trey wingo@wingoz
The Pats 27 point home loss is the worst in the Bill Belichick era… and they’ve lost 3 straight games for the first time since 2002. That was also the last time they didn’t win at least 10 games in a season.

Albert Breer@AlbertBreer
Quick overreaction: the Patriots were forever able to manage injuries/roster deficiencies through superior coaching and quarterbacking. Now, they gotta do it more through coaching. And today, they were faced with a Niners’ staff that doesn’t often get outcoached.

Simple, right?

Remember when DeAndre Hopkins got traded for a RBpic.twitter.com/ludMaTKvrI

— PFF (@PFF) October 26, 2020

#SFvsNE 49ers taking apart the 5-1 and 6-1 looks by Patritos defense pic.twitter.com/51R8kchtfZ

— 𝐏𝐫𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥🏈 (@NFL_Journal) October 25, 2020

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RAMS REPORT@RamsNFLReport
Doesn’t matter how many times I hear, “That’s Todd Gurley for a Falcons touchdown!”

Still hurts every time…

I know his production is clearly down from years past, but before the end of last year everybody thought he would be a Ram for life.

I’ll get over it eventually…

Cameron DaSilva@camdasilva
Todd Gurley scores touchdowns even when he doesn’t want to

And it cost the Falcons a win.

The Atlanta curse, man…

Cameron DaSilva@camdasilva
Sean McVay said A’Shawn Robinson “looks like he’s ready to go” but he isn’t sure if he’ll play Monday night

"Kyler Murray needs to continue to improve pretty significantly as a passer."

Is this breakdown from @GregCosell on the @RossTuckerPod bad news for @AZCardinals fans because @K1 has been so inconsistent or good news because they are 4-2 and he can play much better? pic.twitter.com/9JyVkWINKp

— Ross Tucker (@RossTuckerNFL) October 25, 2020

The Rams met a red hot Chicago Bears team on Monday night football in 1988 and came away with the 23-8 victory. @Jim_Everett and Henry Ellard connected on some key plays! Ellard would lead the game with 132 yards and a touchdown pic.twitter.com/oVaNLSj73v

— RAMS ON FILM (@RamsOnFilm) October 25, 2020

The big ones appear to be Pittsburgh @ Tennessee and Seattle @ Arizona

ALBERT BREER from https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/10/21/nfl-mailbag-cowboys-mike-mccarthy-jets-trevor-lawrence

I love the Bears’ defense, and their ability to pull out wins in tight spots. They may have the NFL’s most physically imposing front, anchored by Khalil Mack, Robert Quinn and Akiem Hicks, Roquan Smith’s starting to live up to his enormous potential and a secondary led by Eddie Jackson and Kyle Fuller has gotten a nice boost from rookie Jaylon Johnson.

They may not be quite what the 2018 defense was, but I think they’re close.

Which brings us to the offense. The line is an issue. Running back depth is paper thin. And Nick Foles has been fine, but he’s not the sort of quarterback who’s going to cover up all the issues the team has. Now, could they get better? Sure. Rookies Cole Kmet (who I think is a real one) and Darnell Mooney should continue to ascend, and that’ll help. GM Ryan Pace could add a piece on the line before the deadline. It’s realistic to expect improvement.

To me, how much improvement they see on the offensive side—and maybe I’m Captain Obvious on this—determines how far they will go, and could be the difference between being a fringe playoff team, and one to be taken seriously in January. Stay tuned.

Aaron Donald has never sacked Nick Foles.

Will that change tomorrow? 🤨
#DaBears #RamsHouse pic.twitter.com/6YKbtF6b6R

— GMFB (@gmfb) October 24, 2020

Rams' 4 biggest causes for concern vs. Bears in Week 7 https://t.co/IXOkAgb512

— Rams Wire (@TheRamsWire) October 24, 2020

from Daily Covid-19 cases will hit six digits soon, expert warns, as US reports a one-day high of more than 83,000 infections

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/24/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html

The US just marked a harrowing milestone: It recorded its highest one-day number of Covid-19 infections Friday at more than 83,000 — more than 6,000 higher than the country’s previous record set in July.

And as the fall surge continues, the daily numbers will get worse, experts warn.
“We easily will hit six-figure numbers in terms of the number of cases,” Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told CNN Friday night. “And the deaths are going to go up precipitously in the next three to four weeks, following usually new cases by about two to three weeks.”

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from Fauci says it might be time to mandate masks as Covid-19 surges across US

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/23/health/fauci-covid-mask-mandate-bn/index.html

Covid-19 has been worsening across the United States, with cases rising in 32 states Friday and holding steady in 17 more. The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation said the country was entering a winter surge as new infections passed 75,000 in a single day on Friday and more than 800 deaths were reported.

Mask mandates may be tricky to enforce, but it might be time to call for them, Fauci said.

“There’s going to be a difficulty enforcing it, but if everyone agrees that this is something that’s important and they mandate it and everybody pulls together and says, you know, we’re going to mandate it but let’s just do it, I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly,” he said.

As cooler weather comes, people need to “double down” on measures that work, Fauci said. “Universal mask wearing” is one, he said, as is keeping a distance from others and frequent hand washing. “They sound very simple. But we’re not uniformly doing that and that’s one of the reasons we’re seeing these surges,” Fauci said.

Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
I had noticed that RB Cam Akers carries a football around the facilities with him and even into his car – finally got a chance to ask him about it today – he says he carries it around everywhere with him just to get a feel for it, something he’s done for years at this point.

PFF LA Rams@PFF
Highest-graded OL by position:
C – Corey Linsley – 88.4
G – Wyatt Teller – 94.4
T – Andrew Whitworth – 90.1

Antonio Brown and the Buccaneers are working towards an agreement

Andrew Brandt@AndrewBrandt
In the last year the Steelers ate a $21 million Cap charge to trade him; the Raiders ate two draft choices to cut him; and the Patriots ate a $9 million signing bonus to cut him.
Good luck Buccaneers.