passing barb which was all in good fun. Like someone driving by who’d shout, “Go Bucs!”

When we were in our seats, a couple came in to sit next to us. The lady had a beverage and one of those molded paper trays with food. She didn’t have an extra hand to put the seat down. So I stood up and held her tray while she negotiated getting situated. And we talked cordially about the upcoming game. Couple of Bucs fans in Bucs gear (one in the baby aspirin orange throwback gear) sat on our left and we started talking to them.

Was a great, great time. We mostly agreed on just about everything. If the Bucs did something well, they cheered, if the Rams did something well, we cheered. There wasn’t any smak or that stuff and no one was drunk (or an angry drunk, anyway), so it was a fun time had by all.

Even leaving the stadium, it was very chill. The Bucs fans were upset, but not despondent. I’ve heard horror stories about other stadiums where if a team loses, the opposing fans have to run a gauntlet, have food and beer thrown on them (and worse), and all that stuff.

In that respect, we were lucky. Tampa fans are some of the best fans around with respect to being respectful to opposing fans. And I really, REALLY give them credit for that.

Oh, and I got a Derrick Brooks bobble head because they retired his number and put his name on the Ring of Honor next to Sapp’s. Brooks is one of my favorite players from that era, so…bonus.

Its inter esting how different
the ambiance is in different cities
and venues. I wonder if its ‘friendly’
in Miami as well.

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GreatRamNTheSky wrote:

I do not buy the injury bullshit. Just my opinion as always but, I can tell when somebody has been yanked because the coach was not happy with him. That was clear in the Vikings game. The injury thing as I said is bullshit. So he has a pulled leg muscle and they can’t tape him up and he can play with a limp?

Wuss

Anyways, I think Fisher panicked and yanked Hill in the 1st game and he knows he made a mistake in that way. Not that AD didn’t play well but maybe Fisher reallizes he was not fair to Hill and should have given him the whole game against the Vikings.

Grits

Well, I think Hill was hurt. I just cant see Fisher
yanking a QB after one bad INT. I think Fisher
would know that, that is a good way to destroy
a QB’s confidence.

Who knows though.

I’m pleased Austin Davis is playing well
though. Maybe they have some
depth at QB afterall.

Next year, they’ll have Austin Davis
back, and Bradford back, and maybe Hill,
and they’ll probly draft a QB high.
Who knows who will be the QB next year.
My guess is….Bradford.

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I thought Hill played very well, up
until that terrible-horrible-INT
in the Vikes game.

If Hill is healthy, I think Fisher
is right to go with Hill.

I kinda think the Dallas game will be more
about the Rams OLine than the QB, though.
Last year the OLine played like
five tribbles on skates.

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Well, I’ve only watched one half of Rams football so far.
I’ll watch the tampa game tonight or 2morrow. So,
I dont have much to go on, yet. In the one half
i watched, I thought the D looked fine.

I will say this though — Seattle gave up
over 30 to the Chargers and lost.
It could be that the new rule-enforcement about prohibiting
DBs from touching WR’s is going to change the notion
of what “good defense” looks like. I dunno.
Would that affect run defense too? Maybe.

Dallas will be a great test of the new “Third-year-Defense.”
I am really looking forward to seeing how they play.
Last year’s Dallas game was an unmitigated disaster for Jake Long
and the Oline and the Defense.

I’m just gonna be quiet until i see game three,
for Fisher’s year-three-team, using its
third-string-QB.

Btw, didnt Laurinaitis have a TD
called back in the Tampa game?
Did i read that somewhere?
Cuz that kinda play is a game-changer
on D.
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InvaderRam wrote:

well i think the issue is too complex to boil it down to the experience of one person.

but i do get the point that it can happen even to a well educated and financially independent person.

But why does that matter? Why does it matter that
“it can even happen to well educated and financially independent persons” ?
I mean, are they more valuable than just
regular-ole-persons ?

Think about how it sounds when a Ted-talking-Ivy-Leaguer
says that. …i guess i’m just picturing the reaction to that
comment, if she had said it to a room full of poor-people…

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• This reply was modified 11 years, 9 months ago by wv.

As long as teams can complete
short passes the Rams aint gonna
get many sacks.
I dunno what the answer is to that.

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If Hill is playing Hurt, no,
I dont think they can win.

If Davis is playing, no,
I think they get blown out.

The good thing is, I’m always
wrong.

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GreatRamNTheSky wrote:

WV, the same reason as any broadcasting company would suspend him currently because they do not want to deal with the backlash of those who would demand his job and those who would protest the company and they do not want to seem insensitive to the victims rights.
My point WV, is it seems we’ve become a society where if somebody utters something insensitive or stupid as human beings do every once in a while that we immediately call for them to be punished. Can we not simply disagree with him rather to extract a pound of flesh? People say stupid things. Even broadcasters as we have seen over the years.

Well…theze are strange times, Grits.

Who’s your alltime favorite Ram, btw?

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GreatRamNTheSky wrote:

Nobody has a right to an opinion any longer. Sad. So you don’t like what Robinson said and that is fine. I do not know what to think about the Ray Rice situation other than it was wrong of him to hit his girl friend. Violence against women should not be condoned. Violence against men should not be condoned either.

But, are we not violating our own constitutional rights of freedom of thought and speech when we demand someone be punished for expressing an opinion? I don’t know. I’m beginning to think free speech is a lie.

Grits

Well, why do you think the Corporation
he worked for suspended him ?

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