What? The Bailey punt return for TD where Austin faked the fair catch not in that video? Best Ram trick play in a decade.

The Scheme can make the Quarterback and the Head Coach devises the scheme...Bill Walsh's offense was a perfect match for Montana and Don Coryell enabled the Quarterback to exploit defenses. Bill Belichick realized after losing to Peyton Manning that your were better off with an offense that was open and ensured his offensive coordinators, Weis, McDaniles, O'Brien & McDaniels had the luxury of calling their shots and of course Tom Brady.

It takes two to tangle and you need both, however, some coaches are QB whisperers, Mike Martz was a good example, Trent Green, Kurt Warner & Marc Bulger all were successful running his scheme, so now we need to find the right Head Coach with the right scheme for Jared Goff, but in the end you need an offensive line that can protect and that is why Belichick coaxed Dante Scarnecchia out of retirement because they could not protect Brady enough to run the scheme they have been running since 2001.

Barrison said:

At least he didn't just say brb I'm gonna go get some McDonald's and think about it and just leave town..

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Yeah, Rob isn't on my radar..lol

Cunningham and Alexander out tomorrow night. Gaines and Quinn are doubtful which means likely out.

UKram said:

Was going to say ... on a scale of 1- dunce hows you feeling right now brother

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about a dunce - dunce and a half...

Damn I'm hoping Fassel KILLS it! Like hang a 50 burger on the next 3 teams....

There's probably some sort of medication that would help with that if the NFL would stop being a bunch of squares.

iamme33 said:

do you think longacre could be moved to lb.

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Actually, if he lost a little weight, I actually think he could be a Bruschi type in a 3-4. I know I'd give him the chance. Guy's a solid football player. He's a guy you work with.

thirteen28 said:

Hey, remember this, Francis?

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I sure do! Francis at her Finest!

LACHAMP46 said:

The NFL is a constant challenge because you must change as defenses adapt to what you do well. DC's decided that Gurley is the only guy that can beat them, and every game, he's the #1 option taken away. We don't adapt well...Usually that's because of intelligence in other species in the wild...I'd assume it's the same in the NFL...Adapt to survive

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yeah I agree our passing attack doesn't keep df honest. last year we ran that jet sweep a lot most of the time we just faked it this year it is hardly used. I think it does a couple things it negates some blitzs and gives the df someone else to think about besides gurley. also if we could run a decent screen pass and roll the pocket once in a while it would help the ol.

Nice stuff here Memento....Great need picks...We need one more LB...perhaps we can find a real one in udfa...And I'd look for a LT

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Definitely deserves our attention. He's been fairly successful...But I really like Matt Stafford. QB's make these OC's go...

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Stafford is an example of Cooter's excellence, going from a CAREER 85ish rating to over 100 under his tutelage.

Only things that give me pause with Jim Bob is how quickly he's risen, and the fact that they did add some nice wideout pieces for him. Or was the addition of the wideouts partially because he beat the table for them?

OK - So the answer was Glenn Davis. Glenn won the Heisman trophy in 1946 after a stellar college career which included being named All-American in each of his years at West Point. He was the Heisman runner up the two seasons prior to winning the award. While still in the Army, Glenn tore a ligament in his knee while making a movie about his college career. Despite his injury, and the three years away from football, he joined the Rams in 1950 and was named to the Probowl after his rookie year.

Thanks Den but the article was already posted.

http://www.ramsondemand.com/threads/article-the-redemption-of-josh-mcdaniels.47820/

OldSchool said:

Your reply to my saying Harbaugh can recognize talent because he recruits well is to say that anybody can do it all you have to do is recruit what other people tell you are the best of the best. Sorry but that's rather silly thing to say. Not only is that silly but what are there a total of 20 5 star recruits? Or maybe it's 30 or 40? My point is not only is not realistic it's not how you win. Hell Texas had as many of those recruits as Harbaugh and what good did it do them? And I agree Dantonio and Chryst are also great eye's for talent. Hell the whole Big 10 is stacked with good coaches right now who can recruit. But to limit Harbaugh because he had 1 5 star recruit? Silly.

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Not just Harbaugh. All of the top coaches get the best players when they coach at a preferred school. Compare the classes. Some schools recruit themselves, like Notre Dame and Stanford (if you have the grades). Is there coaching involved? Sure. Is there evaluation involved sure. But Harbaugh had a very good team this year and it was mostly made up of Brady Hoke's recruits. So, I guess now that Brady Hoke is one of the great talent evaluators too. Harbaugh, Saban, and Meyer can all coach. I am not saying that. But winning in college football is 75% about recruiting. They have the luxury of drawing the best players in the country. Your statement about Texas is flawed and generalizing at it's best btw. I am not going to do the homework for you but go check out the sites and the classes the last few years. They are graded on who brings in the highest rated players out of high school. Every year Ohio State, Alabama, and now Michigan are near the top. It isn't that difficult to figure out who the best players are with all of the scouting services grading them. The guys graded at the top are always the top targets. It's common sense.

Corbin said:

Pete Carroll?

I think if we hire a previously inexperienced guy without a track record yeah that's a bad combo, but for a guy like Mike Shannahan to come in here and get things on track, yeah you give him full control.

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I mean Bellicheck. Unless I misread your post. My bad.

Schein has been shitting on the Rams ever since someone decided to put a mic in front of him. I honestly think he is a trip, and fun to listen to most of the time. Everyone likes to crap on the downtrodden organizations. Its what these guys do....

you can bet your last dollar though that once the Stan land opens he wont be giving up any more home games (other than when he gets the superbowl because he has too)

this might be the last few games we get to see the rams live and in person (other than a trip to LA to watch )

i know it wont happen but if it does id stop being a fan of the rams till he left ..i hate bubblegum pete with a passion

Prime Time said:

Get reel, after losing this fisher they will never get their bass in gear!

Fisher, reel, bass...get it?

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Geezus, of course! I have ta say... You're brain works on a much higher level than most ordinary humans. It would have takin' me years to decipher this.

Take with with as many grains of salt as you see fit, but Harbaugh says it's all a recruiting scam from other college coaches and he's going nowhere...

http://scores.espn.com/college-foot...-jim-harbaugh-tells-players-ignore-nfl-rumors

The physicality.

I loved the way at times during his tenure that this team didn't only beat other teams, but beat them up. The Broncos game in 2014 was a textbook example of this. They didn't merely win the game, they dragged the Broncos into the back ally and pummeled the ever-loving dogsh!t out of them, leaving them bruised, bloodied, and battered.

In another game earlier that year, TJ laid out Mike Evans at TB to cause a 10 second run off that ended the game. Lots of big hits.

The Rams lost more than they won during his tenure, but they were never bullied.

Wish there was a way they could retain that mentality.

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den-the-coach said:

When he fired Tim Walton to hire Gregg Williams for Defensive Coordiantor, Fisher realized the best guy to run his defense was available and was one of the better DC's in the game and didn't care how it played out in the press, if he had that vision on the offensive side of the ball, which he should because that is his Achilles Heel, he'd still be Head Coach of the Los Angeles Rams.

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A-motherfreakin-men. He should have replaced both coordinators after that season. If you look at the defense that year, it started rough but once it got its bearings, it wasn't bad. But his standards for defense were very high, so he canned Walton and went and got somebody that could make the defense not just "not bad" but very good. Had he decided to do the same on the offensive side of the ball, the Rams might be in the thick of a playoff hunt now. I'm sure there would have been struggles given the QB situation, but I clearly think the offense could have been better all this time. It could have mitigated his decision not to hire Hue Jackson when he had the chance in 2012.

Not sure it matters, both teams get flagged a lot so i expect more of the same Thursday night.