I’m disgusted.

I just have come to expect this team to gag at any given time, and they always oblige. I mean, who wasn’t expecting a pick-6 on the final drive? I was also expecting the Brandon Lloyd pass. I was expecting conversions on 3rd and long. I was expecting flags at inopportune moments.

It’s just disgusting. It’s disgusting because it has been going on for so, so long, and because they should be better than this. All the highly touted drafts, and the windfall from the RGIII trade, and they’re supposed to be talented. The Rams play like overachieving scrubs. Meanwhile, they have for years been making journeymen on the other team look like pro bowlers.

This is a team with the consensus best DL in the NFL, and they set a record tonight for the fewest sacks in the first five games of the season, ever. How is that even possible? One sack in 5 games? With Quinn having zero? I don’t know how to analyze coordinators, or coaches in general, but nothing I see from the Rams’ defense makes me the least bit grateful that they have Gregg Williams. There is NO pressure.

And how can Jenkins give up that pass to Lloyd on that down and distance, with that much time on the clock? He has to know the one thing he can NOT do is let Lloyd get behind him. That’s his only responsibility there.

And the drops. The pressure on Davis.

At no time does one EVER get the feeling that the Rams have control of an aspect of the game. Not even against Tampa. Not even against Dallas in the first quarter. There is just NEVER any sense that the Rams are dominating the line on either side of the ball, or dictating things to the other team.

To paraphrase Roland Williams, “It’s a debacle.”

And I feel this way mid-week, too. Not just immediately after another incompetent performance.

This team looks like it’s still playing pre-season games.

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:
I don’t think Davis gets more than two consecutive games in which his performance is part of the storyline of a loss.

Maybe 3? Nah probably 2. Good post.

Interesting times.

Sure. Three. It would depend on how big of a contributor his performance was in the losses, who the next opponent is, the relative health of both QBs, the psychological mindset of Davis going forward, the pulse of the locker room, and so on.

Obviously, the number isn’t important, as you know. All I’m really saying is Davis has been instructed not to look over his shoulder, but let’s face it, Fisher is looking over his shoulder. That’s the reality.

So…here’s hoping Davis rips off one good performance after another.

I am thinking more of camp rather than exhibition games. The reports were pretty dang lackluster iirc. Not that Gilbert ever got a positive write up. But it just seemed unlikely to me that the Rams would hang onto Davis. Draft picks almost always get a stretch of time to develop, and Davis already had time to develop, and didn’t seem to do so. The Rams had cut him before.

Austin Davis is an extremely lucky man.

If Bradford had not been hurt, he would not be employed in the NFL right now at all. They would have kept Hill as the #2, and the draft pick for future development, and Davis would have been gone.

GreatRamNTheSky wrote:

Can we go ahead and state that the Patriots just aint what they use to be? Maybe Tom Brady should retire than take a beating like he’s taking on this inferior Patriot offensive line that plays in front of him. Chiefs are a decent team but last time I checked it was 41-7 Chiefs. Huh?

Grits

No.

I think he should stick around and take a beating.

zn wrote:

sdram wrote:
If you’re going to change the informal poll contest rules then I want a potato chip crust on my tomato pie too.

Well I didn’t CHANGE them, per se. I took advantage of the bye to improve them a little. You know, just tinkering. All this came about after watching hours of film on informal polls and how they work.

Wait a minute.

It was never clear that there was any deadline at all. Now you say there is, and it’s an “improved” deadline.

It makes a difference to those of us who are serious about pie. I was waiting for the proper moment.

For example, if the deadline had been set at, say, right about now, I would have answered 10.

…now I’m just gonna scroll back a sec…and…yup!…10 on the nose.

So I want pie. Pumpkin.

mfranke wrote:

RamView, September 21, 2014
From Row HH
(Report and opinions from the game.)
Game #3: Cowboys 34, Rams 31

* Upon further review: This game wasn’t refereed as much as it was bungled, and the Rams continue to be the rare home team in sports that gets consistently screwed over by officiating, getting called for 119 penalty yards to Dallas’ 15. Clete Blakeman handed Dallas three points (the winning margin) before halftime with a ludicrous call on Sims for roughing Romo, calling a blow to the head for touching Romo’s shoulder, just like Dunbar got called for (and even more ridiculously, fined for) last week. Davis was roughed up worse than that a couple of times without a call, not that I would have called it, but Blakeman should have, if he was planning to treat both #9s fairly. Later, Britt got called for holding a DB who went to the ground completely on his own. Sims got a holding call late in the game when he should have gotten credit for a brilliant sack of Romo. He was completely within his rights holding up the receiver at the line. Sims didn’t do anything Jeremy Mincey didn’t do on Kendricks’ TD catch. The game was called neither evenly nor competently, and the main job of Blakeman’s crew appeared to be making clutch calls to keep the Cowboys in the game or ahead.

— Mike
Game stats from espn.com

He doesn’t even mention the egregious non-call on the holding/tackling of Langford on Bryant’s TD. Get that blatantly obvious call right, and the Rams are probably 2-1 in spite of everything else.

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wv wrote:

I think James Harris should start.
No wait, I mean Jaworski.
Not Haden though ; he’s too short.

…What if Hill starts and
throws for 400 yards —
what then?

w
v

Well…the Rams will still lose by 6 points, due, in part, to a critical delay of game penalty called on Eugene Sims while he is standing on the sideline.

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:
I will say one thing about Davis. He seems to go through progressions better than Bradford does.

Oh I don’t believe that for a second. Bradford went through progressions, and if anything, they have scaled back the number of options Davis has per pass play. What Davis has that Bradford didn’t is the 2014 Rams receiving corps…which is just better.

All I know is I see Davis drop back and look at two or three guys before he throws quite often, and I don’t see Bradford doing it as frequently.

I am forgiving Cook for this.

I’m guessing I’m not the only one looking forward to having Bailey on the field.

I’d like to see more action with Britt, too.

And Trey Watts.

Alex Bayer while I’m at it.

Some points would be good.

nittany ram wrote:

wv wrote:

Coy Bacon – 1972

That image of Coy Bacon is from a stamp in the “NFL Action 72″ stamp book. You got some stamps when you purchased gasoline at Sunoco stations. Thanks to my dad and one of his friends I have the complete collection.

Thanks to Snowman, I have a bunch of those stamps, too. He had some kind of contest on the board, and I won. I don’t remember what the contest was, but I remember the stamps and his generosity. Pretty cool.

I’m surprised Dunbar got fined for that hit. I assumed the ref just didn’t have a good angle, but on film, it looked like it was incidental contact.

6.66 is a good number for Fisher in many ways, but if that number represents him, why haven’t the results been better so far?

Faustus won the World Cup in his first year, bedded all the cheerleaders, and got a $250 million dollar contract from Reebok.

He gets an A- for drafting from me, though there are some whiffs.

He gets an A for coaching hires, although I don’t think those coaches get As for their production.

He gets a C for coaching. Done some good things. Still has tattered cohesion.

6.66

That was awesome.

I see that his appeal worked.