zn wrote:

Rams Brothers@RamsBrothers

Stafford vs. Hurts comparison –Stafford has the higher QBR, is doing more with less, and is 4-1 against the Eagles lifetime with 10 TD’s and 1 pick. And to re-iterate on the hip, it’s literally a bruise.

Unless it’s not.

There are bruises, and there are bruises. Could be something more serious, like a hip pointer, for example.

Yep. Among the greats.

RIP.

zn wrote:

PFF has him graded fairly high for the Colts game (78.2), while last year he was their second-worst ranked cornerback in the entire league. Plus of course other than the bonehead TD he gave up in Seattle, we can see he’s doing well. PLUS Witherspoon is a great signing on top of it–PFF has him ranked 5th among all CBs. The Rams secondary is one of the good surprises this year.

Some positions are easier to judge than others, and the secondary is hard. You see a DB only when he blows coverage, or when he makes a great play. Most of the time, you don’t see them at all because the ball doesn’t go their direction. So you don’t know why the ball didn’t go there. Was it because it was never intended to? Or because the DB was positioned so well that the QB went to the next read? It’s almost impossible to tell in real time, and difficult to tell with tape.

So I don’t know anything about Kendrick except he blew that one play against Seattle, and seems like there was a second one at one point, and I haven’t seen him since. I don’t know what that means.

All I know is that the secondary is performing better as a whole than I hoped for, and the Eagles suck. Basically, that’s all I know.

I think that Donald has a legit shot at the Hall of Fame if he can keep up this level of play for another 10 years.

nittany ram wrote:

A lot more than a “bit”, but you always did hate Todd Gurley so I’m not surprised you took a shot at him when the opportunity arose.

So sue me if I don’t think Gurley is an appropriate name for a football player.

Knute Rockne.

That’s a football name.

Lose me with the Gurl.

Wow. Just blew my own mind with that post.

zn wrote:

And we’re saying that–as in, we’re quite rightly saying that–after just 4 games.

Usually you can’t really judge a draft for a couple of years.

Yes. This is not Beginner’s Luck. What Nacua and Avila are doing is the real deal. They look every bit like future All-Pros. There are a couple of other guys that are showing “age-appropriate” promise. I mean…they look about like what you hope for from their draft position at this point. Meaning that they are on the road to being draft “hits” as opposed to draft “misses.”

I hope Young develops. It’s rare for an Edge to produce in his rookie year. He seems to be doing okay. But he isn’t an Impact player. Somebody else said it in a different thread: the Rams need an Edge to make them truly threatening. Increased pressure on the opposing QB is the one improvement in the Ram’s game that would make the biggest difference for this team, and if all this draft (combined with last year’s) fills out the roster with quality players everywhere, the Rams will pick up the missing piece(s) before next season.

McSnead’s team-building strategy looks like it is ahead of schedule to me, and that is good news in Ramsville.

colts fans are no doubt relieved that kupp will be sidelined this weekend after the game he hung on them at their house in 2021 – kupp caught 9 of 11 targets for 163 yards and 2 tds (the third most receiving yards he's posted in a game) – beat the colts! pic.twitter.com/oBWChiJQO6

— roberto clemente (@rclemente2121) September 28, 2023

canadaram wrote:

Of all the Rams teams that I had no expectations of, this might be my favourite ever. Love the young guys. Love Stafford. Great to see a 100 yard rusher again. Williams is a TD machine inside the ten. A fun, fun win.

That’s an interesting comment. If this team has a rival in this regard, it’s ’99. So it’s been a long, long time since I had a team exceed expectations as much as this team has. I thought they would be better than everyone was saying, but this team is giving glimpses of playoff potential. I was hoping for .500.

Like Nittany said, there’s a lot of talent. More than I hoped for with so many youngsters in the starting lineup. This is an all-time great draft, by the looks of it. Nacua and Avila are off the charts for rookies, and they’re getting help from Young, Turner, and some of the 2nd year guys.

They are ahead of schedule in their refurbishment, that is certain.

Today’s weakness seems to be penalties. I haven’t looked at the stats yet, but it sure seemed to be a problem.

Welp. This is going to be an exciting season, not just an interesting one, looks like.

Let’s catch Philly by surprise next week.

I met Senator Diane Feinstein once, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She had just recently been assigned to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (in 2001), and it was in that capacity that she had a senior staffer from the committee ask me to come to Washington… pic.twitter.com/QQPA04hP22

— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) September 29, 2023

zn wrote:

HoldenCantor@HoldenCantor

Les Snead on the Coach McVay show just now on Noteboom and Alaric: “All the news we got back is good news, now it’s just rest and recovery on a short week and I think we can get that done” Looks like we’re gonna be okay up front

That’s a good thing.

Billy_T wrote:

Zooey, I agree about all those streaming services. Far too many. Twas, basically, a bait and switch for consumers. Since you went with Youtube, did you also go for the Sunday Ticket? As an East Coaster, without the Ticket, I’m back to the bad old days of seeing the Rams, perhaps, four games a year. When they’re a contender, it’s more, of course. NFL Gamepass seems to have raised their prices. Hoping they discount soon for a partial season. Despite the likelihood of a tough year, I’d like to see the Rams more than a few more times in 2023 . . .

 I am under the impression that YouTube IS Sunday Ticket now. I don’t know what Gamepass is. I don’t know what anything is. I’ve always watched over local broadcasts, or streamed it from Moldovia, or something. I hate this. When I was a kid, I used to pull in 3 different stations that would broadcast games, and they had local control, meaning that different stations in the same network did not necessarily show the same game. It was up to the local station. So I saw the Rams every week. And there were still plenty of commercials, and I believe everyone involved still got fed.

But now, you know, you’ve got Kirk Freaking Cousins pulling in $40 million/year, so that money has to come from somewhere. All of which you know. Everybody knows. And I hate it. I wish games were pay-per-view, I guess. And that’s not a sentence I ever would have said at any time in the past 40 years, but this sucks.