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znModeratorJB Ram and RAMS REPORT🗯 liked
NFL Update@MySportsUpdate
#Seahawks lost despite…– John Wolford getting knocked out of the game and sent to the hospital.
– Jared Goff replacing Wolford and playing 12 days after surgery with three pins in his thumb.
– And Aaron Donald not playing for most of the second half.
No excuses.
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J.B. Long@JB_Long
Green Bay it is. McVay meets LaFleur. Love it. Weekend high of 25 degrees.𝕋𝕠𝕞 – 𝕃𝔸 ℝ𝕒𝕞𝕤@TL_LARams
Given the state of Goff’s thumb, I wouldn’t be surprised if John Wolford started against Green Bay, if he is ok to play that isznModerator#Trump supporters crush police officer in doorway during #Capitol storming on Wednesday
There’s a mixed take on the Capitol police. In some vids they are virtually compliant. In others they are directly under attack by the mob (to the point where 2 have died so far). It almost depends on what part of the building they’re being filmed. In some places, they are under assault; in others, they are letting people in without hindrance.
Though even in the places where they are assaulted…I can’t help but imagine if the crowd were people of color. Can you imagine that in that situation the police would just passively let assaults on them happen? I can’t imagine a situation like that where the police wouldn’t use guns.
znModeratorTwo men who were seen in videos and photos from the Capitol riot carrying plastic restraints have been arrested, one in Texas and one in Tennesseehttps://t.co/6MHeOPQd3r
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) January 10, 2021
znModeratorDarious Williams standout season, per NFL Next Gen:
– Allowed comp pct of 50% as nearest defender, tied for 4th best among DB with 50 targets faced
– Allowed NFL passer rating of 62.7, tied for 5th best among DB with 50 targets faced— Lindsey Thiry (@LindseyThiry) January 10, 2021
znModeratorznModeratorCameron DaSilva@camdasilva
The Rams held the Seahawks to 278 yards yesterday, the 3rd-lowest total by Seattle under Russell Wilson.The Rams became the first team ever to beat Russell Wilson in the playoffs in Seattle.
Rams are first team to beat Russell Wilson at home in playoffs
znModeratorznModeratorNotable PFF grades from the Rams Wild Card win over Seattle:
Corbett 85.0
Donald 84.4
Williams 82.5
Okoronkwo 80.5
Whitworth 79.6
Johnson 79.1
Blythe 76.4OL rose to the occasion. Kupp's importance to running game doesn't get enough credit. 12 defensive players at 68 or better. pic.twitter.com/Ecwdrbu5P4
— J.B. Long (@JB_Long) January 10, 2021
znModeratorThis video shows Donald Trump supporters dragging a police officer down the steps and savagely beating him.
Dozens of people appear to be involved. Horrifying.
Trump, Cruz, Hawley, Don Jr, and Rudy need to be arrested.
This is Donald Trump’s America. pic.twitter.com/AN1iPzYdfI
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) January 10, 2021
znModeratorThis is what two first-round picks, a fourth-round pick, and $71.2M looks like.
Worth every drop of it. pic.twitter.com/jAJDz0wG1R
— Sosa K (@QBsMVP) January 10, 2021
znModeratorThis is a good tape for rookie RB Cam Akers & the L.A. run game.
Akers got some clean looks to the 2nd level. Made defenders miss in space. Finished runs behind his pads.
Can see his traits on zone schemes. @NFLMatchup pic.twitter.com/ZTzBPQBnxb
— Matt Bowen (@MattBowen41) January 10, 2021
znModeratorKevin Patra@kpatra
X-rays on Aaron Donald’s ribs for a break were negative. Team is hopeful he’ll be ready for next weekend.znModeratorMike Garafolo@MikeGarafolo
If Brandon Staley doesn’t get a head-coaching gig, figure on a nice raise from the #Rams as part of a contract extension for their defensive coordinator.Peter Schrager@PSchrags
Can say this … Rams org — top to bottom— loves Staley. He loves it there, too.znModeratorBefore his death, Officer Sicknick was reportedly knocked unconscious with a fire extinguisher.
While down, the crowd continued to hit him.
Some, with American flags.
Don’t speak the word “unity” without full accountability. pic.twitter.com/1PtX9nxTTF
— Gregg Favre (@GreggFavre) January 10, 2021
znModeratorHear any news on Edwards. All I know is Evans replaced him in much of the game.
Rams’ David Edwards: Suffers ankle injury
Edwards was forced out of Saturday’s wild-card game against the Seahawks due to an ankle injury, Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic reports.
The second-year lineman out of Wisconsin started 14 games this season for the Rams, and he made his first playoff start Saturday.
znModeratorAkers is growing on me. But, I keep looking for something
‘special’ with Akers. And i never see it. He’s no
Faulk, no Steven, no ED. I dont even see a McCutcheon.
But there he is getting tough yards, play after play.
Maybe he’s Willie Ellison, i dunno.
What is he special at?Akers does have special skills but they don’t glare at you highlight style.
First he does have good vision. In fact, top vision. He’s perfect for a zone scheme since the zbs basically asks the back to look for daylight, make choices, and explode into it. He’s good at that.
He also has something that all 3 of the Rams backs have–excellent contact balance. Initial contact rarely drops him. This makes him great in traffic.
But, he has amazingly quick feet, so he’s shifty in traffic too.
Combine that with some tenacity and a bit of strength/power.
The sum of that, he is just always going to be going forward getting yards. He’s not super elusive or high-end fast (though he’s fast enough), but the main thing is, you keep running him into defenses stacked against the running game and he just… keeps… getting… yards.
He’s not in the same class as Dickerson, Faulk, Jackson or Gurley. But he’s a top back and it would not surprise me at all to see him get Gurley-like numbers, even if he won’t have the same kind of highlight reel open field runs.
znModeratorCameron DaSilva@camdasilva
The Rams will visit either the Packers or Buccaneers next weekend, and Bears-Saints today will determine which team they’ll face.Lindsey Thiry@LindseyThiry
Sean McVay is 36-0 when leading at halftime, including playoffs, as the Rams take a 20-10 lead over the Seahawks into halftime.Mike Garafolo@MikeGarafolo
All indications are nothing major for #Rams WR Cooper Kupp. Knee contusion. Should be fine.Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
After spending Saturday afternoon at the hospital, Rams’ QB John Wolford returned to LA last night with the team, per source. Both Rams’ QBs, Wolford (neck) and Jared Goff (thumb) are banged up, but in words of one source both “should be OK.”znModeratorNo shortage of free content over at Seattle Times if you’re looking for some good reading this morning pic.twitter.com/UaBM6TFR9N
— Bate™, playoffs edition (@NoPlanB_) January 10, 2021
znModeratorHead Coach Sean McVay – Postgame Press Conference – January 9, 2021
(Opening statement…)
“The thought process going into the game was our starting quarterback had thumb surgery. He did everything in his power to get himself ready. We felt like him being ready, even in a limited capacity behind John [Wolford] was going to be the best option. He handled himself incredibly well, showed great leadership during throughout the course of the week. We felt like John [Wolford] was really getting ready to get into a rhythm, and then Jared stepped in and handled things incredibly well. You could see that he just battled. But I was really pleased with his effort. This is a guy you’re talking about who just had thumb surgery a couple of weeks ago so it’s like déjà vu but I feel just a little bit happier right now. A real credit to him. I thought overall the defense showed up in a big way, had some big time special teams plays. Offensively, I love the way we were able to run the ball. It was great to get Andrew Whitworth and [Cooper] Kupp back out on the field. Cam Akers is a stud. We’re excited about really competing to see who we play next and see if we can keep this thing rolling. We’ll enjoy this. A lot of respect for the Seahawks too. Coach Carroll, I have tremendous respect for the consistency at which they operate. A lot of their players, they’re a tough team. It’s why they’re the reigning division champs. We’re excited about our opportunity to move on to the divisional round.”(On John Wolford’s status…)
“He must be good because he was in the locker room smiling, looking good. I think it was really just a stinger. But we’re hopeful. He definitely seemed good. He was just in the locker room so nothing too serious. We wanted to be as cautious as we could with something like that when you injure your neck. It looks like it’s trending in the positive direction. I’ll have further updates for you tomorrow or the following day, whenever we meet again.”(On the hit that took John Wolford out of the game…)
“I didn’t see it, I was on the far side. What ends up happening is when he’s out there as a runner and he’s diving forward, you lose that protection that quarterbacks typically have. But I didn’t see it, I’d have to go back and look at the film to be able to give you a better answer.”(On an update on Aaron Donald…)
“No update there. I will have more information for you later on.”(On Jared Goff’s performance…)
“I think it says a lot about him. I think it says a lot about his ability to prepare himself mentally to be ready to go. [Offensive Coordinator] Kevin O’Connell and [Assistant Quarterbacks Coach] Liam Coen getting him ready. I thought he did a nice job handling things and really I thought our guys made some plays. You look at the down the field isolation where we had [Cooper] Kupp versus Jamal Adams and Cooper went up and got that ball for a big 44-yard gain. And then really as the game progressed, I thought Jared settled in. We were able to kind of identify where are the things that you feel good about play wise for us to activate because for him to be able to even throw the football is pretty impressive. There were a couple of limitations as you guys saw which was what led to the decision to go with John [Wolford]. I was really pleased with Jared and I think it’s a real credit to him being able to handle this week the right way and have himself mentally ready to go and there you go, he ends up playing the majority of the game for us.”(On if John Wolford is okay, who would start the next game…)
“We’re working through all this stuff. Jared did a great job today. He’s our quarterback. A lot of that is going to be predicated on how does Jared’s thumb check out, how does he feel, what are those limitations moving forward. If Jared continues to progress, you feel good about that, but as you guys saw, it’s a shame for John to have gotten hurt. I’m really happy, I’m pleased with what Jared did today, but John was getting into a rhythm. I thought he was seeing the field really well. I’m really mad at myself for calling that stupid play that left him susceptible to getting injured.”(On what it does for him as a play caller to have a defense that can shut down opposing offenses…)
“It’s unbelievable. It changes the way you feel like you have to call a game to win games. That’s my role as a head coach. It’s different than trying to just chunk up stats. It’s about winning and losing. It definitely enables you. Make no mistake about it, we’re going out to compete, we expect to score points. I’ll never use that as an excuse for why we haven’t been more productive offensively. But at the end of the day, you do play games to win them and when you get a feel for the flow of the game and the way our defense has played, I”ve been a tick more conservative than you normally would be in year’s past that you guys have seen. But it is about winning. That’s what we care about, that’s what our players care about and that’s why I love those guys so much.”(On when he made the decision on the quarterbacks…)
“I made it last week. I think it’s a real credit to our players. I told the team early in the week. I thought it was the right decision just based on Jared coming back from an injury. He had thumb surgery and there were some limitations with when he was even going to be able to take a snap. As soon as we started our preparation this week, I announced it to the team and I think it’s pretty good that it stayed in house. It’s a real credit to the kind of guys that we have when there was a lot of people that knew about it and you guys were still wondering what the hell was going on.”(On if he’s ever had to fight through this many injuries to win a big game before…)
“Right now I can’t really remember, especially losing so many key players. That was a tough, physical game. That’s a tough, physical football team we played. I thought we matched their intensity. I thought our guys did a great job. They were ready to go. Like I said, we have so much respect, but we did come up here expecting to get this thing done and now we move on to the next round.”(On how big it was to have a healthy Cam Akers…)
“He was huge. I thought Jared [Goff’s] best play of the day was on the third down where he stepped up, slide in the pocket and found Cam for the explosive. You see what a great athlete Cam is. He’s tough. I thought he was really getting into a rhythm early on in the game. It was big. We were able to control the time of possession, able to just eat up yards a little bit at a time. He’s a special player, he’s really tough. I love the way Malcolm Brown came in and churned out some tough yards as well.”(On having a tough defense in the playoffs and being able to run the ball when you need to…)
“I think so. I don’t know if that’s what it’s about in the postseason, but I think that’s been the Rams formula for success this year. I think you have to be flexible year in and year out, play to the strengths of your team. We have a really tough, physical football team. I’ve been really pleased with the way the defense has played and when we’re able to run the football, things do come up in those actions where I thought Jared did a great job of maximizing those opportunities, especially later on into the fourth quarter. That was a winning formula for us today and then we’ll figure out who we’ll play next and try to put it together in all three phases.”(On how the defense was able to do so well against Russell Wilson…)
“I think it’s consistency. We’ve talked about it week in and week out, when you look at some of the plays Russell made, you have to tip your cap to him and say what an ability to extend plays, what a great job being able to change the platform and make some incredible throws. Our defense has been like that all year. Russell is a great player but we have a great defense and I think we play as 11 as one. I think our coaches do an excellent job. [Defensive Coordinator] Brandon [Staley] and his staff, they’ve done such a good job of putting together plans week in and week out to put our players in the right spots. The players are the ones who make it come to life. I love this group and I think you can see as the season has gone on, they love to be able to have that pressure of the expectations of living up to what they’ve done [by] being the top unit in the league. I thought they answered the bell in a big way today. Darious Williams’ play like I mentioned, Jalen [Ramsey] continues to show why he’s so special, John Johnson, obviously Aaron [Donald] is Aaron and Leonard Floyd, so many guys I could name. I think the depth of the unit as well is where the strength is. How exciting is it to see Nick Scott come over the top and bat a ball down on a play intended for [Tyler] Lockett down the field where Troy Hill is in tight coverage. I’m excited.”(On the status of Blake Bortles…)
“We just went with two quarterbacks. The good news is that Blake has played in a lot of significant games. If Jared’s thumb was not able to respond the way that it did this week, he would’ve been our number two. But it’s been great having Blake around. His presence, his experience and really just being around him, he’s one of those guys that’s hard not to like. That was just a coach’s decision just having two quarterbacks up.”znModerator— 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙿𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚘𝚗 (@AdamPendleton2) January 10, 2021
znModeratorJared Goff replaces injured John Wolford, leads Rams in wild-card upset of Seahawks
Michael Silver
Throughout his football career, whether awash in relatively not-so-bright Friday Night Lights or taking his lumps on the sport’s grandest stage, Jared Goff has shown a penchant for staying cool in the face of adversity. From getting benched in the Oregon rain during a 1-11 freshman season at Cal to getting subbed out in red-zone situations during a rivalry game to enduring a dismal rookie season with the Los Angeles Rams to falling behind early in a cacophonous road setting in a conference title game, the 26-year-old quarterback has had plenty of experience trying to settle himself in unsettling settings.
And now he has even more: On a surreal Seattle Saturday, in a quiet and mostly empty stadium, Goff silently summoned a hearty supply of resolve while confronting a new challenge.
Twelve days after having three pins surgically implanted into his broken right thumb, and four days after learning that Rams coach Sean McVay planned to start backup John Wolford in Saturday’s first-round playoff game against the rival (and NFC West champion) Seahawks, Goff stood on the sideline as L.A.’s Nsimba Webster fielded the opening kickoff feeling frustrated and utterly helpless with his team’s season on the line.
He wanted to run out on the field and compete and try to lead his team to victory. The thought of standing and watching unnerved him to the core.
“Yeah, it was extremely hard,” Goff recalled Saturday night. “It was one of the hardest things I’ve had to handle. The week was tough. I knew I had to prepare to be ready to play, in case they needed me. And I’m happy I did.”
So are the Rams, whose 30-20 victory at newly renamed Lumen Field was sparked by a punishing defensive performance and the dual-threat excellence of rookie running back Cam Akers — with the help of a trusted and steady (if not fully healed) hand.
While Goff, after replacing the injured Wolford with 5:19 left in the first quarter, struggled early on and finished with a far-from-prolific stat line, he fought through all of it — a swarming Seattle defense led by brilliant middle linebacker Bobby Wagner, a thumb not quite as flexible as he’d like it to be and a week of preparation during which he’d had exactly zero practice reps against a live defense — and made big plays when his team needed them most.
Two-and-a-half hours after the game, as he and his teammates sat on a plane at Sea-Tac Airport waiting to make the satisfying flight south across the Pacific Coast, Goff conceded to me that while he understood McVay’s reasoning for starting Wolford, it was a gut punch to his competitive spirit. And he reflected upon an emotional two-week stretch that tested him more than physically.
Thirteen days earlier, in the same stadium, Goff had broken and dislocated the thumb after banging it on the helmet of Seahawks defensive end Benson Mayowa — then popped it back into place on the field and finished out a 20-9 defeat that gave Seattle the NFC West crown and put the Rams’ postseason hopes into question. He had surgery the next day, and Wolford, in his first NFL start, played capably in L.A.’s playoff-clinching 18-7 victory over the Arizona Cardinals.
McVay liked what he saw from Wolford, citing his mobility (he ran for 56 yards against the Cardinals) and decision-making, and decided he’d rather give the second-year backup a full week of preparation than live with the uncertainty surrounding Goff’s injury.
Said Goff: “Sean made it very clear to me, ‘We’re obviously not benching you. We need to have a plan moving forward and this week, with where you’re at physically and what not…’ I got it, to an extent. But it was tough.”
Knowing he’d still be active as Wolford’s backup, Goff pushed to do as much as he could to prepare for the possibility he’d be summoned into service.
“As a competitor, you want to be out there — but I prepared accordingly,” Goff said. “We were doing almost all I could ‘on air’ throughout the week, just off to the side. I wasn’t taking any reps against the defense, but I was just trying to get my thumb into a good place.”
When Wolford, while finishing a short run on the Rams’ second drive of a scoreless game, took a shot to the head from star Seahawks safety Jamal Adams — suffering a neck injury that would land him in a nearby hospital for precautionary reasons (though he was able to return to the stadium and fly home with the team) — McVay no longer had a choice. Newly signed third quarterback Blake Bortles was inactive, leaving the Rams’ fate in Goff’s hands. More accurately, his throwing hand, meaning his four healthy fingers and semi-flexible thumb were on the spot.
The early moments were predictably choppy: Goff, on third-and-5 from the Seattle 15, took a seven-yard sack before Matt Gay scored the game’s first points on a 40-yard field goal. L.A. went three-and-out on its next two series, with Goff going a combined 0-for-4.
After a 50-yard field goal by Jason Myers tied the game with 10:34 left in the second quarter, Goff, on second-and-7, drifted to his right and sent a deep ball in the direction of wide receiver Cooper Kupp. It was a play Goff had discussed with Kupp on the sideline even before Wolford’s injury, and sure enough, the receiver was open. The pass, however, floated on Goff, and it looked like it might be intercepted — until Kupp alertly came back for the ball and made a nice catch despite tight coverage by Adams, resulting in a 44-yard gain and giving the quarterback his first completion.
Was the bum thumb to blame, or just rustiness?
“I don’t want to use (the injury) as an excuse,” Goff said. “Like, I was out there playing; I’m capable. Yeah, there were limitations, but I’m not gonna sit here and say that I can’t make that throw… or I can’t make any of the throws on the field. I can make any throw I want to make. Well, that one in particular, I was trying to get into a rhythm. I was trying to figure it out a little bit with where I was at with my hand and get into a good place, and Cooper made a great play for me and settled me down.”
The Rams’ defense — the league’s stingiest in terms of points allowed during the regular season — did its part, too. Led by All-Stratosphere defensive tackle Aaron Donald, who had two sacks and three quarterback hurries before leaving with an unspecified injury to his ribs, L.A. harassed Seattle’s typically dangerous quarterback, Russell Wilson, from start to finish. Most notably, three plays after Gay’s 39-yard field goal gave the Rams a 6-3 lead, cornerback Darious Williams jumped a short pass from Wilson (11 for 27, 174 yards, two touchdowns) to second-year standout D.K. Metcalf and took it 42 yards to the house.
Wilson cut the deficit to 13-10 on the next series, sliding away from pressure and connecting with Metcalf on a 51-yard score — one of the rare times the Seahawks were able to solve the problems that McVay’s first-year defensive coordinator, Brandon Staley, presented them schematically.
Staley, for his part, expressed gratitude for Goff’s resilient effort.
“What did we (discuss) a few weeks back?” Staley asked via text, referencing a previous conversation after Goff’s bounceback performance in an early December victory over the Cardinals. “(He’s) way tougher than anyone knows!”
And more nimble: On a day when Wilson’s improvisational brilliance wasn’t enough to carry the Seahawks to victory, Goff managed to do a poor man’s imitation on one of the game’s most pivotal plays. Facing a third-and-9 from his own 26 with 2:55 remaining, Goff — who before this season told me that throwing on the run is something he has worked hard to turn from weakness to strength — got outside the pocket, slid toward the right sideline and appeared to be in no man’s land. Just before reaching the line of scrimmage, he slipped a quick pass to Akers, who rambled ahead for a 44-yard gain.
“That was a good one,” Goff said. “That was third down and we went fast, and Cam Akers is a hell of a player that we like to throw the ball to. And honestly, when I see him in space… I mean, he’s as good as anyone in space. I was able to dump it off to him, and he did the rest. He ran the ball like a madman today.”
Two Akers (28 carries, 131 yards) runs later, the Rams had a 20-10 lead they would take into halftime — and the Seahawks had a problem. Seattle hung around until the game’s final five minutes, when Goff, on second-and-4 from the Seahawks’ 15, froze the defense with a wicked play fake to running back Malcolm Brown and lofted a pass to wide-open wide receiver Robert Woods, who strolled into the end zone for a 30-13 lead.
“Yeah, we’ve run that play I believe three times this year, and all three of them looked like that,” Goff said. “We like that one. It was a play we were kinda just waiting to get to and got the look for and got to it. We’d talked about it throughout the game, hitting that for a touchdown. We knew eventually we’d get the look.”
Perhaps, eventually, Goff will get the love some might imagine is befitting a player who has won three career postseason games in his five seasons — including the 2018 NFC Championship Game triumph over the New Orleans Saints in the Superdome — and been a steady presence during McVay’s highly successful four-year stint as head coach and offensive guru. For now, he sure gets a lot of grief, be it from analytics nerds or fans on social media or Hall of Fame quarterbacks appearing on the pregame show and game broadcast of his most recent playoff victory. His stat line on Saturday (9 for 19, 155 yards, one TD), when he became the first quarterback since Tom Brady four seasons ago to complete fewer than 50 percent of his passes and win a playoff game, was another superficial strike against him.
To many FOX viewers, the favored narrative at the start of Saturday’s game seemed to be that McVay had chosen Wolford because he liked the young player’s decisiveness and that it alleviated some of the pressure “to be perfect” (color commentator Troy Aikman’s term) in his play calls. That’s a whole other argument, for another day, but know this: While Goff is adept at blocking out the noise and focusing on the task at hand — namely, finding a way to win — he’d surely relish the chance to lay waste to that line of thinking in a conspicuous and emphatic fashion.
Knowing, as Saturday’s game began, that he wouldn’t have an opportunity to do that for his team ate him up inside — even as he understood intellectually that when professing his readiness to McVay there was an element of attempting to will the healing into existence, as most competitors are prone to do, and that the coach had to do what he had to do.
Now, presumably with an opportunity to face presumptive (three-time) MVP and fellow Cal alum Aaron Rodgers at Lambeau Field or six-time Super Bowl winner (including a victory over Goff two years ago) Brady and the Buccaneers in Tampa Bay next weekend, he’s hoping to get to a better place in the days that follow.
“Yeah, I think I will, (with) reps and just time,” Goff said. “Again, I had surgery 12 days ago, and every day it gets better. I’m just against a clock at this point. Last Monday or Tuesday it felt a certain way, and today it felt better and tomorrow it will feel even better. It just continues to feel better every day.
“Where that gets me to on (Saturday or) Sunday, I don’t know. But I know it’ll be good enough to win.”
znModeratorSeattleRams@seattlerams_nfl
I just listened to all of the Rams post game pressers, and now am diving through Pete Carroll’s 15 mins.When asked why the Rams are able to find ways to attack them in a 3rd game, yet the Hawks couldn’t do the same, he answers.. “99”
He goes on to mention that when you spend so many resources dealing with, it leaves things open for others, and the Rams have been able to do that ever since he entered the league.
Albert Breer@AlbertBreer
The Rams coached around having a QB with a wrecked throwing thumb and the in-game loss of the best defensive player in the league. Last year, Sean McVay rebuilt his staff. This is a showcase of the job he did hiring. And how good he is.𝐏𝐫𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥American football@NFL_Journal
Rams who have scored on a pick 6 in playoff game
Tommy Polley
Aeneas Williams (2)
Bill Simpson
Jack Youngblood
Isiah Robertson
Darious Williams==
A Gutsy Jared Goff: Sometimes, when you try to throw a football 12 days after you’ve had a bunch of pins inserted into your shattered thumb, things don’t go perfectly. Goff didn’t look very sure of himself, but he hung in and absorbed hits, and he delivered the two or three throws they needed to have in order to complement a dominant defensive performance in Seattle.
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Darious Williams’s Study Habits: When you do your homework, you know the atomic weight of Wolfram, how to plot a sine wave, and can make breath-raking pick-sixes like this. You can’t pin this on Russell Wilson for the throw, DK Metcalf for not making a play on the ball or Freddie Swain for not making the block—this is just a phenomenal defensive play by a guy who was prepared for what was coming…
Rams Defense Without Aaron Donald: I mean, do they even want him back? Considering they came into the year looking like they lacked depth, this was an exceptional job by the players and the coaching staff to continue to dominate in the fourth quarter after losing the best non-quarterback in football.
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How In the World Does This Flag Get Picked Up?: This is, quite obviously, a penalty, whether it’s a quarterback or a runner. There’s nothing dirty about it, but you can’t drive your shoulder into the head of a player on the ground…
DK Metcalf Losing It on the Sideline: It’s fine, in the larger scheme of things. People get heated during a game and sometimes you need to blow off steam, but not in the first quarter of a playoff game. As Joe Buck pointed out, in an empty stadium everyone on the sideline can hear your tantrum. The other thing is, when you’re the biggest, easiest guy to spot on the sideline the TV cameras will have no trouble finding you. And if the game goes sideways you and your team have to endure a bunch of questions about why you weren’t getting along with your star veteran quarterback.
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Goff’s Thumb, Wolford’s Neck, Donald’s Ribs, Kupp’s Knee: Sean McVay finds solutions as well as any coach in football, but this injury list is getting to be a bit much.
znModerator.@RamsNFL @Dee_Willl2 with his team leading 5th INT of the season and a game changing play that @seahawks could not recover from. #DeeWilll looking for this opportunity all the way #Rams #defense #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/C00njFkPjn
— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) January 10, 2021
znModeratorICYMI: "It's causing Russell Wilson to hold onto the ball too long."
⬇️ @caplannfl on how teams have been game-planning for the Seahawks' pro-bowl quarterback.#LARvsSEA #Seahawks pic.twitter.com/LY3WjfV8NI
— SportsGrid (@SportsGrid) January 9, 2021
znModeratorznModerator— 𝐏𝐫𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥🏈 (@NFL_Journal) January 10, 2021
znModeratorJared Goff’s passing stats vs the Seattle Seahawks today:
CP/ATT: 9/19, 155 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT
Beyond that, Jared played smart. Not every throw was perfect, but he made good decisions, had decent awareness, took care of the ball and put us in a position to win today.
QB1. pic.twitter.com/w3g2ASYGyW
— RAMS REPORT🗯 (@RamsNFLReport) January 10, 2021
znModeratorBig time special teams play! @sosa50 punched it out, @kiser_rollin came up with it 💪 pic.twitter.com/L7irj0tD9N
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) January 10, 2021
znModeratorGreg Beacham@gregbeacham
Jared Goff: “We come up here, and all week we were told how good they are, & how we snuck into the playoffs, & 2 weeks ago you saw them smoking cigars & getting all excited about beating us and winning the division, & we were able to come up here & beat them.”Los Angeles Rams@RamsNFL
“My thumb is fine and I’m not going to make an excuse for anything that didn’t go my way today.” – Jared Goff. JG adds that his thumb is not at 100%. He had screws put in it 12 days ago.Mike Garafolo@MikeGarafolo
All indications are nothing major for #Rams WR Cooper Kupp. Knee contusion. Should be fine.𝒥𝒾𝓂 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉@Jim_Everett
Just leaving this here.Not many QBs, would be tossing a ball around 12 days after Thumb surgery.
RIPKobeBeanBryant@Rams24_7
Did a little research on Akers’ big game. Akers’ 176 yards from scrimmage are the most by a Rams player in a playoff game since Eric Dickerson ran for 248 yards vs DAL in 1986Cooper Kupp@CooperKupp
I love this team!Love our fight, and love our resilience.
Onto the next one.
znModeratorSo if there are two versions one of which is the “popular everyday use of the word” why is the everyday sense of the word less correct than the one defining it as a political theory ?
Like most things I guess, it depends on context.
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