Elmgrovegnome said:

Thanks for the insight. I hope that without Salas constantly cheering them on that they may lose some of their edge.

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Definitely. The combination of Saleh's departure and our shiny new QB should go a long way in solving the Niner problem.

Ramer said:

No more than saying they're eye candy for a mostly male audience

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Which is usually the case.
Their contributions are usually vapid and lame. That might be because that’s the script they are given or it may be what they contribute.
At any rate it usually indicates a downturn in the “football” quality of the show. Meaning, less Xs and Os and more human interest bullshit.
There are plenty of crappy shows with just men of course as well.
I would be curious to know if the women working on these shows are scripted into all the peripheral BS?
I suspect so.

Mojo Ram said:

I think it's either the Bucs or the Colts. I heard the answer a few days ago and forgot.

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Scratch that. The Colts have never faced Aaron Donald.

kurtfaulk said:

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I eyes were watching the video but my brain was picturing this.

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Those elephant seals would probably put up more of a fight than those fans did.

CGI_Ram said:

They looked great! POW!

I wish we were wearing that combo more.

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Same. Can't believe we only have two more times. Does the alternate uni rule apply in the playoffs?
Wish they had popped a bit more on TV for me, but the cable signal is so awful and compressed. A pure 4k broadcast would rock.

Elmgrovegnome said:

Here in PA my brother had the same thing happen. He works for the housing authority and it was an eviction. The guy left a new Rams hoodie, a Rams zippo, and a few other things. He gave me the zippo, the hoodie was too big. I didn’t want the rest. In hindsight I should have looked at it.

I know six Ram fans here in Danville. Two my age from town, two transplants, one from LA, and two of my sons friends. Every time I met one I’m like “serioisly?” I can talk about the Rams to someone in person? Awesome.

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Yeah I try to talk to my dad/friends about the Rams and they’ll talk about AD but they just don’t care whether or not brian Allen is doing well

It really does look like many of our plays the past few years.

Not the Chikins.

AvengerRam said:

Does anyone read before responding?

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Nope. We can't even get folks to scan the front page for existing content before creating redundant threads, nevermind the "search" function.

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what a fantastic wage for players that don't make the cut but good enough for teams to keep them around.

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Liberator said:

Watch NBA Full Match

nbafullhd.com

This link seems to be working

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thanks brotha!

Man, that was a surprisingly enjoyable game.
Hardly a classic, but plenty of drama.
Like @T-REX I've also got McLaurin in my fantasy team. Thomas as well.

norcalramfan said:

Used to have pineapple and Canadian bacon on my pizzas, now it's pineapple and pepperoni.

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Why ya gotta be all blasphemous? Pepperoni and pineapple? Unthinkable!

I think Ramsey's biggest value is shutting down receivers. I worry about 2 things when we use him in star. More contact, more chance for injury and that our 2nd and 3rd corners will not shut down anybody. I hope when we play a team with better receivers, he plays corner.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Rams' Aaron Donald getting grip on one-sack opener by switching gloves​

Since 2014, when the Rams selected him with the 13th pick in the NFL draft, Aaron Donald has dominated, piling up sacks against all but four teams.

The Indianapolis Colts are among the missing, though Donald offers a reasonable explanation.

“Never played against ‘em,” he said, laughing, after practice Thursday.

That will change Sunday when the Rams play the Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

The Rams last played the Colts in the 2017 season opener at the Coliseum — coach Sean McVay’s first game — but Donald did not play in the 46-9 Rams victory because he had ended a holdout on the eve of the opener.

Donald, a three-time NFL defensive player of the year, had one of the Rams’ three sacks last Sunday in 34-14 season-opening victory over the Chicago Bears, increasing his career total to 86½.

But he could have had more.

On one play, Bears quarterback Andy Dalton slipped through his grasp. Outside linebacker Justin Hollins was there to make the tackle and record his second sack.

“I don’t know what was going on that day,” Donald said. “I was just letting plays slip out of my hand. I was like, ‘What is going on?’

“So I’ve been working on my grip all week, making sure everything will be good. I changed my gloves so, you know, they’re not getting away no more.”

Sunday’s game pits Donald, a six-time All-Pro, against a Colts line that features guard Quenton Nelson, an All-Pro in each of his three NFL seasons.

“He plays hard,” Donald said. “He plays through the whistle and that’s how you play the game.”

Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris is among those looking forward to the matchup.

“When those opportunities happen,” Morris said, “you talk about a form of fanfare.”

Donald has recorded at least 11 sacks in each of the last four seasons, including a career-best 20½ in 2018 when the Rams advanced to the Super Bowl. Last season, he had 13½ sacks and won his third defensive player of the year award.

Donald has yet to get a sack against the Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, Tennessee Titans and New York Jets.

Now he is preparing for a Colts team that features former Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz, who was sacked three times by the Seattle Seahawks in a 28-16 defeat last Sunday at Indianapolis.

Is Donald eager to finally play against the Colts?

“I’m eager to get out there play a game and win a game,” he said.

Etc.

Nose tackle Sebastian Joseph-Day (knee) was limited, per the Rams injury report. Donald, offensive lineman Andrew Whitworth and outside linebacker Terrell Lewis, who were rested Wednesday, were full participants Thursday. Receiver Ben Skowronek (forearm) was a full participant.

Rams’ defensive takeaway from first game is about resilience​

THOUSAND OAKS — It was looking like a disastrous start for Raheem Morris as the Rams’ defensive coordinator.

Instead, it turned into an early signature moment for Morris and the 2021 Rams’ defense.

On the second play from scrimmage in their season opener against the Bears on Sunday, Chicago running back David Montgomery took a handoff from quarterback Andy Dalton, cut to his right between well-blocked defensive linemen Aaron Donald and Sebastian Joseph-Day, evaded the long arm of outside linebacker Leonard Floyd and burst away from five pursuers. Only the desperate speed of linebacker Kenny Young, who shoved Montgomery out of bounds, prevented a touchdown. The run went for 41 yards, to the 12-yard line.

On the SoFi Stadium sideline, Morris didn’t get angry or pause to figure out what just happened.

He said coolly into his coaching headset: “Let’s go get a turnover.”

Just as coolly, three plays later, the Rams’ defense got it.

Cornerback David Long’s end zone interception of a Dalton pass tipped by Young was one of a series of first-half takeaways and big hits that put the ball in the hands of Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford and sent L.A. on its way to a 34-14 victory.

“I thrive on adversity,” Morris said of the Bears’ 41-yard run, telling the story between practice sessions Thursday. “When it happened, I thought, ‘Good, let’s go get a turnover.’ That was the first thought that crossed my mind. And not because of a cocky or arrogant thing. It’s just that you’ve got to find ways to make people calm.

“If you get caught up in the emotion of being upset, the next thing you know you’re down 7-0 and you’ve got a problem.”

As the Rams (1-0) prepared to travel to face the Indianapolis Colts (0-1) on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium, they looked to improve their defensive performance.

Although they held the Bears to a pair of touchdowns, the Rams gave up 108 yards rushing to Montgomery himself and 134 on the ground overall.

Coach Sean McVay blamed missed tackles and acknowledged that holding starters out of preseason games might contribute to early-season rust.

“I think we’ll see improvement moving on from Week 1 to Week 2, but that’s something that we’ll definitely have some urgency addressing,” McVay said.

It’s especially urgent because the Colts have a strong running game led by Jonathan Taylor (1,169 yards and 11 touchdowns as a rookie last season).

“I don’t know what was going on out there,” said Donald, who wasn’t immune to missing tackles. “I was letting plays slip out of my hands. So I’ve been working on my grip all week, making sure everything will be good. I changed my gloves. They’re not getting away no more.”

To Morris, the problem on the 41-yard gut-punch of a run wasn’t blown tackling but linemen’s failure to contest blocks and the secondary’s poor positioning.

“(Cornerback) Darious Williams should have been on the left side, (safety Jordan) Fuller should have been on the inside, and at most the 41-yard run is a 7-yarder,” Morris said.

But the momentary setback might have helped the 45-year-old former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach and Atlanta Falcons interim coach, hired last winter after defensive coordinator Brandon Staley became the Chargers’ coach, stamp his own identity on a Rams defense that allowed the fewest points and yards in the NFL last season.

Part of that identity is the importance of “make-a-difference plays” like takeaways. The bad moment in the first minute of the season opener set the Rams up to make one of those plays. And then they made more.

Outside linebacker Justin Hollins forced a Dalton fumble recovered by Young on one fourth-down try by the Bears, and cornerback Jalen Ramsey knocked a pass loose from Allen Robinson on another fourth down.

It will be reassuring, when the Rams’ defense inevitably runs into trouble at times this season, to know that a calm voice on the headset will be expecting to find a solution.

There certainly was no panic in Morris last Sunday.

As he put it: “I wasn’t thinking about my legacy as defensive coordinator on the second play.”

NOTES

Defensive lineman Sebastian Joseph-Day (knee), the only Ram injured in the win over the Bears, was a limited participant in practice Thursday after sitting out Wednesday.

Why would anyone film themselves watching a game and who watched it? Absolute oddballs!!

Tano said:

I said I need to get pass this but when I see a statement like this I just have to respond.

Austin Blythe = Firepower?

He got a below average pay from the KC Chiefs and is not starting

I would not call that firepower.

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Well, the author looks to be vastly overestimating the "firepower" that is contained in the physical body of Austin Blythe.

Now if I were forced to use that word in describing Austin Blythe skills I would be fine with attaching that to his Brain.

Maybe that's what the writer was referring too but we don't know.

Buffalo or Miami have a big central Wyoming following? I swear they just randomly throw darts for some of these coverages.

Edit: Never mind, just remembered Josh Allen played for Wyoming. Makes more sense I guess.

Merlin said:

This one's a must read. Real nice job by the author tying things together.

How offenses need to adapt to the rise of the Vic Fangio-Brandon Staley defense

There’s no way around it: The dawn of the two-high era among NFL defenses is here, and the league’s offensive coaches know it too.

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Goff wasn’t that good throwing from the gun, they didn’t do that often either, did McVay have to manufacture throwing lanes? I’m interested to see what Detroit’s offense looks like, there’s a lot McVay wouldn’t ask him to do: throw deep, throw from the gun, hand off from the gun, audible. If Goff plays decent will anyone question McVay’s use of him?

andre said:

No snaps for Burgess, JHarris and EJones surprised me. Getting snaps for Hoecht was a bit of a surprise for me as well. But other than that, pretty much what I expected.

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Steady as she goes grasshopper. Patience is also a form of action.

Urban Meyer had so many problem children at Florida. One of them, Jamar Hornsby, was memorable for stealing and using the credit card that he stole off a dead woman.

I'm sorry, I like Trevor Lawrence, but I really, really hope that Meyer crashes and burns.

I didn't know that Rochell went through that much heartbreak. I bet his father's looking down, smiling at his son for coming this far.

Memento said:

I always thought that they should've traded him to Denver when they had the chance and taken their lumps with Jordan Love (who absolutely deserves a chance to start).

Rodgers is a fucking cancer. He can go host Jeopardy, for all I care.

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It's between Rodgers and Big Ben when it comes to who blames more team mates for losses. I think Aaron is a choker who always has an excuse for coming up small in big games. He claimed he thought they were going to go for it on 4th down when he had to explain why he didn't attempt to run it in on that infamous play against the Bucs. I highly doubt a QB would not have been told beforehand what they were going to do in case 3rd down failed. Always the excuses with that chump.