zn wrote:

@speed_kills@speedk1lls
I don’t understand how a team that has lost to the Dolphins and Bears and haven’t won a game by more than one possession all year can think the Jets are a trap game. The Rams haven’t played nearly good enough all year for them to think anyone is a trap game.

They would have beaten Buffalo by multiple possessions if Buffalo hadn’t scored so much.

And they beat Minnesota by ten points.

Yours pedantically,

etc.

zn wrote:

Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
After losing RBs Christian McCaffrey, Jordan Mason and Elijah Mitchell to season-ending injuries, it now looks as if the 49ers will be without RB Isaac Guerendo for Sunday’s game vs. Miami. Guerendo is dealing with a hamstring injury and is unlikely to play, per source.

I am actually feeling ambiguous about the 49ers. There is a part of me that actually feels bad for them. This is just a year from Hell.

No, wait. No, I don’t.

Yeah, I think we are in the Golden Age of Rams football.

Got no idea what happens Post-Stafford, but for now, this is as good of an organization as any fan can hope for.

I doubt Shanahan would have any interest in Cousins now. Maybe 3 years ago, but not now. They’ve got Purdy, who is younger and has upside, and while he hasn’t had a great year, his lost production has to be attributed to the loss of McCaffrey, Aiyuk, and Kittle for much of the season. It’s Purdy’s team now, for better or worse.

I haven’t watched either Cousins or Rogers play this season, and it looks like I’ve lost my chance to watch Cousins, so I think I’ll make it a priority to watch Rogers this coming weekend, so I can see would an old, used up QB looks like when he gets rag-dolled all around the field.

wv wrote:

trap game” — peepulz iz picking the Jets

Of course, I’ve worried about that for weeks. But I think it doesn’t happen. I think it would be a trap if the Rams were 9-5, or 10-4. But they are still in “digging out of the hole” mode. I don’t think this team is on cruise control.

We shall see.

I’d like the Rams to get the Lions, Vikings, or Commanders first. The Eagles, Bucs, and Packers scare me more. But no matter what, at this point, I don’t see the Rams winning more than one playoff game. I think they can beat anybody. But I don’t think they can beat two teams, let alone three or four of these teams in a row.

Boy, if I didn’t already hate the Vikings, their uniforms tonight would turn me against them.

Why do they do this shit?

I would like to tell you what this team is, but I have no idea, either.

My gut tells me they will win the division, and my gut tells me that they have a low ceiling.

I dunno. Fun season, though.

I hope you have a great time with your son!

I should add…though maybe this is somewhere else already on the board…

The 49ers made zero trips into the Red Zone.

Not once.

Fun fact.

Listening on the commute to 9ers radio, and they had a bit on picking a few games this weekend, and Philly/Pitt came up, and one of the guys got distracted by the battle for PA which reminded him of the following:

Luigi’s mom filed a Missing Persons report for Luigi when he dropped out of contact for, like, 6 months or something. When that happens, police departments around the country get notified just in case.

Some SFO cop made the connection between the photo of Luigi and the missing persons photo, and reported his observations, making Luigi a suspect.

How all this fits with the subsequent arrest and the McDonalds story he did not say, but I thought that was interesting.

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

I guess it played a big part? So, its not really just the ‘defense finally showed up’ – its more like neither teams offense could handle the weather?

The weather was a huge part of it in the first half. You could see the rain pouring down on them the whole first half.

Plus the SF defense, which is a very good one, was just all over the Rams in the first half. No one was open. It’s like they knew the playcalls.

But the rain stopped in the 2nd half. The Rams defensive stats in the 2nd half was really their doing, they came through. Weather was not a factor then. Though admittedly the SF offense was missing key players.

^^^This^^^

The Rams got absolutely nothing going until about their 4th or 5th possession when they adjusted the plan, and quit trying to go Pass First. As zn said, nobody was open, and the ball was slipping out of Stafford’s hand (I guess), because he had some pretty bad throws. The Rams were lucky that the 9ers whiffed a couple of INTs. They finally just gave the ball to Williams, and he did enough to move the chains. Nothing spectacular, but he was probably the most important player last night. The guy is something. It’s like the first time he gets hit, the tackle is just a suggestion. It takes a couple more people to intervene and get him to go down.

Then it quit raining at the half, and the Rams got a little bit more going. The 9ers were playing tough, but the Rams just gutted it out.

The 9ers have to feel like they blew it, though. Dropped INTs. Deebo’s drop on 3rd down that was going to be a big play, possibly a TD. The Williams interception that Purdy made a terrible throw on – and he had Pearsall WIDE OPEN in the flat. Purdy was just trying to do too much on that one.

I’m getting ahead of myself now, but it looks like the Rams can/will win the division even after that 1-4 start.

BTW. Puka Nacua. Good grief.

zn wrote:

He also wasn’t sacked for the 2nd straight week. The Rams have won 10 straight games since Oct ‘21 when Stafford doesn’t get sacked.

There’s a moral in there somewhere.

I gotta say that I am really appreciating Matthew Stafford’s time with the Los Angeles Rams. What a legend.

Matthew Stafford was mic'd up against the Bills. Enjoy. 😏#RamsHouse | @BarefootWine pic.twitter.com/gqwfxIQOi9

— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) December 11, 2024