lyser wrote:

????? This is the game that the Vikes look back on and…??????

I thought it was too obvious to state.

This is the game that the Vikings look back on and wonder why they even got out of bed in the morning.

Well, I do not value Foles highly. Didn’t see anything in pre-season that made me a fan, and he has shown me no progress through the first half of the season. I just see a lot of 3 yard passes, with an occasional deep throw, and a lot of inaccuracy. I’d like to see more over the middle, too, and as both CoachO and Bernie point out, Quick and Britt seem like guys who could run slants.

But the WRs aren’t winning me over, either. It’s not like I see lots of wide open guys Foles isn’t throwing to, and today Foles seemed to drop a deep pass right into Britt’s bread basket that he just dropped. They didn’t show a replay, so I dunno, but that looked to be all on Britt.

But these WRs and Foles aren’t even doing a MEDIOCRE job.

This offense has got to get its act together, and RISE TO MEDIOCRITY!!!

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

I never said “Playoffs or bums” myself

That’s just me playfully running around with a premise. The danger of that is coming across as a judge of others’s expectations, though the truth is, I wasn’t aiming at anything more heavy than a nice chuckle. Either way, let a thousand flowers bloom.

A loss today would be disappointing. And I think they have a winning streak in them. But, my own hesitation is, with a junior varsity OL, it’s hard to be consistent.

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No, I know you were using Silly Putty to sculpt those perspectives. I didn’t see your post as a serious attempt at the Evolution of Rams’ Fans Perspectives in the 21st Century.

Anyway. We all know the Rams are capable of losing to an inferior team.

And we all hope they don’t. And we all would welcome a win streak that a better-than-average team should put together.

Mine is not to question why.

If he is awful, that’s good enough for me.

Released Dunbar?

Well, I guess the Rams are pretty happy with Barron.

nittany ram wrote:

Probowlers…Gurley, Donald, Quinn, Jenkins and maybe Hekker.

Gurley and Donald will be All-Pros

What? No love for Napoleon Kaufman?

What kind of Raiders fan are you?

Sure, it seems reasonable to expect incremental improvement from the passing game.

Except that I haven’t seen any.

I don’t swim in a stats-filled pool, so I can’t back up my impressions with data, but I would say that I think the most impressive Foles performance was the first game against Seattle.

As I recall, the Rams put together 3 80-yard drives in that game. And, iirc, we haven’t seen anything to match that since.

In fact, the Rams flat out suck.

I don’t know what else to conclude from the fact that the Rams are #1, or near the top, in first down yardage, and at, or near, the bottom in 3rd down conversion, and that they just don’t accomplish sustained drives. I mean, remove the Seattle game, and where are the Rams statistically on offense?

They SUCK, people. The offense SUCKS. You give the Rams a middle-of-the-pack defense, and they are 0-6 right now. Maybe 1-5.

So, yeah, Foles sometimes makes some great downfield throws. But for every one of those, he throws the ball over the head or behind a receiver 10 – 15 yards away from him 3 times.

Yeah, and maybe Quick gets better, and maybe Foles gets better, but I’m not seeing the OL as being the big problem here, and it sure as hell isn’t Gurley.

The Rams can’t pass. They can’t. They can’t make first downs, they can’t control the clock, and they scare nobody in the passing game.

They can contend. Jared Cook will make a big play now and then between his pulled-short routes, and phantom blocks, and Foles will hit a guy once in a while. But they aren’t going to win when it matters because they can’t.

Having said that, I am enjoying the season, and I look forward to December, and I hope they get a playoff game.

But this team needs a QB and a WR.

I agree with you, RFL. I just see the passing O as the team’s biggest deficiency, and believe it will certainly be the reason the season comes to an end when it does.

We are six games in, and I see no chemistry in the passing game. There is hope, sure. But I haven’t seen anything building yet. Foles has given me nuthin’ I didn’t get from Hill.

Gurley is special.

He isn’t just off to a rookie hot start that will taper off when teams get film on him. He is the real deal.

On his long run…Austin cleans out two defenders in a block that gives him the corner. A thing of beauty.

My boss is crazy, my wife doesn’t understand me, and my kids don’t appreciate me.

Sometimes I just wonder what it all means. Ya know?

Agamemnon wrote:

Rams 3-3, haven't been at .500 this late in season since 3-3 start in 2013.

— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) October 25, 2015

So…you would have to go all the way back to the year before last…is that right?

• This reply was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by Agamemnon.

You know, I just know nothing about the gold standard issue.

I will watch this sometime in the next couple of months.

Miklasz to me is not a journalist. He’s a poster who gets paid. And I don’t have a problem with that. Sometimes he’s interesting. And, sure, he is often annoying. But I don’t expect anything more from him after all these years, and that’s just how I approach him. He’s just STLHomer with an Arch avatar. Ya know, cool.

Yeah. Well. There is that.

The media is always eager to question the huge expense of some of those 5% wedges, but they have never in my lifetime questioned the single biggest wedge. Ever. It is a complete non-issue.

Actually, that’s not true. There was a bit of a stink in the 70s over the cost of toilet seats, as I recall. But since Reagan, there hasn’t been a peep on the subject.

Wow. Kaepernick has already surpassed 100 yards passing, and there is still more than a full quarter to go!