Did anybody see anything on that fumble call on Kroft? The only time I saw it referenced was in a CBS article that stated it as uncontroversial fact. Looked to me like that was not a TO.

Hacking up the 3rd and 22 was a killer. That is what sticks with me now more than the pass interference penalty. Yeah, that PI should not have been called. The final time I saw it, it looked like it could have been call offensive PI, actually, but there should not have been a flag on that either way. But that 3rd and 22 was…you have to make that stop.

I don’t like the lack of pass rush this year so far, although they did suddenly start getting it in the 4th quarter. And giving up 4.8 yds/carry has to change. Then there were multiple blown coverages. The defense just did not play well until the 4th quarter, and didn’t look good against Philly, either.

The offense looks pretty good, though. Goff still isn’t good under pressure, but their rushing attack is looking solid, and that gives Goff more time in the pocket. One thing I find encouraging about the OL, though, is that they held Goff up pretty well even when the Bills were in a position to play the pass because the Rams HAD to throw. No Van Jefferson siting today, but Reynolds made his presence felt. Kupp and Woods are just…like…good WRs to have on the team.

Sloman is going to cost the Rams a game. I had more confidence in that bartender guy.

They shoulda won that game, but that was an affordable loss, and posting a comeback like that has to be good for the confidence of the team. If there is such a thing as a good loss, that was it. Nobody got hurt. It was against the AFC. Back-to-back looooong road trips. Inspiring comeback, not just by the offense, but by the defense, too, until the last drive. Given it was 28-3 halfway through the 3rd quarter, I will take that outcome. It was looking far, far worse.

InvaderRam wrote:

zn wrote:

No QB is more dangerous from a clean pocket than Aaron Rodgers

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Through two weeks of play, Goff is now third in the NFL in passing grade (86.1) and second in the rate of uncatchable passes thrown (10%).

wow. just wow. i don’t watch other football games too much, so it’s nice to see some comparisons.

just behind rodgers and ahead of brady with a clean pocket??? third in overall passing grade? he’s also fourth in ypa.

still too early in the season, but i hope it continues.

I’d like to see Goff’s numbers compared to other QBs under pressure. Because Goff’s numbers do drop off a lot under pressure. Is his dropoff worse than other QBs? Or is it about the same? His numbers do drop a lot, though.

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

Well, I think every team is going to try to do that. But i think the Defenses are trying to challenge the Rams OLine as much as the Rams QB.

The thing is, Buffalo has a topped ranked defense. 5th in the league. 3rd against the run. So that’s not just any team trying to do that.

OTOH, Buffalo has played the Jets (32nd ranked offense, 31st rushing) and Miami (22nd ranked offense, 27th rushing). So…the Rams may just cause that Defense ranking to disappear like a barrel over Niagara Falls.

Agamemnon wrote:

When was the last time I saw the Bills play? I thought maybe they were extinct.;

I know the last time I saw them play.

LA Coliseum. 3 years ago in October. The Bills won, and I was not glad.

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wv wrote:

Tapping protesters’ phones. This shit is wild. Where is elite media coverage?

They made that legal in the patriot act, I think.

This country jumped the shark when it got rid of Habeas Corpus. Talk about…”where is media coverage?” I mean…that fundamental right was disposed of without a whimper.

They assassinate American citizens without a whimper.

They militarized the police. What for? Not to protect the community. They don’t need that level of armor and weaponry to protect. They need it to suppress the community, to coerce it. Why do they think they need to have police militarized to suppress people? Because they are squeezing the shit out of everybody, and they know they are going to continue to squeeze the shit out of us until we snap, and they are prepared for that snap.

Eavesdropping? Yeah, they’ve been doing that without warrants for 20 years without a whimper. Who’s going to whimper? Edwin R. Murrow is dead.

Enh. Showgirls was better.

wv wrote:

I hesitate to think about what kind of ballot measures West Virginians would vote for, if the system here spawned ballot-measures.

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Well, as you might imagine, the “citizens’ initiatives” in California are not brought by citizens very often, but by astroturfed groups, and are backed by wealthy PACs with lofty sounding names, so Californians get duped into voting for some rank bullshit from time-to-time.

We also suffer from the fact that voters have Locked In all kinds of budget bullshit that hope will stop the government from robbing us and misappropriating funds which has tied the hands of the government so much that it can’t respond to crises that require flexibility. Then the voters blame the government for not responding to the crises that they tied their hands on. You know.

I think I might want that Spanish feed.

Actually, Spielman was pretty good. Not great, but he didn’t make my ears bleed.

But there are times I think that Spanish feed would be a significant upgrade.

Thank you. I just copied that in my files.

I will tell you, reading through proposition arguments is time-consuming and not entertaining.

It’s simplified by things like:

Supported by: Civil rights groups
Opposed by: Bail bond industry

Okay. Now I don’t need to spend 20 minutes reading the arguments and sifting through the misleading language.

Gurley would have joined the ranks of great Rams RB is he hadn’t come into the league with a bad knee that got worse. Gurley was a GD good football player, and I’m glad he was with the Rams, but his knees just undermined his career, and that’s the story. It’s too bad. He had the skills, the brains, the determination. He did not have knees that could get him past the quarter post. End of story.

I like Goff. He is everything I thought he would be. My one thing with him is that I had hoped he would imprtove under pressure, and I don’t see signs that he has figured that out yet. He has most everything else. But a team that gets pressure on him diminishes his game significantly.

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