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December 29, 2014 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Yep, about what I expected: Seattle game reactions #14909
ZooeyModeratorKendricks. Not Cook.
Can’t seem to edit above post.
December 29, 2014 at 11:50 am in reply to: Yep, about what I expected: Seattle game reactions #14908ZooeyModeratorMy first thought on the game matched what is said here, but on trying to frame it in my mind as Rams’ mistakes, in each case I had to admit I thought they were just great plays by Seattle.
No DT makes that interception. Ever.
If whoever caused Cunningham’s fumble was 1/2 second later to get there and make a play on the ball, it was a TD. If that guy hadn’t shot out of nowhere, that would have been considered a great play by Cunningham to stretch out for the TD. But he got there in time, and knocked the ball loose a foot before the goal line. It was a great play.
And the INT was a good defensive play, too. The ball was knocked out of Kendrick’s possession, and there was somebody there in the right place, the right time, to take it.
Those were really good plays by Seattle.
And…seriously…if those identical plays had been made by the Rams’ defense against Seattle’s offense, we would all be crediting the Rams’ D with great play rather than accusing Seattle’s offense of shooting itself in the foot.
ZooeyModeratorThe Rams have almost no chance. Seattle has something to play for, they are rolling right now, it’s in Seattle, and they are going to be focused on making a statement with this win after they got “tricked” out of a victory by the Rams last time.
And they are very good team.
No way they suffer a “letdown,” and no way the Rams beat them when Seattle has their full attention on this game with everything clicking.
Rams 27 – 13.
ZooeyModeratorShe won’t run.
It’s a massive personal commitment and she doesn’t want to simply run to push Hillary to the left. Bernie Sanders can do that.
Also, she’s not going to waste her political capital on a Presidential run when those bullets are best spent in the Senate.
Lastly, her worst nightmare would be to run just strongly enough that the ticket requires her to be the VP because she’s carrying the left wing of the party.
She’d lose her Senate influence and be relegated to VP? Bill Clinton will do more as First Gentleman…
I’d vote for her in a nanosecond… but she ain’t running.
I cannot see her running, either, but it’s interesting that there are people calling for her to run.
It would be awesome, though, if she ran and got the nomination, and we got a sideline shot late in the 4th quarter of Hillary Clinton’s face as she stands there absorbing another defeat to newbie. It would be better than crowd shots of Viking fans in the 99 playoff game.
ZooeyModeratorwv wrote:
Well I wonder if Roger Saffold will be able to
lift and train in the offseason if he’s
going to have surgery.I think it will be minor surgery. Kinda a scope job on his shoulder, nothing like an ACL type thing. He can have the surgery in a couple of weeks and be ready to go in a month or so. At least conditioning stuff. No worries.
Why do you think that? Is that a hunch, or did you read something I missed?
ZooeyModeratorOkay, well, I was expecting a more definitive answer from you, of all people.
So if that’s all you got, I guess I will just have to watch the game and find out for myself.
Of course, now that I think about it, even watching the game won’t give us a definitive answer because a bounce here, a bounce there, and the outcome could change. In fact, there is reason to believe that there WILL be different outcomes in an array of parallel universes.
So this is a completely open thing, I think.
ZooeyModeratorI doubt he’s around when the Rams pick anyway.
But I wouldn’t take him.
A quarterback HAS to have his mental game together. Self-discipline is extremely important.
Maybe if he’s still around in the 4th round – depending on who else is available….
ZooeyModeratorWe now know Fisher will draft Offensive Linemen high. Will he do it two years in a row?
Only if there is an OL the board really wants…in which case he will take a WR.
ZooeyModeratorI’m thinking Leonard Williams. Get some depth on the DL.
ZooeyModeratorBoy, I don’t know why they didn’t plug him in immediately as the longsnapper.
December 17, 2014 at 7:27 pm in reply to: Patz sign Garrett Gilbert (so the Rams Gilbert era is probably over) #14084ZooeyModeratorDamnit. They now have the next Tom Brady as well as the current one.
ZooeyModeratorRamsMaineiac wrote:
Technically, couldn’t the Rams still finish ahead of the 49ers and thus alter their 2 games determined by place? (Washington, Tampa Bay would flip to Giants & Falcons likely)If Harbaugh leaves you can expect a sweep.As for the Cardinals as long as Bradford plays and the line is healthy I expect them to beat them.
I am not so sure about that.
While I am loving watching the 49ers implode, I am not so sure that they are worse off without Harbaugh. He’s a good coach, but right now, he is a controversial coach, and his continued presence in the locker room there is probably moderately destructive.
The potential replacements might be better. There are a couple of guys on the 9ers staff that are highly regarded, and who actually might be better for that team than Harbaugh. So be careful what you wish for.
ZooeyModeratorI believe I have to weigh in with Nittwittany. His logic is impeccable. The Seahawks simply are not allowed to win back-to-back, and that leaves Green Bay. It has to be an NFC team, and Green Bay is really the only John Facenda team in the tournament with a prayer, so GB it is.
Besides Aaron Rodgers and I grew up in the same town. Not together. Obviously. But still.
ZooeyModeratorLoL. This amuses me.
This Division has some real characters
in the coaching ranks.I just cant work up any antipathy for Arians
yet. As far as a villain goes, he’s
no Harbaugh in my book. Not yet, anyway.I will probly root for the Cards in the playoffs,
i guess.w
vYeah, what I’ve found has not seemed more than minor blustering. Though from a guy who hasn’t actually won anything yet himself, calling the Rams out for sustained mediocrity was slightly arrogant. It isn’t anything much – nothing to get riled about – but it does make a nice foundation to build on later if these teams don’t botch that opportunity.
December 13, 2014 at 11:38 am in reply to: reporters, analysts etc, do the post-mortem on the ARZ game #13802ZooeyModeratorI am very impressed with what
Arizona has done the last two weeks
against KC and the Rams.I dont think they can beat Green Bay,
but i think they can beat any other
team in the NFC.I’m startin to think Arians might
be the Belichick of the NFC.
Its not just the Rams who are
“a quarterback away.”w
vYes. And they are missing some key guys to injury. That’s a good team.
ZooeyModeratorWhere can I find these Arians’ comments?
ZooeyModeratorI don’t get my tree until tomorrow.
The crow is a nice touch.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t watch TV, so I don’t know what people are saying in the media. But the Rams beat Denver, and squashed Oakland and Washington. I would think that even the Big Picture types who follow the league generally would notice that, or have their attention drawn to it by their staff, and talk about it on their shows.
ZooeyModeratorI have heard that JJ Watt does not suck.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, well, I don’t know how Obama comes out and says “they have a point” without being completely derided because “he’s black.”
It’s a no win situation for him. And the fuel for his opponents…how he puts petty race issues above our heroic policemen…they need a WHITE president to come out and link arms with them.
ZooeyModeratorI saw that this morning.
I just…I don’t know what to say.
Imagine.
How do you even…you know…cover your tracks on this? What possible motive for this can there be other than to prevent actual evidence of wrongdoing being levied against police action?
ZooeyModeratorIt’s the first thing Lebron has ever done that makes me want to like him.
ZooeyModeratorThis is a big part of it: “It has been pretty bad all along, but mainstream Americans were lulled into thinking that the problem had been dealt with.”
Whites are the most segregated of all races in the US. The suburbs, neighborhoods, and rural areas where they live tend to be “whiter” than the country is as a whole. And I think the minorities who live among whites tend to be more assimilated, for lack of a better word. And their presence – in non-threatening numbers – I think reinforces the idea that racism is largely gone because the whites don’t see the kinds of overt racism that they identify as being symptomatic of racism. They don’t witness it personally. So when they hear calls of racism from elsewhere in the country, they easily lapse into the comfortable assumption that it isn’t there, and that it is a bunch of rabble-rousers supported by deluded liberals who are just playing the victim card and making crap up.
And somehow they escape cognitive dissonance over their belief that city blacks are thugs and lazy losers who are sponging off hard-working Americans. They just can’t see it.
And I don’t know about young people. I have seen enough to believe that they definitely see gay issues differently. But I don’t know about race. I don’t think they have any better understanding of the effects of racial profiling, or the minority perspective than older people do. The one good thing about Obama is that we now have a generational threshold that we have crossed. There are now people alive who don’t remember a time when there had never been a black president. Whatever that’s worth. Not much, I don’t think, but one can hope.
All I know is that racist stereotyping is strong in this country, and people are as reluctant to hear the black perspective as NRA types are to hear arguments about limiting gun access.
I mean…the comments I read were simply depressing.
ZooeyModeratorRams defense was great back then, very underrated.
They pitched at least 1 shut out every year from 1973 to 1979.
1973 2 shut outs
1974 2 shut outs
1975 1 shut out
1976 1 shut out
1977 3 shut outs
1978 1 shut out
1979 3 shut outs, the 3rd in the NFC Championship game.they didn’t hold anyone scoreless again until 1985, when they did it twice, to KC and Dallas, unfortunately they got skunked against the Bears in the NFC Championship.
The Rams had the #1 rated defense of the 1970s. I read that somewhere. It was rated above the Steelers and Cowboys.
ZooeyModeratorI look up the 74 season…
RAMS pitched 2 shuts that year, vs Saints and Falcons, (not back-to-back)
SF, pitched back-to-back shut outs to Bears and Falcons that year, ironically, SF was shut out the following week 7-0 in Cleveland. 7 points allowed over 3 games is not bad.
SF’s defense was getting old but were decent back then…. also, they needed a QB to replace Brodie…..didn’t happen until Montana got there in 79.
Yeah, the 9ers were crummy for a long time. The Rams routinely beat them twice a year. The opposite of the 90s.
December 9, 2014 at 1:29 pm in reply to: controversy: a few fans dropping the Rams because of the WRs's Ferguson gesture #13491ZooeyModeratorSNL skit apparently got cut from the show for some reason. Time, I think.
Anyway, it’s amusing without being inflammatory or taking sides.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/08/snl-ferguson-cut-sketch_n_6288448.html
ZooeyModerator“..Titans turned that trick…as did the two best defenses of the last 45 years, the 1985 Bears and the 2000 Ravens. Notably the two teams to record THREE straight shutouts are the 1970 St. Louis Cardinals and the 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers. This defense appears to have turned the corner toward living up to its hype….”
The Cardinals
had a great Defense??I dont remember that.
w
vI don’t either. But statistical anomalies happen. And it was a low-scoring era.
I saw on the list of back-to-back shutouts the 1974 49ers, and that caught my eye because my memory is that the 49ers were not a good football team in the 70s. I looked them up, and they finished 6-8 in 1974. That isn’t the 76 Steelers.
But then…neither are the 14 Rams.
ZooeyModeratorI do believe Schottenheimer is putting Tavon outside more, and that is better for his game. But I also think he is looking better because he has gone against weaker defenses that don’t have discipline. Austin is exactly the kind of player that can maximize damage against an undisciplined defense.
But I still don’t think he will ever amount to much against disciplined defenses. Tavon Austin against a tough defense like the turn of the century Bucs or Ravens would just git kilt. He will be a good regular season player, and disappear in the playoffs. Except, maybe, as a returner.
ZooeyModeratorFrankly, if Jake Long wasn’t our LT, this season may have been very different.
It’s Schottenheimer’s fault for calling a pass play there.
Or possibly Spags’ fault for firing the strength and conditioning coach.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, it’s not even clear that McCoy was expecting it, though it isn’t definitive. But clearly the LOT and G were not expecting the snap right then.
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