He has been compared to his idol, Joe Montana, before. I think it is a good comparison. They are both extremely cool-headed. Neither looks the part. Both accurate.

Yeah. I’ll take a young Montana.

Right now, I have my doubts. The Saints outmatched them, and the Rams have been too leaky on defenst.

They need to beat the Chiefs and Bears for me to take them seriously. I mean…I will still have hope, but not confidence.

this is a top 12 defense in terms of points given up per game. That’s better than both the Saints and Chiefs, the two teams they are most compared to. So while it is frustrating to fans, they aren’t playing poorly relative to the other teams vying for the Super Bowl and playoff seeding.

This is the…this is the Thing.

Having watched the Rams this year, my Key Hope is that everybody else has the same problem.

Indeed. Good read.

zn wrote:

I see some people out there in the Rams net are blaming the ref for the flag on Fowler.

Nah.

Even Donald was jawing at him about it. McV sat him on the ensuing series with a dismissive wave of the hand.

You can say a lot to officials but there’s a line and you do not cross it.

Yeah. You can’t say some things.

I understand why he was pissed, though. Most married couples hold each other less than that.

Here is Britt tackling DONALD who doesn’t even have the ball.

I was surprised by Donald. He took a cheap shot, and I would guess that Britt was being a dick the entire game, but that was surprising. And going back after the game…that is not okay.

I have watched the replay several times, and I just don’t see any receiver in the area. Wilson was clearly throwing that ball away to avoid a sack, and he was in the pocket, and there was nobody there. That should have been Int Grounding and a 10-sec runoff. I thought the officiating was pretty shoddy a few times, but I was watching a poor resolution feed with the sound off and some buffering while multi-tasking, so my viewing effort was pretty shoddy, too. But that was my impression, and I’m not usually a ref-basher.

I echo JoeMad on clock management. I didn’t expect them to lose when they gave the ball to the Seahawks with 1:35 left, but I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had. They held on, but against a real football team….

Lost Kupp, looks like. I think that weakens the offense considerably.

I don’t understand the defense. Losing Talib should hurt, but it’s like the whole secondary looks lost without him, and I don’t understand that.

This does not look like a Super Bowl team right now. How about some turnovers?

You can’t get FOX40 in Sacramento?

nittany ram wrote:

Seattle should be especially motivated to win this game. They are coming off a loss and sitting at 4 – 4. They don’t want to slip below 0.500 this late into the season.

They should feel pretty confident given how well they played against the Rams in the first meeting. If they’ve been watching game film of Marcus Peters they should be downright giddy.

This game should be interesting.

Well.

Alrighty for YOU, nittany seahawk.

Yeah, this has Loss written all over it.

The crowd is going to be in a frenzy, and the Rams have leaks in their defense. I think the Saints take it to the Rams on the ground, and keep the Rams off the field, and load up on Gurley.

To win…I think the Rams need to take the crowd out which means getting a lead early, and not letting go of it.

I cannot believe Fowler is going to make a difference for a couple of weeks.

If he plays 10 snaps on Sunday, I will call it Good.

If he exceeds those expectations, I will start thinking about how best to design a shrine.