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znModeratorGary Klein@LATimesklein
Assistant coaches Zac Taylor and Shane Waldron mentioned in media reports as possibilities for Browns. McVay praised both, said he wouldn’t want to lose them but understands pursuit of opportunity.Rams coach Sean McVay said the Rams were exploring possible addition of edge rusher at trade deadline.
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@beartastic45
In your opinion who is the next Sean McVay on a current NFL staff that would be a viable option for the Browns?Michael Silver@MikeSilver
There is no next Sean McVay==
Greg Beacham@gregbeacham
Sean McVay saw those reports linking Zac Taylor and Shane Waldron to the Browns job: “I’m sitting there watching when they made the change, and the first 2 guys’ names they mentioned, I’m like, ‘Sheesh, I love these guys. I don’t want to lose them.'”STEDMAN BAILEY SR@iamSB3
First off – s/o to the @RamsNFL on being the sole undefeated team remaining. I always knew we were creating something truly special in LA.October 29, 2018 at 8:44 pm in reply to: GB game highlights & celebrations & other moments of visual splendor #93045znModeratorThe slant… *stares blankly into the distance…* pic.twitter.com/Iz0xTkXI56
— Aaron Nagler (@AaronNagler) October 29, 2018
znModeratorWhat we learned from the Rams' 29-27 victory over the Green Bay Packers https://t.co/Jl4guDrBAK
— Gary Klein (@LATimesklein) October 30, 2018
znModeratorMyles Simmons@MylesASimmons
#LARams HC Sean McVay said he’s had discussions with GM Les Snead about potential trades leading up to the deadline. Says edge rusher would be the main position LA is looking at.McVay says #LARams came through yesterday clean with regards to injuries.
DFarr had 11.5 sacks back in 1995 — that’s the Rams franchise record for a DT. Donald is at 10.0 through 8 games, has a career record of 11.0 sacks in a season.
I jokingly asked DFarr on the pregame show yesterday if his franchise DT sack record was going to fall against the Packers. Barring injury, pretty clear that thing could be done before the bye week.
Lindsey Thiry@LindseyThiry
Aaron Donald leads the NFL with 10 sacks through 8 weeks. He should never have to attend training camp again.Sean McVay rambled about the game, then paused: “It was a high caliber back-and-forth game, there was –— Packers fans. There was a lot of Packers fans here today. We got to – there were a lot of cheers when the Packers scored. I was a little surprised about that.”
znModeratori hope it’s just injuries with peters. rams need him bad this season.
They already have him bad this season. They need him good this season.
I know. Sorry. Couldn;t resist.
October 29, 2018 at 6:27 pm in reply to: reporters on the GB game (including a really good one from M.Silver) #93035znModeratorMuch ado about nuthin’.
Like Peters was going to let Rodgers move past midfield.
You mean the vids blaming Montgomery?
Yeah it has become the “Montgomery failed Aaron” game, instead of the “Rams stand up to Green Bay’s best shot” game.
znModeratorMaybe they aren’t a weakness so much as McVay just likes to use use them differently.
Well when he had TEs in Washington, he used them to catch passes. Reed and Davis.
He doesn’t have a TE like that now, though I wouldn’t call that a weakness.
Having a top TE would be a luxury, not a necessity.
TE never amounted to much in the old GSOT offenses either.
When you have a star back and excel at 3 WR sets, TE is a luxury, not a necessity.
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znModeratorAn odd mix of strengths and weaknesses.
Yeah sometimes it plays with 70% of 110%.
Sometimes it plays with 111% of 110%.
Some say Talib will settle them down, at least when it comes to giving up stupid long passing plays.
But they do have playmaking stars. Littleton, Barron, Suh, even Johnson now and then, and of course Sir Donald the Ubiquitous. Quite a menagerie.
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znModeratorHe’s one of the best shift blockers in the league. He does a lot of great stuff that gets unnoticed on this team. He’s our sixth offensive lineman and he’s always doing great job in play action passes, everything.
And unfortunately King gives us no sense of that. He just focuses on one pick play, and with a play like that, it’s all design and not individual skill.
But I do believe Higbee is now more of a Kromer guy than a McV passing target guy and that it suits him well.
October 29, 2018 at 11:00 am in reply to: reporters on the GB game (including a really good one from M.Silver) #93017znModeratorRodgers doesn’t get chance at Hollywood ending
Michael Silver
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000980254/article/rodgers-doesnt-get-chance-at-hollywood-ending
LOS ANGELES — Jared Goff took off his helmet, put on a baseball cap and stared across the L.A. Coliseum field, feeling as helpless as a quarterback with a near-flawless game in the books and a two-point lead in the final minutes can feel.
Standing on the opposite sideline was Aaron Rodgers, a quarterback he’d once idolized as a young Cal fan whose parents are proud alums, and one he later emulated as a Golden Bears star turned NFL standout — a notorious dream-wrecker whose Green Bay Packers trailed Goff’s Los Angeles Rams, 29-27, with 2:05 remaining in Sunday’s game and were about to receive the ball.
In other words, it stood to reason that the NFL’s last remaining undefeated team was about to get served.
“It was scary,” Goff said later, as he celebrated with friends and family members outside the stadium in the Southern California twilight. “All our work on offense was done, and the ball was gonna be in his hands. I put on my hat and thought, ‘It’s his show now.’ It wasn’t a very good feeling.”
And then, in a surreal sequence Goff and the Rams might regard as a pre-Halloween miracle — and Rodgers and virtually everyone in the Packers’ organization would likely depict in language not fit for print — one Green Bay player made an executive decision that snuffed out Rodgers’ Hollywood ending before it could begin, and left the Packers a bitter, frustrated bunch as they departed Tinseltown.
As Greg Zuerlein’s kickoff sailed into the end zone, Rodgers fully expected return man Ty Montgomery to kneel down for a touchback, given that the running back had been instructed by his coaches to do just that. Instead, Montgomery caught the ball two yards deep and raced up the middle of the field, crossing the 20 before being met by the Rams’ Ramik Wilson. And then, a green-and-gold nightmare: Wilson’s hard hit on Montgomery dislodged the football, which the L.A. linebacker would recover under a pile.
The recovery provoked loud cheers from about half of the 75,822 fans and aghast groans from the other half (hey, the Packers travel well) — and, according to witnesses, a very conspicuous display of anger from the quarterback who’d been denied the type of opportunity for which he lives.
“Aaron was hot,” said one Packers coach. “And he had a right to be. He yelled, ‘Take a f—— knee!’ He was very, very mad.”
In the eyes of many of Rodgers’ teammates, his ire was justifiable. According to more than a half-dozen Packers players and coaches who witnessed it, Montgomery had thrown a tantrum of his own on Green Bay’s previous offensive series, becoming noticeably enraged on the sideline after being removed from the game. At least one player believed there was carryover from that incident to Montgomery’s decision to disregard his coaches’ instruction and return the kickoff.
“They took him out (the previous drive) for a play and he slammed his helmet and threw a fit,” one Packers player said. “Then (before the kickoff) they told him to take a knee, and he ran it out anyway. You know what that was? That was him saying, ‘I’m gonna do me.’ It’s a f—– joke.
“I mean, what the f— are you doing? We’ve got Aaron Rodgers, the best I’ve ever seen, and you’re gonna take that risk? I mean, it’s ’12’! All you gotta do is give him the ball, and you know what’s gonna happen.”
Rodgers’ trademark magic had bailed out the Packers (3-3-1) in their previous game, a 33-30 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Monday Night Football, just as it had in their season-opening, Sunday night triumph over the Chicago Bears, when the quarterback returned from what had appeared to be a serious knee injury to spark a sublime second-half comeback.
Beating the Rams (8-0) would have been a different level of epic. Yet despite holding a 10-0 lead until the final three minutes of the first half, and despite a Rodgers-led comeback from a 10-point deficit that put Green Bay up 27-26 on his 40-yard touchdown pass to rookie receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling with 8:57 left, this was a clear case of a team failing to capitalize on its opportunities — a familiar story for those who believe the franchise has squandered a shot at multiple championships during the Rodgers era.
As he exited the tunnel outside the Coliseum locker rooms and walked toward the team bus Sunday evening, Rodgers (18 for 30, 286 yards, one touchdown, no interceptions) didn’t shy away from the notion that a lack of aggressiveness had come back to burn the Packers.
“Our defense was playing really well and stopping them over and over again,” Rodgers said. “We’ve got to get more than 10 points while that’s happening. And then to have it end the way it did, obviously, it’s frustrating.”
The Rams’ vaunted offense didn’t get going until the final stages of the first half, when Goff (19 for 35, 295 yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions) connected with Josh Reynolds on a one-yard touchdown pass to cut Green Bay’s lead to 10-8.The play that turned things around for L.A. occurred with 2:54 left in the half, after Johnny Hekker’s punt was downed by former Packers cornerback Sam Shields at the Green Bay 1. In a call that coach Mike McCarthy’s critics will undoubtedly view in retrospect as symbolically stale, halfback Aaron Jones (12 carries, 86 yards, one touchdown) took a deep handoff and was met in the end zone by linebacker Mark Barron, who stuffed him for a safety.
“That hurt us,” another Packers player said. “This game was a bunch of little bulls— that built up and caught up to us in the end. And (Montgomery’s decision to return the kick) — I don’t even know what that was. I’m still in shock.”
A day earlier, as he prepared to face Rodgers for the first time, Goff wasn’t quite in shock about the prospect of facing one of his childhood heroes — but he definitely appreciated the magnitude of the moment. As a kid growing up in Novato, Calif., Goff frequently attended Cal games with his parents and fondly remembers Rodgers’ run of success during the 2003 and ’04 seasons, which included an NCAA-record-tying 23 consecutive completions during a narrow defeat to eventual national champion USC in the Coliseum 14 years earlier.
Sitting in the lobby of the Rams’ downtown hotel Saturday evening while watching a live stream of Cal’s tense home matchup with Washington on an iPhone, Goff said he gained an even greater appreciation for Rodgers after entering the NFL as the top overall pick in the 2016 draft.
“Early in my career, especially, we’d watch film of a defense we were getting ready to play, and when we’d see Aaron go against that defense, I’d see things that blew my mind,” Goff said. “You’re watching the defense, and your eyes start wandering to the offensive side. He does things so unconventionally that sometimes you have to rewind the tape and say, ‘What was that? How did he do that?'”
Goff then enunciated his version of a sentiment that is more common in NFL circles — especially among players, coaches and talent evaluators — that most outsiders might imagine.
While Tom Brady is obviously one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time and Drew Brees and Ben Roethlisberger are sure-fire future first-ballot Hall of Famers, Rodgers, among the cool kids, is frequently considered to be on another level.
“Physically, I don’t think it’s even close — he’s the best ever,” Goff said. “Just his arm talent, and what he does. I know Tom’s incredible, and Joe Montana’s amazing, but when it comes to straight physical ability — and this is my 24-year-old, third-year-in-the-league perspective, so take it for what you will — it’s not even a contest. His hand control, his arm power, where he puts the ball … it’s freakish.”
For the record, Goff’s wunderkind head coach, Sean McVay, isn’t about to argue. Shortly before leaving the stadium, McVay expressed his relief at having been spared the prospect of a potential Rodgers two-minute drill saying, “I mean — Aaron Rodgers. He’s made for that, and that’s why he’s one of the best of all-time. Some of his throws today. …He’s so good, it’s a joke. He’s not real life. The way that he’s able to speed it up and make the ball come out of his hand, it’s like a trick video. You feel like you’re watching an optical illusion.”
Yet Rodgers’ Sunday in L.A. can be summed up thusly: Clear eyes, full heart, did lose. And no, he was not amused.
While walking to the bus Sunday, he did his best to fight through his frustration, bringing up Cal’s 12-10 upset of the Huskies from the previous afternoon.
“How ’bout those Bears?” said Rodgers, who is close with Cal head coach Justin Wilcox, an assistant on Jeff Tedford’s staff during the quarterback’s time in Berkeley. “He’s the best. Great win.”
A couple of hours before the game, Rodgers and Goff had chatted near midfield during their respective warm-up sessions, a conversation awash with blue and gold pride. This was the first meeting between quarterbacks drafted in the first round who attended the same school since the New York Jets’ Mark Sanchez defeated fellow USC alum Carson Palmer and the Cincinnati Bengals in 2010, and it did not disappoint — at least, until Montgomery made his ill-advised decision to defy his coaches and take that ball out of the end zone.
And, in a delicious twist for Cal alums, Montgomery happened to attend college at … well, we’ll let a Packers coach say it for us: “What do you expect from a Stanford guy?” joked the coach who, for the record, did not attend either rival Bay Area university.
Rodgers was in no mood to joke about the fumble, but he did offer a note of optimism shortly before departing the stadium. The Packers, who travel to Foxborough to face Brady and the Patriots next Sunday night, are still in striking range of the Bears (4-3) and Vikings (4-3-1) as they enter the heart of their season, and their leader left the Coliseum convinced they can compete with anyone.
“I’m not stressing,” Rodgers insisted. “There’s a lot of good that happened today. I feel better about our defense. The Rams are a good team; we knew they’d score some points. I said coming in, ‘If we get to 30 (points), we win the game.’ We got 27, and we gave ’em two. So there you go.”
And then Rodgers went back to Wisconsin — still, like many of his teammates, stunned by the chain of events that deprived him of the chance to make magic, and determined to find a way to overcome it in the end.
znModeratorIts an odd defense. Not sure ive ever seen the like.
Not consistent. At times, gives away huge big plays. But they have enough playmaking stars to come up with big plays on their side. And so far anyway, they own the 4th quarter.
It’s not the 2000 defense by any stretch. That one was a train wreck all the time.
znModeratorBut can they afford him? Isn’t he up for a new contract soon?
Barron is signed through 2020. His contract is on the Rams short list of “top contracts” (ie. deals worth more than 8 M). By 2021 when they pay Goff, they can have at best 8-9 top contract guys, so I don’t expect him to be back at that point. Before 2021 though they have cap space to burn so it’s not an issue…if they replace Barron sooner, it won’t be over cap issues necessarily.
My admittedly “didn’t research it” level impression is that the problem with the run in the Rams D is mostly the DL. Believe it or not.
znModeratorLittleton’s surprisingly excellent play as a starter stabilizes one of the two inside positions, but they still need to figure out the other one.
One minor disagreement. I think Barron is exactly what they want at that spot. Wade has never gone the big run stuffer route. The Barron spot is always manned by a Barron-type. If they replace Barron it will always be by a Barron-type, a coverage LB who can blitz. Barron of course made one of their big plays yesterday when he got the safety. Not a bad big play in a game they won by a 2-point margin.
Speaking of LBs, Ebukam was starting on the defensive left or strong side this game. If I recall he was on the defensive right before this. If so that means they are not counting on him as the right-side pass rusher, which (unless I am just glitching about this) at the start of the season was supposed to be his role. He’s now in the Barwin spot, not the Quinn spot. Young is the guy they start on the right side now, if this game is any indication.
They did rush Littleton from the edge a couple of times too, in pass-rush sets. Littleton is a natural. More he is set up to make plays, the better.
Peters is up and down. He was fine last game. He was a problem several times this game.
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znModeratorLos Angeles Rams HC Sean McVay, post-game remarks
(Opening statement)“What a hard-fought win. Our team did an excellent job just finding a way to get it done. Can’t say enough about our players’ resilience, their ability to just stick together, stay connected. It didn’t start off great at all for us offensively, and that was a result of some of the situations I put us in. But, the guys settled in. We made some plays at the end of the half. I thought it was huge to be able to have our special teams pin them down deep, resulting in a safety to get us on the board from the start. Then, really, when you just look at really playing complementary football – offense, defense, special teams – all three phases, having to come through and make plays that were instrumental for the outcome. Really just proud of our team today. Coaches did an excellent job. Hats off to (Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy) Coach McCarthy, and his staff and their players. That’s an excellent team right there and that was a really hard-fought win. We’ve got a lot of things we can learn from it, but well certainly take it and it was great by our players today.”
(On if there’s anything he can attribute to slow start on offense)
“I don’t want to take anything away from the Packers. I thought they did a good job. I think there were some situations, in terms of just the rhythm, the tempo, I didn’t enable us to get into. We had some incompletions on some first downs, or some inefficient runs as a result of getting into some looks that we really didn’t want to do. That starts with me and really then it leads to the second down-and-longs, and then you’re in those third-and-longer situations where they can tee off. (Packers Defensive Coordinator) Coach (Mike) Pettine has a great package where he can provide a variety of different looks and we struggled with that a little bit. They did a nice job. I thought the defense, just being able to keep it a one possession game as a result of just us seeming like we were just punting and going – we get a first down, but then we go three-and-out right after that. The guys did a good job making some corrections in the second half. (WR) Josh Reynolds, what a great job he did stepping up in a big way with two touchdowns. (LB) Ramik Wilson forcing the fumble and being able to get that recovery and then (RB) Todd (Gurley II) being able to close it out. Great job by the offensive line and then having the presence situationally and understand, ‘I could score right there, but I’m going to get down and know that the next play we end up taking a knee and running the clock out.’ That’s the situational awareness we talk about, unselfishness. When one of your best players embodies, that it’s good things. (DT) Aaron (Donald) shows up in a big way again today. Just a lot of really great individual contributions to a team win that you can’t say enough about our guys today.”
(On it being the second game QB Jared Goff has lead the team back to a win from a 10-point deficient and if it’s a signature victory for him)
“I think it just continues to demonstrate that he’s got an even keel demeanor, a great poise about himself that no moment’s too big. Really, he just continues to play that next snap. You know how much confidence that we have in (QB) Jared (Goff) and he’s doing an excellent job. Signature win, I think it was a great win for our team today and he did a great job leading our offense. His demeanor does help. I’m a little bit more wired than Jared, but he can help me even out a little bit. Just a great job. He had a great command of the game, especially in the second half where I think the game slowed down a little bit for him. That’s a tough defense, really impressed just with some of the different looks Coach Pettine and his staff presented and then their players’ ability to execute. Felt (Packers OLB) Clay Matthews all day. They moved (Packers CB) Tramon Williams into the nickel spot and did a couple different things then what we had seen in the first six games. Safeties were very active, they did a nice job with their interior front as well.”
(On the pressures and how much of that became an issue of adjusting or just more efficiency of the execution)
“Yes, I think that was it. It was really more a matter of let’s be efficient on the early downs and not get ourselves into the second-and-long and third-and-longs. Then I thought you could see we got some good tempo going, where you got some second-and-manageables. Got them in a couple man coverage principles where Todd ends up coming out the backdoor on a great job by the line picking it up, being able to protect and then Todd coming out the backdoor. Then we ended up converting on the two-point conversion on that drive. I thought we got going a little bit there. (WR) Robert (Woods) and (WR) Brandin (Cooks) both had big catches. Obviously, Josh Reynolds with the two touchdowns. The one on the third down and the one from the one (yard-line). It was just tough and Josh stepped up in a big way today. A lot of guys made a lot of big time plays. The offensive line continues just to demonstrate that grit that we love and defense just flew around. (Packers QB) Aaron Rodgers is unbelievable and some of the different things, (Packers WR) Davante Adams is a great player. They’ve got a lot of great players and it was tough, man. You could feel it, that was a high caliber back and forth game. There was Packers fans – there was a lot of Packers fans here today, too. There was a lot of cheers when the Packers scored, I was a little surprised about that (laughs).”
(On having won a lot of lopsided games and how important is it for the team to have a tight comeback game)
“This league is so tough. Every week presents a new challenge and something we can learn from – and that’s whether you win or lose. That’s what the beauty of this game is. There’s a lot of things that I know, starting with myself, that I can learn from and try to be better moving forward. I just think the toughness, the mental toughness, being your best regardless of the circumstances that our team has demonstrated. We’ve had a lot of tough wins. You look at, at Seattle, having to come from behind in a back and forth game, what the Denver game entailed. So I think this team has demonstrated through eight games, while we have a long way to go, there is a variety of ways we can win. But ultimately, our team is winning games because all three phases are doing an excellent job contributing to the outcome that we’ve gotten so far.”
(On if Goff is feeling OK physically after taking some hard shots)
“Yes, I think he took some shots. It was a physical game, but I think he’s going to be good. I think no different than any other week where physical football game, playing the quarterback position, sat in there, kept his eyes down the field, took some shots after he delivered the football. Had a couple times where they ended up getting to us with some good pressures. So, I’m sure he’ll be sore tomorrow, but I don’t think it’s going to be anything that’s going to prevent him from being able to go this week.”
(On Gurley going down like he did on the last play of the game and if it was something that was discussed or if he just did that knowingly)
“That’s something that we talk about, but Todd probably would of done that on his own. But when we send it in we say, ‘Alright, this is a situation where if we get the first down we’re going down, we don’t want to score.’ But smart players find a way to just make happen when it comes down to it. When that situation presented itself, great job by the offensive line and some of our perimeter skill players to be able to get us out on the edge on a toss-crack play and then him having the presence to get down. I’m sure some of his fantasy owners won’t be happy but that was a great job by Todd for the win.”
(On CB Sam Shields and how he played against his former team)
“Unbelievable. I don’t know if you guys read that article that he wrote in The Players’ Tribune, but you talk about a guy that you can’t help but root for. Some of the things that he had to go through to get back to this point, you just love that. That’s what special about (CB) Sam (Shields). Hearing some of the things, especially the way he feels about this team, the way that the teammates and the way that he’s really endeared himself to his teammates, become part of this group, this family that we got going right now. It was awesome for Sam. Giving him a game ball, he certainly deserved that. Made a couple plays that were instrumental for the outcome, but what a stud he is. In talking about how much he loves football, that feeling you get in that locker room, be able to share that feeling of accomplishment with your teammates. That’s what’s so special about this game and it’s great to have Sam on our side.”
(On if the crowd noise had an affect on anything they did on offense)
”It didn’t, but it got a little bit louder than what you anticipate when you’re in a home atmosphere. It’s a credit to Green Bay. Great franchise, great organization. They traveled well and there was a lot of people that were excited. But it was an awesome atmosphere in the Coliseum. You talk about, going back to the last time we were here, the Minnesota (Vikings) Thursday night game and then this one right here. It’s been a great atmosphere and environment in the Coliseum and something we love being back at home. It was great to be able to get a win in front of our fans.”
(On how instrumental the safety was before the half as well as the two overturned catch calls)
”Yeah, incredible. The defense, that’s something that’s been consistent. You look at their ability and (Defensive Coordinator) Wade’s (Phillips) staff and our players to be able to adjust and adapt. Then, I thought it was also very critical for us to be able to sustain some drives on offense, keeping our defense off the field. Some big third-down stops. Got them in some second-and-longs, some third-and-longs and really, it was an outstanding job by those guys in the second half without a doubt.”
(On what it means to be the only 8-0 team in the league)
”I think what it means is that everybody puts so much work into those three and a half hours or however long the game ends up being. To be able to share in that accomplishment, you’re just so excited for the players, for our coaches, just to be a part of it. When you see your guys having success, doing the little things the right way that ends up leading to the outcome that we want, you get excited about it. I probably was a little excited. I don’t really remember it, but I do remember seeing him get that first down, do a great job getting down. Just the feeling of that shared accomplishment is what’s special. It’s eight games and that’s really a credit to our players, but there’s a long, long way to go. We’ve got a great football team that we’ve got to get ready for on the road in the New Orleans Saints who – excellent in three phases. (Saints Head Coach) Sean Payton does a great job. Obviously, (QB) Drew (Brees) doing an excellent job again this year. They’ve got a lot of weapons. We’ll look at this film, clean it up and then can’t wait to get ready for the Saints this week.”
October 29, 2018 at 1:41 am in reply to: breaking down plays from the PACKERS game…Waldman & others #92997znModeratorJaire Alexander PD on Cooks pic.twitter.com/iLCjC7Q8c7
— Matt Waldman (@MattWaldman) October 29, 2018
October 29, 2018 at 1:40 am in reply to: breaking down plays from the PACKERS game…Waldman & others #92996znModeratorTodd Gurley transforms loss into three-yard gain with an excellent cut. And balance to give his OL a chance to help at play’s end. pic.twitter.com/qdOJ28T7om
— Matt Waldman (@MattWaldman) October 29, 2018
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Special play by Jared Goff. The moment he turns to look at Cooks, 329-plus-lbs of pressure interrupts the program and Goff still has the timing of the route ingrained after avoiding to reset to his left and fire with anticipation and placement. Great play rhythm by Goff. pic.twitter.com/GLoIawReHc
— Matt Waldman (@MattWaldman) October 29, 2018
October 29, 2018 at 1:36 am in reply to: breaking down plays from the PACKERS game…Waldman & others #92995znModeratorJosh Reynolds dig for TD2 and great break. We break it down. pic.twitter.com/5TTvX9vWS3
— Matt Waldman (@MattWaldman) October 29, 2018
Josh Reynolds precision and Jared Goff awareness and precision in compressed quarters m. pic.twitter.com/aWsmmakGx7
— Matt Waldman (@MattWaldman) October 29, 2018
znModeratorwell. against rodgers he held his own. not lights out. but very efficient.
I think PFF summed up Goff’s game against GB nicely. From this thread: http://theramshuddle.com/topic/reporters-analysts-on-the-gb-game/#post-92989
Quarterback Jared Goff wasn’t perfect and missed on more throws than usual due to his offensive line struggling to protect him, but he made enough big plays to win the game….The Rams’ offense, despite scoring 27 points (two to a safety), seemed out of sync all game. However, Goff was able to overcome a lackluster first half and delivered big in the second half.
October 29, 2018 at 12:04 am in reply to: GB game highlights & celebrations & other moments of visual splendor #92990znModerator“That is the epitome of a team win right there!”
Inside the locker room of the UNDEFEATED #LARams! pic.twitter.com/mR4s8cmpNN
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) October 29, 2018
October 28, 2018 at 11:59 pm in reply to: reporters on the GB game (including a really good one from M.Silver) #92989znModeratorThe Rams survive their run-in with the Green Bay Packers to remain undefeated on the year.
📰: https://t.co/zyYxKvRaWG pic.twitter.com/mbAWu4KCfw
— Pro Football Focus (@PFF) October 29, 2018
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PFF–Refocused, NFL Week 8: Los Angeles Rams 29, Green Bay Packers 27
Los Angeles Rams
Quarterback Jared Goff wasn’t perfect and missed on more throws than usual due to his offensive line struggling to protect him, but he made enough big plays to win the game. Oddly enough, the Rams didn’t run a single screen all game long after averaging about five per game coming into the week.
Running back Todd Gurley has received a lot of MVP talk because of his gaudy stats but was mostly held in check as a runner and didn’t break 100 yards until his final run. His offensive line opened up a lot of running lanes, especially in the second half. He also made a spectacular catch down the sideline off a deflection.
Another day, another monster performance for arguably the best player in football right now, Aaron Donald. He had two sacks, knocked him down a couple more times and generally kept the pressure on him for much of the game.
It wasn’t the best outing for Los Angeles’ cornerbacks. Troy Hill gave up a deep touchdown after whiffing on a jam, and Marcus Peters was beaten by Davante Adams for a few catches and gave up at least one deep pass, as well.
Green Bay Packers
Rookie cornerback Jaire Alexander was excellent in coverage, as he broke up five passes on nine targets. He battled Brandin Cooks for a good chunk of the day and while he did get beat on a couple of occasions, three of the six targets thrown Cooks’ way were broken up by Alexander. He’s currently battling Browns rookie cornerback Denzel Ward for top rookie CB.
Mike Daniels was a monster on the interior, as he racked up several pressures and a couple of run stops. He did most of his work against center John Sullivan, who struggled all game long against anyone he was facing.
Aaron Rodgers hit on a few deep passes, including a touchdown to Marquez Valdes-Scantling, who had torched Rams’ Hill off the line. But uncharacteristically, Rodgers missed on several short-to-intermediate throws, and it seemed he fared far better when he wasn’t under pressure.
On the outside, tackles David Bakhtiari and Bryan Bulaga were pretty solid, but guards Lane Taylor and Byron Bell struggled mightily.
Keys to the Game
Los Angeles
The Rams’ offense, despite scoring 27 points (two to a safety), seemed out of sync all game. However, Goff was able to overcome a lackluster first half and delivered big in the second half.
Green Bay
The Packers’ defense held the Rams to a field goal to set up a potential two-minute game-winning drive opportunity, but a fumble by Ty Montgomery kept Rodgers on the sideline and effectively sealed a Rams win.
October 28, 2018 at 11:50 pm in reply to: reporters on the GB game (including a really good one from M.Silver) #92988znModeratorJared Goff says he’s fine after taking some hard hits from Packers
Todd Gurley drives bettors, fantasy football owners crazy by making smart play in final seconds of Rams-Packers
znModeratorThe future is seriously bright for the Rams.
Good to see you posting BT. Glad you saw the game. It was a tough one, but, in the end those are more memorable.
Hope all is well with you.
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October 28, 2018 at 11:45 pm in reply to: GB game highlights & celebrations & other moments of visual splendor #92986znModeratorRams fans celebrate Ramik Wilson’s game-changing takeaway against Green Bay at the Coliseum @CVRamsClub @DowntownRams #GBvsLAR pic.twitter.com/X8wjZdXUSH
— Joe Curley (@vcsjoecurley) October 29, 2018
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Todd Gurley had a little something for the #Packers fans who were sitting in that corner before showing #Rams fans love pic.twitter.com/IsyayZ7VtQ
— Vincent Bonsignore (@VinnyBonsignore) October 28, 2018
znModeratorthe chances of the packers coming back either way were very slim. but this is what would worry me the most. injuries. i don’t want to see a defensive players tweaking a muscle or snapping a ligament because they had to go back on the field.
I agree with that.
#1, McV told Goff to tell the team not to score. So a lot of that was McV. Not to take anything away from Gurley, because he was a huge portion of that win. (Example: his sideline catch, the one that got reviewed, was as athletic a play as we could hope to see–I don;’t know how many Rams receivers, going back to ALL of them, could make that play, let alone running backs.)
#2, when you end the game you end the game. No mishaps, injuries, or other weirdnesses. The game is done, everyone goes home with the win, no more bodies banging, the element of chance is killed off. It is true that theoretically, Rodgers could have scored, added a 2 pointer, and then GB could have onside kicked. That’s not real likely but it was probably one consideration. More likely, you just want to end the game so that absolutely no mishap of any kind, including as you said an injury, has any chance of happening at all. Have nail, have coffin, have hammer, nail er shut.
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October 28, 2018 at 11:24 pm in reply to: GB game highlights & celebrations & other moments of visual splendor #92983znModeratorRespect, @AaronRodgers12. pic.twitter.com/uolguPbxgC
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) October 28, 2018
October 28, 2018 at 10:45 pm in reply to: GB game highlights & celebrations & other moments of visual splendor #92977znModeratorOctober 28, 2018 at 10:43 pm in reply to: reporters on the GB game (including a really good one from M.Silver) #92972znModeratorLindsey Thiry@LindseyThiry
Todd Gurley, on stopping short of goal line to secure the win and run out the clock: “Man, forget fantasy and forget Vegas. We got the win, so that’s all that matters.”Joe Curley@vcsjoecurley
Packers head coach Mike McCarthy on Ty Montgomery taking the last kick return out of the end zone (and fumbling): “The plan was to stay in and give the ball to Aaron Rodgers.”Can anyone imagine Sean McVay pointing a finger like that to one of his players after a loss? Can’t think of an example so far.
On the Rams final drive, Jared Goff said Sean McVay told him to remind his teammates “that we don’t want to score here.”
October 28, 2018 at 10:35 pm in reply to: reporters on the GB game (including a really good one from M.Silver) #92969znModeratorPackers fans, analysts rip Ty Montgomery for bad late-game decision, fumble
Packers vs. Rams final score, takeaways: Goff, Gurley overcome hardest test of unbeaten season: The Rams exploded in the second half to edge the Packers and improve to 8-0
Special Teams Brings Needed Boost in Rams’ Biggest Test of the Season Against Packers
https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/10/28/rams-packers-nfl-week-8-ty-montgomery-ramik-wilson-todd-gurley
Packers squander what could’ve been season-changing win over Rams
LA Rams vs. GB Packers: Report card has very few “A”s in Rams win
Packers challenge Rams, but Rams rally to move to 8-0
October 28, 2018 at 9:23 pm in reply to: reporters on the GB game (including a really good one from M.Silver) #92965znModeratorJared Goff helps Rams rally in second half, stay perfect
Late fumble keeps Rams unbeaten with 29-27 win over Packers
http://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=401030780
Game Recap: Rams Defeat Packers 29-27, Improve to 8-0
https://www.therams.com/news/game-recap-rams-defeat-packers-29-27-improve-to-8-0
znModeratorAnyone else see a 1 PM game? What’s the intel.
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