InvaderRam wrote:

i feel like the rams haven’t had that kind of personality in awhile.   maybe since london fletcher?  i don’t know.  reminds me of guys like kevin greene and john randle.

That’s a good comparison.

Plus right now, or so far anyway, looks like Shula knows how to deploy them.

#FinsUp vs. #RamsHouse ! This week's Monday Night matchup is between the Rams and Dolphins. @GregCosell walks through the creativity and versatility shown by the Rams defense out of Dime personnel.@DariusJButler | @GregCosell pic.twitter.com/PeHoQbo32o

— NFL Matchup on ESPN (@NFLMatchup) November 9, 2024

London Fletcher was a menace! Big time strip sack against Miami, preventing a score

The last time the Rams defeated the Dolphins was on this day in 2001 pic.twitter.com/lVat9iAqQC

— RAMS ON FILM (@RamsOnFilm) November 8, 2024

InvaderRam wrote:

i could not have been more wrong about verse and fiske.

This whole draft is amazing. Here I red-bold all the players who are contributing either as starters, injury replacements, or role players on offense or defense. I count Corum because although he has not been highly productive, he has proven he could be if the need arose.

2024 Draft Picks

1 (19): EDGE Jared Verse, Florida State
2 (39): DI Braden Fiske, Florida State
3 (83): RB Blake Corum, Michigan
3 (99): S Kamren Kinchens, Miami Fl.
5 (154): EDGE Brennan Jackson, Washington State
6 (196): DI Tyler Davis, Clemson
6 (209): K Joshua Karty, Stanford
6 (213): WR Jordan Whittington, Texas
6 (217): C Beaux Limmer, Arkansas
7 (254): IOL KT Leveston, Kansas State

Plus 2 rookie UDFAs:

McCollough
Speights

In terms of just the draft picks, that’s 7 clear hits, or 70%–and in grading drafts, a 50% hit rate is considered exceptional.

zn wrote:

Los Angeles Rams PR@TheLARamsPR Since Week 6… The defense has also held each of their past three opponents to 20 points or fewer

Since the bye, the Rams defense has averaged 18.33 points allowed per game. Pro-rated across the entire season so far, that would rank 4th.

zn@znramsfan
What exactly is Munchak’s exact role and title, if any?

Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
He’s a consultant! So he doesn’t have to be full time but is there quite a lot

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Steve Avila and Jonah Jackson back at practice (Munchak, Wendell and Kromer running and observing the drill) pic.twitter.com/SZZaH1Crsk

— Jourdan Rodrigue (@JourdanRodrigue) November 7, 2024

from https://www.turfshowtimes.com/2024/11/8/24291293/rams-dolphins-fantasy-outlook-tyreek-hill?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=turfshowtimes&utm_campaign=socialflow

The Miami Dolphins will be a much tougher out than their measly 2-6 record suggests, especially considering their offensive strengths matchup well with the weaknesses on defense for the Los Angeles Rams.

Miami excels at exploiting vulnerabilities

It’s difficult to know exactly who the Dolphins are offensively this season because of injuries at the QB position. Miami has turned to Skylar Thompson, Tim Boyle, and Tyler Huntley at times after Tua Tagovailoa was injured in the second game.

In the three games where Tua was healthy, Miami was mostly a pass heavy team on the surface. I’ll note further down how the straight run-pass numbers can be skewed because of a non-traditional usage of running backs in the passing game that act as an extension of the run game, but still, for a team led by a head coach known for his adept running concepts the Dolphins are more of an aerial assault group this season.

Whatever you don’t do well, Miami will identify that weakness and attack it over and over.

They are willing to hand the ball off more than 40 times. They’ve done so with their primary QB out and to lower the degree of difficulty for backup signal callers. If they need to air it out, they seem perfectly happy to lean on a high volume passing attack as well.

Kurt Warner finds @AllHands81 Torry Holt for the 45 yard score against the Miami defense – 2001.

Way to hang in there @kurt13warner and deliver the strike for pay dirt. pic.twitter.com/KXby70fYaZ

— RAMS ON FILM (@RamsOnFilm) November 8, 2024

Zooey wrote:

I have to take your word for it because I didn’t see any.

Oh stuff exists, it was all out there. I wasn’t looking for that stuff and it found me. Basically policy plans to put “trickle up,” demand-side policies in effect, which increases the spending power of average people. Expanding child care tax credits. Increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Cutting taxes on longterm capital gains with people who make less that 100,o00. Expanding affordable housing in lower economic communities. Extending economic assistance (up to 25,000) for first time home buyers. Expanding low-income taxing credit for housing. Decreasing the price of renting. Federal ban on price gouging on groceries. Cutting the cost of both childcare and eldercare. Expanding paid leave. Extending Medicare coverage to home care. Expanding Medicare drug price negotiating power. Increasing tax deducations for start-up businesses. Extending 1/3 of Federal contracts to small businesses. Raising the minimum wage. Eliminating degree requirements for certain Federal jobs (thereby increasing employability and avg. salaries). Federal tax credits to businesses that employ unionized workers. Invest heavily at the Federal level in clean energy businesses, increasing the demand for clean energy solutions, so expanding the clean energy industry, and in the process creating jobs.

It’s not social democracy, it’s not universal healthcare, it’s less than Sanders would have done in 2016. But it’s pragmatic centrist “demand side” economics, which as we know actually works. (And as we also know it’s all the exact opposite of what Trumpsters will do, which will have the effect of decreasing jobs and increasing the power and money of the oligarchs at everyone else’s expense.)

This was the major stuff in her candidacy.

So no it was never just “Trump is bad.” Those were the sound bites  that got on the news and/or got talked about in social media. The pragmatic, centrist, demand-side stuff never got much press, even though it was in her commercials and speeches and general public discourse. It didn’t get talked about, it wasn’t much reported on in mainstream media. But it was there. I picked up on it because there were some people who discussed it at length in places like quora.

Steve Avila and Jonah Jackson back at practice (Munchak, Wendell and Kromer running and observing the drill) pic.twitter.com/SZZaH1Crsk

— Jourdan Rodrigue (@JourdanRodrigue) November 7, 2024

InvaderRam wrote:

what do you do when avila and jackson come back?

There’s something I just posted on that in the “injuries” etc. thread.

POSTING ALERT

I find this happens on the Rams forum when I post things. You get posts from certain news sources and when you post them here they’re covered with data crapola. I just went back through this thread and cleaned up a bunch of posts.

There’s a simple way to avoid that. Before posting here, post your content in another place, like a word processor or something like that (you don’t have to actually hit “post”). That cleans it up. Then you copy that, and post it here.

What I do is post something, and if it’s all crapped out with data all over it, I then just edit it and post again using the method I just described.

Or you can clean it up here just using edit. ‘

Either way I will check back to  clean things up if need be.

PARAM

Defense: 1st 4 games/ last 4 games

Over the first 4 games:

385.3 total yds/g
27.0 PPG
219.8 pass yds/g
7 sacks
1 Int
165.5 rush yds/g
33.3 atts/g
5.0 ypc
22/44 3rd Dn
50%
9 of 15 RZ
60%
13 TDs allowed
6 FGs allowed
(1-3)

Over the last 4 games:

335.5 total yds/g
19.8 PPG
231.5 pass yds/g
14 sacks
7 Int
104.8 rush yds/g
28.5 att/g
3.7 ypc
10 of 45 3rd Dn
22.2%
5 of 13 RZ
38.5%
8 TDs
8 FGs
(3-1)

Sure we played Detroit (7-1), Arizona (5-4), San Fran (4-4) and Chicago (4-4) the first 4 weeks.
But outside of Las Vegas (2-7), we played Green Bay (6-3), Minnesota (6-2) and Seattle (4-4 before we beat them). I’d say those two four game samples are compatible, if not better over the last four. We do need to keep it up but that is looking a lot better now than after the first 4 weeks.

The rushing yards per carry has improved a lot. The third down percentage and red zone percentage also. And certainly the sacks and picks have jumped way up.

Miami is a different animal. We’re not going to have 7 sacks against Tua but if we can get quick pressure we might get a pick or two. As far as stopping the run, that’s going to be a huge test too. We’ll need a stellar game to come away victorious but again, after the last 4 weeks that seems far more possible than after the first 4.