Every team has both reasonable and unreasonable fans. I mean, I would hate to be judged by the posters at RamsTalk...

That said, the cognitive dissonance coming from the Saints fans is rather extraordinary.

New York fan is obnoxious, but lots of winning sort of makes the brags true. And New York Mets fans understand what it means to ACTUALLY be lovable losers as opposed to Red Sox fans who thought one WS made them the greatest franchise in the history of sports.

Boston fan is beyond obnoxious and they'd been so beleaguered for so long that even the sustained winning of the Pats hasn't seemed to lessen their "little brother" syndrome.

Philly fan is blue collar belligerent as well as angry drunk (forget booing, who throws KOs Santa with an ice ball???)

But... Saints fan. I've never seen a fan base that accepts every single bit of nonsense coming their way (that entire season after Katrina was the second worst Super Bowl giveaway in league history, second only to the post 9/11 Super Bowl 36 Patriots). Most of the grumbling after Bountygate seemed to be about the league being out to get them rather than how bad bounties were and how wrong it all was. There is no voice going, "um, we are getting away with a lot."

Our own board lit up with "that was a legit fumble" and lamenting the bad officiating. At no point was there justification about how "we deserved it".

Saints fan only seems to GLADLY accept every and all bits of "divine intervention" when it seems in their favor. They seem to ignore every call that they got away with or every bad call that doesn't go in their favor.

Was this game poorly officiated? In large part, yes. Worse, it was inconsistent. All sorts of the blocks that Noteboom got flagged on the Woods TD weren't called.

Also, personal fouls went uncalled for both teams. I saw a LOT of helmets for both teams suddenly being flung in various directions. So many "illegal hands to the face" personal fouls on both teams...

As Rams fans, those of us longer time fans remember two different decades of not only massively poor play, but officiating that regularly screwed us. What changed it? Talent and execution. The GSOT....and now the McVay era.

The one thing that crew got right today was all the OL holding calls. Funny how "the best OL in football" moves the offense backwards when they aren't allowed to hold.

I have no patience for Saints fans who want to lament when things don't go their way while only being too happy to accept any and all bits of fortune in their favor, no matter how ill-gotten is was.

Falcons winning makes the aints losing taste so much better.

Good to hear Donald just had some tightness.

Joey the Jerk should apply to be the Rams beat writer lol

badnews said:

I hope we beat them on a bad call, I shit you not!

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Close enough for me

tempests said:

2 catches
25 yards
One penalty wiping out a big play.

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and one tipped/dropped pass that got picked off

How is Chris Collinsworth still employed?

At one point they showed a graphic and he was 4 for 36 and i legit laughed out out. It was in the third quarter.

Bump it.

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In short yardage like goal line, Malcom Brown is a better option than Gurley. Simply for the fact that he's not only a power RB, but he's the best pass blocking RB or TE on the team. So he gives Goff and McVay more options. Teams like to blitz down there and if Goff is passing I'd want Brown in there.

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Not sure I agree with this

Gurley is better at all of the above

Maybe he could turn the tables on them. Announce that he's going to donate $1000 to charity for every stupid question he is asked in a presser. That way he doesn't come across as surly.

Thanks, Loyal.

Someone should post each episode. I'll try.

oldnotdead said:

This is why both Sully and Saffold are gone. Neither one could give them the consistent inside run the Ram's wanted. Stop and think about it. A huge component of play action is having an inside run attack the defense must honor. When your primary run attack is outside zone it takes away a lot of the effectiveness of the play action.

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Saffold is gone because the Rams could not justify matching his significant FA offers - not because he was an ineffective run blocker.

I get mine for free every year. Had it since 1995 so they just give it to me the last 5 years.

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Here's Gurley's first big run of the second half. 14:04 left third quarter, 1st and 10 on the 36. Key blocks on this play are those of Center and RG. Allen picks things up here, after a first half in which he struggled on some of the series. Blythe gets a bit of an assist (from the defender) but does his job sealing the defender so Gurley can do Gurley.

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Allen gets position on NT, and makes Kuechly choose:
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Kuechly chooses poorly, huge hole:
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Wouldn't say Kuechly chose poorly. But Kupp will deliver a block if he hits that gap too. Extremely well executed play by the Rams.

The media wants Murray to be good so much that they are giving him way too much hype for that 4th quarter comeback.

Akrasian said:

Yeah, winning would put the Rams 1+ games ahead of the Saints. It's early, but every bit helps. I have faith the good guys will beat the whiny little beyotches, though.

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And, Rams would have the tie-breaker for seeding if they end up with the same record as the Saints. This game is mucho important to win and set the tone for the rest of the season.

20 PFF stats to know after Week 1 of the 2019 NFL regular season



Jared Goff was surprisingly inefficient with extended time in the pocket

Goff posted the worst passer rating among Week 1 quarterbacks on throws where he had 2.5 seconds or more in the pocket. His 28.5 rating on Monday — 9-for-24 with a pick — was a far cry from his 2018 mark of 96.9, which ranked 11th.

Nickell Robey-Coleman was once again dominant from the slot

Yes, his lasting impression will be a blown pass-interference call in last year’s playoff bout with the New Orleans Saints. But let’s focus on the new season, as Robey-Coleman played 29 slot snaps and allowed just one catch for 14 yards on two targets. He finished with the second-best coverage snaps per reception rate among cornerbacks, backing up a 2018 season where he finished third in yards allowed per slot snap (0.71).

Cory Littleton set the standard for a coverage linebacker

It’s hardly a secret that linebackers tend to struggle when covering speedy wideouts, tight ends and running backs. Littleton faced a whopping 10 targets in Week 1 and allowed seven of them to be caught. However, it was for a mere 47 yards, and he notched an interception. His 94.1 coverage grade was tops at his position.

Huge fan of Cooks. I wish he brought back his archer celebration, but unfortunately, the No Fun League would probably see it as "mimicking a weapon."

I hope the home crowd brings it on Sunday.

In preseason, Henderson did well in blitz pickup from what I can recall. I do recall one play where he held up well against a blitzing LB.

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Cool, thanks for the detailed response, I find this stuff interesting.

Yeah, I recently learned about the ‘fencing response’, where the arms tend to extend straight out and rigid after a severe concussion.

And yes, I noticed how quickly the trainers brought Weddle up to a sitting position, which I thought they normally wouldn’t do if they suspected a severe concussion.

And regarding that Oct 2018 game where Cooks got ‘wrecked’ (ANDhad that gruesome KO as a Patriot player in the prior year), its amazing that he recovered so quickly.

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I don't know if it's a good sign or bad sign. We don't know enough, yet.

We already know that some people are just physiologically better suited to head impact trauma. It's not exactly like they're designed to be hit in the head, but both the internal structure of the cranium, the size and shape of the brain as well as the bone, muscle and tendon connections surrounding the head all seem better set up than others to withstand cranial trauma.

Does that mean they suffer less brain trauma? We don't know that yet. At some point, we will.

At some point, a kid in HS will be able to get scanned as part of his health clearance test and they'll KNOW if that kid is at significant risk compared to the baseline. They'll also know if a kid is better suited which could open up things like "this kid is suited to play at greater risk positions than those at the baseline".

It has the potential to be kinda strange.

And then we'll wonder as guys are being funneled to certain positions, are we missing an all-time great at something because of the screening?

It'll make lots of fodder for Youtube videos and forum posts, I'm sure.

Fitzpatrick isn't a CB in the NFL. He's a zone DB which is why he's been playing safety. He doesn't have the desired agility for man coverage, which is what Wade would love to play but he can't because he doesn't have the boundary CB's for it. That's why they drafted David Long to replace Talib next year. It's why it wouldn't surprise me if drafted another CB somewhere in the first 3 rounds.

If you are going to convert Fitzpatrick to a CB, they have a better prospect in Gervase who has the speed and agility to play man coverage on the boundary. IMO it will be interesting to see if Gervase is coached up as a CB while on the PS this year. He's got 4.4-4.5 speed, at 6'1" and posted a 6.8 in the 3 cone. All that along with his game film literally screams boundary CB. Long and Gervase could finally give Wade two outside CB's to play man coverage.

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They are right, we are Thanos. Instead of stones we are collecting 6 rings and we are about to gouge out a huge path to getting our second one on the way to six!

Saints cry you are all now children of Thanos.

Ramhusker said:

Watching this game, I'm asking myself, "what in the hell happened to the officiating in the NFL?" These guys seem to get lost every game at some point. It's as if they have skipped rules training as a cost cutting measure. They are changing the flow and the outcome of games.

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Well it was Boger and his crew so to be expected to be honest.