I don’t know where this is from, but it looks authoritative.

Yeah, I woulda taken Goff out.

Alyo mentions best feet and hands for the WRs. I agree with that. They seem to be getting where they are supposed to be very crisply. This is a good trio.

I agree with Invader, too. Woods and Cooks are not yet Bruce. But this is the best set of WRs the Rams have had since the GSOT, and while we’ve got another 17 games still left to play this year, these set of WRs looks like they can be as devastating. I think Kupp may be better than Hakim…though less of a breakaway threat. More of a possession receiver than Hakim, though. Like a faster, crisper Proehl.

zn wrote:

Here. Save the images to your computer, and then upload them here:

Thanks. I will do that. I really don’t want to…uh…have a subpage with images.

zn wrote:

Hi. That link won’t open and it won’t post as an image. What is it you’re trying to post?

Something hilarious and morally uplifting.

Did the images I posted in the Ficken thread show up? Because they’re gone now that you combined our threads.

I have to say that Goff’s blown pass to Woods was mystifying. The play before that one, he threw about as pretty a pass as a QB can. A pass that had exactly the right trajectory to hit his receiver when he was very well covered.

The next play, Woods was completely uncovered in the end zone, and Goff botched it.

I saw that their starting ROT is out for the week, too.

I’m not expecting a lot of 7-step drops from Bradford.

My thought about that is that…it’s an advantage.

And he is the coach of the Rams, so the advantage is theirs.

And I think – all things considered – this is a good thing.

zn wrote:

My two cents: Your team went on the road in the first game of the season in a hostile environment and flicked off a sluggish first half like it was nothing, and then dominated the opponent in 2nd half. When you can win by 20 playing Ok to good overall, it’s a new day indeed.

I think that is pretty much what I saw.

It was not a dominant performance, but…damn.

The Rams got better every single play, seems like, and they completely took control by the beginning of the 4th quarter.

zn wrote:

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they been blatantly holding and no calls its freaking bullcrap

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Always my favorite fan complaint.

Anyway, moving on…if I were a Raiders fan, there are two things that would bother me above anything else last night.

1) that pass that Littleton intercepted.

2) the pass Carr threw away to the near sideline…way out of bounds, near nobody….when he still had time.

Those passes were awful. Like “3rd-string rookie QB brought into a game under extreme emergency conditions” level of awful.

That throw Littleton intercepted was so atrocious that it leaves me gasping even now. That pass was directly TO Littleton…who was near exactly Nobody…and it hung in the air like a Dave Kingman pop fly. I mean you could have left at the moment of the pass, and gone to go buy a hotdog and come back, and still no Raiders receiver would have been near that ball when it floated into Littleton’s arms.

On the basis of exactly one game only, I am going to predict that Carr is a Goner. Gruden was caught shaking his head, and murmuring “Fuck” once, a few times during that game. The Raiders will be drafting a QB with one of their #1 picks next year.

wv wrote:

I set this to the 4:26 mark. Whitlock’s partner (dunno his name) argued that Wade Phillips ‘wanted’ the Raiders to throw to Jarod Cook.

Yeah. I dunno. I mean…Phillips put a CB on Cook the second half, apparently, so I don’t think so. Phillips changed what they were doing.

But what struck me there is … listen to this … the Raiders’ three WRs combined for 5 catches for 43 yards.

If Phillips said, “Go ahead and throw it to Cook,” that doesn’t look like the dumbest strategy I’ve ever seen. Amari Cooper ended the game with 9 yards. I’m guessing a few Fantasy owners were not pleased. And Marshawn Lynch rushed for a total of 41 yards.

The Rams looked like they were on their heels a bit the first half. But if the Season Storyline is that the Rams can’t put away games until the 4th quarter, I’m probably going to sign up for that. If the Rams own the 4th quarter…I’m good.

On Mack, Adam Schefter says the Rams offered a 1st and 3rd with the idea they would trade him after the year for approximately the same thing. And just get him for a year.

Not a bad gamble, imo.

That isn’t good about Barron. LB is not a position where the Rams want to see their bench players on the field a lot. That is a mediocre unit to begin with, and Barron is their best LB.

I think the Raiders are going to suffer this year. There was understandable disappointment about the Mack trade among veterans. Plus the defense isn’t all that good to begin with. And I’m going to guess the atmosphere in Oakland is going to be slightly haunted this year. I don’t know if they have one or two more seasons in Oakland, but their ticket is already punched, and while I think the diehards will still be there, I am going to guess that there will be a lot of empty seats, especially if whatever optimism fans have wears off early in the year.