Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
From a conversation with Rams GM Les Snead this morning, on how a team culture can become a living organism:
“It doesn’t matter what signs you have on the wall. Places that have cultures that are substandard, not there yet or a little dysfunctional, a little off-kilter, they probably have inspirational long-living stoic-like quotes that we’d all base our life on. But culture is a living thing. And this one is alive, and well. You come here – it’s probably pretty simple: You’d better love football, because that’s what we’re gonna do here. We’re
gonna do football. We’re not here to micro-manage (you)…You better love football, you better want to get better at football, you better want to evolve at football, you better want to go from 101 to 102, 103, 104, 105 every day. And every day, who cares (about) social media –

you’ve got a life – but come in this building, football. If you don’t love it, or don’t really have the conscientiousness to go, ‘I’m gonna get out of the entry-level class to the next level’…I don’t know if people who can’t (do it) stick out (so much as) they’re gonna *melt*.”

Brian Allen got the blame from most for the missed snap/fumble against Tampa. But I don’t think it was his fault. Using the silent count, Stafford signals to Corbett he’s ready, and Corbett signals Allen. Allen snaps the ball, but Stafford looks away just at the snap pic.twitter.com/O2IygONMBf

— 𝕋𝕠𝕞 (@TL_LARams) February 5, 2022

No one’s more hungrier than @AaronDonald97 to get his ring 😤 pic.twitter.com/2nqkVogLvj

— Rams en Cuarta y Gol (@4taygolrams) February 4, 2022

Everything pointed to the Vikings hiring Jim Harbaugh on Wednesday afternoon. Then things drastically changed.

An inside look with @JonKrawczynski at what happened and how the Vikings instead chose Kevin O’Connell. https://t.co/ilslWBpucb

— Chad Graff (@ChadGraff) February 3, 2022

Steve Wyche@wyche89
If Kevin O’Connell becomes the next Vikings HC, very interested to see if Rams RB Coach Thomas Brown, who HC Sean McVay has championed at every turn as a brilliant coach and future OC, gets promoted. Brown interviewed for the vacant Dolphins HC job, recently.

Zooey wrote:

FWIW, I was surprised that 233 yards ranks 19th.

Let me double check that.

Well, yep.

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/opponent-passing-yards-per-game

wv wrote:

Do you-people trust this team to take the Bengals seriously? I dunno. w v

Is it possible to imagine a superbowl where one team doesn’t take the game seriously and comes out flat?

Zooey wrote:

Hram wrote:

It is amazing how quickly Weddle has gotten into football shape in order to make a positive difference.

I really thought he would function largely as a cheerleader. He’s not only playing, he’s been out there almost every snap, and he’s made plays. It’s incredible.

I agree with both of you. I did not expect anything like what actually happened with him. Basically he learned the defense in a couple of weeks and went to playing every defensive snap against SF, all after a 2 year retirement. I’m not sure we’ve ever seen anything like it.

from the Dictionary of American Regional English. Bow up: to assert oneself, react aggressively to (someone); to draw oneself up into a threatening or defiant posture; hence ppl adj bowed up angry, belligerent.

"We're playing for something! It's gotta mean something to you!"

🎥 You saw the clip… now you can hear @AaronDonald97's leadership when the game was on the line. pic.twitter.com/0LAEshKfMa

— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) February 1, 2022

Aaron Donald gave a talk to the defense after we went down 17-7 & we didn’t give up a single point after 😏 pic.twitter.com/LGCywWZStT

— xz – 𝐣𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐞 (@LArams4L) January 31, 2022