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ZooeyModeratorHow many times was Wilson pressured yesterday?
Comparatively:
Wilson 32 drop backs, sacked 5 times, hit 8 times = 2TDs and QBR of 93.9.
Goff 43 drop backs, sacked 3 times, hit 9 times = no TDs and a QBR of 61.6.Wilson is better than Goff.
I don’t think anybody ever disputed that. But we’ve all seen Wilson’s performance significantly compromised by the Rams’ defenses over the years. He held up yesterday, but if the Rams had score 31 points and won the game, his 20 points on the board wouldn’t have his fans bragging about him right now.
ZooeyModeratorAlso…one more thought. After the Patriots game, I would have said the Rams had pretty good odds on winning the NFC, and not bad odds on winning the Super Bowl. They would have been respectable underdogs, and with the #1 defense in the NFL, they were making me pretty hopeful. McVay appeared to have taken a step in game-planning the offense strategically against Belichick, and we were talking about the division title as theirs to lose.
And they lost it. They looked bad in both games. The offense has looked as lethargic as the Jeff Fisher era. They’ve become complete longshots now. There is no way this team is getting past the Divisional round of the playoffs, and might not get to the playoffs at all.
The wheels have come off, and the best we can hope for at this point is a dignified playoff performance in the Wild Card game.
ZooeyModeratorBTW, I haven’t seen the Reynolds play at the end of the game mentioned.
They only showed the replay from behind the play once on TV, but it looked to me like the Seahawk touched Reynolds on the helmet strong enough for Reynolds head to bob on contact as he was headed to the ground. I don’t think Reynolds made a bonehead move. I think the ref missed that Reynolds was down. He had control of the ball as he was going down, so by rule, he was down.
ZooeyModeratorI agree with that. He was pressing. And it didn’t cost the game. The failure to score from inside the 1-yard line on two tries is a more significant failure.
It was still a Terrible throw.
ZooeyModeratorA reminder that this is partly a deliberate result of pharmaceutical companies making sure that developing countries are not allowed to violate corporations’ intellectual property rights. Mass murder to preserve profits, aka business as usual. https://t.co/QjmIsMx4WO
— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) December 28, 2020
ZooeyModerator#1 RB out
#2 RB out
QB broken thumb on throwing hand, probably out.Good times.
ZooeyModeratorI think it is true that the OL has not held up well recently. I don’t know why. I mean…Noteboom and the OL did well for a couple of games after Whitworth went down, so why now? Maybe defenses are pressuring differently now, and found a weakness to exploit. I dunno.
And…I agree Goff’s performance is affected by pressure. All QBs are affected by pressure.
But that interception was Terrible. He was not under duress when he threw that. And it did not appear that the ball slipped and came out sideways. It looked like he threw it there deliberately, and a QB with his experience should not make a horrendous throw like that. Goff just has an inexplicable quality to him where he goes all D&D and throws the 20-sided dice and makes insanely precise throws or misses his receiver by 5 yards. He has a Beserker arm.
I am ambivalent about Goff. I don’t think the Rams should get rid of him. He’s okay, and having lived through some genuinely terrible quarterbacks as a Rams fan, I will take Goff. I don’t think he will ever be All Pro. Nothing from yesterday changes my opinion of him. He’s a 10-15 QB still, and I think that’s where he will always be. If everything else clicks, and Akers becomes Good Gurley, than he can be 8-10. He will never be Mahomes or Rogers or Brees. He is not going to the Hall of Fame. He won’t get a State Farm commercial. And I think these questions about him will never be put to rest because days like yesterday are common for him. It contained a WTF interception, and a failure to generate a comeback. I don’t have any confidence that Goff will hit Proehl in the end zone, or connect with Bruce to win a Super Bowl while being hit. Goff just doesn’t have “It.” Whatever “It” is. People talk about “will to win” and other phrases, none of which really hold up to explication, so I will just call it “it.”
Talk about him lacking toughness should vanish after yesterday, though. Like one of the yapping people on tv said, that was a hockey player move resetting his thumb and finishing the game.
And I don’t know about the play-calling, either. I will remember this season as the year the Rams never went deep, and Goff threw a million passes that travelled 15 yards horizontally, and 3 yards vertically. They have abandoned throws over 15 yards vertically, and it doesn’t seem like they attack the middle of the field much. This offense is pretty pedestrian, and seems to me they miss Cooks a lot more than I thought they would.
ZooeyModeratorWe will rally around John Wolford, and we will play good football.
December 26, 2020 at 12:58 pm in reply to: comics, jokes, one-shot memes, funny tweets, etc. #125983ZooeyModerator
ZooeyModeratorMerry Christmas, Comrades.
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ZooeyModeratorMaybe the Jets are really a playoff-caliber team
with a little bad luck.You people ever think of ‘that’ ?
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ZooeyModeratorI am older than Kevin Greene.
I remember when NFL football was played by big men.
Now it’s played by kids.
RIP Kevin.
ZooeyModeratorNothing expresses what it’s like to have been a Rams fan for 50 years as succinctly and elegantly as “Jets 23, Rams 20”.
This.
And I wondered, as I watched this impossibility unfold before me, how I could be so certain that Rams were going to lose to the Jets AND… realize at the same time that this guarantees a victory over Seattle. I have to tellya, I lost all doubt about the game against Seattle as I watched this loss roll inevitably over me. I am sure most of the Experts will be picking Seattle next week, due to “Last Game Syndrome,” and they’re all going to be wrong.
And that led me to what Nittany said…This summarizes 50 years of Rams fan experiences, and now I wonder, “Do other teams have this same experience, or is it unique to the Rams?” Is it more common to Rams fans? This…playing to the level of the competition thing? Because you would just think that an experience like this, across fifty years, with thousands of players coming and going, and coaches and front offices, and even cities and stadiums, that this has to be more common than we think, and we are just being parochial about it.
But I sure as hell cannot remember the Pats or 9ers pulling up like this. OTOH, the Steelers, after winning their first 11 in a row, or whatever, just lost to the Bengals. I don’t know what it means.
I think it may suggest that Loki is the one true god. And he has it in for Heimdall, who is associated with Rams, and…this would take a lot of explaining about Norse mythology, so I will stop here, but I seriously think I’m onto something.
ZooeyModerator[EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR.]
ZooeyModeratorThis is what the Rams can accomplish with 10 days to prepare against the league’s worst team.
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ZooeyModeratorCaught on the radio today, Mike Greenberg, of ESPN.
His top 5:
1. Chiefs
2. Rams
3. Saints
4. Don’t remember
5. PackersZooeyModeratorJets fans seem overly optimistic to me.
ZooeyModeratormultiple posters, collaborative
when was the last time the rams defense ranked #1 in the league in offensive points allowed? 1975, they allowed 135 points in 14 games. #1 in the NFL. They were 4th in yards allowed that year. In 1967 the Rams D gave up 12.5 pts/game. That was best in the NFL. #2 Colts with 12.6, #3 Packers with 12.9
So…whatcher sayin is that the Rams are gonna lose to the Vikings in the playoffs.
Do I have that right?
ZooeyModeratorI think the Jets have about the same chance as a sausage in a refinery fire.
ZooeyModerator8 (Last Week 9)
RAMS They got some revenge against the Patriots and lead the NFC West with three games to go. That defense is outstanding.
(Seattle ranked 6).
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ZooeyModeratorWell bear in mind what I said about the numbers. Rams have faced 5 of the top 10 pressure percentage defenses this year and won all 5. Goff looked decent to very good in all of them. And in addition to that, according to PRF numbers Arizona pressured him the 4th most times (16) of any games from 2018 on. So they are facing pressure. They handle it better this year with a relatively healthy, good OL than they did in 2019 with a problem OL, but that’s just to be expected.
So the issue is not pressure alone.
The games like Miami and SF this year, and Chicago in 2018, combines other things WITH pressure.
1. a top secondary that slows the passing game (it is never just pressure, it’s pressure plus facing a top secondary)…this is especially true if the secondary is slowing Goff down and getting him out of rhythm
2. no running game–either cause of the RB or the other team defends it, or McVay refuses for some inexplicable reason to run the ball (like Miami this year)
3. McVay does not adjust in-game to the defense he is facing and struggles with in-game instincts and adjustments (like the infamous 6-1 D front issue). McVay adjusts to tough defensive gameplans between games, not IN games. So for example he couldn’t crack the Patz D in the superbowl but he did the next time he played them.
4. also, pressureThe complete collapse games we have seen from Goff have all those features, it is never just one of them–and it is absolutely not just pressure. For example, Tampa is top 10 in pressure percentage on defense. Rams could not run the ball against them. They had to throw to win. In fact they threw 51 times. But it was not one of the infamous Goff meltdown games.
I just sort of feel like if any of your ideas had merit, they would be re-tweeted by John Cleese. But I’ve never seen that happen with you, so….
ZooeyModeratorThere’s this myth that he is always bad in the pocket.
No, there isn’t. There’s the observation that he isn’t one of those QBs who is slippery, and – like most QBs – his effectiveness can drop significantly under constant pressure. Few QBs transcend that, but very few of them ever had Kill Kurt drills.
You say 12-10. Most of us are saying 10-15. That’s why we’re having a board war, and if you can’t take it, maybe you should surrender like Chris Everett.
ZooeyModeratorI think they will be exhausted after putting on a show in Seattle. Just like New England was this week after crushing the San Diego Chargers of Los Angeles.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t do qbr (if you mean the espn qbr system) because it favors qbs who run with the ball. I do old fashioned qb rating.
Either way I know I can go through the vids and point to the plays where he IS doing what the more negative take says he can’t or doesn’t do.
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I don’t know. It was CBSSportsline. Stats. QB ranks by “rating.” Whatever. I was actually surprised. I would have guessed, just eyeballing it, that Goff is in the 12 – 15 range.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, that’s how I see Goff. I think he is approximately in the 12-15 range in most categories. He is above average in “Shake that shit off,” and he’s above average in accuracy – except for 10% of his throws border on WTF.
He is ranked 22 in QBR, btw, although two or three of the guys ahead of him haven’t played the entire season.
ZooeyModeratorFrom what I’ve read, the case has absolutely zero merit, and cynics suggest it has more to do with the TX AG hoping to win favor from Trump to get a pardon for the crimes he has committed rather than actually winning the case.
I do wonder what Dems would do, though, if the SCOTUS took the case, and ruled in Trump’s favor. I mean…what would they do?
On another note, I was listening to whatsherface, a WH correspondent, interviewed yesterday, and she said that Trump is refurbishing Mar-a-Lago, and he is giving every indication behind the scenes of preparing to move out.
Most people agree that he is doing all this challenge stuff just to rake in more money before he leaves.
I assume his claim that he might run in 2024 is for the same reason. He can’t actually be serious about running in 2024. That’s just keeping the tin cup extended to morons.
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