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- By HX76
- RAMS / NFL TALK
- 7 Replies
I'm watching an old 80's TV series on the box because as usual there is fuck all to watch on a Monday night. Anyway, I noticed this cap one of the characters is wearing. Is it a Rams cap by any chance??
Peter King: 10/15/18
- By Prime Time
- RAMS / NFL TALK
- 3 Replies
Peter King is in full Brady/Patriots slobber mode...
so I didn't post that part of it because it nauseates me.
The few times the Rams are mentioned is posted first. To read the entire mess click the link below.
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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...-chiefs-tom-brady-nfl-fmia-week-6-peter-king/
Offensive Players of the Week
Todd Gurley, running back, Los Angeles Rams. With the Broncos banking on a swarm-job defensively around Jared Goff (mission accomplished), coach Sean McVay turned to the run. The Rams sledgehammered Denver (39 carries, 270 yards), led by Gurley’s 208 yards on 28 carries. (It was the first 200-yard rush game by a Rams running back since Marshall Faulk in 2001.) Great sign for the Rams’ intergalactic offense, because it showed they can win any way offensively.
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Intelligent Football
Week 5, Seahawks at Rams, Los Angeles ball, fourth-and-one (actually fourth-and-a-foot, but PFF doesn’t account for feet or inches—only yards) at their own 42, fourth quarter, 1:39 left, Rams up 33-31. Conversion percentage: 78.2 percent. Chance of winning if they convert: 99.9 percent. (They’d simply run out the clock.) Here’s the key, and it’s why—even though I wrote last week about what a smart call it was by Sean McVay—that it actually was overwhelmingly the smart call by McVay to go for it even if the play failed:
The Rams’ chance to win the game was still 59.7 percent if they didn’t convert and handed the ball back to Seattle with no timeouts left and a questionable kicker in Janikowski (who’d made six of nine this year at that point). In other words, PFF still believed it was more likely than not that handing the ball back to Russell Wilson on a short field would have resulted in a Rams win.
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MVP Watch
After six weeks, here’s my MVP ballot:
1. Patrick Mahomes, QB, Kansas City. (Last week: 1.) The kid flinched in the first half, but showed in the second half that the road stage was not too big for him. At all.
2. Drew Brees, QB, New Orleans. (Last week: 3.) Fodder for a Saints bye week: Imagine Brees winning the MVP when it’s announced Feb. 2 at NFL Honors in Atlanta. He’d be the second straight 40-year-old quarterback to win it. (Tom Brady won last February at 40.)
3. Jared Goff, QB, L.A. Rams. (Last week: 2.) Goff had his first meh day of the season in the cold at Denver: 14 of 28, no TDs, one pick. But the Rams are 6-0, and he’s at the nerve center of it all.
4. Khalil Mack, OLB, Chicago. (Last week: 4.) His first pedestrian game since the Oakland-to-Chicago trade six weeks ago (two tackles, no sacks) played a part in the Bears getting upset 31-28 at Miami.
5. Philip Rivers, QB, Los Angeles Chargers. (Last week: unranked.) With losses to only the best two teams in football, the Chiefs and Rams, the Chargers are getting a classic Rivers season to lead them: 69 percent completions, a 115.1 rating, a 15-to-3 TD-to-pick ratio.
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I think, now that we’re nearly through six weeks, it’s becoming very interesting to see how arguably the best two teams—the 5-1 Chiefs and 6-0 Rams—look, and to project a month ahead. How amazing is it that the (next) Game of the Year in the NFL might not be played in the United States? The Chiefs and Rams could both be a combined 19-1 when they face off on Monday night, Nov. 19, in Mexico City. The obstacles:
• Week 7, Cincinnati at Kansas City. The Bengals have the kind of interior pass rush that could vex Patrick Mahomes.
• Week 8, Green Bay at Rams. No game against Aaron Rodgers is any sort of lock.
• Week 9, Rams at New Orleans. Drew Brees would be licking his chops to face an Aqib Talib-less secondary, and who knows about the health of Marcus Peters in three weeks.
10-0 vs. 9-1, in Mexico. Amazing. It’d still be great if it were two 9-1 or 8-2 teams.
so I didn't post that part of it because it nauseates me.
The few times the Rams are mentioned is posted first. To read the entire mess click the link below.
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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...-chiefs-tom-brady-nfl-fmia-week-6-peter-king/
Offensive Players of the Week
Todd Gurley, running back, Los Angeles Rams. With the Broncos banking on a swarm-job defensively around Jared Goff (mission accomplished), coach Sean McVay turned to the run. The Rams sledgehammered Denver (39 carries, 270 yards), led by Gurley’s 208 yards on 28 carries. (It was the first 200-yard rush game by a Rams running back since Marshall Faulk in 2001.) Great sign for the Rams’ intergalactic offense, because it showed they can win any way offensively.
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Intelligent Football
Week 5, Seahawks at Rams, Los Angeles ball, fourth-and-one (actually fourth-and-a-foot, but PFF doesn’t account for feet or inches—only yards) at their own 42, fourth quarter, 1:39 left, Rams up 33-31. Conversion percentage: 78.2 percent. Chance of winning if they convert: 99.9 percent. (They’d simply run out the clock.) Here’s the key, and it’s why—even though I wrote last week about what a smart call it was by Sean McVay—that it actually was overwhelmingly the smart call by McVay to go for it even if the play failed:
The Rams’ chance to win the game was still 59.7 percent if they didn’t convert and handed the ball back to Seattle with no timeouts left and a questionable kicker in Janikowski (who’d made six of nine this year at that point). In other words, PFF still believed it was more likely than not that handing the ball back to Russell Wilson on a short field would have resulted in a Rams win.
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MVP Watch
After six weeks, here’s my MVP ballot:
1. Patrick Mahomes, QB, Kansas City. (Last week: 1.) The kid flinched in the first half, but showed in the second half that the road stage was not too big for him. At all.
2. Drew Brees, QB, New Orleans. (Last week: 3.) Fodder for a Saints bye week: Imagine Brees winning the MVP when it’s announced Feb. 2 at NFL Honors in Atlanta. He’d be the second straight 40-year-old quarterback to win it. (Tom Brady won last February at 40.)
3. Jared Goff, QB, L.A. Rams. (Last week: 2.) Goff had his first meh day of the season in the cold at Denver: 14 of 28, no TDs, one pick. But the Rams are 6-0, and he’s at the nerve center of it all.
4. Khalil Mack, OLB, Chicago. (Last week: 4.) His first pedestrian game since the Oakland-to-Chicago trade six weeks ago (two tackles, no sacks) played a part in the Bears getting upset 31-28 at Miami.
5. Philip Rivers, QB, Los Angeles Chargers. (Last week: unranked.) With losses to only the best two teams in football, the Chiefs and Rams, the Chargers are getting a classic Rivers season to lead them: 69 percent completions, a 115.1 rating, a 15-to-3 TD-to-pick ratio.
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I think, now that we’re nearly through six weeks, it’s becoming very interesting to see how arguably the best two teams—the 5-1 Chiefs and 6-0 Rams—look, and to project a month ahead. How amazing is it that the (next) Game of the Year in the NFL might not be played in the United States? The Chiefs and Rams could both be a combined 19-1 when they face off on Monday night, Nov. 19, in Mexico City. The obstacles:
• Week 7, Cincinnati at Kansas City. The Bengals have the kind of interior pass rush that could vex Patrick Mahomes.
• Week 8, Green Bay at Rams. No game against Aaron Rodgers is any sort of lock.
• Week 9, Rams at New Orleans. Drew Brees would be licking his chops to face an Aqib Talib-less secondary, and who knows about the health of Marcus Peters in three weeks.
10-0 vs. 9-1, in Mexico. Amazing. It’d still be great if it were two 9-1 or 8-2 teams.
Rams open as 10.5-point road favorites over the 49ers
- By Prime Time
- RAMS / NFL TALK
- 19 Replies
https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2018/10/15/nfl-rams-49ers-week-7-spread-betting-line/
Rams open as 10.5-point road favorites over the 49ers
By: Cameron DaSilva
Aside from a few injuries and a couple of narrow wins in the past two weeks, it’s been smooth sailing for the Los Angeles Rams this season. They sit at 6-0, the lone undefeated team left in the NFL, and their schedule doesn’t look particularly daunting down the stretch.
Next up, they’ll take on the San Francisco 49ers, who have struggled without Jimmy Garoppolo under center. The Packers host the 49ers on Monday night with San Francisco in danger of dropping to 1-5 like the Cardinals, which would just about eliminate them from the NFC West race.
With that game still to be played, the betting line for Week 7 could still change. However, for now, the Rams are big favorites. According to Vegas Insider, the Rams are 10.5-point favorites over San Francisco in Week 7.
The over/under line still hasn’t been set yet and that line is likely to shift based on Monday’s result and Cooper Kupp’s health, but it’s clear the Rams are the far better team in this one. Kickoff is set for 4:25 p.m. ET after it was flexed out of the Sunday Night Football spot in favor of Bengals-Chiefs.
Rams open as 10.5-point road favorites over the 49ers
By: Cameron DaSilva
Aside from a few injuries and a couple of narrow wins in the past two weeks, it’s been smooth sailing for the Los Angeles Rams this season. They sit at 6-0, the lone undefeated team left in the NFL, and their schedule doesn’t look particularly daunting down the stretch.
Next up, they’ll take on the San Francisco 49ers, who have struggled without Jimmy Garoppolo under center. The Packers host the 49ers on Monday night with San Francisco in danger of dropping to 1-5 like the Cardinals, which would just about eliminate them from the NFC West race.
With that game still to be played, the betting line for Week 7 could still change. However, for now, the Rams are big favorites. According to Vegas Insider, the Rams are 10.5-point favorites over San Francisco in Week 7.
The over/under line still hasn’t been set yet and that line is likely to shift based on Monday’s result and Cooper Kupp’s health, but it’s clear the Rams are the far better team in this one. Kickoff is set for 4:25 p.m. ET after it was flexed out of the Sunday Night Football spot in favor of Bengals-Chiefs.
Cooper Kupp (knee) not out of the woods yet, will undergo more tests
- By tomas
- RAMS / NFL TALK
- 96 Replies
Cooper Kupp (knee) not out of the woods yet, will undergo more tests
By: Cameron DaSilva | 3 hours ago
A week after seeing both Cooper Kupp and Brandin Cooks suffer concussions, forcing them to miss the second half against the Seattle Seahawks, the Los Angeles Rams were given another scare at wide receiver. In the first half of their win over the Broncos, Cooper Kupp suffered a knee injury that required him to be carted off the field.
He remained sidelined through the half, but he returned for the first series of the third quarter. It was a remarkable turnaround after suffering what appeared to be a gruesome leg injury, but the Rams knew pretty quickly that he wasn’t himself.
They pulled him out after that possession and didn’t allow him back into the game, taking a cautious approach with their wideout.
“He played that first drive and did some things,” Sean McVay said after the game. “But you can just see there’s a difference when you’re out there gutting through it and then when you’re out there able to be a great guy with short-space quickness, the lateral agilities to be able to work edges on people in the pass game, all the different things that we ask him to do in the run game — he just wasn’t himself.”
As great as it was to simply see him back on the field for a handful of plays and standing on the sideline for the rest of the game, Kupp isn’t out of the woods yet. He’ll undergo further testing on Monday to determine the severity of the injury, which will give the Rams a clearer plan for him moving forward.
Cooper Kupp said Rams held him out in second half for precaution. He will get more tests tomorrow. McVay didn’t give much of an update on Saffold, who likely will get more tests on his knee
After the game, Kupp did speak to the media and said he was feeling “all right,” but his knee felt “kind of stiff,” according to Myles Simmons of the Rams’ official site. The training and medical staff cleared Kupp after some initial tests, which is obviously a good sign, but an MRI is likely coming Monday to determine whether there is more significant damage in his knee than first thought.
Kupp felt good coming out of the break and wanted to get back on the field, but McVay and the training staff felt it was best to limit his workload and prevent further injury.
“Coming out of halftime I thought I could go out there and play. I wanted to play,” Kupp said. “It’s hard not being able to go out there and compete — you feel like you’re letting the guys down not being able to go out there and give it your all. For me, I’m always going to go out there and push and try to get back on the field and play, but it comes down to what’s best for this team long-haul — what Reggie and his training staff believes is best for us.”
As for the play when the injury occurred, it wasn’t exactly a legal one. Darian Stewart grabbed Kupp’s pads from behind and pulled him to the ground, which is always a dangerous way to tackle someone.
Stewart was flagged for a horse-collar tackle, costing his team 15 yards, but Kupp didn’t view it as a dirty play. He didn’t feel there was anything malicious about it and that Stewart – a former Rams safety – was simply making a football play. And while Kupp is “upset” that he got hurt, he doesn’t have any hard feelings toward Stewart.
“You never want to get hurt, but I hold no ill-will towards Stewart. I know he wasn’t doing it with any kind of malice or anything like that,” Kupp said. “He checked on me during the game — came out during the second half, asked if it was good. But it’s a game. It’s tough, I know if I was playing defense and that was the only way that I was going to be able to get someone down, in the heat of the moment it’s tough to know if you make that tackle or let that guy go.
https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2018/10/15/nfl-rams-cooper-kupp-knee-injury-tests-week-6/
By: Cameron DaSilva | 3 hours ago
A week after seeing both Cooper Kupp and Brandin Cooks suffer concussions, forcing them to miss the second half against the Seattle Seahawks, the Los Angeles Rams were given another scare at wide receiver. In the first half of their win over the Broncos, Cooper Kupp suffered a knee injury that required him to be carted off the field.
He remained sidelined through the half, but he returned for the first series of the third quarter. It was a remarkable turnaround after suffering what appeared to be a gruesome leg injury, but the Rams knew pretty quickly that he wasn’t himself.
They pulled him out after that possession and didn’t allow him back into the game, taking a cautious approach with their wideout.
“He played that first drive and did some things,” Sean McVay said after the game. “But you can just see there’s a difference when you’re out there gutting through it and then when you’re out there able to be a great guy with short-space quickness, the lateral agilities to be able to work edges on people in the pass game, all the different things that we ask him to do in the run game — he just wasn’t himself.”
As great as it was to simply see him back on the field for a handful of plays and standing on the sideline for the rest of the game, Kupp isn’t out of the woods yet. He’ll undergo further testing on Monday to determine the severity of the injury, which will give the Rams a clearer plan for him moving forward.
Cooper Kupp said Rams held him out in second half for precaution. He will get more tests tomorrow. McVay didn’t give much of an update on Saffold, who likely will get more tests on his knee
After the game, Kupp did speak to the media and said he was feeling “all right,” but his knee felt “kind of stiff,” according to Myles Simmons of the Rams’ official site. The training and medical staff cleared Kupp after some initial tests, which is obviously a good sign, but an MRI is likely coming Monday to determine whether there is more significant damage in his knee than first thought.
Kupp felt good coming out of the break and wanted to get back on the field, but McVay and the training staff felt it was best to limit his workload and prevent further injury.
“Coming out of halftime I thought I could go out there and play. I wanted to play,” Kupp said. “It’s hard not being able to go out there and compete — you feel like you’re letting the guys down not being able to go out there and give it your all. For me, I’m always going to go out there and push and try to get back on the field and play, but it comes down to what’s best for this team long-haul — what Reggie and his training staff believes is best for us.”
As for the play when the injury occurred, it wasn’t exactly a legal one. Darian Stewart grabbed Kupp’s pads from behind and pulled him to the ground, which is always a dangerous way to tackle someone.
Stewart was flagged for a horse-collar tackle, costing his team 15 yards, but Kupp didn’t view it as a dirty play. He didn’t feel there was anything malicious about it and that Stewart – a former Rams safety – was simply making a football play. And while Kupp is “upset” that he got hurt, he doesn’t have any hard feelings toward Stewart.
“You never want to get hurt, but I hold no ill-will towards Stewart. I know he wasn’t doing it with any kind of malice or anything like that,” Kupp said. “He checked on me during the game — came out during the second half, asked if it was good. But it’s a game. It’s tough, I know if I was playing defense and that was the only way that I was going to be able to get someone down, in the heat of the moment it’s tough to know if you make that tackle or let that guy go.
https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2018/10/15/nfl-rams-cooper-kupp-knee-injury-tests-week-6/
MNF: 49’ers at Packers
- By CGI_Ram
- RAMS / NFL TALK
- 90 Replies
https://athlonsports.com/nfl/monday...rs-vs-green-bay-packers-prediction-picks-2018
Monday Night Football: San Francisco 49ers vs. Green Bay Packers
When the NFL schedule was released, this game looked like it had the potential to be a marquee matchup of NFC playoff teams. That storyline vanished when San Francisco quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo was lost for the season in Week 3 with a torn ACL.
So instead the 49ers arrive in Wisconsin with a 1-4 record, and we get the less-inspiring C.J. Beathard vs. Aaron Rodgers quarterback battle. The 49ers can put on a brave face, and Beathard actually moved the ball well last week against Arizona. But in the loaded NFC, starting 1-4 is digging yourself a deep hole.
The Packers (2-2-1) still have plenty of time to make a playoff run, especially with Rodgers playing well. But one of their two wins was thanks to an unlikely fourth-quarter rally in the season opener after they fell behind 20-3 to the Bears. Other than a shutout win over Buffalo at home, Green Bay has been as mediocre as its record.
Kickoff: Monday, Oct. 15 at 8:15 p.m. ET
TV: ESPN
Spread: Packers -9.5
Three Things to Watch
1. Rodgers in vintage form
Aaron Rodgers has been battling a knee injury since the season opener, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at his numbers. Through five games he has thrown 10 touchdowns with just one interception, and he is on pace for what would be his first 5,000-yard passing season. The 49ers haven’t been great against the pass, although their numbers look better after facing rookie Josh Rosen last week. Then again, even while holding Rosen and the Cardinals under 200 yards passing, San Francisco gave up a 75-yard touchdown pass and failed to force a turnover. Rodgers should have a big night.
2. Niners must take care of the ball
Injuries are putting the offensive genius of San Franciso head coach Kyle Shanahan to the test. Top back Jerrick McKinnon was lost for the year in preseason; rising star QB Garoppolo lasted less than three games; receiver Marquise Goodwin has been hobbled by a hamstring injury; and running back Matt Breida, who was averaging 7.5 yards per carry, is doubtful for this one with an ankle injury. Despite all that, the Niners did put up 447 yards last week, and Beathard threw for 349. The problem was they also turned it over five times. Seeing as its defense has only three takeaways all season, the San Francisco offense can’r give Rodgers and the Packers that much help.
3. Packers should be desperate
The schedule dictates that Green Bay must win this game going into its bye week to put itself in position for a playoff run. While there will be 10 games left, the road coming out of the week off looks to be bumpy. The Packers play four of their next five on the road, and all are tough trips: Los Angeles to face the Rams, New England, Seattle (on a Thursday, no less) and Minnesota. If Green Bay can’t getby the beat-up 49ers at home, it’s hard to imagine it surviving that gauntlet.
Final Analysis
This would be a tough matchup for the 49ers even if they were fully healthy. It’s a game the Packers have to have and it’s at Lambeau Field, where they have not lost this season. With its offense crippled by injury and its defense unable to force turnovers, it could be a long night for San Francisco.
Prediction: Packers 30, 49ers 16
