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znModeratorGetting a turnover is most beneficial when you _________ off it.
If your D gets a turnover, you want to not give up a _________.
These teams are making turnovers work in their favor!#DaBears #LARams #Texans #GoSaints #BroncosCountry #GoPats #DallasCowboys #ChiefsKingdom pic.twitter.com/G5ncYLb2en
— NFL Matchup on ESPN (@NFLMatchup) November 26, 2018
znModeratorThese Offenses are creating the most EXPLOSIVE PLAYS this season.#FightForEachOther #ChiefsKingdom #LARams #GoBucs #GoSaints #BroncosCountry #InBrotherhood #Browns pic.twitter.com/PVGbnASlky
— NFL Matchup on ESPN (@NFLMatchup) November 27, 2018
znModeratorLimiting big plays on defense is a goal for every team. #DaBears #Texans #SKOL #RavensFlock #DallasCowboys #GoBucs #ChiefsKingdom #SeizeTheDEY #Browns pic.twitter.com/dbyGerioPd
— NFL Matchup on ESPN (@NFLMatchup) November 27, 2018
znModeratorFrustrated with your team dropping passes?
See where they stand here!#Browns #DUUUVAL #RaiderNation #BeRedSeeRed #Colts #RavensFlock #FightForEachOther #TitanUp #LARams #DaBears pic.twitter.com/Tc0Q44MDMS
— NFL Matchup on ESPN (@NFLMatchup) November 27, 2018
znModerator"I feel good, I feel good." – @AqibTalib21 pic.twitter.com/JAH2ngJTnQ
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) November 27, 2018
znModeratorThe seven quarterbacks in the NFL with a PFF grade of 90.0 or above so far this season. pic.twitter.com/rMUu6haOTr
— Pro Football Focus (@PFF) November 27, 2018
znModeratorIn other words, in response to some political controversies, the league arranged things to drive scoring up.
Bread and circuses.
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znModeratorKhashoggi may have had a certain vision of darkness as they put the plastic bag over his head in the Saudi consulate last month, but in the Middle East the good guys don’t always come out on top. The war with Iran must be fought. The war against the Shiites must be fought. Israel and Netanyahu – notice how those names have so far eluded us in our woeful tale today? – will be satisfied with their “secret” Saudi alliance against Iran. Boeing and Lockheed Martin will flourish, along with many other great US defence contractors…”
So all ends well, right?
November 27, 2018 at 11:13 am in reply to: quotes from other fans (Lions, Bears, Eagles, Cards) + 1 new Lions fans posts #94520znModeratorcollected/formatted by LoyalRam
The Rams are going to beat the s*** out of Detroit just like other teams
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Don’t think for a second that this team can’t put up 35/ week if they wanted to. THEY CAN!! It’s a choice on how they run this offense. I’m hoping now that our season is officially over that they choose to take the governor off of thIs offense and give the NFL what it wants. Maybe then we’ll get a few more calls our way.
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Not without KJ and Marvin Jones lol.
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How and the hell do u open up a offense with players we have. Our wrs dont get seperation and were miss our only good RB and the oline can only hold a block for 2 sec. This team isnt opening anything.
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I’m assuming (probably wrongfully) that they will both be back. Although I still think they can come out in several different formations without M.J and K.J and get this offense humming.
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This would normally be a game where you mortgage your house, call your bookie or head to Vegas and put everything on the over.
The Rams will do their part and shred our defense. But even on a porous secondary like the Rams’, the Lions won’t score. They can’t score on anybody. They couldn’t score when they had Tate-Jones-Golladay-Kerryon. (Excluding Stat Padford time, of course.)
Look for more of Stafford going fetal a second before the D-line gets to him.
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Did we change OCs?
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Are you listening to your implication?
The Lions are 1-4 going back to Halloween.
Do you honestly believe they’re hiding parts of the playbook?
Are we that out of touch on just how bad this group is offensively?
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Rams will quickly go up 14-0 and it will be turtle mode.
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We will try to run the dink and dunk offense to eat time off, keeping the Rams off the field as much as possible. But the Rams will score on every drive, so by the second half, it will have made no sense
I predict the O-line will open up, Donald and Suh will have a field day
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The Lions defense will probably open up for the Rams, probably not the offense though.
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I realize that TE, RB, WR and OL don’t matter in Detroit and that the only difference between teams, really, is the QB, but….
Stafford will be lucky to see week 14.
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I don’t think it’d be wise for detroit to move away from the short passing game next week. Ndamukong Suh can’t wait for this game. Suh might kill stafford if cooter tries to open things up down field. Takes too long for those plays to develop.
Stafford needs help. Jones and johnson being out is a major handicap. Hopefully, at least one of them will be back sooner than later.
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With the Rams defense looking like it is, I’d run out 03 personnel most downs with all tight ends blocking and toss it deep to Golladay covered by Peters.
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znModeratorznModeratorHighest percentage of carries resulting in a loss:
1. Tevin Coleman: 19.7
2. Dion Lewis: 18.6
3. Adrian Peterson: 15.9
4. Isaiah Crowell: 14.2
5. Joe Mixon: 13.4
6. LeSean McCoy: 13.2
7. Lamar Miller: 12.7
8. Matt Breida: 12.6
9. Peyton Barber: 12.42
10. Jordan Howard: 12.35— Field Yates (@FieldYates) November 27, 2018
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What this means.
Gurley is not on list 2.
Football Outsiders has a stat for runs stuffed. For his entire career, the Rams have been pretty negative on “runs stuffed” and/or for a loss. Not this year though.
2015: 23%, ranked 28th
2016: 22%, ranked 28th
2017: 22%, ranked 22nd
2018: 13.9%, ranked 1stznModeratorThese teams like to take some chances and push the ball down the field…with varied success.#GoBucs #GoBills #Browns #ChiefsKingdom #DaBears #Texans #Seahawks #LARams #GoPackGo #RaiderNation #OnePride pic.twitter.com/Di5GcHKnu6
— NFL Matchup on ESPN (@NFLMatchup) November 27, 2018
znModerator“Playing in this offense is a dream come true.” – @lightningstrk12 pic.twitter.com/to8QOYiCJ2
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) November 27, 2018
znModeratormax
AFC is pretty much set.
KC
Pats
Texans
Steelers
Chargers
Ravens/ColtsI think the colts get in. Better QB.
NFC is tougher to figure out.
Saints
Rams
Bears
Dallas, Wash, Eagles
Vikes, Hawks, PanthersMy bet is that Dallas, Vikes, and Hawks make it.
Wash lost QB. Eagles too many injuries. Panthers tough schedule and bad tiebreakers.
znModeratorYeah it’s not true though. Seen that stat before, it circulates. But this year in their opening game GB came from behind to beat the Bears, who have a winning record.
The old stat was that it was 35 games, but that was before this year.
I don;t know why whoever wrote that forgot about the Chicago game.
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Did Chicago have a winning record at the time Rodgers beat them?
I’ve seen the stat presented with the caveat, ‘at the time Rodgers played them”…meaning the stat only includes teams that had winning records at the time he played them. It doesn’t include teams that had a winning record sometime before or after Rodgers played them.
That could be but it’s cheating IMO, since the Pack played the Bears in week 1.
znModeratorHe’s not a comeback king, numbers aside. He has a fairly low percentage of wins in comeback situations, and yes it has come up before, from a real and reputable source, that before this year anyway he had no comeback wins against winning teams.
The 0-37 number doesn’t work but in previous years the number was given as 0-35. That’s from here, and this is an actual source (it’s from 2016) (scroll down it’s in there). The writer is Scott Kacsmar of Football Outsiders, and he’s a known quantity and reliable:
Packers are 0-35 with Aaron Rodgers at QB when trailing by more than one point in the fourth quarter against a team with a winning record.
2016 NFL Conference Championship Predictions
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But the 0-37 in 2018 number is wrong because, as I said, of the Bears game.
znModeratorWill Presti@WillPresti
Aaron Rodgers is now 0-37 when trailing by more than one point in the 4th quarter to a team with a winning record. That’s a real stat. #GBvsMIN #SNF #Packers #VikingsWhat?
Say that again.
Yeah it’s not true though. Seen that stat before, it circulates. But this year in their opening game GB came from behind to beat the Bears, who have a winning record.
The old stat was that it was 35 games, but that was before this year.
I don;t know why whoever wrote that forgot about the Chicago game.
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znModeratorQuotes & Notes 11/26/18: Talib, Rams on Striving for Improvement Following the Bye
znModeratorJ.B. Long@JB_Long
The first @RamsNFL WR with three consecutive 100-yard receiving games since Isaac Bruce in 2004: @brandincooksGreg Beacham@gregbeacham
Aqib Talib on his 1st year with Aaron Donald: “Up close & personal, man, it’s different. You see all those pressures @PFF have for him and I’m like, ‘He ain’t getting all them pressures for real.’ But to see him on the field live, he’s getting every pressure they list. It’s real”J.B. Long@JB_Long
Does the NFC West have an Aaron Donald problem? Yes.So why in the last four Drafts have the #LARams division rivals combined to select just 11 centers and guards? Of them, only four are still active in the NFC West, and only one is currently starting.
[Note, me: to be fair, SF signed Fluker and SF signed Tomlinson. In fact, given the problem they face, signing a veteran FA makes more sense than drafting a rookie.]
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November 26, 2018 at 10:32 pm in reply to: Donald = ‘285 pounds of dynamite’ (the AD in November thread) #94496znModeratorGood luck trying to slow down Aaron Donald. pic.twitter.com/oPSZiSJZnh
— Pro Football Focus (@PFF) November 26, 2018
znModeratorNFL Research@NFLResearch
There have been 9 games this season that a team has allowed 500+ total yards in a game and still won.That is the most such games in a single-season in the Super Bowl era.
znModeratorTalib Returns to Practice Field for Rams
Myles Simmons
https://www.therams.com/news/talib-returns-to-practice-field-for-rams
At long last, he’s back on the field.
Cornerback Aqib Talib was designated to return from injured reserve on Monday, and the five-time Pro Bowler is officially able to practice. Los Angeles held only a walk-thru on Monday — and will do so again on Wednesday. But that represents clear progress for Talib, who has a chance to be on the field when the Rams try to clinch a division title on Sunday against the Lions.
“The first step is getting off IR, right? So I mean, the first step is done. Now I’ve just got to practice,” Talib said Monday. “Hopefully I look good enough so that the coaches can say I can play on Sunday.”
“I think we could,” head coach Sean McVay said of potentially activating Talib for Week 13. “As far as if he’s ready to go, those are things that as the week progresses, we’ll figure that out, but that’ll be a collaboration of, from the doctors hearing and seeing how Aqib does. I know he’s excited and just his presence for our team will be a big benefit to us — having him out on the practice field.”
Thursday will likely represent a landmark when it comes to Talib’s potential return to game action, as it’s the Rams’ most strenuous practice day of the week. But that doesn’t mean he’s solely looking at it that way.
“I mean, I’m gonna just practice,” Talib said. ‘Everything else is going to be on the training staff and the coaches, you know? I’m gonna just practice, I’ll guess they’ll do the eye test or whatever to see if I’m a ‘go’ Sunday or not. But I’m gonna just practice.”
The 32-year-old corner said he’s feeling good — about as good as possible without actually playing.
“I’ve been getting real hard workouts lately,” Talib said. “But it’s nothing like playing in an actual game, you know? So the only way you’re going to get ready for a game is playing in them games.”
Talib suffered the ankle injury during the Week 3 victory over the Chargers. In three games, the cornerback recorded a pair of passes defensed and a forced fumble, going along with nine total tackles.
While McVay said the Rams have used the opportunity with Talib out to build depth at defensive back, he acknowledged it’s difficult to replace a player like that.
“Any time that you lose a player of his caliber, both from a production standpoint and just from a leadership standpoint — certainly you don’t replace a guy like that,” McVay said. “But he’s been around, he’s made his presence felt in the meeting room. He’s traveled with us to these games.”
Talib has often been seen on the sideline supporting his teammates. But being physically between the white lines should give a boost to Los Angeles’ secondary.
“I just think he’ll put everyone at ease,” safety John Johnson said. “He brings that swag to him, he brings that knowledge of the game to him. We came in with him [to start the season], so it’s kind of like we were missing something. And him coming back, it’ll just be like a security blanket out there.”
A security blanket?
“He just knows what teams want to do,” Johnson said. “He’s probably played against every offensive coordinator in the league, or head coach, or some type of combo of all of them. So he just knows how teams want to attack us, and just gives us little tips to combat it.”
Talib himself said he feels like his experience and ability to help the communication should aid the unit.
“I think we get our communication in order, we eliminate two, three big plays a game, it’ll make us that much better on defense,” he said.
“I just think the overall presence that he has on our team is extremely beneficial,” McVay said, “and he’s one of those guys that I love being around because you learn from him just based on his experience, his knowledge of the game. Any time you talk football with him, you come away and you say, ‘Man, he’s an impressive guy.’”
The players will be off on Tuesday before getting back to work on a normal Wednesday schedule with meetings and walk-thru.
znModeratorSpeed_Kills
he was on NFL GameDay
and he was very cautious about actually playing… he said if its up to him he would but he hasn’t been cleared and we will have to see how he does with a full practice and in game atmosphere
znModeratorThe Bears are not an offensive team.
But beware of them.
They’re 5th in offensive scoring (in spite of being 21st in yards) and Nagy is one of the “McVay generation” offensive coaches who gets uber-praise.
Great run defense too.
znModeratorMyles Simmons@MylesASimmons
some news I know y’all have been waiting for. #LARams will still have to make a move to officially get Talib on the roster. But this is a good sign for his availability — potentially as soon as this week.znModeratorSo the 49ers are still in it.
What scenario would have to unfold for them to make it?
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vThat’s not a list of playoff eligible teams.
It’s just a ranking of every single NFC team and their playoff chances. Which in several cases, is zero.
I would say that everyone from the Packers (10th) on down is pretty much already eliminated.
Green Bay btw should be 4-6-1. But they are eliminated unless something impossible happens–every single NFC team above them loses all 5 remaining games and they win all 5. That’s impossible since all the teams on the list play each other so they can’t ALL lose.
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what about the worm-hole scenario?
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vWell that works too.
znModeratorMaybe that’s why he went to Minnesota.
znModeratorSo the 49ers are still in it.
What scenario would have to unfold for them to make it?
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vThat’s not a list of playoff eligible teams.
It’s just a ranking of every single NFC team and their playoff chances. Which in several cases, is zero.
I would say that everyone from the Packers (10th) on down is pretty much already eliminated.
Green Bay btw should be 4-6-1. But they are eliminated unless something impossible happens–every single NFC team above them loses all 5 remaining games and they win all 5. That’s impossible since all the teams on the list play each other so they can’t ALL lose.
November 25, 2018 at 10:35 pm in reply to: Russia asks Bulgaria not to paint Soviet monuments to look like USA supeheroes #94463znModeratorWell one of them looks like Ronald McDonald. I am not convinced he is a super hero.
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vIt includes the Joker, Ronald McD, Santa Claus, and Superman (with a gun).
So, yeah, superheroes. By definition.
znModeratorhow much of a difference can he make?
i don’t know if we’ll even really know until the playoffs.
There are some who say he will be THE difference. With him the secondary goes back to its old configuration, communication improves, pass defense improves, and that makes the rush more effective.
Doesn’t help with run defense but it could blunt the edge on some offensive assaults against that D.
That’s a theory. The optimist in me likes it.
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