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ZooeyModeratorWell, part of it, I think, is that the camera doesn’t see what Stafford sees.
If you watch that play through the camera – which is what we do – it looks like an INT all the way, and then Johnson bursts in like a comet and snatches it out of nowhere.
But that isn’t what Stafford was looking at when he cut that throw loose.
So, again, I dunno. I’m inclined to think it was a brilliant throw, and Stafford erased Worrell because he tracked Johnson all along, and saw the window.
ZooeyModeratorIs there a throw that better exemplifies the essence of Stafford, more than that one? The gunslinger. Ice-water. Assassin. Reckless. Pinpoint power-accurate. Stubborn. Tough. I wish some football expert would go over the details of that pass. The TD will get all the press coverage, but the pass to TJ was as interesting a play as the Rams will have all year.. w v
Someone on twitter quipped that if Mahomes had made that throw, there would already be a one-hour televised special about it on NFL network.
I agree with all of this. That was either the greatest shitty pass of all time, or the shittiest great pass of all time. Or something. I dunno. But I’ve never seen anything like that before. That was brand new fresh and original. You know, he led Tyler Johnson precisely, and put that ball EXACTLY where it need to be for that to be a catch. And the fact that “Pants-Around-His-Ankles” Worrell tried to deposit that check before it got endorsed just adds to it. That Stun Gun was set at eleven. That’s all I know.
I will just add, though, that I had more-or-less the same reaction after that No Look pass in the Super Bowl when I saw it in replays after the game. I didn’t notice it at the time, and neither did Al Michaels, or anybody else, but when I saw the replay, I was like “fuck me.”
And now I’ve seen Stafford do that repeatedly cuz now I notice that.
So I dunno, but I have to say that I’m in the “gotta give him the benefit of the doubt on that” because…Matthew Stafford might be the best QB I’ve ever seen. You know, the Rams are not really QB rich, historically. They are RB rich. But not QB rich, even though they have some jewels. So I dunno. But I ain’t complaining about Matthew Stafford. Dude is a dude.
ZooeyModeratorIs there a throw that better exemplifies the essence of Stafford, more than that one? The gunslinger. Ice-water. Assassin. Reckless. Pinpoint power-accurate. Stubborn. Tough. I wish some football expert would go over the details of that pass. The TD will get all the press coverage, but the pass to TJ was as interesting a play as the Rams will have all year.. w v
Someone on twitter quipped that if Mahomes had made that throw, there would already be a one-hour televised special about it on NFL network.
I agree with all of this. That was either the greatest shitty pass of all time, or the shittiest great pass of all time. Or something. I dunno. But I’ve never seen anything like that before. That was brand new fresh and original.
You know, he led Tyler Johnson precisely, and put that ball EXACTLY where it need to be for that to be a catch. And the fact that “Pants-Around-His-Ankles” Worrell tried to deposit that check before it got endorsed just adds to it.
That Stun Gun was set at eleven. That’s all I know.
November 5, 2024 at 8:58 pm in reply to: Seattle game: tweets, plays, highlights, commentarie, articles #153058ZooeyModeratorhttps://www.turfshowtimes.com/2024/11/4/24287578/rams-seahawks-takeaways-braden-fiske-jared-verse
I would try to paste this article here, but I think it would be a Formatting Nightmare.
Just want to draw attention to this one sentence, though: “Since the bye week, the Rams defense ranks second in the NFL in EPA per play.”
I don’t know what that means, exactly, but it sounds promising.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t even recognize this Rams front office anymore. Why don’t they go get some actual players?
They know nothing about football. Remember, they’re the guys who let Darren Arnold retire.
Deacon Jones, too. Don’t forget that he could still be wearing the horns.
November 5, 2024 at 8:28 pm in reply to: Seattle game: tweets, plays, highlights, commentarie, articles #153049ZooeyModeratorWell, i respect the fact they stick to their algebra even when it seems a bit wacky, but in wv-algebra, a QB gets more points for what they do in the clutch. And what Stafford did in the clutch outweighs what Geno did to me. Not by a lot, but they had Geno, at like ten points ahead of Stafford, and i just dont buy that way of ranking. w v
The problem with statistics is that they are wrong 99% of the time.
ZooeyModeratorLos Angeles Rams PR@TheLARamsPR In 69 coverage snaps this season, S Jaylen McCollough has recorded four interceptions, one defensive touchdown, four passes defended, one pass breakup, and two incompletions against as the primary defender. His 0.0 passer rating against as the primary defender is tied for first across the NFL
He can’t do better than o.o?
I don’t even recognize this Rams front office anymore. Why don’t they go get some actual players?
ZooeyModeratorIn fact, the Rams could lose on this deal. It’s the closest thing to a zero sum trade as I’ve ever seen.
ZooeyModeratorFwiw, Nick Wright picks Kamala. (this guy is a serious, professional-ish gambler, btw. He studies)
I think Kamala is going to win, and I don’t think it’s going to be as close as people think.
Looks to me like the enthusiasm for Trump has diminished over the years. He still has a lot of diehard support, but I can’t see how he would have increased support for himself. I don’t think he’s getting any votes this time that he didn’t get last time. His rallies have lower turnouts, and there are lots of people who leave the rallies early. The thing is, he used to have tremendous novelty value, but he’s basically singing the same songs. You know, REO Speedwagon can still sell some tickets to shows around the country, but they aren’t filling arenas anymore. I just see Trump as a faded star banging out his greatest hits to an audience that finds that the old excitement just isn’t quite there anymore.
The second and more important thing is that I expect an historic gender gap. I think women are gonna kill him at the polls. This is different from Hillary. Hillary was a woman, sure, and some people voted for that. But she was also a woman with high negatives, and Kamala doesn’t have the high negatives. Moreover, I think women will be motivated not just to “vote for a woman,” but to vote AGAINST the rightwing rollback on women’s rights. I think there is gonna be some backlash to the abortion rollback and the Project 2025 “barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen” crap. A lot of women are gonna look at Trump’s and the GOPs’ misogynistic bullshit and be reminded of their ex-husbands and shitty boyfriends and all of that.
That’s what I think. But I do not have a great track record as a prognosticator, so….
ZooeyModeratorwas this posted?
Enh, who cares?
That is not a play we can see too many times.
That throw was ridiculous. You can be in the School of Thought that believes Stafford made a terrible throw and got Lucky.
Or you can be in the School of Thought that Stafford is a Wizard.
The thing for me is that I have seen Stafford play quite a bit, and I don’t think Stafford is Lucky.
This play is one of the most striking passes I’ve ever seen. It looked like Johnson intercepted the pass. But, obviously, he didn’t. That was Stafford’s target. And the fact that Worrell is left with his pants around his ankles doesn’t change my assessment of Stafford.
The play’s the thing. (Act II, sc. 2).
ZooeyModeratorSarah Barshop@sarahbarshopFrom NFL communications: Kam Kinchens recorded a 103-yard interception-return for a touchdown in the fourth quarter, tied with Pete Barnum (Sept. 26, 1926) for the longest pick six by a rookie in NFL history and the longest go-ahead fourth-quarter touchdown by a rookie all-time.I don’t have a degree in Geometry, but that was 104 yards.
ZooeyModeratorLos Angeles Rams PR@TheLARamsPRAccording to @EliasSports, QB Matthew Stafford’s overtime touchdown on Sunday was his 13th career game-winning pass in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime, which broke a tie with Dan Marino for the second-most in NFL history. Only Tom Brady (14 game-winning touchdowns) has more.Well, Marino and Brady were both pussies, imo, so I’m not sure how much this statistic really means.
ZooeyModeratorYoung (OLB with uniform # 0 ) hits Smiths arm on that throw so the ball is off target.
The DL got after it yesterday, man. They were flying in from everywhere. And so young. These guys get better every week, and the Rams DL is turning into a problem.
Now. If they can just learn to contain the slippery QBs….
ZooeyModeratorSFO radio this morning was talking about this very issue. How it looks like the NFC West will not win a wild card berth. “All the parking spots are taken” is how they put it. So…the clearest pathway is by taking the division. They see the Rams as the 49ers’ biggest competition for that.
So do I. The division is there for the taking, so while a Wild Card slot would be nice insurance, the division title is the goal, and it’s certainly within reach. I just can’t take the Cardinals seriously. Apart from the Warner years, they’ve basically sucked my entire life, and I just am not going to believe them until they make be believe them, and 5-4 isn’t that compelling.
The Rams are in the hunt.
November 4, 2024 at 12:24 am in reply to: Seattle game: tweets, plays, highlights, commentarie, articles #152972ZooeyModeratorPlay of the game TEAM defense Byron Young sets the edge up top Bobby Brown dominated the center, Omar Speights makes tackle Hoecht gets his nose in there, too
Watch Lake on that play, too.
ZooeyModeratorI echo the “strange flags” and non-calls sentiment. I’m still not sure I got a good look at the Nacua penalty, but it looked like he swung and missed. After the defender kind of assaulted him twice. I was surprised by the ejection. We’ve all seen many far worse personal fouls than that. I thought it was the worse officiating I can remember in… I dunno… several seasons, probably.
I think Seattle deserves some credit for screwing up the Rams in the first half. Even when Nacua was in there, the Rams weren’t producing anything, and Seattle bottled up Williams most of the day. I think you would have to go back pretty far in time to find a game where he got just 3 yds/carry. He made some helpful plays late in the game, and I thought he was helping keep Stafford alive back there often, so he helped them win.
I guess Kinchens musta got a game ball. Looked like Smith threw the ball to him on purpose, and he made them pay. Play of the game, or maybe runner-up to Stafford’s last throw and that great catch by Robinson, but they don’t get the chance if Kinchens doesn’t kill that drive plus hang a 6-spot up on them.
Overall, the secondary looked shaky, though, especially Witherspoon (who maybe gets a break since he just barely got a jersey with his name on it). And thank the lord Metcalf didn’t play, or I think we would be consoling ourselves with a 3-5 record.
Mind you, the Rams were 3-6 after Week Nine last year, so it could be worse.
Looked like the OL gave up the most pressure Stafford has seen all season, or at least since the line stabilized, but fortunately the Rams DL cracked the code up front and scuffed up Geno’s backside pretty well.
I will take any win over Seattle any way I can get it. That wasn’t a Rembrandt, but it mighta been a Pollock, and that’s good enough to send them into the next two games (MIA, NE) as favorites.
ZooeyModeratorZooey, are you voting for Steve Garvey?
LOL.
No.
I voted Yes on every proposition except 34 and 36.
I thought all the propositions were pretty straight-forward, with the exceptions of 33 and 34, so I researched those until I was satisfied.
There is literally only one entity that Prop 34 applies to: AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The proposition was created by conglomerate landlords to force the foundation out of Housing Advocacy actions. They’ve been buying “fixer-upper” housing because they believe that adequate housing is essential in the fight against AIDS, and they work to improve the properties, but it’s a work in progress. They also spend money on advocating for affordable housing, so the big boys put this together to push them out of the housing game. As far as I can tell.
Prop 36 is just another one of those “if we incarcerate more people for longer sentences, we will cure society’s ills” kinds of initiatives that cost a lot of money, destroy families, and don’t fix anything except private prison profits.
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ZooeyModeratorSo Ethan Evans has Smallpox, and Nacua had his leg amputated.
Meanwhile, Frankenstafford just keeps playing. Go figure.
ZooeyModeratorLooking forward to this game. Also, yay Dodgers.
ZooeyModeratorEvery time i have watched a Jets vid this year, i have thought of Joe Namath. The year he played for the Rams. Was supposed to be a savior. But he couldnt move. Ah well. w v
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.
ZooeyModeratorThis seems crazy to me, considering how high Richardson’s stock was last year before he was injured.
I understand that taking himself out of the game in a crucial drive late in the game is not a confidence-builder, but to turn the team over to Flacco in perpetuity seems like…well…this is more than just taking a breather during a game. There is more to this, probably a lack of work ethic generally, I’m guessing.
Colts HC Shane Steichen clarified that Joe Flacco is Indianapolis’ starting QB “going forward”. This is not an experiment. pic.twitter.com/WvyuQEgpER
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 30, 2024
ZooeyModeratorZooeyModeratorWell, I am sorry the Cardinals won.
ZooeyModeratorI am glad the Rams got Verse instead of Bowers. Bowers is a really, really good player, but this team needs Verse.
ZooeyModeratorI am pleased to read about Dedich. I am not an OL-watcher, particularly. I focus on the skill players when watching, and I notice OL work only when it’s right in front of my face, or on replays.
But Dedich looked overmatched to me against the Raiders. I noticed him only 2 or 3 times, and those were the times when he whiffed a block, or got overpowered. So I thought, you know, “UDFA, everybody’s hurt, whattaya gonna do?” But after the Raiders game, I saw his name listed as one of the higher-rated Rams for the game, and now this praise after the Vikings game (during which I didn’t really notice him one way or another, particularly).
Limmer certainly had a rough patch last night, but appears to me to be holding up pretty well for a rookie Center. That’s not a position where rookies frequently excel, but he seems to be doing okay. I think that Delay of Game was on him, and he had a couple of other lapses.
It’s nice to have depth on the OL. Those of us who still bear scars from previous years of OL catastrophe will welcome all of this, and cheer even louder when Avila and Jackson come back in a couple of weeks.
ZooeyModerator.@rams v @vikings Braden Fiske with the late spin to move Darnold off his spot…Potential tying TD to Vikings Addison. #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/adupyMsHP2
— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) October 25, 2024
ZooeyModeratorIt was just so loud in there had to cover up my ears ya know. https://t.co/R3tfgF79NT
— B.Y. (@byron_97) October 25, 2024
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ZooeyModeratorWell, I didnt believe what happened in the 49er game, and i dont believe what happened in this game. ….if they could somehow, some way, eek out a win against Seattle, and then maybe get their two Olinemen back….and then stay healthy the rest of the way…. Well. Possibilities. w v
ZooeyModeratorWhy the Rams won
The storyline that will come out of this game is how much better the Rams offense looked with Puka Nacua and Cooper Kupp back in the fold. And that’s true. When targeting that duo, Stafford completed 12 of his 17 targets for 157 yards and a touchdown. Their presence also opened things up for the likes of Demarcus Robinson to bring in two touchdowns and opened more running lanes for Kyren Williams (97 yards rushing).
That said, the Los Angeles defense was the backbone of this win. Coming into Week 8, the Rams were allowing 151.7 rushing yards per game, which ranked 30th in the league. Their 4.7 yards per carry allowed over that stretch also ranked in the bottom third of the league. In this game, they held Aaron Jones — who had been having a career year to this point — to just 58 yards on 3.1 yards per carry.
After a frantic first half, the defense clamped down in the red area and limited the Vikings to two field goals, while also applying pressure on Sam Darnold throughout the night. For a team that had just 11 sacks coming into this game (fifth-fewest in the league), they were able to take Darnold down three times and tally six quarterback hits.
If the Rams can pair that type of defensive effort to what we know their ceiling is offensively, they can turn their season around.
I think all of that is notable, and just want to add a little extra topping to that.
On Minnesota’s first drive of the 3rd quarter (after picking off Stafford), Justin Jefferson made that semi-preposterous juggling catch at the 4-yard line. 1st and goal at the Rams’ 4. Here’s what happened next:
-4 YD 1 & Goal – LAR 4(7:53 – 3rd) A.Jones left end to LAR 8 for -4 yards (D.Williams).
+3 YD 2 & Goal – LAR 8(7:11 – 3rd) A.Jones left tackle to LAR 5 for 3 yards (K.Turner).
No Gain 3 & Goal – LAR 5(6:29 – 3rd) S.Darnold pass incomplete short middle to J.Jefferson [J.Verse].
Field Goal 4 & 5 – LAR 5(6:25 – 3rd) W.Reichard 23 yard field goal is GOOD – Center-A.DePaola – Holder-R.Wright.That’s kind of bigly.
The Rams’ then got the ball, went 70 yards in 8 plays, and scored a TD to take the lead for good.
That was an important stop right there for the defense which spent the first quarter perfecting their matador skills. I think that with Williams and Witherspoon back shoring up the secondary, the ascendance of Durant as a legit player, and a pass rush that seems on an upward trajectory…nah. They’re not trading Kupp.
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