As long as we are sacking people, Williams and Fassel are the only ones I’d keep. Maybe Waffle, but I can’t tell how much there is talent, and how much coaching. The DL underperformed along with every other unit that didn’t involve kicking the damn ball.

No swimming pools in Kurosawa.

zn wrote:

This is from my brother, who is not a football fan. He’s ranting here about his favorite basketball team. In the process he says something interesting.

They have lost to virtually every basement dweller in the league so far, yet they manage to beat the upper echelon teams. You know what they say….. A consistent winning team has good players. A consistent losing team has bad players. An inconsistent team has bad management.

So….Stan should spend a frillion dollars on technology to bring Dick Vermeil back from the dead?

I heard from one source that Hekker’s mother spent a wild weekend with Massey.

wv wrote:

I cant imagine Goff being able to do much against Seattle,
in Seattle.

I think it will be another nationally televised beat-down.

Seahawks 34
Rams 13

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13?

Pretty optimistic, there, I would say.

nittany ram wrote:

Andy Reid? Way to dream big there, Pa.

I wish Jeff Fisher had been more like Chuck Knoll. You know, with his 4 Super Bowl victories in 6 years…

That is the kind of spelling I expect from spellingly deficient science types who spell stuff like H2OS04.

By the way, the Trojans are going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Happy Valley. Cappy.

sanbagger wrote:

Hee come the Contextistas to enter the fight.

Special shout out to Ag…think I have it

Great still shot.

Help! was always one of my favorite movies.

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Nothing like a good Old Testament allusion.

Well you know. For everything there is a season.

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What the Rams need is a coach who can go to the Valley of Dry Bones.

Well. The people with the torches and pitchforks got what they wanted.

I’m not sure it’s the best thing.

I’ve been wondering like everybody else what the story is.

And I argued just recently that the OL has had plenty of time to learn its assignments, and so on, that the move should be behind them.

But I do wonder if we are just seeing a lack of focus.

Moving to LA from St. Louis has to be a mental distraction, and up until now, I was just thinking in terms of finding a place to live, and all that stuff. And that stuff is over.

But it’s a totally different culture. And a zillion distractions and bright shiny things around. New roads to learn. New restaurants and clubs. The ocean.

I dunno. Maybe it just mentally took them out of their mindset enough.

In any event, the next coach will inherit a team with better talent than the one Fisher got. Somebody somewhere mentioned that Fisher might be like Moses…leading the team out of the wilderness, right to the edge of the Promised Land, only to die, and have someone else lead them in. Maybe. Maybe the new coach will get lost, and end up miles away.

I don’t care about Fisher per se. But I really do wonder. I just don’t know that this was really his fault, or anybody’s fault, really.

I do know that it was public relations that got him sacked.

A third thing is that they have to stop dribbling footballs off their facemasks. You aren’t supposed to dribble the ball at all in football. That’s hockey.

So they need to work on fundamentals.

I wonder what would have happened if the Rams had played a decent game on Sunday instead of pulling a Keystone Kops routine.

Going down 42 – 0 at home in front of a crowd already chanting for Fisher’s head certainly finished him off. I mean…that was a debacle.

You know, Fisher was hired in part due to his experience in moving a team.

That didn’t pay off so well, did it?

nittany ram wrote:

My main interest in the article was that Gurley implied there are players that aren’t trying. That is what concerns me.

He might know, and he might not.

Was Britt “trying” to catch that ball?

You know, we are going to know real soon. Because if mayhem sets in, it will be obvious. There will be finger-pointing, and mouthing off, and it won’t be subtle. There won’t be people sitting around arguing about what it means.

A melted down team is a melted down team.

I was hoping that the Rams would respond angrily and come out and give the Falcons the game of their season.

Now, I just hope the Rams don’t end up looking like a total mockery the rest of the way.

Because that may force Kroenke to do something that may not be in the Rams best interest.

zn wrote:

He deliberately went out of his way to state that he WASN’T talking about the scheme. I know that given their view of things, some posters will want him to have said that. But he directly made it clear he WASN;T saying that.

Why do I care? Because I think better of him than that. Heck this is not the worst recent Rams season we have seen, and can you imagine Steven Jackson publicly blaming the coaches for a loss in 2011 etc? He had more class and sense than that. I like to think the same of Gurley.

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I tend to agree with you.

But it was an unfortunate thing to say. Cuz I don’t think it will turn the temperature down on the hot seat for his Coach.

I agree that the Rams’ next 2 or 3 seasons are primarily on Goff’s shoulders.

I am also concerned about Quinn. I am delighted that draft is deep there, but not delighted that the Rams don’t have a 1st round pick.

The only way the Rams win this game is by their defense suddenly remembering how to get turnovers and sacks, and I don’t know why they would start doing that in game 13.