During the regular season, the Bengals lost 5 games to teams that did not make the playoffs: Bears (6-11), Jets (4-13), Chargers(9-8), and the Browns (8-9) twice.

The Rams lost only to playoff teams. Zero losses to non-playoff teams. The Rams lost to Cards(11-6), Titans(12-5), SF (10-7)twice, and GB (13-4).

The Rams are better in the trenches. The Rams OL>Bengals DL. The Rams DL>Bengals OL.

As good as Joe Burrow may be, he is going to have to produce under more difficult circumstances than Matt Stafford will face.

That’s the ballgame, imo.

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That Miller scenario looks like fantasy to me. I cannot think of a single instance, in any sport, of a player being traded at the end of his deal, only to rejoin his former team as a FA.

I don’t think that has ever happened, and there is good reason for Denver to not want to do that. To say nothing of the fact that it hinges on a deal for Aaron Rodgers that has not even been made.

I don’t know the first thing about the cap. They may be in cap hell, but I tend to think that if they were, we would know it. That would have been prominent in the story line. “Rams rolling it all on this year…cuz doomsday is March 1.” Or whatever. Seems like that would be common knowledge.

I would keep OBJ over Miller, too, but hope they can keep both.

Trading Van gets them nothing. He’s not a cap issue at the moment, I wouldn’t think.

zn wrote:

Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue In terms of this week’s injury report, Sean McVay says guys like Cam Akers, Andrew Whitworth, Jalen Ramsey, Van Jefferson are essentially just taking extra rest days and that’s why they were listed. Previously this week, he said the only injury he is worried about

Tyler Higbee, I’m guessing.

Good one.

I hate that Robert Woods is not out there.

You guys may have seen this article before, but I just stumbled upon it. A few of the things I knew, but I was surprised at “Crazy Stat 2.” The 49ers didn’t gain a single yard in the final 12 minutes.

Anybody know when Donald circled up the defense?

10 crazy stats from Rams’ 20-17 win vs. 49ers in NFC Championship

Why people gotta be like that?

It’s a game.

A thought experiment: Imagine if every day for the last 25 years every newspaper and tv station had urgent “breaking news” stories and graphics about the *thousands of deaths the night before* from air/water pollution, climate change, or poverty?

— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) November 26, 2021

So…Washington’s team colors are red and yellow, and they’ve just changed their name to a word that neatly gets short-handed into “Commies.”

Bold choice.

How did the Bengals beat TN when Burrow was sacked 9 times? I didn’t see that game.

wv wrote:

Do you-people trust this team to take the Bengals seriously?

I do, yeah.

The Rams have been a different team since they gagged up the big lead to SF.

I think Donald, Stafford, OBJ, Weddle, and Whitworth all know that these opportunities are not frequent guests, and they have to seize this Right Now.

I do not think the Bengals know that. The Bengals are the 2018 Rams, and I expect them to meet the same fate.

TSRF wrote:

Forgive me if this has been posted, but on Sunday, I heard there is a rumor going around the NFL that if the Rams win the SB, McVay might do a Vermiel and step away from coaching. That would suck…

That rumor was started by one of the talking heads; I don’t recall which one. I saw one of them speculate that based on McVay being young and intense like Vermeil was. There was no source, nor did the person claim it was anything more than a hunch. It was just one of gasbags who sometimes have something to say, and sometimes make shit up.

My first reaction to that was like yours, but after I thought for a second, I moved to wv’s point of view. There is no report of McVay running on fumes, and wv is right. He just got Stafford, and the Rams are going to be in the mix for a few more years.