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  • January 15, 2024 at 12:59 am in reply to: plays & highlights & other visual aids: the Lions game #148732
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    January 15, 2024 at 12:58 am in reply to: plays & highlights & other visual aids: the Lions game #148731
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    January 15, 2024 at 12:53 am in reply to: tweets & reporters & the big articles … Lions game #148729
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    Michael Silver@MikeSilver
    Much respect to the Rams. Really good plan. Great halftime adjustments by Raheem. Terrific game. Happy for @JaredGoff16. It’s been a journey.

    Stu Jackson@StuJRams
    4th and 5 from the Lions 44, and the Rams get the conversion on a completion from Stafford to Kupp. Wow

    Ian Rapoport@RapSheet
    #Rams QB Matthew Stafford, in considerable pain it seems all over, is now in the medical tent getting checked out.

    Michael Silver@MikeSilver
    He is one of the toughest QBs of his generation… if there’s any way to stay in, he will

    Albert Breer@AlbertBreer
    Stafford and Nacua are insane.

    January 15, 2024 at 12:50 am in reply to: plays & highlights & other visual aids: the Lions game #148728
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    January 15, 2024 at 12:50 am in reply to: plays & highlights & other visual aids: the Lions game #148727
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    January 15, 2024 at 12:45 am in reply to: plays & highlights & other visual aids: the Lions game #148726
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    January 15, 2024 at 12:42 am in reply to: plays & highlights & other visual aids: the Lions game #148725
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    January 15, 2024 at 12:37 am in reply to: plays & highlights & other visual aids: the Lions game #148724
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    January 14, 2024 at 11:50 pm in reply to: plays & highlights & other visual aids: the Lions game #148716
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    January 14, 2024 at 7:50 pm in reply to: who wins? your prediction #148701
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    January 14, 2024 at 7:30 pm in reply to: around the league, wild card week #148700
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    January 14, 2024 at 6:31 pm in reply to: around the league, wild card week #148696
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    Green Bay up on Dallas, 27-10 in the 3rd.

    Which suits me just fine.

    January 14, 2024 at 5:01 pm in reply to: comics, jokes, one-shot memes, funny tweets, etc. #148695
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    January 14, 2024 at 1:55 pm in reply to: Rams coaches in the hiring market #148689
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    January 14, 2024 at 1:19 pm in reply to: rams tweets … 1/10 – 1/14 #148688
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    Blaine Grisak@bgrisakTST
    Rams safety Quentin Lake ranks fifth in yards per snap in the slot and fourth in fewest yards allowed.
    January 14, 2024 at 1:15 pm in reply to: Rams “reset” is ahead of schedule #148687
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    nittany ram wrote:

    Both teams got exactly what they wanted from it.

    Thomas Shelby@ramsfan1987
    Both is the only right answer. LA got a ring and Stafford looks to be lasting longer than most expected, playing at this level in 2024, and the Lions got a QB on the rise and picks to make the team better. Both would be worse off without the trade.

     

    January 14, 2024 at 10:20 am in reply to: rams tweets … 1/10 – 1/14 #148677
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    roberto clemente@rclemente2121
    most wins by a rams hc: mcvay passed knox in wk13 vs cle and is now only 2 gms behind j.robinson – if the rams reach/win the cc gm, mcvay will become the rams all-time win leader. most games coached by a rams hc: mcvay can tie knox w/ a win today, and pass him next week.
    January 14, 2024 at 9:15 am in reply to: rams tweets … 1/10 – 1/14 #148675
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    Pro Football Reference@pfref
    The winning starting quarterback of today’s Lions/Rams matchup will become the first quarterback ever to win a playoff game against a team for which he previously started a playoff game.
    January 14, 2024 at 9:11 am in reply to: Rams “reset” is ahead of schedule #148674
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    January 14, 2024 at 8:39 am in reply to: around the league, wild card week #148670
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    January 14, 2024 at 8:39 am in reply to: around the league, wild card week #148669
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    January 14, 2024 at 8:37 am in reply to: rams tweets … 1/10 – 1/14 #148668
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    January 14, 2024 at 8:23 am in reply to: a belated Kyren Wms thread #148667
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    Here are my favorite comments on Wms from this thread.  In fact I think this is the best thread on Wms in the entire internet. 

    zn wrote:

    Consistently runs with the right tempo to let blocks develop. Has the burst to plant his foot and take advantage of holes created….He will press the hole when needed or throttle back to allow his blocks to develop….quickness and burst to take advantage of holes created

    InvaderRam wrote:

    i like especially that he’s so efficient with his touches.

    InvaderRam wrote:

    kyren is the biggest revelation of this offense.

    Zooey wrote:

    The Rams averaged 14.25 points per game, and were 1-3 without Williams. With Williams, the Rams have averaged 26.375/game, and are 5-3. It appears that he is a difference-maker in this offense.

    canadaram wrote:

    Kyren is the best red zone weapon that the Rams have had in quite some time.

    wv wrote:

    I’m just astonished at how he quick-slithers through traffic, and then bursts.

    Williams and Nakua are, like, all-pros at this point.   Seriously.  Amazing.

    In some ways Williams is the most interesting/fun RB to watch/analyze in a long time.

    Billy_T wrote:

    Great vision and contact balance. Makes a ton of good decisions on the fly, and tacklers miss him going through the hole.

    InvaderRam wrote:

    just constantly putting the offense in favorable situations to keep them in rhythm.

    zn wrote:

    roberto clemente@rclemente2121 k.williams ranks #1 in run success rate among all rb for 2023 – he also ranks #1 for the 2010-2023 fourteen-year stretch.

    wv wrote:

    I cant remember ‘enjoying’ watching ‘the way’ a RB runs this much since Faulk.   And since Faulk had more talent, its almost ‘more’ fun to watch KW because he’s doing it with less raw-measurable-talent. Its often a subtle nuanced talent.  And it took me a while to ‘see it.’   But once you see it, you just have to smile on almost every run.  Whether its a one yard gain or a fifteen yard gain he’s ‘do’in shit’ out there.

     

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 am in reply to: hiring/firing around the league (including Carroll & Belichick) #148664
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    January 14, 2024 at 12:21 am in reply to: rams tweets … 1/10 – 1/14 #148661
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    January 13, 2024 at 4:17 pm in reply to: McVay best Rams coach ever? #148660
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    wv wrote:

     I mean WTF does one do with that ? What is he? He’s like….a platypus. w v

    Yeah Foles is a weird one. In a different way so is Wentz. For some of the same reasons and some different reasons.

    I delve into the arcane reaches of knowledge in discussing Foles, and using a combination of advanced physics, French crimonology, and the Japanese samurai code, I have deduced that the most significant and scientifically rigorous term we can use to describe his career is—

    “streaky”

    I can show the math if you want but I assume that won’t be necessary.

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    January 13, 2024 at 2:44 pm in reply to: McVay best Rams coach ever? #148658
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    InvaderRam wrote:

    but i wouldn’t even consider him a veteran starting caliber qb.

    “Starting caliber” can be and mostly is assigned retrospectively. We say that kind of thing about a qb after they prove that’s what they are. Or we say they’re not, after they prove they’re not.

    You can maybe guess that about him beforehand (which DV did–that’s why he wouldn’t budge on him being the #2 in spite of Martz not wanting that).

    But we know a qb is that by how they played, past tense. So it’s retrospective.

    Either way the question wv asked was, was he a veteran. And I say yes. By which I just mean he wasn’t a rookie. Far from it in fact. He wasn’t a rookie when he started his first game in 99. Absolutely not.

    Some argue Goff could have been better as a rookie if he had a decent offensive coaching staff. Which is probably true.

    Nevertheless all the gray areas aside, that’s 65 games with qb issues. The one year that maybe people can argue about is 2016. That would make it 58 games without a starting caliber qb.

    If I even forget about Goff, Fisher had OL issues and/or no starting caliber qb for 58 games, and in that span he went 24/34, a winning percentage of 41.3%.

    McVay had severe ongoing issues at qb and/or OL for 16 games in 2022. He went 5-12. A winning percentage of 29.4%.

    Is Fisher a better coach than McVay? No one ever says so. And quite rightly. BUT. He would have done better than he did if he had both a starting caliber qb and a relatively healthy OL for more than just 15 of 73 games (not counting Goff’s starts in 2016). This is reinforced by the fact that even the better coach, McVay, did not do as well as Fisher did under those particular adverse circumstances. 41.3% v. 29.4% under the same specific conditions.

    Neither a Fisher nor a McVay does well under those conditions. Why? Because pretty much no one does.

    Without those conditions Fisher probably would have won more than he did. Which is not saying he’s as good a coach as McVay. McVay is better than virtually every Rams coach except IMO Vermeil, and to me Vermeil and McVay have different strengths and they’re a tie.

    January 13, 2024 at 1:33 pm in reply to: McVay best Rams coach ever? #148656
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    wv wrote:

    But to the larger point about Fisher, yeah, he was kilt by injuries.  Fisher could have been Robinson-level I think, without the bad-luck.

    I agree with that.

    As for this, it gets into all sorts of gray areas:

    wv wrote:

    Well, DV had Kurt.  Do you consider him a veteran in 99?

    Yes. I do. He wasn’t a veteran starter before 99 but he was no newbie. By 99 Kurt had been in a Green Bay training camp his rookie year (94). From 95 through 98 he played in the Arena league and then in NFL Europe. In 98 he was a Ram and went through a whole training camp and then was on the final roster all season. In 99 Martz didn’t want Warner as the #2 qb and DV insisted (in fact it’s Martz who tells that story). So Vermeil had some sense of what he could handle.

    In the 99 season Warner was a 28 year old who last played college ball in 1993 and had played in 2 other leagues and had been to 3 NFL training camps. So he kind of defies our categories.

    InvaderRam wrote:

    i wouldn’t consider goff to have been a grizzled veteran qb either at the time.

    When I usually discuss this as I have for years I am very precise about saying “veteran starting caliber” qb. I mean this point has come up before with Rams fans who harbor absolutely no good feelings about Fisher so any even tepid little defense like the one I offer sets off firestorms, or has done so anyway. So over the years I was very precise about saying veteran starting caliber qb. The way I was using the term “veteran starting caliber qb,” it excludes pure rookies. And as phrased it excludes anyone who was basically not good enough to get and maintain a starting qb role (Clemens, Hill, Austin, Keenum, Mannion, Wolford, Perkins, and Rypien to name a few starting in 2015). IMO it also excludes Foles. Since it’s a retrospective designation, it can include both Warner and Bulger as “starting caliber” since in fact, they were. (And neither was a starter as a rookie.)

    Is Wentz a  starting caliber qb? I would argue that like Jeff George he brought a lot of controversy with him where he went but still should be considered starting caliber. Wentz also got injured a lot. Banks in the end, in contrast, proved he wasn’t a starting caliber qb.

    Maybe a simpler way to put this is a franchise qb. That is someone who came back multiple times as a starter and was seen as such until the end.

    Who is a franchise qb by that definition? Warner, Green, Bulger, Bradford, Goff, Stafford, and Mayfield. Of those, 2 were elite (Warner, Stafford) and 4 proved to be good to very good (Green, Bulger, Goff, Mayfield). 

    Controversial? Are they or not? Foles and Wentz.

    Absolutely not? Clemens, Hill, Austin, Keenum, Mannion, Wolford, Perkins, and Rypien.

     

    January 12, 2024 at 6:17 pm in reply to: rams tweets … 1/10 – 1/14 #148648
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    January 12, 2024 at 6:16 pm in reply to: rams tweets … 1/10 – 1/14 #148647
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    Blaine Grisak @bgrisakTST
    When Stafford, Williams, Nacua, and Kupp are on the field together, the Rams average .18 EPA per play…That’s tied for the 9th-highest mark since the 2000 season.
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    With a .16 EPA per designed rush, the Rams are tied for 1st since 2000.
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